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Everything is Fine, Exit Through the Casino
Last week Coinbase launched a new marketing effort in the UK, a satirical piece of musical theatre called Everything Is Fine.
Into July
Every once in a while, I feel compelled to write a post that goes something like, “OMG; it’s X month already?!” This is one such time.
It’s Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future | 2517
We must attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future is already here.
Overdosed on AI Music | 2512
This week, I stood at the Slop Machine, experiencing not the future, but the extreme present. All day, every day, I’ve been listening to AI generated music.
Happy With My E-reader
A paperback on the Tube, meanwhile, is porous. It leaks a little cultural texture into the space around it.
Discipline Doesn’t Arrive On Its Own
I am really struggling to get 2025 started. I’ve been pulling the starter cord over and over, but nothing is turning.
🤖 Milo 2.0
If you squint at work explored 15 years ago, you can already see the shape of the future.
Virtual Friends, Real Feelings
One of the things I’ve been doing recently when reading about any new company that’s making AI products is to mentally sort them into one of three categories: Tools, Assistants, Companions.
Solarpunk Means Dreaming Green | Human Entities 2024
Recording of my talk ‘Solarpunk Means Dreaming Green’ at Human Entities 2024 in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Short Term Thinking | 2409
I propose that everything that occurs between the decision to plant a tree and the full expression of its canopy is short term thinking.
Making Friends with AI
It’s worth exploring whether a Tamagotchi style lifecycle design pattern could be applied to AI assistants to help users maintain healthy emotional distance.
A Machine-Made Mirror
Until the other day I hadn’t come across any obvious LLM written media. To have the first one I encounter *BE ABOUT ME* is surreal and weird.
Solarpunk, Cybertruck | 2335
The Cybertruck of 2035 will be a mundane part of everyday life. Most of the stuff around us today – is going to still be around in a Solarpunk future. To foreshorten the Gibson quote: “The future is already here”.
Hiring Soon: World Runner | Design Fiction
I recently travelled to the near future. Unfortunately all I could bring back was this PDF of the job description for a world runner.
Post Normal | 2219
New Zine, Post Normal Fiction, A Brief History of Modernity, and our need to explore what’s beyond or after it.
Solarpunk, Stacktivism and Cold Texas | 2107
The Texas disaster has all the elements of a Solarpunk story.
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