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cybernetics

some like it hot

Applying an extranumerary interdimensional eye to the complex, adaptive yet strategic dynamics of climate change.

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cybernetics

conflict, continuity, complexity

Power that cannot justify itself through competence often turns to conflict as proof of necessity.

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cybernetics

optimise this

We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.

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Philosophy

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.

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Philosophy

irony age

Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.

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life

indefatigably yours

Still here. Still thinking. Still refusing to disappear.

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Philosophy

sos

No one is coming to save us from ourselves. Sounds like an opportunity as much as a burden.

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Philosophy

billionaire welfare

Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.

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cybernetics

technology: we have a problem…

Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.

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life

reflections after the venezuela doublet earthquake and rising global temperatures

It is worth remembering that civilisation persists by unacknowledged permission of the planetary systems that sustain it.