And we’re all losing.

languill:

We are in deep, deep trouble...

The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.

I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok…

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…

Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.

For the Roman senatorial elite, networks of knowledge production were also social networks. They read each other’s...

On August 17, in front of the White House gates, Russian Transhumanists Maria Konovalenko and Turchin Alexei, both members of the Longevity Party, traveled to Washington, D.C. to demand more extens…

I recently rewatched "The Wire". The show's central theme is about counter-productive metrics and their corrupting influence on institutions. I've noticed hints of this pattern in software engineering, too

Part 2 of our deep-dive on Urbit

A higher-than-you-might-expect number of people I know have the opinion that education probably basically doesn’t do anything that will benefit society. Or maybe that learning basic maths and English is beneficial, but geography classes and history classes and physics classes might not do all that much, and university education probably doesn’t really provide you with any skills. It might

China’s Ukraine Catastrophe, the Rise of Trans-Atlantis, and a New Age of Power

Part 1 - "Leviathan and its Enemies" by Samuel T Francis

One and the same.

The all-knowing sage Douglas Adams had this to say about technology: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Any…

This is a collection of some of my (mostly) favourite films and anime/not anime that contain Gnostic themes. It is important that I mention that I am no expert in Gnosticism, it is simply an ism that I like. There are many sects of Gnostics, as such, there are many variables in Gnostic cosmology. What remains consistent across these groups is the Gnostic epic pertaining to Sophia, an emanation of God, and her descent from the Pleroma and the subsequent creation of Yaldabaoth, or the ...

AI is starting to unbundle the final part of the idea propagation value chain: idea creation and substantiation. The impacts will be far-reaching.

Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

Tatsuko Horikawa