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A regenerative future for Kiwaatule
A series of 5 collective imagination gatherings to engage residents in imagining their place as a living person, to help revitalise Kiwaatule from a dense urban area to a green corridor.
A series of 5 collective imagination gatherings to engage residents in imagining their place as a living person, to help revitalise Kiwaatule from a dense urban area to a green corridor.
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
How to survive being online
Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...
Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do
Modeled after the human vocal tract, MIT CSAIL’s AI system can generate and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. It “sketches up” human-like vocal impressions without training, or ever hearing a human mimic that particular sound.
Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint
Inaccurate notices branded with broadcaster’s logo sent to iPhone users but tech firm works on improvements
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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries
might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable.
In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which
has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace
the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary
boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological
macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding
and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in
the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that
would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing.
Google Researchers Can Create an AI That Thinks a Lot Like You After Just a Two-Hour Interview
After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do.
Nobody Owns The Technofuture | DAIR
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users
US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement
‘We’re figuring out cool ways of storytelling’: how TikTok is changing the way we watch musicals
Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platform
Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death
Parents believe San Francisco police lack ability to conduct thorough investigation into multifaceted case
Dream On | Atmos
For centuries, scientists have wrestled with the question of why we dream. One theory suggests it's connected to neuroplasticity—and vision.
The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks
Why won’t the bot say my name?
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
This is where the data to build AI comes from
New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.
Feminist Design Archive
An open-source, community-generated digital library that aims to document, preserve and illuminate the work of feminist designers around the globe.
#13: I Don’t Want OpenAI to Support the Arts, I Want Them to Keep the Fuck Away From It
Reposting a public letter as part of the action around the recent OpenAI Sora leak.
Climate policy is on a collision course with physical reality
There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals, market solutions and non-disruptive change, and activists and key researchers who see the world hurtling towards climate breakdown and social collapse.
‘People should feel there’s more than doom and gloom’: Monument Valley 3’s environmentalist hope-punk
How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game
Playing for the Planet
The State of UX in 2025
From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.
The most surprising tech champions of 2024
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
Workers farm at night to avoid intense heat – but it can lead to other negative effects
From farm workers in Brazil to India and the US midwest, shifting to a schedule where it’s dark out could mean dangerous conditions and less food
The abject weirdness of AI ads | TechCrunch
"I'm trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife's advice." That's Browser Company CEO, Josh Miller, in his
TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds
Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows
A regenerative organisational design primer
Resources for practising regenerative organisational design