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“Perhaps…humanity can change the future that I saw if enough of us were to suddenly wake up to the crisis we are facing and radically change our behavior. I hope we do. I would love for my vision of our future collapse to be wrong.”
—Christopher Bache, Are deep psychedelic experiences trustable?
#humanity #future
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“…life is open-ended and subject to change. The future is not something that is “out there,” something we can reach out and touch like an apple on a table. It is a self-emerging dance with an uncountable number of variables. And yet, these variables have a momentum and a trajectory. There is so much momentum behind the forces of history and our deeply entrenched cultural patterns that perhaps what I was seeing was not the future but a probable future. Perhaps I was tuning into the open-ended flow of historical currents, and yet currents that at this point in time have a high degree of inevitability.”
—Christopher Bache, Are deep psychedelic experiences trustable? An exchange between Ken Ring and Chris Bache
#history #culture #future
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Petra van Cronenburg

If super-bullies conquer the headlines with absurd crap, imagine a world without bullies in power.
It's on us to counter their #narratives with how we would like the future to be. It is up to all of us to fight for this future. Not tomorrow but now!
Write *your* plot of humanity and cooperation.
steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut

SteadyEverything Is Possible!I used to think I was a tough journalist who could easily recognise when something couldn't possibly be real. When I saw the first penguin picture in the morning, I…
#future#solarpunk#hopepunk
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Brett Hodnett

How will humans #evolve into the future? How might humans evolve if our civilization was lost and the climate was unforgiving for millions of years? Or if two populations of humans were geographically isolated for that long? For this week I'd like to offer #FediHumans a free copy of HUMAN. Visit bretthodnett.com/FreeHUMAN.htm and use the code ‘fedihuman’ to get your free EPUB!

bretthodnett.comHUMANA remarkable exploration of family, society, and what makes us human, HUMAN will take you from the post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later, where those few surviving individuals have evolved to become something that we might not fully recognize as human.
#Climate#ClimateChange#Future
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Futurist Jim Carroll

"You can always chase away the season of gloom by pursuing the data of hope!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

So let's talk about what I call the 'season of gloom' and the new phrase that is sweeping the tech and AI world, 'vibe coding.'

It turns out that I'm in the midst of the former and have been doing the latter.

The 'season of gloom?' That's what I call this period between the end of ski season and the start of golf. Some folks call it other things, and some are not fit for sharing. According to one chart, yesterday we were in the midst of our third winter.

Yesterday, we had a massive little mini-blizzard, ice pellets, freezing rain, rain - and then just now, overnight, some pretty massive thunderstorms. Golf can't start soon enough! I try to manage my despair by opening my pool in just over a week for a quick swim.

I also try to keep my optimism for spring in check by following various long-range weather forecasts to try to get a sense of when we might emerge from the gloom. I have, for many years, been trying to teach myself to understand these long-range weather patterns by studying various weather model forecast maps. To do that this year, I've been doing a bit of 'vibe coding' - I just created my nifty new long-range weather page which I built using AI. You can visit it at weather.beingoblio.com/longran

This little page lets me access various long-range weather models, to get a sense of what might be happening with the weather 10 to 14 days out. There's not a lot of consistency in weather predictions that far out, but this can be used to get a sense of where there is some agreement and where might find ourselves in terms of the jet stream, temperature patterns, high and low-pressure systems, and more. (Click the little 'i' icon and you can get a description of each map.)
I'm using it to try to chase away the gloom, by understanding what the weather might look like two weeks out - hence, today's quote.
I'm waiting for a real spring vibe to kick in.

I'm still waiting.

But there is hope.

Fore!

#vibecoding #Hope #Data #Weather #Optimism #Technology #Coding #Spring #Future #AI #innovation

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decodin

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Greens News
From Adam Bandt
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Hi Friend,

Can you believe it’s almost been a week since the election kicked off? And what a week it’s been!

We’ve already seen a huge wave of support for the Greens right across the country – with thousands of people just like you signing up to help get our message out.

We’re fired up. We’re prepared. And we’re hitting the ground running.

#auspol#greens#future
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h o ʍ l e t t

→ They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were #killed
theguardian.com/global/ng-inte

“Rationalists had considerable #openness to new experiences, but sometimes poor discipline or #judgment, and could embody the old joke about being so open-minded that one’s brain falls out […]”

“It goes without saying that the #AI-risk and #rationalist communities are not morally responsible for the #Zizians any more than any #movement is accountable for a deranged fringe.”

The Guardian · They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killedBy J Oliver Conroy
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