Decentering the Future in the Politics of Foresight - Bayo Akomolafe | GFAC Live! November 22 YouTube video by TFSX

Opening quote from @bayoakomolafe.bsky.social youtu.be/CaTZQIEauSs?...

🌐Scenarios for Tomorrow🌐

What happens when the conventional practice of #ScenarioPlanning actively embeds false #certainties and constraints, alongside an absence of #responsibility?

Guests: #GeciKaruriSebina #SophiaBazile

#OrphanVariables #PackagingTheFuture #InnovationProspecting #FARvisions

a cat is laying in a pile of plastic bags with the words grocery plans denied above it Alt: a cat is laying on its back in a pile of plastic bags staring into the void contemplating how little the world makes sense anymore and too mystified to be angry just yet at the family members who told her that college degrees and a job would set her free, with the words "grocery plans denied" in large white letters, because white people ruin everything, amirite?

Of the 17 recurring expenses I pay each month, 10 increased. This is some old school #UnregulatedMarket 💩

Of the products & services I regularly use, all of them updated their contracts to include arbitration, indemnity or predatory #DataMonetization

#StopBeingComplicit

cartoon dystopian portrayal of people in lines, men in the back line, women in the front line, soulless, with the same red skin, white hair, and collared shirts.

✨Western culture challenge✨

Stop calling things a "brave new world". If you read even the first chapter you would recede into your nearest sphincter with such speed that only the heady bouquet of embarassment and cringe would be left in your wake.

#gammas #alphas #booksky #AldousHuxley #castes 💙📚

Wild Forest Haggis - Haggis Wildlife Foundation Wild Forest Haggis. The elusive forest-dwelling subspecies of the wild haggis, revealing a world of extraordinary resilience

Happy Monday to all our wee #haggis friends, emerging from the Spring growth. Occasionally mistaken for the intergalactic #tribble, but never matched. Great appreciation to the Haggis Wildlife Foundation.

#WeeGinger #migration #Scotland #lochs

haggiswildlifefoundation.com/wild-forest-...

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take) YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen

Resurecting a song from 1941 written for the smaller world who would finally outlive their murderous, tyrannical leader

#IrvingBerlin #POTUS #WhenThatManIsDeadAndGone

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Instead of calling them "developing" or "third world" countries, try "historically exploited" or "currently exploited" countries.

My student loan is bigger than that

ICE agents showed up at airports across the country this morning. Most seemed to have no clear purpose just standing around. Apparently the only goal was to make travelers uneasy with federal agents hovering around.

This is an ICE agent at TSA. Post their unmasked faces everywhere.

AI systems perpetuate stereotypes, misogyny, racism...
AI systems perpetuate harms.

#AI #ML #LLM #AIharm #AImagic #HaloEffect #HumanInTheLoop #BeMoreCriticallyMinded

Flu has overtaken covid in emergency rooms during the past two winters

Hospital numbers don’t capture how most people actually experience these illnesses: minor inconveniences or nasty bugs that leave you feeling lousy and homebound. Wastewater tracking, which measures viral particles in sewers to track viral trends, also shows that flu has surged and covid has seen a small uptick, smaller than the summer wave.

We barely had a winter wave of COVID this year but the flu has been absolutely brutal
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"Habsburg AI" is now a term. AI trained on recursively generated data for so long it leads to model collapse.

Being so famous for your dysfunctional choices that cultural evolutions a millenium ahead perfectly adapt your nomenclature.

#HabsburgAI #AIslop #FARvisions

a man holding a piece of paper in front of a sign that says schitts creek ALT: a man holding a piece of paper in front of a sign that says schitts creek

Silly things I refuse to accept in movies:

❌Full sun in N.Europe at 7pm midwinter
❌Spring songbirds in December England
❌Jackets in summer Louisiana
❌Mosquito-free tropical beaches

An author who has #generativeAI write all the novels she sells to publishers, lies to publishers about AI use, but protects her own product because she fears missing out on grifter profits.

"lower your expectations" indeed

The logic of #economics

My networth is $25M, but that's mostly brand equity.

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

You say that like the law matters anymore 🤷🏼‍♀️

Progress is humanity's worst idea <p><em>The normal history of humanity is a relatively slow upward crawl in mortality, population and wealth, and with the advent of capitalism, and enormous upward spike in all measures of progress. B...

We tend to think that it was capitalism that drove the dramatic spike in humanity’s progress in population and wealth. | https://bit.ly/4nNWsPO

But Samuel Miller McDonald argues this wasn’t true growth, but a system cloaking environmental destruction and corruption under the guise of progress.

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Nicholas Christakis @yale.edu
David Gelernter @yale.edu
Marvin Minsky @mit.edu
Lisa Randall @harvard.edu
Bernie Steinberg, Carl Sloane, Eric Sinoway #HarvardHillel
Dan Ariely @dukepress.bsky.social
Marc Rowan @upenn.edu
Robert Trivers @rutgersupress.bsky.social
... and more to come

What does a research fellow actually do #AtCERN? 🤔

Meet Mia, a research fellow in the Systems department, contributing to ISOLDE, where scientists study the properties of atomic nuclei, with further applications in fundamental studies, astrophysics, and material and life sciences.

#WomenInScience

Joan Wiffen, self-taught palaeontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand, was born #OTD, 1922. wp.me/p3ihHu-4YT #WomeninSTEM 🧪⚒️

Our Mission This is "Our Mission" by Seeds of the Sea on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

We have very talented PhD students! PhD student Natalie Coy founded Seeds of the Sea, to record flowering of endangered #Posidonia australis #seagrass. Check out the video she made about it (and website) below.

vimeo.com/1136638387?f...

www.seedsofthesea.org #marineecology #oceanoptimism 🌊🌐🧪

A vibrant, composite portrait of the brilliant Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal. She is shown in a close-up head-and-shoulders view, facing the camera with a gentle, thoughtful expression—short brown hair, bright blue eyes, and a calm smile. She wears a navy blue fleece over a teal/green collared shirt. Overlaid transparently behind and around her is a dense blackboard filled with intricate handwritten mathematical equations in white chalk, featuring complex expressions involving binomial coefficients (e.g., n! / (k!(n-k)!)), factorials, summations, powers, and terms suggestive of hypergeometric series or combinatorial identities. The equations partially surround and frame her face, symbolizing her deep immersion in advanced mathematics, particularly in hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory, and dynamical systems, while evoking the creative, exploratory nature of her work as a Stanford professor and groundbreaking researcher.

Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay.

Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40.

stanford.io/2C0io2A #WomenInSTEM

This is quite a fun perspective. I've heard variations of this theory since birth, but I love the #fractal approach here.

Using fractal descriptors to reveal deep physical, metabolic, and developmental limitations in body size and lifestyle🧪

Open access www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Interesting study, thanks for sharing. It's a correlational study, so it's not possible to know direction of causality yet . But the authors offer some good follow-on study suggestions at the end.

a man with a mustache is standing in front of a grocery store and a sign that says `` nature is amazing '' . Alt: a man with a mustache is standing in front of a grocery store and a sign that says `` nature is amazing '' .

I love how we keep trying to categorize nature and Nature laughs back.

✨Let's Be Clear

Every friendly name on the #EpsteinFiles knew their history and has been pretending it didn't exist until they had no choice.

Every 👏 Last 👏 One 👏 Of 👏 Them 👏

#ArrestMorePedos

I'll add to this list of #heros Dr Ronald E McNair. Astronaught, physicist, musician, moon lazer radical! His legacy brings #educational opportunities to literally millions of marginalized #students across the US. Myself included. Dr McNair remains a major force for #humanity

#BlackExcellence