Climate and Society in 2026. A spoken-word essay by Tacitus Gaia-Marx in two short parts on ASEBL. No reading – just listen! Playing time in full, under 25 minutes. www.asebl.net/2026/04/clim...
So infuriating. The reckoning can not come fast enough.
This is so hard to imagine after working under Bob Mueller for 4 years. Shameful what they’ve done to that org.
Considering we don’t have a definition of consciousness, a mechanism for how it works, or even a full understanding of how AI works, this answer was a stunning display of over-precision in an area of deep, deep uncertainty. So why should we listen to this guy?
I probably should have turned this off when Shiller said the final answer of his study about the probability that AIs are conscious is “8%”. Not 8 plus/minus anything. Just 8.
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"Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful declaration harmed children,” the Judge wrote.
“This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law...
“Unserious leaders are unsafe."
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As we’ve said many times, it’s all about blocking regulation.
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
“Greens who were long dismissed as “idealistic” & “unrealistic” now look like hard-headed pragmatists & true patriots. They’re years ahead of their rivals in demanding a transition that makes sense on every level: environmental, economic & political” - great article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇
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My wife of 24 years turned 50 last year. I can hardly wait to see her at 85. What a beautiful essay on living well.
I can see why you'd think that because Hawkins focuses on the neocortex (whereas I think consciousness starts lower down). Let's talk more when I finish the book and publish a review of it.
Yes, I can imagine that's a very confused term. Hawkins generally means: "The ability to make predictions about the future based on learned patterns." He spends the first third of this book looking at how the neocortex does this. The second 1/3 is then about AI. Final 1/3 is about humanity's future.
I somehow missed this back in 2023. Glad to see it now. I'm honored to have claimed the #1 spot on the MIT Press tongue-in-cheek "future banned book" list. mitpress.mit.edu/our-future-b...
This was such a great podcast, debunking metaphysically motivated bad science AND affirming a naturalist point of view as perfectly fulfilling and inspiring.
It’s the same way he “gave us” Juneteenth.
To put the stupid ideas of pronatalism and AI-doomerism together is really something. The idea that doing GATTACA can somehow combat our having done Terminator by mistake (oops!) in a battle of cautionary tales is just… weapons-grade hubris. Chef’s kiss…
This needs a lot of research.
“less is understood about the effects of a fragmenting political and media landscape on increasingly online boomers, the generation now aged from about 60 to 80.”
“half of all US adults were estranged from a close relative”
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Fascinating. I’m reading Jeff Hawkins’ book right now “A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence”. It has a forward by Richard Dawkins too. Have you read this? It’s very critical of the current AI paradigm. I’m planning to review it on my blog when I’m done.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08VWWJY7Y/
50,000 members of the young greens
Ciara and Callum quote as co-chairs of the young greens.
WOW.
Our @younggreens.bsky.social now have 50,000 members - they are the biggest political youth movement in the UK.
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Oh it’s so worth it! We are embodied cognitions so go get your body cognitive of this wonder. : )
Ooh I’m gonna listen to this for sure. A kind woman in my philosophy group (retired doctor) really liked McG and brought him up all the time. I didn’t have the strength to wade through him to see what, if anything, was worthwhile.
Technically you are right but the on/off is so dim and fuzzy to define that it is quite arbitrary to draw lines. Evolutionary thinking as an electrical circuit is still just a metaphor and it has limits of applicability.
I see consciousness emerging with life, btw, which has fuzzy beginnings too.
I think they’re trying to call out the 42% of dried potatoes in a pringles. Those are some pretty fake shit.
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I like these “affect profiles”.
Another great love letter to the future. My favorite quote:
“You (Mr. CEO) say you work 80 hour weeks? I thought you said you were good at your job.”
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An insider’s view from someone whose travel newsletter I really enjoy.
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I dunno. I don’t think this one is pulling off that look.
They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.
You need to read this.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.
V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.
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