Modernity has two faces, suggests the Argentinian decolonial thinker Walter Mignolo, as inseparable as the faces of a coin. He calls them 'the shine and the shadow’... The divisions that run through the world are not about some of us living closer to the future than others. The poor farmers and rural proletarians working across the fields and plantations of the world, the Bangladeshi sweatshop workers and the Filipina maids in the world's great cities have not been left behind' by modernity but have lived it every bit as much as the Silicon Valley millionaires and the San Francisco policy analysts.
Society: Living in the ruins. Homelessness. Normal is what you can successfully ignore. Menopause: 600B$ market. Dark Mountain Manifesto. 24h do-nothing challenge.
Market: Results of the 4-day week pilot in the UK [PDF].Lessons for NATO on Ukraine defence [PDF]. Relocating chip manufacturers. ‘Smart’ Repossession of a car - a Ford patent [PDF]. Insect farming, for pets. Camel cloning in Dubai. AgriVoltaics, growing food fields under PV fields.
Digital: Digital (il)literacy for ancient hardware, tech-shame for printers use. JobToBeDone. Algorithm ethics - not ruining lives.
Tech: Tables of Soyga and automation x magic. GPT4 ahead next week. The floppy disk legacy. More futures. ChatGPT co-author of 200+ books on Amazon.
Random: Poetry book written in 24h, about these 24h. A dungeon a day. Bumblebees solving puzzles. Digital infinity (Wikipedia). (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ .
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