On a long enough timescale, open cultures thrive, and closed cultures doom themselves to obscurity.

Prospective CEOs should submit to psychiatric evaluations before being hired. High-level political and military leadership as well ( Read more... )

education, careerism, capitalism, religion -- in short modern society -- is slavery obfuscated by layers of abstraction
if you're reading this from the far future: some of us knew

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present. ~Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art

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I heard about The Ocean Cleanup's work in passing not too long ago. Nice to see some positive change happening on a large scale!

They have 3 systems going that I know of:
- Ocean system, a floating towed structure that collects garbage from ocean garbage patches into a giant funnel net, to be returned to the mainland and properly managed.
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The prompts people come up with for generating AI art are amazing. The results are even better, so fun to look at.

Click for banger prompts like this*:

lofi nuclear war to relax and study to
cctv footage of Yoda robbing a liquor store
trail cam footage of gollum eating watermelon
funeral at Whole Foods

Here's fisher price guillotine:

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I'm wholly unsatisfied with the current period. The future will look back on and consider our modern day as a wild west, the same way we view 1800s America. And I'm not referring to the war in Ukraine, that's the least of it.

To avoid a future owned and controlled by Amazon dictating whatever prices they want, make purchases elsewhere whenever possible!

Degrowth (in French: décroissance,[1] in Spanish: decrecimiento, in Italian: decrescita) is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas.[2] It is also considered an essential economic strategy responding to the limits-to-growth dilemma (see The Path to Degrowth in ( Read more... )

Saw a guy today that looked like he was riding a Segway. Until i got a better look and all he was riding on was one wheel, with no handle, and no seat! Looked really neat, easy, stable, convenient. Unlike the Segway. Is this the future of personal transportation?