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How do we make a bright future that isn't also way too hot?
2023 Big Picture winners. Nature is amazing
It’s been hotter than usual in Singapore. As we sweat and jump from air-con to air-con, I am constantly thinking about Kim Stanley-Robinson’s Ministry for the Future and this from Sci-Am - “Extreme Heat is deadlier than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes combined.”
Send me alllll the merch Mr Evans! I’m a Slow AF runner too.
What a Line: “Dad wrote opaque, elliptical, experimental works of enormous profanity.” Especially since the article is about the intricacies of uploading 7 gigs of your dad’s work onto the internet archive via Waxy.org.
Hashim’s story is terrifying. It’s hard to slow the inexorable rise of government funded surveillance tech / (autocra-tech?). It’s by no means a China-only story. From a western perspective, Radiolab recently replayed one of the more dystopian episodes from their archives: Eye in the Sky. Via metafilter