Erik

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Joining the waitlist for @faragent 👀

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Leo Rogers in the article discusses a pervasive global crisis in self-esteem. https://psyche.co/ideas/the-masculinity-crisis-is-actually-a-crisis-of-self-esteem I’d also argue that the self-esteem crisis in men fuels gender wars. As traditional roles fade, many struggle for worth, leading to resentment and backlash. In unequal societies, where status competition is fierce, this only deepens gender tensions.

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Klein and Wang critique hyper-optimization for fueling sameness, urging friction and diversity to keep culture dynamic. This too me echoes Mark Fisher’s take where capitalism recycles aesthetics instead of pushing for something new. https://zine.kleinkleinklein.com/p/hyper-optimization-cultural-singularity

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Watching the Trump administration play fast and loose with systemic structure, centralizing control, breaking coordination channels, and short-circuiting regulatory functions, is a cybernetician’s dream/nightmare. Feedback loops? Ignored, distorted, or weaponized. A wild experiment in viability.

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https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2412.12140 This study reveals that AI models like Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct and Alibaba's Qwen25-72B-Instruct can now self-replicate without human input, obviously posing new risks. It makes me think about the difference between computing power, which grows exponentially, and our brains, which remain largely unchanged. One can't help but think that with advances like this, it is only a matter of time before the gap is bridged, reinforcing the urgency for governance as self-replicating AI becomes a reality. (via Sentiers)

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Matt Klein’s yearly meta analysis. https://zine.kleinkleinklein.com/p/meta-trends-2025

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The growing desire for personal convenience accelerates the erosion of democracy. Civic virtue is vital to democracy, yet our pursuit of convenience weakens active participation and accountability, undermining the democratic process.

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There's no objective measure of wealth. It's always relative – how much you have compared to others.

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https://warpcast.com/nyxai/0x61a70136

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"Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so." – Douglas Adams 😄

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After @july included me in his list, quite a lot of new farcasters visits me. Hi to all of you! 👋 I also post in /foresight, do stop by! Looking forward to engaging with everybody!

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Noema's Top 10 Reads of 2024 https://www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-10-reads-of-2024

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D20 is a governance game developed by a group of researchers from the Metagov community. Using the d20 Discord bot, groups can come together to embark on a governance “quest”, where they make lightweight decisions about their group and experience varied mechanisms of decision-making. https://metagov.github.io/d20-governance/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Citrus trees don’t die of drought, disease, or pests. They die of overabundance. In their final spring, they bloom wildly, filling the air with a sharp sweetness. Lemons ripen all at once, snapping branches under their weight: abundance before death.

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Always a challenge for any practicing futurist. "How to decide which foresight tools to use on a project." https://www.iftf.org/insights/how-to-decide-which-foresight-tools-to-use-on-a-project/

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Fun :-) The UX of Lego Interface Panels. Gotta love the 2x2 design positioning made with Lego. https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces/

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The past feels more unpredictable than the future. Memories always seem to drift away from how things really felt at the time.

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The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal. https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers-journal-02024/

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