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https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgzopmnrnc2u · 14 Mar 2026
There’s an uber-dystopian version of AI where it either annihilates us or sucks out our souls while we believe we are in a matrix of plenty. Maybe one of those dystopias will come to pass, but a far more likely dystopia is one that’s coming into being ...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgxnjwoqcc2a · 13 Mar 2026
Arthur Dove: Hand Sewing Machine The Planet is a hyperobject, and we only have access to a minuscule subset of it through our senses. How can art help us grasp the unseen? From today’s article: Much of the visualization used to represent the Anthropocene...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgshphgu6k2d · 11 Mar 2026
Michael Levin is an interesting thinker; a rare Platonist in Biology. This quote from a recent post of his makes me think of biological engineering, but not the kind where we force organisms to do our willing, but rather work with their agential capacity t...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgnm7igz4k24 · 9 Mar 2026
From Frederic Hanusch's "The Politics of Deep Time": How societies know about and perceive time on the one side, and how they are organized and govern themselves on the other side thus depend on each other. Societal relations regarding knowledge of the ti...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgizorqq4k2i · 7 Mar 2026
It's very hard to imagine oneself dead, and its even harder to imagine the absence of everyone like me. But that too shall come to pass: via Frederic Hanusch's "The Politics of Deep Time": human societies should comprehend the fact that planet Earth existe...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgdqhfrolc2a · 5 Mar 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
I have been reading Marcia Bjornerud's "Timefulness" and really enjoying it. The more woke we are, the more we are prone to possessing our experience as somehow uniquely our own, like "this is my reality, and you have no right to doubt it." But that person...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mgb7ph3cvc2r · 4 Mar 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Much historical analysis is either about 'recorded time,' i.e., history as evidenced in texts and other inscriptions, or about 'end time,' e.g., Edenic beginnings or apocalyptic endings. What's missing? Deep Time: the time of biological and geological proc...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mg6sqh67ok2e · 3 Mar 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
We barely remember what happened yesterday, so to expect us to take geological eras into consideration is a bit much. However, our lives are built on deep time - I wouldn't be writing these words if someone hadn't figured out how to turn solidified & liqui...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mg3m6h2cj22j · 2 Mar 2026
The term "contradiction" has many meanings. In logic it means claiming a proposition and its negation are both true at once. In conversation it means asserting the opposite of what someone else is saying. There's the Marxist version where contradictions re...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mfu3cbbfes2b · 27 Feb 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
It's been a while since I wrote here, but I did promise the Daily Planet would restart before the end of February, and here we are. I am going to restart the Daily Planet with a long essay on Planetary Stewarship and switch to regular programming next week...