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https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mhqnct6egc26 · 23 Mar 2026
In today’s Daily Planet, @nilsgilman.bsky.social argues that a new geopolitical split is emerging around energy: a Green Entente led by China that builds dominance through green tech, and an Axis of Petrostates (the U.S. under Trump, Russia, Gulf monarch...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mhladzsuds2f · 21 Mar 2026
As I keep saying, while we are waiting to be turned into paperclips, pay some attention to the everyday dystopias being unleashed by AI. This investigation by Decode reveals that India’s Poshan Tracker app, which uses Google’s ML Kit for facial rec...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mhgmgkv5us2i · 19 Mar 2026
Wars are bad for people, but they are bad for everyone else too. As today's link says: War contaminates the conditions for life itself Modern warfare is an environmental catastrophe with "toxic legacies" that persist for decades. Beyond the immediate human...
https://dailyplanet.leaflet.pub/3mhgn6uyi722w · 17 Mar 2026
Military AI is characterized by epistemic opacity. Unlike civilian AI, which is subject to public scrutiny and litigation when it fails, military systems are shielded by classification and state-secret privileges. This lack of transparency prevents externa...
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...