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Please read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html

Writers dismissed a recent NYT op-ed arguing for the spoken word in the AI era. But speech may prove key to a future in which writing forks into conversational media—spontaneous and malleable like clay—and machine-readable media that are precise like marble
https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/don

#AI

Mooi overzichtsrapport over de maatschappelijke waarde van groen gas, door mijn Common Futures collega's: https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/artikelen/nieuws/de-maatschappelijke-waarde-van-groen-gas-nederland
(Great overview …

Nieuw rapport: groen gas vooral van waarde voor gebouwde omgeving, elektriciteitsproductie en industrie
Groen gas heeft vooral toegevoegde waarde in delen van de bebouwde omgeving, bij de productie van elektriciteit en in de industrie. Dat blijkt uit het nieuwe rapport De maatschappelijke waarde van groen gas in Nederland, opgesteld door Common Futures in opdracht van Netbeheer Nederland. Het rapport laat niet alleen zien waar groen gas het meeste oplevert, maar ook hoe de inzet ervan kan bijdragen aan het zo laag mogelijk houden van de totale kosten van het energiesysteem.

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over.

The Facebook Fake-out
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Future Echoes reference for those unaware of the greatness that is Red Dwarf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLjQycLlVA

We need more movements like this. #Kindness
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260922-kindness-trolls-the-internet-vigilantes-who-wea…

“It feels like a calling”: The internet vigilantes who weaponise kindness
Social media is often seen as a mirror for human cruelty. One man built a TikTok army of 500,000 to fix it. Their weapon: kindness.

Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I had an electrician come fix my fire alarms (tbd if it worked), and I had a "future echo" moment (obvs, not literally), so I wrote it down!
2036: https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/08/09/2036.html