The day we became artists

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Our Backcasting Kardashev One full essay is out on Strelka Mag!

Also from today the exhibition of Backcasting Kardashev One project is officially open at Ratan-600 - the largest-diameter individual radio telescope on the planet. More details in this thread

A special 2-channel version of the video was made for this occasion

Wow!

Consequences of the bike-sharing bubble

Envying those designers that can afford a luxury of not writing as half of my job recently seems to be not that far from investigative journalism: constant research and reporting

Touchdown Confirmed! #Zhurong (祝融), the 1st Created-in-China Mars Rover, has landed in Utopia Planitia on Mars! China 🇨🇳 becomes the 2nd nation to land a rover successfully on Mars (3rd for a lander). Credit also to #Tianwen1 science instrument & tracking partners: 🇪🇺🇦🇷🇫🇷🇪🇸🇦🇹🇦🇺

Educational video. For a "driverless" car, Waymo sure has a lot of people operating the vehicle: a roadside assistance team (that eventually take over in manual and may or may not be following every car), a remote rider support service, and the rider—who's actually a beta tester.

China has landed a rover on Mars. Until now, NO nation besides the US achieved this. Legit amazing. bbc.com/news/science-e…

It’s worth remembering during the dog days of these tone deaf stunts that the very idea of “climate change” is an accomplishment of planetary scale sensing and modeling infrastructures, most of which have lineage to the Space programs. Space is a given, not an alibi.

I part company with many friends in the humanities by refusing to see the sciences and technical fields as especially evil. The humanities are as much a product of, and instrument of, imperial projects as any other kind of knowledge.

"Let’s look at things as they are: There is no “economy” — there is only energy conversion." - energy metabolism is my absolutely favorite topic since #TheTerraforming noemamag.com/want-not-waste…

"Unless we invent some miraculous type of energy technology, seriously stemming climate change means we would have to deliberately decrease our standards of living." - even we do, no way to escape the direct heating, hence backcasting-kardashev.one

Human Climate Horizons is the UN’s new platform for visualizing how climate change will affect life, from temperature rise to mortality. domusweb.it/en/sustainable…

the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/

Been using a presence-tool-entity spectrum in my talks recently to discuss the difference of interactions with AI that we can designing different services, but now wondering if it's gonna just move directly to entities with enough tech development