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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 12:25:40 JST Nathan Schneider

   What are your essential readings/media about the future?

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 13:35:32 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Sam Hafferty

     @sim Eeeee! Thank you!

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     Sam Hafferty (sim@post.lurk.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 13:35:33 JST Sam Hafferty

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     @ntnsndr Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) Theory and Practice, Volume 1. Also the performance work of folks in the BQF collective (specifically Irreversible Entanglements). Here's the link to their site: https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/

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     Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 13:37:22 JST Zane Selvans

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     @ntnsndr Nils Gilman's "The Official Future is Dead" essay was good about the weird liminal state we're (still!) in:

     https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/10/30/official-future-dead-long-live-official-future/

     I found Picketty's Capital & Ideology shockingly optimistic and constructive. It's a lot of history, but trying to create a positive vision of a future that has some kinds of continuity with that past.

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     bovaz (bovaz@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:24:21 JST bovaz

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     @ntnsndr tea leaves and the hands of your friends. Meaning you should have tea with your friends, as that is always the best future. You may replace tea with any other drink of choice.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:24:21 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • bovaz

     @bovaz Oh yes, that would be a great class exercise.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:24:59 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Zane Selvans

     @ZaneSelvans Ooh, thank you for all this!

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     Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:25:00 JST Zane Selvans

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     @ntnsndr The Library Socialism podcast can get a bit repetitive, but I think the underlying ideas are mostly good, and they're trying to spread them. https://srslywrong.com/shows/

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     Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:25:02 JST Zane Selvans

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     @ntnsndr In a related uncertainty vein, Donald MacKenzie's "An Engine, Not a Camera" was a great story about the brittle chaos that ensues when we mistake a social construction for a fact about the world and then suddenly realize that's what we've done. And the feedback loop between shared models of the social world and how the social world ends up working.

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     Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:25:03 JST Zane Selvans

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     @ntnsndr “If we have indeed lit the fuse on West Antarctica, it’s very hard to imagine putting the fuse out. But there’s a bunch more fuses, and there’s a bunch more matches, and we have a decision now: Do we light those?”

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     Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 01:25:04 JST Zane Selvans

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     @ntnsndr Reading Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" and Richard B. Alley's "The Two Mile Time Machine" at the same time made me think a lot about uncertainty and how we do a terrible job as a civilization at integrating it into our collective understanding of the world, even if pockets of society do understand it in important contexts.