Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
by Thor Bensen in Wired.com….The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications.
The government must say what it knows about covid’s origins
by Zeynep Tufekci in The New York Times….The American public, however, only rarely heard refreshing honesty from their officials or even their scientists — and this tight-lipped, denialist approach appears to have only strengthened belief that the pandemic arose from carelessness during research or even, in less reality-based accounts, something deliberate.
Welcome to the “End Times”: Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse
by Paul Rosenberg in Salon…..Peter Turchin predicted major instability in the 2020s. Unless we address inequality, he says, it will get worse
Why it seems everything we knew about the global economy is no longer true
by Patricia Cohen in The New York Times…While the world’s eyes were on the pandemic, China and the war in Ukraine, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.
Love in the time of the polycrisis: 21new signs of emergence
by Susan Grelock Yusem in Commonweal.org…..As we live through extremes, like social turmoil, extreme weather, pandemic, and economic instability, we also hold complex emotional experiences: hope and despondency, courage and fear, joy and grief.
Polycrisis, unraveling, simplification, or collapse: coming soon to a planet near you?
by Richard Heinberg in Resilience.org…If humanity descends into blame and desperate efforts to maintain a status quo that by its very nature cannot persist, the future looks dark indeed.
The global polycrisis reflects a civilizational crisis that calls for systemic alternatives
By Zack Walsh, Polycrisis Transition Consultancy…A review of emerging definitions of polycrisis within cognate bodies of scientific literature exploring societal risk and collapse, plus implications for how to respond to the depth and severity of the global polycrisis via just and regenerative civilizational alternatives.
Disrupting and diversifying the values, voices and governance principles that shape biodiversity science and management
by Anne Salomon in The Royal Society….With climate, biodiversity and inequity crises squarely upon us, never has there been a more pressing time to rethink how we conceptualize, understand and manage our relationship with Earth’s biodiversity.
Global tech supply chains are as complex as a circuit board
by Brendan O’Connor in Instick….The logic of the Palo Alto System that Stanford developed in breeding horses — that is, the logic of capital, articulated as eugenics — structured the organization of the new university.
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
by Tim Smedley in The Guardian….While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach
Chartbook 219 The triple inequality of the “global” climate problem.
by Adam Tooze in Chartbook..The climate crisis is often discussed as a global problem which requires a collective mobilization of humanity.
The A.I. dilemma
by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin presented by Center for Human Technology….The A.I. Dilemma.
Chartbook 218: “So far from god” … friend-shoring and the debate in Washington over whether to bomb Mexico.
by Adam Tooze in Chartbook….Proximity brings safety and harmony only if you have sorted out your neighborly relations. That is far from being the case between Mexico and the USA.
Fareed Zakaria on where Russia’s war in Ukraine stands — and much more
The Ezra Klein Show interviews Fareed Zakaria…..A lot about the world has changed since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.
‘We can’t escape the reality’: France is preparing for 4°C of warming by 2100
by Rosie Frost in Euro News….After living through the hottest summer on record in 2022 and a prolonged drought, France is now preparing for a future where extreme weather could become commonplace.
Citizen TV journalist Agnes Oloo selected for continental fellowship program
By Joseph Muia in Citizen TV….Citizen TV Journalist Agnes Oloo Selected For Continental Fellowship Program