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And once again, it is #GalacticTickDay . I've often thought #GalacticTick ,the #LongNow and the #HolceneSociety should be doing serious educational projects together, especially regarding education, agricultural, anthropology, climate, and astronomy. That said, the best designation of this year is 12,025 if we're taking "long now" and "Holocene" seriously.

From my commute podcast feed yesterday. It was a fun listen. The Q&A is great. #EzraKlein and #DerekThompson with #MichaelPollan at #LongNow.

https://longnow.org/ideas/abundance/

#ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

"All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2025.1554685/full

What does it mean to think on the scale of centuries? Great discussions with Stephen Heintz & Kim Stanley Robinson.

The Long Now Foundation offers a fascinating read on long-term logic, design, and the ethics of building for the future.

https://longnow.org/ideas/a-logic-for-the-future/

#LongNow #FutureThinking #SystemDesign #Podcast

I love the Eames Power of Ten reference. #longnow

Watching all the Waste of our Boyz Weekend with lots of yummy games'n soul food makes me...happy. Yes happy! Home cooked.. ingredients that bring their own organic packaging, and the waste looks like a dish itself. Taking it to the compost tomorrow, it's immediately a whole part of a close loop Circular. Very smart and beautiful. Not invented by humans. Long now proven.

#smartwaste #wastelove #waste #soulfood #longnow

“Everything you do from when you wake up in the morning to when you go to sleep is training data for the future’s model of the past… It’s a big responsibility.”

— Benjamin Bratton, “A Philosophy of Planetary Computation : From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence”

#ai #genai #technology #longnow

"The clock is the ultimate artifact of a culture that evolved to convince donors from the tech community to underwrite spectacular ideas with no obvious payoff."

Alec Nevala-Lee for Asterisk: https://longreads.com/2025/01/27/chimes-at-midnight/

#Longreads #Essay #Clock #LongNow #Time #Technology #Future

The generative documentary about Brian Eno is running today for 24 hours. Six versions will run and it’ll be different each time:

#longnow #brianeno #documentary #generativeart

https://bsky.app/profile/longnow.org/post/3lgiteqeec22k

This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that happen? How should the bits in your stewardship be stored with such a target in mind? How do our methods and platforms look when considered under the harsh unknowns of a century?

#LongReads #LongNow https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

The @internetarchive offers data vault storage at a fixed one-time cost per gigabyte:
https://webservices.archive.org/pages/vault/

(Kind of surprised they don't directly offer paid web hosting).

Or consider simply supporting them https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/113743001452074514 since the work they do is essential infrastructure, akin to @wikipedia

#LongNow #DataArchive #backups #libraries

Watching a video of a Glacier Peak flyover, and even more impressive than the amazing views & nature, is Gary Paull's incredible detailed/intimate local & geological knowledge, his orientation and pattern recognition skills... I've always been in awe of people who're so aware of and linked to their environment(s) and their place within (even if it's here more about the physical rather than social aspects). To me this is what hiking is partially about: Not just an activity, but more so a method & process of deeply connecting with a place/environment, using each visit for learning & trying to understand it, to navigate it without map, to appreciate its history, how it came to be, why it is the way it is etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s1RMPH9p0

Each time this is a vivid reminder of Brian Eno's "Big Here / Long Now" concepts (even if his European framing and many other aspects of the Long Now foundation/funding are problematic):

https://longnow.org/essays/big-here-long-now/

"How could you live so blind to your surroundings? How could you not think of where I live as including at least some of the space outside your four walls, some of the bits you couldn't lock up behind you? I felt this was something particular to New York: I called it "The Small Here". I realised that, like most Europeans, I was used to living in a bigger Here.

I noticed that this very local attitude to space in New York paralleled a similarly limited attitude to time. Everything was exciting, fast, current, and temporary. Enormous buildings came and went, careers rose and crashed in weeks. You rarely got the feeling that anyone had the time to think two years ahead, let alone ten or a hundred. Everyone seemed to be passing through. It was undeniably lively, but the downside was that it seemed selfish, irresponsible and randomly dangerous. I came to think of this as "The Short Now", and this suggested the possibility of its opposite - "The Long Now".

"Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes. It's ironic that, at a time when humankind is at a peak of its technical powers, able to create huge global changes that will echo down the centuries, most of our social systems seem geared to increasingly short nows."

— Brian Eno

#BigHere #LongNow #Hiking #GlacierPeak #NorthCascades

"Other parts of the world are not less developed versions of us." - Wade Davis

This simple truth revolutionizes how we think about progress, time, and the future. It suggests that the path forward isn't about everyone becoming more like the West, but about weaving together diverse ways of knowing and being in time.

https://longnow.org/ideas/reframing-the-future/

#LongNow

I’ve been a member of the #LongNow foundation for a long time; I’m a charter member (ca. 2007). However, America’s descent into oligarchy has me rethinking lots of things in this year of our lord 2024.

You see, the signature 10,000 year clock that Long Now is building, is on Bezos’ private land in TX; a monument to rich white men. Looking at the Long Now board, it’s dominated by old white men; no melanin to speak of. This old white man is probably going to drop his membership.

This Wired article pretty well sums things up https://www.wired.com/story/the-10000-year-clock-is-a-waste-of-time/

e494 — License to Brick

e493 with Michael, Michael and Andy on #digital #storage for a century, #AI #datasets, videos & new #Oreo flavors, #hacking digital license plates and #robots, and a whole lot more!

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