Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 02/08/2025As we descend into the digital abyss we walk a knife-edge crisis full of unimaginable revelations and unfathomable opportunities… youtu.be/7YKc7jlgKM8?... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025“Those who control the data control the future, not just humanity, but the future of life itself.” 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025“In this new world, we will have to accept total transparency.” Fuck you, Klaus Schwab! 200
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"A virtual world where the normal course of events can suddenly turn inside out." #thelawnmowerman 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The Human Edge: -Contextual understanding -Emotional intelligence -Human creativity 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 22/07/2025We're flying high in the Bluesky and on this journey into the Future of Life, may we find our thriving TechnoTribe. @futureoflife.org @human30.bsky.social #Life30 #Human30 010
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I may be ahead of the curve enough to act like an antenna or a guide, but that's just because I question everything. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 22/07/2025"The robotic revolution is here and there’s no going back. Yet what is lost in this delirium is depth, the awesomeness, not just of our machines, but of our flesh, our capacity to feel, and our capacity to dwell in the miracle of the unknown." - Kirk J. Schneider @kjschneider.bsky.social 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 21/07/2025One Million Rising: The key to stopping authoritarianism isn’t attacking the would-be ruler, but chipping away at the vital institutions upholding their power -- causing the entire house of cards to collapse. act.indivisible.org/go/840852?t=... @indivisible.org 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Born on this day in 1911: Marshall Mcluhan, Canadian philosopher and the "father of media studies" whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. marshallmcluhan.com 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025There are also parallels to Sri Aurobindo's concept of Supramental Consciousness, a higher, transformative awareness transcending ordinary human consciousness which is regarded as the next stage in evolution, capable of bringing about a complete transformation of the individual and the world. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025There are parallels with Maslow's 8-level Hierarchy of Needs. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025The I2 in SMI2LE is Intelligence Increase through an eight-circuit activation leading to quantum-cosmic consciousness, much like what Arthur C. Clarke wrote about in the Space Odyssey series, as well as in Childhood’s End: an Overmind. 220
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Tim Leary with John Allen at Gathering of the Minds, Chapman University, produced by Psychedelic Illuminations magazine, April 1994 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Leary proclaimed that the "PC is the LSD of the 1990s" and admonished bohemians to "turn on, boot up, jack in". 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 14/07/2025“Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose." -- Neil Postman 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 14/07/2025"A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided." -- Neil Postman 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Artisan AI's dystopian S.F. billboards... www.sfgate.com/tech/article... www.artisan.co @stephco.bsky.social ky.social @sfgate.com 010
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The AI Summit at Black Hat USA coming Tuesday, August 5 to Mandalay Bay Las Vegas, NV newyork.theaisummit.com/at-black-hat... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 11/07/2025The devil‘s got our data and summoning up the demons of destruction to spit and trample on our sacred birthright as the proud, the free, the liberated, the self-determined and self-reliant. #donttreadonme 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 10/07/2025@futureoflife.org's Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter speaks to the possibility of "a profound change in the history of life on Earth" as well as potential risks of AI-generated propaganda, loss of jobs, human obsolescence, and society-wide loss of control. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pause_G... 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The Polymath Festival on 15th August - 27th September is the premier ideas festival dedicated to promoting many-sided human potential and exploring interdisciplinary solutions to complex world problems presented by the DaVinci Network. www.davinci-network.com/the-festival... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Will neuroscience and psychology inform the development of tomorrow’s AI? 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Can AI enhance human creativity, productivity, and well-being? 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025How do we assess, forecast, and guide the societal impact of AI? 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025HAI is located on the first floor of the William Gates Computer Science Building. www.cs.stanford.edu/about/gates-... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025That is why I’m here to explore a shared vision for the future that ensures that AI serves the collective needs of humanity. It is this goal that guides the work of @stanfordpress.bsky.social HAI. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025At this crossroads, it is not less anxiety we need, but more, at least a special kind that Kirk Schneider calls life-enhancing to the invigorating degree that anxiety is crucial to being passionately engaged, ethically attuned, and creatively enriched. universityprofessorspress.com/product/life... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025At this Fertile Nexus is a Fountain of Life-Affirming Anxiety. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Human-Computer interface is a fine Art in an increasingly computer-mediated world. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025HAI was established in 2019 to advance research, education, policy, and practice to shape the development and responsible deployment of AI. 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025A beautiful day in Palo Alto as I make my way to The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) hai.stanford.edu/about 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 06/07/2025We are the Future Humans today, Seed People for a better Way. www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/seed... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 06/07/2025"I, Robot" is a 1950 collection of 9 sci-fi stories by Asimov exploring the development of robots and their ethical implications, introducing his Three Laws of Robotics, which had large influence on later sci-fi and impacted thought on ethics of artificial intelligence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 06/07/2025This article was written by Émile P. Torres, author of Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation www.routledge.com/Human-Extinc... @xriskology.bsky.social 120
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Happy 94th Birthday to Stanislav Grof, world-renowned psychiatrist and author with over sixty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology. www.stangrof.com 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The Humiliated Word in a Time of Crisis Conference of the International Jacques Ellul Society July 14–16, 2026 | University of Notre Dame, Indiana ellul.org 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 26/06/2025"Takes hacking out of the world of computing to analyze systems that underpin society: from tax laws to financial markets to democracy, revealing powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at our expense." www.schneier.com/books/a-hack... 000
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Crypto-Gram is the essential newsletter (monthly free e-mail digest) from internationally renowned security technologist, Bruce Schneier, author of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ bsky.app/profile/schn... 100
Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Now in its 11th year, San Francisco's Gray Area Festival explores corporeal practice and perfection in contemporary technoculture through a conference, performances, workshops, and an exhibition. tickets.grayarea.org/events/0196e... grayarea.org @grayarea.org 000
