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The song imagines AI becoming far more powerful than humans. The singer fears being controlled or harmed by it. They worry that safety measures may...

Jaron Lanier spoke at a conference about AI and shared smart ideas. He said calling AI "intelligence" too early caused problems. Now, people treat ...

The author used Claude Opus 5.5 to create a video in one pass, following another creator’s workflow. They gave Opus a similar prompt and a gallery ...

The author imagines local communities that help people reconnect with nature and grow in healthy ways. Their systems, beliefs, science, and technol...

The author says healthier societies must live in closer partnership with nature and begin building local, life-sustaining communities. This change ...

Taiwan uses technology to help people share ideas and make decisions together, strengthening democracy. They focus on open, community-driven AI tha...

Stage theories describe how people and cultures develop in clear steps, and many researchers agree on these patterns. Rejecting all stage theories ...

Today's spiritual teachers often become the center of their communities, creating dependency instead of independence. A better system would let stu...

(Conversation recorded on September 16th, 2024) Where have all the elders gone? As the world grapples with its unfolding economic and energy cri...

Michael Levin’s research suggests that minds are non-physical patterns existing in a mathematical, Platonic space. Psychedelics may allow our brain...

Sophia Rokhlin is an author, speaker, and development advisor supporting the conservation of traditional ecological knowledge and land rights. She ...

Nate Hagens believes human civilization faces a crisis due to ecological overshoot and financial strain. He would change his mind only if clear sig...

Dougald Hine writes a letter to Ivan Illich on his 100th birthday, reflecting on Illich's idea of the world as a gift rather than just cause and ef...

Ivan Illich criticized industrial society for creating helplessness and weakening traditional ways of living and learning. He believed formal schoo...

AI can be a helpful tool that makes tasks faster and easier, but it can also act on its own, which changes how we control it. People want AI to be ...

AI is not a bubble; it is rapidly improving and already outpacing many top companies. AI will transform work by automating many jobs, causing big c...

Traditional Dream Factory is a regenerative village in Portugal that practices community land ownership and ecological care. It uses special tokens...

AI-generated writing looks smooth but often lacks real understanding behind it. This tricks readers into feeling they know more than they do. We sh...

People can change how we see, think, and feel by sharing new words, ideas, and attention. Some make us notice more, imagine more, and become more o...

This is the first episode of our Casa Tilo Podcast. We start with ourselves, telling us our story, who we are, why we decided to start this project...

The Sourcekeepers Guild is a group of people devoted to supporting each other's unique soul work and projects. They build deep bonds through shared...

An expansion pack for my NYT story on the "permanent underclass"

A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance.

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

Co-op Fortnight 2026 is here, celebrating the impact of co-operatives and member-owned businesses across the UK. This Beautiful Idea, written and ...

Lost at sea without a compass; reframing the landmarks that come with age

opinionated advice for class of 2026 graduates

This is one of the joys and challenges of love: the more skillfully you love someone, the more held, encouraged, and accepted they feel, the more t...

The parallel architecture of debugging, memory reconsolidation, and meditative insight

There is a countercultural revolution spreading across the United States.

Reflections on fatherhood six months in

What if we actually got AI right? Most stories about our AI future end somewhere between mass unemployment and extinction. We made one about what c...

Notes from a gathering of community organisers

New York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty s…

Green politics is gaining ground. But a growing number of people within the movement sense that winning power may yet require a deeper shift in pol...

Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Jack Clark delivers the 2026 Cosmos Lecture

A growing number of organizations, from Silicon Valley tech outfits to a host of other big corporations, have begun linking AI use to performance e...

The growing trend of living life offline

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City…

A 2% genetic inheritance, a Siberian pinky bone, and vanished populations across continents all point to the same lesson: the past is stranger than...

Integrity, Reciprocity & Complementarity as Eco-Social Foundations

A field guide for sensemaking in an age of cosmological vertigo...

Reframing the Bodhisattva Vow for the 21st Century

On building conscious community that doesn’t collapse...

How AI is transforming humans

just be more agentic

(Recorded April 30th, 2026) In this week’s Frankly, Nate steps away from analysis and reflects on a call that reframed his thinking. He shares a r...

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