"Science writers and virologists panic after Trump releases the Biden administration’s final pandemic assessment, undermining years-long campaign to label people "conspiracy theorists.""
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"by Primavera De Filippi.
In the artistic realm, a groundbreaking movement has quietly been taking shape: one that transcends the boundaries of traditional art practices, by embracing the collaborative spirit of the digital age — thereby blurring the lines between authors and collaborators — and questions the very foundation of copyright law, including the conventional notions of authorship, ownership, and the creative process itself.
This emergent phenomenon — which we call “Protocolism” — represents a paradigm shift in the contemporary art world, challenging the very essence of what it means to create, own, and author artistic works, particularly in an era dominated by generative AI and digital interconnectedness.
Indeed, in the age of generative AI, Protocolism stands as a harbinger of an artistic revolution, one where artists no longer view machines as threats but rather as partners in creation. By inviting artists to refine their styles into protocols, it offers new pathways for artists to co-create with AI-driven systems.
Though not yet widely recognized as an official artistic movement, Protocolism is rapidly gaining momentum within many creative communities. Y"
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"Not everyone is buying AI-licences for half a million people at a time, of course. Surprisingly, many universities don’t yet have a strategy for AI implementation, and burying one’s head in the sand is still a preferred approach in some places. Some experiment with small-scale initiatives; others hesitate due to ethical concerns and regulatory uncertainty. Whatever the case may be, CSU’s large-scale adoption forces universities to confront the broader consequences of AI in education. Beyond immediate logistical concerns, there are fundamental questions that institutions can no longer ignore."
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"In this important study, Abu Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth century economy a system far different from the European world system which emerged from it. Using the city as the working unit of analysis, Before European Hegemony provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the opening decades of the 14th century, involved a vast region stretching between northwest Europe and China. Writing in a clear and lively style, Abu Lughod explores the reasons for the eventual decay of this system and the rise of European hegemony."
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"RAND’s remarkable study of burden-sharing within the Western alliance"
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"Slippery Slope: New Bill Pushes ISPs to Block Pirate Sites
The bill could lead to widespread site blocking, despite claims of safeguarding the open internet."
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"The Imaginary Institute is imagined into existence anew each time by its co-imaginers. What will happen depends on you. Members and guests are invited to collectively envision its protocols, practices, and methods of collective intelligence and collaboration, and then enact them together. It is a space formed by imagination, for imagination.
As such, The Imaginary Institute is a free-thinking laboratory—a meeting place for artists, scientists, philosophers, and other creatives—human and non-human alike— It fosters intradisciplinary exploration, collective imagination, play, and collaboration.
At its heart, the Imaginary Institute is an utterly serious, utterly playful, attempt to support the conditions for the manifestation of urgent new ideas, to envision beyond the present and bring forth what does not yet exist.
The Imaginary Institute invites unconventional imagination, shifting focus from binary, right-or-wrong frameworks of “what is” to exploring the affordances of “what else could be?”. Rationality is essential, but it only addresses what is already known. New ideas cannot be discovered via well-trodden paths, so we imagine a place where one is ‘safe’ to risk a stupid idea, a ‘wrong turn’, rather than stay on familiar ground. By bringing rationality into dynamic relation with intuition, play, curiosity, beauty, and imagination (art, theatre, fiction), the Imaginary Institute may cultivate an open-ended, collective ‘high-temperature’ search through the space of possibility — a playground for intellectual and artistic risk, where unexpected combinations of ideas can emerge. We believe that investing in a shared commons of the imaginary, free from conventional academic pressures, is vital.
The Imaginary Institute replaces the logic of productivity with the logic of play, and the drive to win with the desire to keep the play going, together, for everyone’s sake. Acknowledging that play’s seemingly inessential qualities are, in fact, essential, the Imaginary Institute is a serious, yet delightfully absurd, attempt to cultivate a free-thinking space for new ideas to emerge. The Imaginary Institute reinvigorates the fallow ground of our collective imagination. It’s a place where time can be spent listening, understanding, cultivating, and tending to, a complex system of relationships and ideas, nurturing a web of connections, thereby creating fertile common ground in which new ideas can emerge.
The Imaginary Institute is self-organising and open-ended. Surfing on the dynamics of a complex adaptive network of imaginations, shaped by the frictions and synergies between diverse forms of knowledge and creativity, different differences that make a difference. It emerges through the interactions and collaborations between participants, adapting to their needs, curiosities, and unique practices.
In shaping the protocols for the Imaginary Institute, we welcome a broad diversity of inspirations. Of particular interest to us are the intersections between imagination and play; play and systems thinking; play and theatre; creativity and collective intelligence; mythology and the void; evolution and computation; AI and Promethean fire; science and fiction; imagination and ritual; theatre and storytelling; collective minds and non-human entities; games and novel interdisciplinary collaboration; play and education; algorithmic theatre and roleplay; speculative fiction and hyperstition; and collective dreaming, seminars, and debates, ecology and relational thinking; activism and imagining alternative futures.
The Imaginary Institute is not anti-real. Like imagination, it is co-extensive with the real. It invites us to hold our normative world lightly, to explore new connections and chance encounters, and to question fixed patterns. It recognises the necessity of a space for playing with reality together, to propel the real in new directions. While focused initially on cultivating protocols for collective imagination, the Imaginary Institute also affords these formulations the possibility to take shape as tangible collaborative projects in art, science, technology, and beyond, bridging the imaginary and the real. While exploring how our collective imagination can be most effectively applied, envisioning, perhaps, future institutions of the collective imaginary. Afterall, all institutions were, at one time, imaginary."
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"Top 5 Tech Fields Where Russia Holds Lead Over US"
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"Scholars who study technology’s political economy tend to advocate for localized regulation, and scholars who focus on technology’s global legal orders tend to focus on states. Focusing on isolated domestic remedies for transnational phenomena is a mistake, since it permits the industry to develop harmful products and practices elsewhere. Focusing exclusively on states’ transnational influence elides the industry’s significant influence on regulatory discourse, and on foreign and domestic policy.
As the AI industry accumulates power, it can overwhelm weakening state regulators in parts of the world that could initially resist their persuasive and material power. ‘Strong’ states like the US are one election away from vulnerability. To be resilient, they should stop relying solely on domestic regulation and develop transnationally harmonized legal orders to curtail the industry’s power and counteract the Silicon Valley Effect."
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"Restore the Salton Sea / Imperial Valley area
In this video of mine, I interview Rodger Savory, whose focus is turning deserts into grasslands and claims to be able to cool down and slow down the otherwise hot, dry winds coming from the desert to the east of Los Angeles.
"Turning Deserts Into Grasslands," with Rodger Savory
The desert to the east of LA is called the Salton Sea/Imperial Valley area. This area used to be less hot and less dry. It used to be a grassland. It could be restored to the grassland it once was by using livestock. Modern news consumers are accustomed to thinking that livestock is always destructive, but properly managed livestock can be restorative. Grasslands co-evolved with grazing animals. Many grasslands have become--or are rapidly becoming--deserts because they lack the positive impact of the grazing animals with which they co-evolved.
If the Salton Sea / Imperial Valley area were restored to the grassland it once was, then this would reduce the risk of severe wildfires in Los Angeles."
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