Architect Ronald Rael has launched an Instagram account documenting center-pivot irrigation landscapes around the world—what he calls “dots of life when seen from space.” Some beautiful and surreal examples, like graphic design crossed with terraforming. instagram.com/centerpivotspr…

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Fashion mask it is...

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Everything is fine

Remind me - what’s next after ‘very unhealthy air quality’?

My dad sent me this view from my childhood room in Portland. It hit me that we have been wasting our collective intelligence in tech optimizing for profits and ad clicks.

'Business travelers will appreciate conveniences like access to fax services.'

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Reposting, because this is what the last 17 hours have felt like

Been working with our Superflux crew on this expansive futures and narrative piece for a while, happy it's out in the world finally. THE INTERSECTION is a story of anger and grief, but also multiple possibilities and cooperative futures 🙏🏾Eshanthi Ranasinghe Nicole Allred Julia Solano

More than half the joy I get from writing a book comes in the cover, so I decided to just make the book covers alone, and not write the books, giving me 50% of the joy for very little work. I’m making #dailyart

the systems problem

Here’s your bone

The futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong because the future will not be reasonable. It will be weird. (See now.) But any correct prediction will be unbelievable today, because that world doesn't seem reasonable. Either way, a futurist can't win.

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"...each pulled out printouts of their “Bored Apes”..."