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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder

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Capturable curiosity emerges when there is a mix of immediate relevance (the search is about something directly impacting the searcher) and civic engagement opportunities (beyond immediate needs like renewing a driver’s license). But not all searches are capturable.

Capturable Curiosity for Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement

“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an inefficient light bulb gives off heat, folk search algorithms have the byproduct of context.

In the end, maybe that’s the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a... See more

Elan Ullendorff • Folk search engines

the goal is resonance, not scale and

The future of tech will be an old model: The co-op - Mutual Interest Media

Mutual Interest Media mutualinterest.coop

Collective ownership, Coops, and User Owned Platforms

Expanding the Futures Cone’s Concept of the Futures and the Pasts ⊗ Reading as Counter-Practice ⊗ A Bot that Watched 70,000 Hours of Minecraft Videos

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What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?”]
What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary]
“What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” [List as many as necessary today. Then write a new list tomorrow. And

provocations and Animating Questions

DAOs could out-compete by out-cooperating the modern firm.

gnosisguild.mirror.xyz • A Prehistory of DAOs

The first thing I wanted to mention is that we often think about imagining as a “thinking” thing. We talk about “rethinking” and “thinking” about the future. But what we found is that our imagination practices and labs really focus a lot on the feeling. And actually we need to start cultivating a new feeling of the future, feeling into what the... See more

Phoebe Tickell • Cultivating Everyday Imagination

When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more

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