#future Timeline

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A post-election message from Interim Editor-in-Chief <a href="https://texasobserver.social/@gusbova" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gusbova</a> to our members, readers, and the rest of our extended community. <a href="https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate">https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/fundraiser/" rel="tag">#fundraiser</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/future/" rel="tag">#future</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a>

All,

I can’t tell you that it’s more important than ever right now to support the Observer and other local journalism. I mean, I’d thought Kamala Harris would win a narrow victory and that Trump wouldn’t do a whole lot better in Texas than he did in 2020. In other words, for the moment, I’m out of both the prediction game and the game of even just making confident statements.

All I can say is that Trump’s explicit plan is to hurt specific people — undocumented immigrants spring first to mind, but they are one of many groups — and many of these people live in Texas. And that the Observer intends to be here, on the ground, exposing these harms as they play out. We did it last time, we plan to do it again,

I suppose I can also say that investigative journalism, the bulk of what we do, isn’t terribly contingent on politics. Whoever’s in charge, they want to hide things; we dig, and we publish.

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Soo. I think that the <a href="/tags/worldmodel/" rel="tag">#worldModel</a> <a href="/tags/ontology/" rel="tag">#ontology</a> stuff is about as close as the world is going to get to saying <a href="/tags/lambdamoo/" rel="tag">#lambdaMOO</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> peopleare and have always been completely right about the <a href="/tags/future/" rel="tag">#future</a>, <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a>, reality and <a href="/tags/vr/" rel="tag">#vr</a> and living in, reasoning about, building and extending this reality. <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/profile/me" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@me</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@nosrednayduj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nosrednayduj</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@spidercat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@spidercat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@pizzapal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pizzapal</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mdhughes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@schroeder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@schroeder</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kentpitman</a> at at at.If you will forgive the example, Lecun quitting Facebook to work on World Models instead is where we are.<a href="/tags/ama/" rel="tag">#AMA</a> <a href="/tags/mud/" rel="tag">#MUD</a>

Spooky halloween lisp alien with a weirdly long neck and short nose-arm. Two of its eyes are brown and the rest have green pupils. The grizzled gopher looks on timidly. The shadows of the letters LISPY GOPHER fall over them. Spooky.

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Yesterday afternoon I took part in the 'From Soil to Servers' workshop <a href="https://mastodon.social/@cc_utrecht" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cc_utrecht</a> by Sunjoo Lee, Fieke Jansen & <a href="https://post.lurk.org/@kaeru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kaeru</a>Very inspiring to see bacteria in mud producing electricity. Enough to power an AtTiny85 MCU, or a small clock. Great for powering kinetic art, sensors, tiny lights & to reflect on energy use.<a href="https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/archive/soil-to-servers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/archive/soil-to-servers">https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/archive/soil-to-servers</a><a href="https://sunjoolee.com/Electric-Garden-Detail" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sunjoolee.com/Electric-Garden-Detail">https://sunjoolee.com/Electric-Garden-Detail</a>If only we could grow the electrical components as well...<a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/sustainability/" rel="tag">#Sustainability</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="/tags/future/" rel="tag">#Future</a> <a href="/tags/hope/" rel="tag">#Hope</a> <a href="/tags/utrecht/" rel="tag">#Utrecht</a> <a href="/tags/hofvancartesius/" rel="tag">#HofVanCartesius</a>

The beautiful 'Boomtoren' building (it might look a bit dark, but hey that's Dutch weather for ya) at the "Hof van Cartesius: in Utrecht. "Hof van Cartesius" is a place in Utrecht, but also a coop of circulair green organizations & entrepreneurs. They have 3500 m2 workspace in 8 pavilions with ovr 1500 m2 outside natural space. To me it looks like a combination of Mad Max, Studio Ghibli and Solarpunk got together and built a village. Check out their website (in Dutch, but auto translate will help):

https://www.hofvancartesius.nl/over-het-hof

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3d

I look forward to the post capitalist days when I can go outside and enjoy the green shaded paths, and graze from the abundance on trees and bushes at will, watch all the colorful birds, and meet up at the local makerspace, skillshare, tool and appliance library, repair cafe, music, art studios & gallery and performance space, farmers market, coop greenhouse & solar powered food trucks in former parking lots, gardens, flea markets, etc. that took over a former mall. <a href="/tags/vision/" rel="tag">#vision</a> <a href="/tags/future/" rel="tag">#future</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a>

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