#0013 Epistemic collapse from Inside, "Who cares", Dark Forest vs The Cozy Web

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. Today's digest explores the subtle ways we lose clarity as the world grows too complex. We highlight a protest against content that values speed over depth, and the Cozy Web's quiet rise

#0012 What Is Accelerationism?, My Brain Finally Broke, Liquid Content & Dolphins

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. This week we dive into my escalating sense that everything is quietly collapsing, a media landscape liquefied by AI, and accelerationism’s uneasy promise of momentum in a stuck world. Speed now illuminates reality whereas light

#0011 Media and Machines

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. Only one commentary on an article this week. I didn't have time for much reading. Media and machines Certainly the most thought-provoking article I've read lately. Anu Atluru suggests that media has

#0010 An era of abundance, The Big Decoupling, A Post-Growth World is Coming

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. Today: Abundance, decoupling, post-growth, ruthlessness, care, resilience, mysticism, misalignment, coordination, redistribution, techno-optimism, toolmakers, structural inertia, imagination, flourishing, contestability, GLP-1, disruption, mystic-modern, system design. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

#0009 Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body, Astrofuturism, We Weren't Meant to Have This Many Opinions, AI-coups

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. This week we take a look at how we are not fixing the problems at the source but rather countering complexity with more complexity. Variety with more variety. This is not necessarily bad, it's

#0008 Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does, LLMs Are Weird Computers, Living in a Time of Psychopolitics

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. This week’s digest looks at the small breaks in how things are supposed to work reminding us that what a system does isn’t always what it was meant to do. That the weird behavior

#0007 The need for a strategic fact reserve, Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty, railways of the mind

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. 
This week: Svalbard for facts • Clean data, stable inputs • Clarity as privilege • Thought as spectacle • Memory erosion • Systems that narrow • Map becomes territory • Forgetting how to think Take a plunge! The need for a strategic fact

#0006 Agents, Enchanted Knowledge Objects, AI is Worse is Better, A Roadmap To Alien Worlds

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. I promise, zero tariff talk. Less AI than last time, more delightful weirdness. Hope you enjoy this edition! Agents Agents is a speculative piece that imagines AI not as a single, central intelligence but as a

#0005 The Great Chiasmus, AI tools may soon manipulate people's online decision-making, The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem, SLOW AI

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. Something is happening. As we optimize our bodies like startups and outsource more of our thinking to machines, the boundary between human and artificial starts to blur. Todays digest is a collection of signals from the

#0004 The schizo-fication of the online world, Our darkest hour approaches, AI is already smarter than you, you're just too stupid to see it

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens taking a systemic view on the polycrisis. In this issue we learn how online reality fractures into endless symbolic meanings all the while AI rapidly reshapes the systems we rely on. On top of this human intelligence struggles (no shit) to keep pace.

#0003 It mostly works, The Hand-off to bots, Simulating the Post-Human Future, Helpful Llocal Models

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens on the polycrisis. AI is taking over execution, governance is chasing its own tail, and computing could be migrating away from the corporate cloud into smaller, local intelligence. AI is shifting from tool to something more independent, and things could be getting strange.

#0002 When I lost my intuition, From disruption to transformation, "Drowning in Gunk, Starving for Spark", Cryptography scales trust, How To Make Superbabies

Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens on the polycrisis. When I lost my intuition This article got me thinking: How does intuition evolve in an AI driven world? Intuition is the brain’s fast, unconscious processing of past experiences, helping us make snap judgments. Of course AI can sharpen