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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Welcome to Constant Flux, a weekly lens on the polycrisis. The ‘masculinity crisis’ is actually a crisis of self-esteem Leo Rogers in the article discusses a pervasive global crisis in self-esteem, noting: "There is a global crisis in self-esteem. It affects more or less everybody, but (as I’ll