Waldemar Ingdahl

Audrey Tang delivering a keynote speech on stage at the Right Livelihood Award 2025 ceremony, wearing a gray blazer and headset microphone, speaking about digital democracy and innovation.

Yes, I did get a chance to chat with Audrey about Web3, decentralization, and the future of the Fediverse. Truly inspiring insights, it’s rare to meet someone who bridges tech and democracy so naturally.

Waldemar Ingdahl seated front row at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony, watching the event moderator speak on stage during a climate justice, human rights and global governance presentation.

Honored to join the 2025 @rightlivelihood.org Award Ceremony. Listening to global leaders in climate justice, digital democracy and human rights made the challenges ahead feel clearer. The future belongs to those who refuse silence and build together.

Nya sätt att sprida forskningsresultat

Vi har testat nya sätt att nå ut med forskning. Nu börjar projektet på @futures-studies.bsky.social sky.social runda av. Resultaten pekar på att några gamla sanningar håller. Andra gör det inte.

Vad funkar faktiskt för dig när forskning ska nå ut. 👀💬

www.iffs.se/forskning/fo...

The West’s new arms race: Selling peace to buy war Military spending is rising faster than at any time since the end of the Cold War, but the retreat from diplomacy and foreign aid will come at a price.

Politicians tend to see the “soft” in “soft power,” he added. “You realize it’s not soft when you lose it.” @politico.eu

www.politico.eu/article/arms...

YouTube video by Templarius GiscardPunk - late 70's and 1980's technosolutionist France (synthwave edit)

V.G.E, le futur en marche!

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YouTube video by Theoretical Puppets Gilles Deleuze on Instincts, Institutions, and Therapies

What happens when Foucault, Latour, Guattari, Deleuze, and Gerburg Treusch-Dieter become puppets? A puppet show distilling the A-B-C of postmodernism: power, networks, desire, simulation through theatrical wit and surreal dialogue. Philosophical ventriloquism at its finest.

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The Best Notebooks and Notepads (Published 2018)

I used to swear by Leuchtturm1917
Then I tried Fabriano
Now my notes glide instead of sit still.
It’s not just paper. It’s rhythm, texture, invitation.

Strange how one change can make writing feel new again.
What’s your current favorite notebook?

www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

We need a new American Dream for the age of AI | Zoltan Istvan Explore the debate between Aaron Bastani and Zoltan Istvan on capitalism and automation at HowTheLightGetsIn London 2025. What does the future hold for humanity?

Debate between transhumanist Zoltan Istvan and Aaron Bastani of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Transhumanism meets Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
Shared premises, divergent ends.

Maybe the future isn’t as divided as it looks.

iai.tv/articles/we-...

Fountain Pens Are More Popular Than Ever—and Purists Are Fuming Chinese knockoffs are flooding the market, shaking up the community of enthusiasts still devoted to the old-timey instruments

Fountain pens are booming, even as Chinese knockoffs flood the market, they attract new fans. For me, writing remains special with my trusted Pilot pen. In a digital world, that smooth, personal touch still matters. What’s your go-to pen? #FountainPens #Writing #PilotPen www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fo...

En hög med forskningsrapporter och publikationer med färgade flikar illustrerar behovet av forskningskommunikation.

Projektet “Nya sätt att sprida forskningsresultat till samhället” testar nu policy briefs förmåga att nå ut med forskning till beslutsfattare. Kan vi förutse opinionsförändringar? Hur når experter fram i kriser? Har vi koll på våra fördomar? Läs och tyck till om formatet: www.iffs.se/ovriga-sidor...

Fountain Pens Are More Popular Than Ever—and Purists Are Fuming Chinese knockoffs are flooding the market, shaking up the community of enthusiasts still devoted to the old-timey instruments

Fountain pens are booming, even as Chinese knockoffs flood the market, they attract new fans. For me, writing remains special with my trusted Pilot pen. In a digital world, that smooth, personal touch still matters. What’s your go-to pen? #FountainPens #Writing #PilotPen www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fo...

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

🎉 40M users on Bluesky!
Not just growth — momentum.
Dislikes coming (for feed tuning, not dunking).
More tools, more control, fewer trolls.
Social media’s network effect is shifting.
This isn’t a clone, it’s a reset.
#Bluesky40M #PlatformShift

techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/b...

YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future Anders Sandberg: Scary Futures Tier List - Halloween Special

I had a fun Halloween discussion with Adam Ford on Scary Futures - we made a tier list! (Because that is apparently what kids do these days.) youtu.be/3sToD13u_78?...

Paying AIs to Read My Books Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that ...

Let’s face it: soon, being read by AI will be more important for influence than print or clicks. You might have to pitch to the machines, not just readers. Welcome to #TeamAITextbook w/ @kevinkelly.bsky.social kk.org/thetechnium/...

New User Trends on Wikipedia An update on user trends from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Human visits to Wikipedia are down 8% compared to last year, according to Wikimedia’s @marshallmiller.bsky.social.
Meanwhile, AI traffic to Wikipedia keeps rising scraping the same source. We’ve only seen the beginning of its impact on the knowledge ecosystem.

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/n...

READ MORE 'Echo-gnomics' was one of the Discworld author's favourite subjects

What Terry Pratchett can teach economists: If economists had Pratchett's gift for comic absurdity, they might persuade more people capx.co/what-terry-p...

Enter the triple bind How economy, ecology, and democracy keep tightening each other’s knots

Maybe the real danger isn’t collapse, it’s entrapment.
Institutions seldom crumble; they adapt.
Gregory Bateson called it a *double bind*: every path leads back to the trap.

What’s our double bind today?

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Får högern plats i klimatkampen? 🌍
Filosofen Olle Torpman på @futures-studies.bsky.social berättar om sin nya bok "En grön höger?" om ideologi, frihet, tradition och klimatpolitik.

🔗 Intervju: www.iffs.se/nyheter/en-g...

💬 Kan en borgerlig klimatpolitik vara värderingsdriven?

Trenden i Nobelpriset i ekonomi har gått från de första priserna till ekonometri till oftare pris för beteendevetenskap och fältstudier. Tror du att AI kan leda till ekonometrins återkomst och föra mer kvantitativa metoder tillbaka i rampljuset bland framtida pristagare?

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

What connects missionary schools to algorithmic education?

Systems of communication, computation, classification & control.

To imagine new futures, we need to see the old ones still running.

🔗 calculatingempires.net

#TechHistory #ScienceComm #AI #CalculatingEmpires

Science 2030 Designing role-playing games to help AI governance

🧠 The success of AI governance depends on foresight

Traditional tools (white papers, roundtables) can be too slow. Forecasts and scenarios help, but does not confront human decision-making under pressure. Might this be a game changer?

www.aipolicyperspectives.com/p/science-2030

Jag har testat att skriva policy briefs som ett sätt att sprida forskning till beslutsfattare. Men funkar det? Har du själv läst eller använt policy briefs, vad tycker du om formatet?

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time - Nature A decline in disruptive science and technology over time is reported, representing a substantive shift in science and technology, which is attributed in part to the reliance on a narrower set of exist...

Study in @nature.com shows papers & patents are less disruptive since the 1940s. Why are we seeing fewer game-changing ideas? #Science #Research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can AI build a virtual cell? Scientists race to model life’s smallest unit Several groups hope to develop artificial-intelligence models that can predict how cells behave.

🧬 Are virtual cells coming.

CZI is investing hundreds of millions to build them. DeepMind is in, too.

Simulated biology could revolutionize research. 🚀

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#SciComm #VirtualCells #OpenScience #AIinBiology

Omslag av Verksamhetsrapport 2024 från Institutet för Framtidsstudier – fyra exemplar i bokhylla. Färgstark design med tydlig årtalstext. Rapporten samlar forskning och visioner om framtidens samhälle, utveckling och framtidsstudier.

🔮 Hur formas framtiden?
Jag har skrivit för @futures-studies.bsky.social Verksamhetsrapport 2024.
📥 Läs forskningsöversikter, intervjuer och berättelser om drivkrafter och visioner www.iffs.se/publikatione...
🧠 Vilken framtidsfråga ser du som viktigast?

#framtid #forskning #forskningskommunikation

Swedish PM calls for a pause of the EU’s AI rules Ulf Kristersson will raise “confusing” rulebook with EU leaders this week in Brussels.

The EU AI Act became law last year, with rollout planned over 18 months. Now Sweden’s PM wants to pause the rollout, calling the rules “confusing” and warning Europe could fall behind. What would a pause mean for innovation, safety and the global AI race?

www.politico.eu/article/swed...

Antarctica. Good night! #SummerSolstice #astronomy

Trad wives and tallow fries: How the wellness wars flipped health and food politics upside down Does RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement want to loosen the government's grasp on food and medicine—or use government power to impose blueberries on everyone else?

The MAHA movement is a wild mix. Wellness gurus pushing raw milk, transhumanist dreams of health optimization, woo like anti-vax conspiracies, populist rage against Big Pharma, and a sprinkle of science on diet reform. A cultural tightrope. #MAHA #HealthPolitics
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Somrig fönsterbild med prästkragar i vit kruka, dekorerad med midsommarstång i blågult, placerad på rutigt dukat bord framför ljusa gardiner och blå himmel med moln.

Glad midsommar

Crisis of confidence?