Richard Tutton

Seen your paper on reactionary futurism - can’t wait to read it and think it may feature in an undergrad class of mine in a couple of weeks.

How Silicon Valley Billionaires Use Sci-Fi to Rule – and How We Can Resist - Untold Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.

My new piece is up: Silicon Valley billionaires use science fiction to justify dystopia, AI overlords, space colonies, escape plans. I call this “science fiction materialized”. But radical science fiction offers blueprints for resistance + rebuilding and new worlds. untoldmag.org/silicon-vall...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

“Does this still look like dystopian fiction to you? Perhaps a better way of framing the question is to go back two decades, pretend that the ethnic cleansing of the United Kingdom was your ultimate goal, and ask how satisfied you would be with how things had turned out.”

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The Peripheral. Cancelled on Amazon.

Just watched the final ever ITV highlights episode of the #TourdeFrance. End of an era. Twenty years of watching the best coverage of this amazing event. Julys won’t be the same again.

‘Send them to Mars’: Led By Donkeys Glastonbury exhibit takes aim at Musk Campaign group say piece responds to tech billionaires’ ‘dangerous’ mission to make humans interplanetary

“Send them to Mars”

We saw them in 2023 and they were wonderful. Have a great night.

‘Pay here’: the QR code ‘quishing’ scam targeting drivers How to avoid costly double whammy as rise in app- and phone-based parking payment opens new frontier in fraud

Some sound advice here but no discussion of how the car park companies should surely have some responsibility to remove these fake QR codes and to adapt their business processes to limit opportunities for fraud.

I did think the same!

I do hope so.

Yes, I was somewhat aware that these issues have been discussed for a long time. It’s just today this caught my eye.

This is a helpful read. Thank you.

If true, this is a terrible mistake, especially with the prospect that solar panels would be optional. The failure to have a clear vision and get the basics right is demoralising and irresponsible. No wonder the young people I teach feel angry at politicians on climate change action.

I admire this guy’s style and courage in the face of police brutality.

The Guardian view on China's EV breakthrough: helped by the kind of strategic state Elon Musk despises | Editorial Editorial: BYD, a Chinese carmaker once dismissed by Tesla’s CEO, claims to have outpaced western rivals with charging tech that’s as fast as filling petrol engines

The Guardian view on China’s EV breakthrough: helped by the kind of strategic state Elon Musk despises www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.

“It is one small department in one university. But it will reverberate across the entire country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

International Women's Day Luncheon Celebrate International Women's Day 2025 with Us! Join us for an inspiring luncheon to honor this special day. Alice Gorman - Author: Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future

The secret history of Australian women in the Space Age

A Bluesky version of my International Women's Day talk for the Shire of Berrigan, NSW. (Many thanks to them for the invitation and support). 🧪#WomenInSTEM #IWD25

It Was an Ambush Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy, the beginning of a long-term disaster that every American, every U.S. ally, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy will have to endure.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

From Moon Maids to Astronauts: How Feminists Transformed the Space Race | American Experience | PBS Protests taking place inside NASA’s Mission Control were only the tip of the iceberg.

In 1973, a group of feminist activists protested NASA's exclusion of women from space, except in menial or decorative roles. #WomenInSTEM 🧪

What does Elon Musk believe? The man given free rein by Trump to crusade against the federal government supported Democrats until 2022. But some of Musk’s longstanding positions lead a straight line to his far-right sympathies

What does Elon Musk believe? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Seeking a new way of life under the sea - and a world record There are probably easier ways to set a world record, but Rudiger Koch has found his method 11 meters (36 feet) under the sea.

Something interesting behind the world record story: “Supporting the project is Grant Romundt, from Canada. Both he and Koch have grander visions linked to the libertarian -- and at-times controversial -- "seasteading" movement that envisions ocean-based communities outside government control.”

Sat watching BBC Parliament channel’s coverage of the Senedd Cymru. Its modern look and arrangements a stark contrast to the archaic, dysfunctional Westminster.

As someone who experiences low to moderate level anxiety when flying, on my last trip I found that noise cancelling earphones helped so much. It seems obvious in hindsight but I appreciate now that reducing the sensory load of anxiety inducing situations is a very effective way of managing them.

SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon Privately built spacecraft from Texas-based Firefly and Japan’s ispace will conduct experiments for future missions

Signs of a luna-earth-economic system taking shape? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Embarking on my journey tonight to attend the first EASST Council of 2025 in Aarhus. Chance to meet newly elected members.
Looking forward to productive discussions over the next two days.

A hopeful post-apocalyptic novel for right now Author Eman Abdelhadi on imagining a better world.

Can't wait to read sociologist and activist Eman Abdelhadi's speculative fiction novel, Everything for Everyone, which imagines smaller, decentralized communities rising from the rubble, packed with themes of resilience, creativity, and collective liberation. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Sociologists looking silly 😂

Lovely. Have a good one yourself and see you in 2025.