Alja Isakovic @iAlja

🌑 Rest in End Times Wondering about the state and practice of rest in these end times.

🌑 This New Moon, @m3metix.bsky.social and I wonder about the state and practice of rest in these end times: tethix.substack.com/p/rest-in-en...

More great news for the AI brand

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

How might we stop role-playing as machines? Sceptical of the promises of AI salvation, we question our internalised industrial logic and explore how we might find our way back to human being and belonging.

Thank you, dear Earthian brother @m3metix.bsky.social, for another beautifully meandering, messy, and wonderfully human yarn 💜 We invite you to tune in if you're just as tired of role-playing as a machine as we are.

🎧 tethix.substack.com/p/how-might-...

When #SpaceJunk meets #folklore. 🚀🐉

(Paging @drspacejunk.bsky.social)

🌑 Grieving for End Times Reflections on lives lost, mugs broken and repaired, and an invitation to give love one more chance before we collectively break under pressure beyond repair.

🌑 This New Moon, @m3metix.bsky.social and I share reflections on lives lost, mugs broken and repaired, and an invitation to give love one more chance before we collectively break under pressure beyond repair.

tethix.substack.com/p/grieving-f...

Vulgar Display of Power Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

Worship at the temple of infinite compute A mythopoetic take on the GTC keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Brilliant reflection on the myths and prophesies of techno-theology by my dear Earthian brother @m3metix.bsky.social. And beautifully interwoven with personal reflections and emotions in a way that only a human can write 💜

m3metix.substack.com/p/worship-at...

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

Making Digital Inclusion Fun Again — Careful Industries 5 ways the Digital Inclusion Action Plan could be a bit more exciting.

Earlier this week I have evidence to the Sci Tech Select Cttee on the digital centre of govt inquiry. I wrote up my prep notes as 2 short listicles and a slightly longer blog post.

No. 1: Let's make digital inclusion fun again!
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-3-...

Indeed, especially when compared to other life on the planet. I have heard many of these stats before, but seeing them stacked visually hits differently.

Biocubes visualization of everything on earth

Really cool (and sobering) visual story of the living and the built: biocubes.net

Welcome, added you to the Starter Pack! 👋

Our latest @tethix.bsky.social Newmoonsletter brings you the 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 and an invitation to not just let it go (in the words of wise Elsa ❄️), but to make space for things that bring us joy & hope in these dark times 🌱 tethix.substack.com/p/empathy-fo...

What’s the role AI and digital tech could play in collective futurecrafting? We dare you to dream, to imagine ways of coming together, both online and onland, and ways of taking the future into our caring, loving hands.

If you need a break from existential dread, take a deep breath, shake off any anger or stress you might be feeling right now, and join @m3metix.bsky.social & I as we help each other co-regulate and explore collective futurecrafting.

You're not alone 💜

🎧 tethix.substack.com/p/collective...

Yep, it's hard, a lot of small businesses rely on it as well. reducing the amount of time & attention we give them is a good first step too.

A bit of humour and playfulness is often helpful to start challenging yet crucial conversations about the kind of world we want to live in. Do we want to save the AI or take a step back and image a better world for our children? Decisions, decisions … #SaveTheAI

The death of the blank page A eulogy for the blank page that reflects on how its imminent demise at the hands of magic AI buttons might affect our creative processes.

And from my own reflections on the possible death of the blank page due to AI writing assistants: “… remember the magic our slow bodies can still bring into this creative alliance as we conquer more blank pages together.”
blog.ialja.com/2024/07/23/d...

A good reminder: “AI needs the Web to remain a viable place where uncountable numbers of characters are transacted daily.”
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

Citizen Future: why we need a new story of self and society Our societies need a new narrative, and it starts by ditching both authoritarianism and consumerism

Nobody can save the world on their own, but you don’t have to.

Citizens across the world are stepping up, working across communities, countries and continents to make a difference.

Will you join the collective in 2025?

medium.com/citizen-coll...

#citizencollective #peoplepower #CommunityAction

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

“We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.” #WorldTok

This one is for all EU citizens: we need 1 million signatures to make psychedelic-assisted therapies available & affordable in Europe. Sign, share & learn more at: www.psychedelicare.eu

In Paris listening to the fifth talk in a row on global AI risks to humanity, and not one mention yet of runaway AI energy demand pushing us over the climate brink

Hey, I volunteer to be the resident techie who can help you demystify all the apps, I always love helping people learn about technology 🥰 We’re never too old to learn new things, sometimes we just need a better explainer!

Most people in the Starter Pack are still quiet, we have to get used to posting here as well 😅

My comments are currently not loading in the TikTok app, so I feel less lost with a backup 😬

Welcome, and great to hear from you on BlueSky as well 🥰

Look forward to reading it! 💚

Within Bounds: Limiting AI's environmental impact Joint statement from civil society for the AI Action Summit Signed by over 100 organizations. If you share our concerns and demands that AI systems be made compatible with our planetary boundaries, an...

“... we urge policymakers, industry leaders and all stakeholders to acknowledge the true environmental costs of AI, to phase out fossil fuels throughout the technology supply chain, to reject false solutions, and to dedicate all necessary means to bring AI systems in line with planetary boundaries.”

Within Bounds: Limiting AI's environmental impact Joint statement from civil society for the AI Action Summit Signed by over 100 organizations. If you share our concerns and demands that AI systems be made compatible with our planetary boundaries, an...

For sure, but it does add up over time. Would be great if companies actually started publicly disclosing these numbers to set a good example.

Btw, you might be interested in this: greenscreen.network/en/blog/with...

Trying out @bluescreen.blue short-form video client and reposting a video from #WorldTok to bring a bit of calm into your feeds.