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Next-gen humanoid robots will take over your household chores

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 1d

Next-gen humanoid robots will take over your household chores, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

Robots are now capable of tasks like loading the dishwasher and folding laundry. Will there be one in your home in the near future?

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#robotics #ai

Robots have become capable of tasks like loading the dishwasher and folding laundry.

Depathologizing difference: Drive disparity

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 2d

Depathologizing difference: Drive disparity, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We'll all have more happiness and fulfillment when we can recognize individual differences in sex drive.

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#sex #relationships

We'll all have more happiness and fulfillment when we can recognize individual differences in sex drive.

What would it take to raise the birth rate?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 7d

The birth rate is falling. How concerned should we be, and what can we do about it?

@daylightatheism.bsky.social explores one solution.

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#demographics #fertility #housing #urbanism

The world's fertility woes may have a treatable cause.

The future of flying vehicles is closer than you think

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 8d

The future of flying vehicles is closer than you think, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

Where's my flying car, you ask? It might well be coming as soon as 2030 - and some places are already testing them out.

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#mobility #airtaxis #uav

Self-flying air taxis could be mainstream as soon as 2030.

We're about to reap the deadly harvest of anti-science ideology.

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 10d

Vaccine wars, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

We're about to reap the deadly harvest of anti-science ideology.

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#vaccination #antivax #publichealth

Vaccine wars

Odds and ends: The roaring twenty-twenties

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 15d

The roaring twenty-twenties, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We're repeating historical patterns from a hundred years ago, in more ways than one.

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#disruptors #lgbtq

We're repeating historical patterns from a hundred years ago, in more ways than one.

Do secularists need confession and repentance?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 16d

Do secularists need confession and repentance? (by @bledewitz.bsky.social )

Seeking forgiveness, and granting it, makes us better people.

onlys.ky/confession-a...

#secularism #forgiveness

Seeking forgiveness, and granting it, makes us better people.

Lessons from Foundation: Decline, fall... and comeback?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 20d

Lessons from Foundation: Decline, fall... and comeback? (by @tjkratt.bsky.social )

Civilization goes through cycles of collapse and rebirth. That's both a pessimistic and a hopeful message for us.

onlys.ky/lessons-from...

#foundation #parableofthesower

Civilization goes through cycles of collapse and rebirth. That's both a pessimistic and a hopeful message for us.

A guide to finding mental health practitioners who do no harm.

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 21d

How to heal after trauma, by Becky Garrison

A guide to finding mental health care practitioners who do no harm.

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#trauma #mentalhealth

How to heal after trauma

Odds and ends: Ancient Greece and sexual identities

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 22d

Ancient Greece and sexual identities, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

The ancients thought of sexual behavior as a phase of life, not an immutable identity. We can learn from that idea.

onlys.ky/ancient-gree...

#sex #lgbtq

The ancients thought of sexual behavior as a phase of life, not an immutable identity. We can learn from that idea.

A new era of political violence

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 23d

A new era of political violence, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

This bloodshed is a sign of democracy failing to deliver on its promises.

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#charliekirk #gunviolence

This bloodshed is a sign of democracy failing to deliver on its promises.

Are we ready to live forever?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 16

Are we ready to live forever?

The quest for immortality, whether through science or religion, poses a whole new set of problems we're currently ill-equipped to deal with.

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#transhumanism

Immortality would create whole new problems that we're ill-equipped to deal with.

Odds and ends: The Amish response to technocentrism

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

Odds and ends: The Amish response to technocentrism, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We could all take a lesson from the Amish's more mindful and deliberate approach to technology. Yes, really!

onlys.ky/the-amish-re...

#sex #technology #technocentrism

We could all take a lesson from the Amish approach to technology.

Will China save the world from climate change?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 11

Will China save the world from climate change? (by @daylightatheism.bsky.social)

The only shocking thing is that so few others are doing the same.

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#climatechange #china #climatecrisis

The only shocking thing is that so few others are doing the same.

The second arts and crafts revolution

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 10

The second arts and crafts revolution is here:

"Want to make candles, blow glass, assay metals, bake bread, construct a Federal Shield-back chair, paint in oil, distill whisky, plant a garden, fell a tree, lay bricks, carve wood? There are videos teaching you how."

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#diy

It's never been easier to learn DIY skills.

Can we imagine life without cars?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can we imagine life without cars?

The builders of a car-free community in Arizona want to find out.

@daylightatheism.bsky.social reports on Culdesac Tempe:

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#urbanism #carculture #culdesac

The builders of a car-free community in Arizona want to find out.

The Cerne Giant in Dorset is an earthly legend that links past, present, and future.

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 4

Rechalking the giant, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

"Each generation has a duty to participate in the work of memory, doing their part to refresh, reimagine and even recreate the past."

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#culture #deeptime

Rechalking the giant

OneTaste: Female empowerment or forced labor?

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Sep 3

OneTaste: Female empowerment or forced labor?

A high-profile conviction may signal a shift away from the victim-blaming mentality.

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#onetaste #feminism

A high-profile conviction may signal a shift away from the victim-blaming mentality.

AI chatbots are coming for you: The glass is half-full, and AI can't draw it

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Aug 29

AI chatbots are coming for you: The glass is half-full, and AI can't draw it, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

On Ray Kurzweil, teledildonics, and the need to use technology mindfully to enhance our experiences without diminishing ourselves.

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#ai #technology #sex

We need to use technology mindfully to enhance our experiences without diminishing ourselves.

Ambitopia: How to face an uncertain future

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Dr. Redfern Jon Barrett @redfernjon.bsky.social · Aug 27

"We aren’t doomed, and we cannot be saved."

At a time of increasing extremes, utopia and dystopia are failing us – not only in fiction, but as a way of understanding the world itself. Check out my new article on OnlySky:

AMBITOPIA: HOW TO FACE AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

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The future won't be utopian or dystopian, but both at the same time.

Does the rule of law have a future?

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OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Aug 26

Does the rule of law have a future? An exploration by @bledewitz.bsky.social

Can the law be objective? Or is it always just the preferences of those currently in power?

onlys.ky/does-the-rul...

#law #ruleoflaw #usconstitution

Is law objective, or just the preferences of those in power?

A list of friendly AI directives recovered from a degraded memory chip, excavated from a circa 22nd-century ash layer

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today on OnlySky, new short fiction from @daylightatheism.bsky.social: "A list of friendly AI directives recovered from a degraded memory chip, excavated from a circa 22nd-century ash layer"

We only wanted it to solve our problems.

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#fiction #scifi #ai

We only wanted it to solve our problems.

A better form of belonging

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Aug 22

A better form of belonging, by @tjkratt.bsky.social

Our political allegiances often determine our moral beliefs, rather than vice versa.

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#tribalism #politics

Our political allegiances often determine our moral beliefs, rather than vice versa. Can the fever break?

If there were life on Europa, could we be trusted to know about it?

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Susan Fourtané 🦋 @susanfourtane.bsky.social · Aug 15

If there were life on Europa, could we be trusted to know about it?
Nonfiction sparks fiction! Read first: onlys.ky/from-earth-t...

#space #science #Jupiter #speculativefiction #fiction #shortstory
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