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OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · Aug 4

OnlySky is on Bluesky! It's a match made in secular heaven. onlys.ky

Welcome to OnlySky! Exploring possible futures since 2024.

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 22h

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

Next-gen humanoid robots will take over your household chores

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 1d

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

Depathologizing difference: Drive disparity

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 6d

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

What would it take to raise the birth rate?

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 7d

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

The future of flying vehicles is closer than you think

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 9d

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

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 14d

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

Odds and ends: The roaring twenty-twenties

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 15d

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

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

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#secularism #forgiveness

Do secularists need confession and repentance?

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 19d

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

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

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 20d

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

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 21d

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

Odds and ends: Ancient Greece and sexual identities

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 22d

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

A new era of political violence

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

OnlySky @onlyskymedia.bsky.social · 29d

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

Are we ready to live forever?

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

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!

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#sex #technology #technocentrism

Odds and ends: The Amish response to technocentrism

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

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

Will China save the world from climate change?

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

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

The second arts and crafts revolution

It's never been easier to learn DIY skills.

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

Can we imagine life without cars?

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

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

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

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

OneTaste: Female empowerment or forced labor?

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

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

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

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

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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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Ambitopia: How to face an uncertain future

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

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?

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#law #ruleoflaw #usconstitution

Does the rule of law have a future?

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

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

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.

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

A better form of belonging

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

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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
@nasawatch.bsky.social @nasascience.bsky.social @esa.int @science.esa.int @onlyskymedia.bsky.social

Beneath the ice

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

🧪 Europa Clipper & JUICE, NASA and ESA's space missions, aim to uncover life in Jupiter's icy oceans.
From Earth to Jupiter's moon Europa! 🚀🧪

#space #technology #ESA #NASA #science #astrobiology
@nasawatch.bsky.social @esa.int @science.esa.int @onlyskymedia.bsky.social

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From Earth to Jupiter

Two space missions may tell us if Jupiter's moons harbor extraterrestrial life.