Considering how cookie cutter house layouts can be, I don’t see how a rules-based algorithm couldn’t do an okay, uninspiring Airbnb-genetic job for most but not all cases. Then for bonus feed it some guidelines from Feng Shuai.

The bigger issue is that contemporary, capitalist life is anti-family and anti-children, it’s all about consumption and career as a “lifestyle”. Having kids today hurts your career, can be isolating, there is less and less of a village to help you.

Indeed. I was there when it was just about techno-optimism. People were building things they wanted, and it just happened to make them money. They were just nerdy (and naive) tinkerers. That generation is all gone now

Because it was all very highly individualist, achievement oriented activities? I know people who took ayahuasca to figure out their startup’s branding. And then people who got sober so they can “crush it” at work more, not to be better people.

It’s basically a coup, if it would be any other country headlines should read “South African Oligarch seizes control of the ministry of finance, opposition parties in disarray”

Definitely looks well thought out and surprisingly not pricey. I have been curious about keyboards that have either rough stone or fabric texture. No idea if it’s work, just wondering about completely different textures.

And a thank you to my colleagues at FAO for making this event and my involvement possible, see who they are here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

ASEAN region represents over 600 million people. It includes several countries with among the highest climate risks, which highlights that the work ASEAN-CRN does on climate smart agriculture is both urgent and critical.

Good quote. Corporate power in Mussolini’s contest is closer in meaning to labour groups, rather than companies or owners of production/capital

Looking forward to the response from the climate scientific community on this, esp. interesting as this is coming from an actutary.

From the report:
"impacts are materialising at lower temp. than estimated. The severity and frequency of extreme events are unprecedented and beyond model projections."

"Paris Agreement goals were not informed by realistic risk assessment, implicitly accept high risk of crossing tipping points"

If it takes 20 years of above 1.5C temperatures to confirm we've technically breached 1.5C, I'm not sure about the purpose of the 'breached' definition from a policy perspective.

Also, IFoA (UK Actuaries) comes swinging, critical of Paris Agreement and IPCC: actuaries.org.uk/planetary-so...

Re: election cycles: At my foresight grad program, we read an opinion piece from one of the Limits to Growth authors. He felt only China - as a major power not beholden to election cycles - would be able push the world to successful climate adaptation/mitigation. I think (sadly) about that a lot

Cool! Is this Dodgeball 2.0 because I am all for it. It’s sad how that app whithered away. I still use swarm its successor through