The Curious About Everything Newsletter #66
The many interesting things I read in August 2026
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65
The many interesting things I read in July 2026
L’état du climat mondial en 2024 : ce qu’il faut retenir
Source : Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024, juin 2025 L’univers virtuel des réseaux sociaux est celui de l’immédiateté. Un utilisateur de TikTok y navigue en moyenne 95 minutes chaque jour, …
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60
The many interesting things I read in February 2026
After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books
Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.
[009] Folkification - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Sunday 24 August 2025
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63
The many interesting things I read in May 2026
Forecasting Research Institute on Twitter / X
Introducing the Automated AI Risk Outlook (AIRO): a dashboard of catastrophic risk forecasts from an ensemble of frontier AI models, updated weekly.Current ensemble forecasts of an AI-related catastrophe that kills at least 10% of the global population:• By 2030: 0.47%• By… pic.twitter.com/vc7F00L0Oa— Forecasting Research Institute (@Research_FRI) September 11, 2026
Public LLM exceeds superforecaster on Forecast bench by EOY 2026?
41% chance. Resolves to YES if any LLM released in 2026 exceeds the superforecaster baseline on ForecastBench by July 2027. Resolves to NO if this does not happen, or if after January 1, 2027 we have results from enough LLMs (e.g. the leading models from the major AI labs at the time) to be confident this will not occur. If The Forecasting Research Institute tells us how this market should resolve, then we will go with what they say.
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies--the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the produces foisted upon us
Jason Hickel on Twitter / X
The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) January 6, 2022
[010] Theseotomy - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Things You Might've Missed: January 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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