Blog posts under the tag newmoonsletter

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, November 2024

This new moon, we wonder how AI agents will deal with cookie consent banners, explore both human and AI conversational powers – and responsibilities –, and invite you to visit a library.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, October 2024

This new moon, we try to reason with strawberries, look for human and AI companions for our fellowship, and try out tools that might just help us find paths that lead to preferable futures.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, September 2024

While Big Tech refuses to embrace the demure and mindful trend, we sing to a burning planet, explore some recent research on LLMs, and wonder whether AI chatbots could help us get our sh*t together.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, August 2024

We coddiwomple towards a harmonious future in which AIs & humans form a mutually beneficial creative alliance by exploring the context in which we all live, and wondering who to place our faith in.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, July 2024

We try to escape the AI rat race by slowing down & playing with time. We listen for storms brewing in the distance while harvesting corn that might reveal diverse rainbow visions of our tech futures.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, June 2024

While uncle Sam, Mark & co. need you to feed their AI golem armies, we share recipes for home-made software, look for plurality & weirdness online, challenge AI companies to think different, and more.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, May 2024

This new moon, we counter the AI-assisted dematerialisation of the workforce and disembodiment of knowledge by delving into weirdness, grandmotherly wisdom, communal gardens, a new podcast, and more.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, April 2024

We play responsibility hot potato with Big Tech as we try to understand how AI is supposed to benefit humanity when being raised under poor parental guidance and a nutritionally deficient data diet.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, March 2024

We look for playfulness as AI golems track mud everywhere, white people get upset for the wrong reasons, and companies attempt to further abdicate responsibility by blaming it on the AI chatbot.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, February 2024

As the new moon rises, we ponder AI, AGI, and NGI by taking notes from Swifties, deal with cognitive dissonance, take a sneak peek at ETHOS, and glance up into the sky and future for inspiration.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, January 2024

Welcome to the first new moon of 2024, during which we wish billionaires realized they’re Saruman rather than Legolas, wonder about AI, embodied ethics, lab-grown brains, Polish train hackers & more.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, December 2023

Make it more absurd: more drama, more AI, more smoke and mirrors. As the new moon rises, we attempt to counter the absurdity and drama with elephants, rainbow mirrors, and sparks for conversations.

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