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Writing about how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build https://keikreutler.net πŸ—οΈ
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Hiatus from socials for a while (except to publish writing, in write only mode) so text or email me if you're trying to get in touch please.
Subscribe to my newsletter on memory, technology, and sometimes, mountains, where I'll be publishing more nonfiction and fiction in the coming months: keikreutler.substack.com.
High trust societies are good, actually.
My recent essay is featured here.
The story of technology in the 21st century will be closely entwined with the story of somatics.
Twitter feels like that episode of Buffy where she can suddenly hear what everyone is thinking. At first, it's really cool, like a superpower, and at the end she has a breakdown.
I'm reading Life as No One Knows It by Sara Walker. Between her and Michael Levin's work, I feel intuitively compelled by the nascent formalization of memory as an unconscious force (not just genomics, but including life, post-life and abiotic matter).
New bio:

Working on something very old at the intersection of mutualism, wilderness, and wellness
I wrote this essay as a playful approach to technology when our ways of knowing become unavoidably uncertain:

How to Repair a Spaceport
A metaphor for our technological present
https://folklore.mirror.xyz/6Lm7xORHWDb-YoVtqv3Vc2G7dT73xiKws5pJBv9ADZE
I’m headed back here, to Colorado and New Mexico, for a brief time in October.
Most mainstream political discussions have the quality of that medical photo used to describe perception while having a stroke, where at a quick glance all the objects of debate seem recognizable but any closer look reveals they aren't real objects at all, just kind of mush.
Why does it feel like there are no longer any great podcasts? Can someone recommend any?
How to Repair a Spaceport:
A metaphor for our technological present https://folklore.mirror.xyz/6Lm7xORHWDb-YoVtqv3Vc2G7dT73xiKws5pJBv9ADZE

This essay is a first, playful attempt to explore how we approach interoperability in the realm of technological uncertainties.

Many thanks to Folklore, @rafa, and @gilbert for making it happen.
A vernacular without walls: welcome to fellow traveler and unknown visitor alike.
Anyone have recommendations for US banks for a small business?
Increased global conflict and volatility seems directly proportional to people’s concern about and need for control over pollutants in their everyday environment (microplastics, VOCs, etc.).
I finally finished this little essay. I’ll announce where it’s published this week* on my newsletter.
The problem isn’t bureaucracy itself, but how bureaucracy tries to assert itself at an the level of ontological reality. It should remain a weaker form epistemic reality.
I enrolled in a land management UNH course and got my Wilderness First Aid cert. Life is officially, mostly unrecognizable from before.
We had a brief stint in the White Mountains this weekend.
Almost one month ago I moved to the /mountains and now days look like this.
Question that continues to bother me reformulated: Do you need trustworthy institutions to have high trust societies? It’s a more difficult problem than it seems on the surface.
The greetings at the arrivals gate of an international terminal are one of the most wholesome and joyful things to people-watch.
Thinking about all the headspace bound up in the US election and given its farce, wondering and wishing if it could ever be bound up instead in something like unsolved problems in physics…