My weekly best readings, listenings & watchings

March 28, 2026

An ongoing and provisional collection of articles, podcasts, documentaries, & other content that I think is worthy to be shared.

(week 13)

• JASON HICKEL - Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic #economy #capitalism #democracy
• ETHZ - Architektur im Gespräch: Pascal Haeusermann #architecture #lecture
• Planet Critical podcast - Feeding the Future - Nicole Negowetti #metacrisis #food #foodsystem #future
• Astrobiology - All DNA/RNA Nucleobases Are Found On Asteroid Ryugu #space #biology #life
• Aeon - Catastrophe markets #bets #catastrophes #market
• Aeon - The six-second hug #enshittification #art #modernity #instrumentalisation #philosophy

(week 12)

• Grace Blakeley - Capitalism is Killing the Future #Capitalism #Crisis #Inequality #Resistance
• AEON - Where loneliness can lead #loneliness #totalitarianism #philosophy #ideology
• Gen Z in Eastern Europe - ARTE.tv Documentary #genZ #resistance
• The Atlantic - Inside the dirty, dystopian world of AI data centers #AI #datacenters
• Collapse 2050 - Reclaiming Sanity in an Insane World #metacrisis #reaction #agency
• Why Capitalism Is Now A Game of Mind Control - Jim Rutt #economy #capitalism

(week 10 & 11)

• They’re Not Just Listening, They’re Weaponizing Sound #AI #music #IP
• Grid Particle Systems - Physarum Slime Mold Pt I: Theory #computation
• Brad Mehldau: The Greatest Jazz Pianist of Our Generation #music
• What technology takes from us – and how to take it back - AI (artificial intelligence) - The Guardian #tech
• La Niña Is Doing Something It Shouldn’t This Year #climatechange
• Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It #AI #programming

(week 9)

• 39C3 - A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet #corydoctorow #enshittification #resistance
• What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem - Aeon Essays #postliterate #education #literacy #design
• Computers can’t surprise - Aeon #AI
• Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds #climate #clouds #science
• NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax #report #AI #greenwashing #energy
• The Green Transition Needs So Much Mining with Thea Riofrancos #podcast #greendeal #greentransition #mining #resources
• What is driving the AI hype machine? — Cory Doctorow - The Listening Post #speech #corydoctorow #AI #hype
• The Orality Theory of Everything #postliterate #education #culture
• This is not the AI we were promised - The Royal Society #AI #lecture
• Money is more important than life - The massive lies that create our reality #recycling #economy #profit

(week 8)

• ‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’ - The Guardian #plastics #recycling
• The unbearable experience of walking in a heatwave of the future #climatecrisis #heat
• Europe’s supermarket shelves packed with ‘misleading’ claims about recycled plastic packaging #plastics #EU #recycling #packaging
• The Science Behind Earth’s Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen - TGS 210 #earth #science #climate #CO2
• Hannah Fry: ‘AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts’ #AI #science

(week 7)

• Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe’s Industrial Decline with Balázs Matics - TGS 209 #economy #resources #scarcity #EU
• Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks #news #energy
• Code Optimisation via Memoization - Computerphile #computation
• Generative AI’s Greatest Flaw - Computerphile #AI #safety #privacy

(week 5)

• Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your Inner Fire, and Why Hope Is Not Enough with Xiye Bastida - TGS 208
• Madagascar: AI Trainers - ARTE.tv Documentary #AI #training #exploitation
• Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold MEGA EPISODE - Climbing a 4,000 Foot Cliff - SPECIAL #climbing #science #extremeenvironments #climate #research
• Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds #climatecrisis #water #scarcity

(week 4)

• Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart - TGS 204 #climatecrisis #interventions
• Prof. Dieter Helm: The Net Zero lie #netzero #climatecrisis #environment
• Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says #climatecrisis #water #scarcity
• The Thinking Game - Full documentary - Tribeca Film Festival #AI #documentary #movie #deepmind
• NOVA - Secrets of the Forest #forests #trees #complexity #climatecrisis

(week 2)

• For the Future We May Never See - Rachel Donald #metacrisis #climatecrisis
• Bright Green Lies - Max Wilbert #climatecrisis #metacrisis #activism
• 39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy #AI #privacy #safety
• Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025 #climatecrisis #plastics #report

(week 1)

Just Relax! Sorry!