halazoon / Mike

Huffduffing since September 4th, 2010

There are six people in halazoon’s collective.

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  1. The Future is Fungi: The Rise and Rhizomes of Mushroom Culture

    Mushrooms aren’t just in your garden anymore–they’re everywhere, making star appearances in books, movies, TV, graphic novels, video games. More scientific experts than ever before are examining how mushrooms affect human physiology. Social media is awash with mushroom hunters teaching followers how to find and safely eat fungi. Yes, mushrooms are everywhere, but why? What is it about mushrooms that spark our imaginations? Why do they inspire both wonder and terror? And what might their future look like on our ever-changing planet?

    On July 11, 2023 Orion Magazine and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination joined forces to probe these mycological mysteries with biologist and author Merlin Sheldrake, scholar and naturalist Kaitlin Smith, best-selling novelist Jeff VanderMeer and author and lecturer Corey Pressman. Together they discussed the fascinating and sometimes contradictory ways in which mushrooms are shaping our cultures and our world.

    About the panelists: Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundatio…

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  2. Here’s How We Escape Climate Apocalypse

    Get 40% off Nebula using my link: https://go.nebula.tv/occ Watch my bonus climate short story video here: https://nebula.tv/videos/occ-heres-what-a-future-ecocity-could-look-like Watch next month's video on China's climate impact here: https://nebula.tv/videos/occ-is-china-really-to-blame-for-climate-change

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    In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the importance of speculative climate fiction, sci-fi, and utopias for political movements. Specifically, I look at various short stories, films, and books that introduce us to worlds beyond capitalism, that have, in their own way addressed our ecological and climate crisis.

    Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimate Email List: https://ourchangingclimateocc.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate/

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  3. Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

    Audio of Maurice Mitchell's article, available at https://forgeorganizing.org/article/building-resilient-organizations

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  4. Applied Sci-Fi | Ep. 3: Science Fictional Scenarios and Strategic Foresight

    The Applied Sci-Fi Project at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination is an event series and research project that brings together science fiction writers, futurists, scholars, and technologists to survey how science fiction narratives can shape the development of real-world technologies.

    In this third panel in the series, held on December 8, 2022, we explore the past, present, and future of strategic foresight practice, map the similarities and differences between strategic foresight and science fiction, and consider how to leverage both fields to help us collaboratively design a better tomorrow.

    To learn more about the Applied Sci-Fi Project, visit https://csi.asu.edu/applied-sci-fi.

    Our panelists:

    Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) is the New York Times bestselling author of “Reality is Broken,” “SuperBetter,” and “Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything, Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.” She directs social simulations, Future Scenario Club, Storytime for Futurists, monthly signals of hope scavenger hunts, and more futures fun at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California.

    Madeline Ashby (@madelineashby) is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, teacher, and immigrant living in Toronto. She has worked with Intel Labs, the In…

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  5. Applied Sci-Fi | Ep. 1: The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech

    The Applied Sci-Fi Project at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination is an event series and research project that brings together science fiction writers, futurists, scholars, and technologists to survey how science fiction narratives can shape the development of real-world technologies.

    In this first panel in the series held on May 12, 2022, "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech", we explore the past, present and future of sci-fi's influence with experts Michael Bennett, Tim Chang, Cory Doctorow, Malka Older and Sherryl Vint, moderated by Kevin Bankston.

    Our Speakers: Michael G. Bennett (@MGBennett) serves as Director of Student Experiential Learning Programs for the Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois, where he is responsible for overseeing the institute’s growing portfolio of academic and informal learning programs, and leading a team that implements and manages them. He has extensive experience in curriculum development, with a particular emphasis on anticipatory governance, future scenarios, Afrofuturism, and science and technology policy.

    Tim Chang (@timechange) co-leads Mayfield’s Consumer investment practice and is an experienced investor and global executive. He has been twice named to the Forbes Midas l…

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  6. Applied Sci-Fi | Ep. 2: Designing the Future with Applied Sci-Fi

    The Applied Sci-Fi Project at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination is an event series and research project that brings together science fiction writers, futurists, scholars, and technologists to survey how science fiction narratives can shape the development of real-world technologies.

    In this second panel in the series, held on September 29, 2022, we explore how the tools of sci-fi narrative are used in the field of design to better imagine, experience, and shape possible futures.

    Whether these emerging design practices are categorized as design fiction, sci-fi prototyping, useful fiction, experiential futures, or worldbuilding, there is a growing field of futurists and design professionals applying these science-fictional techniques to advise companies, governments, and nonprofits on how to prepare for the opportunities and challenges that the future will bring.

    To learn more about the Applied Sci-Fi Project, visit https://csi.asu.edu/applied-sci-fi.

    Our panelists:

    Bruce Sterling (@bruces) is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, editor, columnist, and critic. He is perhaps best known for his ten visionary science fiction novels, as a founder of the cyberpunk movement, and as the editor of the quintessential cyberpunk anthology “Mirrorshades.” His …

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  7. Stop asking what you can DO as an Ally until you watch THIS VIDEO

    Stop asking what you can DO until you watch THIS VIDEO

    The last few days a number of people have reached out to me looking for support through this current crisis.

    What I see in a lot of these folks is a deep desire to engage and a way to make a meaningful difference with these issues.

    But what lies underneath this desire to change the world is an unaddressed need for something that will make them feel as though they are aligned with their values.

    The message received is that if you don't act you are a bad person. It doesn’t have to be this complicated.

    Chances are you’re overcomplicating things to avoid having to do the hard work.

    Back in 2014 I had a side hustle of writing about my experiences with race. I've since stopped doing that because it wasn't helping me to actually live the life that I wanted to.

    I found myself in a repetitive cycle of realizing how terrible the world is, needing to express my pain and anger, and repressing it until the next time something terrible would happen.

    Eventually I realized that I was so reactive to the state of the world I couldn't actually develop a sustainable practice towards living in the world. I only knew how to survive the world I found myself in.

    When I lost my job in September 2019 I went on a journey to become a life coach.

    I deve…

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  8. The Experience of Class with Lynsey Hanley

    The Experience of Class with Lynsey Hanley. Why is class still so central to the experience of living in Britain? Writer and journalist Lynsey Hanley explores the idea of class in Britain today, examining how people are kept apart, and keep themselves apart, and the costs involved in the journey from ‘there’ to ‘here’.

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  10. Radical Help: Hilary Cottam on remaking relationships between us

    Michael Little from Ratio in conversation with Hilary Cottam about her recently published book Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us & Revolutionise the Welfare State in which she offers a vision, rooted in human connection, of how we can re-design the welfare state for this century.

    Hilary Cottam is a leading British innovator and protagonist for relational social policy. Hilary has been working over three decades on designing solutions to major social challenges.

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