some human things I’m tracking > religious schools, retreats, pilgrimages, and faith-based media rising as people search for moral certainty > “human-only” spaces: restaurants, schools, clubs, apps, and retreats that ban synthetic media, recording, phones etc > pet daycares, dog hotels, pet insurance, and premium pet food begging to skyrocket as loneliness increases and people defer to furry friends > post-career identity markets: people living longer and needing new titles, tribes, rituals, status games, and reasons to wake up after professional relevance fades > private members’ clubs solidify as paid social graphs for adults who lost community to remote work > dating apps fragmenting into belief-based and lifestyle-based matchmaking since infinite choice has become exhausting > family formation will become a premium service category: matchmaking, fertility, childcare, coaching, home design etc > eldercare will start shifting to more at-home treatments due to ai (over time it’ll be cheaper than care homes too) > analog cameras, vinyl, printed books, notebooks, “dumbphones,”and mechanical watches grow as anti-synthetic status objects > handmade goods becoming trust objects because machine abundance makes human effort valuable again > live events becoming more valuable as recorded media becomes forgettable > glp-1s are just the first mass consumer drug for editing desire, more to come. > fertility tech booming because career timelines and biological timelines are now in open conflict > oral exams, apprenticeships, portfolios, and live demonstrations returning because written work is becoming cheap to fake > digital detox products growing > air quality, water filtration, food sourcing, and sleep environments becoming mainstream status markers > luxury shifting from owning more things to accessing peace, beauty, privacy, time, and high-trust rooms > the biggest consumer opportunities coming from psychological scarcity: belonging, certainty, attention, embodiment, trust, and continuity

Coincidental timing on this…

This photo exists because his iPhone's battery died mid-shutter

I’m so tired of how many experiences of my life are now taken over by phones and content so for my birthday party this year I told my friends to leave their phones at home and had a sketch artist capture the night instead Art by Madeline Goddard

Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet

periodic reminder that the upper atmosphere has red tendrils of hyper-lightning over 50 km tall

Australian Antarctic Division's media feed might be second only to NASA

UFO stuff aside, some of this footage is kinda beautiful

they are selling universal knowledge and a childlike sense of wonder for 2€ at the used bookstore

Now imagine those drones swarming your city, but they're not in Peace Mode.

Watercolor estate maps... cf. the work of Neil Gower

This kind of smart, walkable, anti-drone urbanism will become mandatory to build in many American cities

an absolute gigabanger from substack

There's never been an investment like the investment in railroads. (This graph has a log scale!)

Chongqing GIS department budget must be insane

Another image to add to my growing aesthetic collection of "Chinese solarpunk"

Exploring arena board with peripheral canvas The squished edges are a mini-map of what's nearby!

I've actually been doing a little side-study on the design language of these things. It's not terribly complete, but it does what I need for now. Just been calling it "Ampcore" for the time being.

Omg, all the iMessage HAHAs So good