Excerpt from the latest Team Human Kibbitz Room conversation — Here’s a short excerpt from our most recent Q/A salon in the Team Human Kibbitz room. Listen to the whole show by clicking on the player above. Dave: My name is Dave. I just have a thing about putting pretend names on discord, I guess. Super excited to be here…

Jem Bendell on the value of accepting what is happening to our world — Here’s a short excerpt from this week’s episode of Team Human, a conversation with ecolibertarian and regenerative agriculture school founder Jem Bendell. Unlike his former peers in the “scale of impact” community, Bendell offers no amazing science fiction fantasy technosolutionist fix for the climate crisis. Instead, he offers a…

Excerpts from the new Team Human interview with Nora Bateson — I spoke with my great friend, systems thinker and author Nora Bateson about how embracing the “in-between” opens new possibilities for seemingly intractable challenges. Here’s an excerpt of our conversation. You can hear the whole thing at: https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/269-nora-bateson Douglas Rushkoff: Nora, you embody Team Human in a single person. There’s whole…

Mitch Horowitz on a special Team Human Live, recorded at Caveat Lounge in NYC Below, an excerpt from a great discussion I had with occult scholar and author Mitch Horowitz at the Caveat Lounge in NYC on October 30, 2023. …

Excerpted from this week’s Team Human Monologue. — (Play the whole thing by clicking on the player above) I’m finally, definitely, fully leaving X, and probably all social media. For real, and for good. And I’m encouraging people to do the same. I’ve been on these platforms watching what has been passing for debates about the Middle…

How one white supremacist’s rejection of economic common sense stuck — I don’t usually get upset when I see The New York Times screw up. Most of the journalists are trying their best to get things right, pressured for time, and scared for their jobs in a shrinking industry. Still, that’s no excuse for David Leonhardt’s companion piece this morning to…

What if magic is our most probable path to a sustainable future? — I’ve been treading a lot of unfamiliar head and heart space lately. Engaging with a few different kinds of hopelessness — both on the personal and macro level. And while I see the efficacy of logical, engineered solutions to problems, I’m also becoming painfully aware how engineered solutions often engender…

How the quest for empirical evidence can undermine our power — I gave a talk the other night for an event thrown by my friends at Digital Void, who have been mounting what can only be called evenings of stand-up memetics at night clubs in New York City and beyond. The theme of the evening, “Memes, Myth, and Magic,” inspired me…

Don’t hide AI in writer’s rooms. Make AI the center of the show. — Almost everyone I speak with in the entertainment business sees ChatGPT and as-yet undeveloped AI technologies as a new way to write scripts or generate animations, and replace screenwriters and animation artists in the process. That’s dumb, on many levels. First off, machine-generated writing sucks. It’s a reversion to the…