Still thinking about this on the way home...
"maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas. "
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115424190710419046
Ruth_Mottram - Rounding off the first day of #NCKF25 with an astoundingly profound talk by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social who reminds us of Kim Stanley Robinson's essay dystopias now. The work starts here.