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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter

From October 2023 to April 2025, the Pathfinders Newmoonsletter rose under each New Moon to inspire collective pathfinding towards better tech futures. All nineteen moons are archived here.

Rest in End Times

Wondering about the state and practice of rest in these end times.

Apr 27, 2025

Grieving for End Times

Reflections on lives lost, mugs broken and repaired, and an invitation to give love one more chance before we collectively break under pressure beyond repair.

Mar 29, 2025

Empathy for End Times

In this Newmoonsletter, we invite you to make your to-let-go-of and to-make-space-for lists as you practice some empathy towards yourself in these dark times of transformation.

Feb 28, 2025

An invitation to Play_ for End Times

In this Newmoonsletter, we reflect on our journey so far, and explore how play might be what we need to match the absurdity of current end times.

Jan 29, 2025

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, Black Moon 2024

Under the Black Moon we wonder: what now? Can we stop pretending everything is fine? Is it time to root and ground in place? What feels worth nurturing in 2025?

Dec 1, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, November 2024

This new moon, we wonder how AI agents will deal with cookie consent banners, explore both human and AI conversational powers – and responsibilities –, and invite you to visit a library.

Nov 1, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, October 2024

This new moon, we try to reason with strawberries, look for human and AI companions for our fellowship, and try out tools that might just help us find paths that lead to preferable futures.

Oct 2, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, September 2024

While Big Tech refuses to embrace the demure and mindful trend, we sing to a burning planet, explore some recent research on LLMs, and wonder whether AI chatbots could help us get our sh*t together.

Sep 3, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, August 2024

We coddiwomple towards a harmonious future in which AIs & humans form a mutually beneficial creative alliance by exploring the context in which we all live, and wondering who to place our faith in.

Aug 4, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, July 2024

We try to escape the AI rat race by slowing down & playing with time. We listen for storms brewing in the distance while harvesting corn that might reveal diverse rainbow visions of our tech futures.

Jul 6, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, June 2024

While uncle Sam, Mark & co. need you to feed their AI golem armies, we share recipes for home-made software, look for plurality and weirdness online, challenge AI companies to think different, and more.

Jun 6, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, May 2024

This new moon, we counter the AI-assisted dematerialisation of the workforce and disembodiment of knowledge by delving into weirdness, grandmotherly wisdom, communal gardens, a new podcast, and more.

Apr 8, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, April 2024

We play responsibility hot potato with Big Tech as we try to understand how AI is supposed to benefit humanity when being raised under poor parental guidance and a nutritionally deficient data diet.

Apr 8, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, March 2024

We look for playfulness as AI golems track mud everywhere, white people get upset for the wrong reasons, and companies attempt to further abdicate responsibility by blaming it on the AI chatbot.

Mar 10, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, February 2024

As the new moon rises, we ponder AI, AGI, and NGI by taking notes from Swifties, deal with cognitive dissonance, take a sneak peek at ETHOS, and glance up into the sky and future for inspiration.

Feb 9, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, January 2024

Welcome to the first new moon of 2024, during which we wish billionaires realized they’re Saruman rather than Legolas, wonder about AI, embodied ethics, lab-grown brains, Polish train hackers, and more.

Jan 11, 2024

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, December 2023

Make it more absurd: more drama, more AI, more smoke and mirrors. As the new moon rises, we attempt to counter the absurdity and drama with elephants, rainbow mirrors, and sparks for conversations.

Dec 13, 2023

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, November 2023

As the new moon rises, we look for fogbows amidst the AI fog and climate doom by shining a mythopoetic light on perspectives often ignored, inspired by ancient wisdom and love for life on planet Earth.

Nov 13, 2023

Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, October 2023

As the new moon rises, we plant pledges, come together for collective futurecrafting, and imagine rainbows mirrors for existential hope.

Oct 14, 2023

Moonthly seeds of tech inspiration, 2023–2025

A companion on the pathfinding journey, the Newmoonsletter rose in inboxes under the New Moon – when the nights are darkest – to inspire collective pathfinding towards better tech futures.

No new moons will rise, but the seeds keep. The full archive also lives on Substack.

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In the embrace of Earth's timeless wisdom, we honor the Sacred Custodians of lands that stretch across Australia's vast horizons, and to the seas and communities that pulse with life. We extend a hand of respect to the wise elders who have walked before us and those who walk with us today, among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Our acknowledgment weaves further, to indigenous communities globally, whose lands cradle the veins of our interconnected digital world. We recognise the enduring echoes of the past and the ripples of the present that continue to shape the homes and hearts of these sacred peoples.
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