Troubling Transitions, Transformative Play, and Between Worlds
Welcome to the September newsletter (subscribe here) from the Institute for Sustainable Worlds, and the Imaginaries Lab. First, a few announcements:| architectures by Dan Lockton
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose for a second straight day on Wednesday on expectations that U.S. harvest yields will be lower than the latest government forecast and on limited sales by farmers awaiting news from U.S.-China trade talks and details of government aid. Corn followed soybeans higher as an expected yield forecast The post U.S. grains: Soybeans gain on lackluster harvest sales, lower yield outlook appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsCrops & Production Tips - Grainews
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.| Velcro City Tourist Board
Glacier FarmMedia – Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange erased yesterday’s gains on Friday due to harvest pressure, less demand and weaker vegetable oils. Chicago soyoil, European rapeseed and Malaysian palm oil were down. However, crude oil made gains after Russia attacked Ukrainian natural gas facilities Thursday night. An analyst said November canola may try The post North American Grain/Oilseed Review: Grains, oilseeds in negative territory appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
Glacier FarmMedia – Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange were going down in the middle of Friday trading, mainly due to weaker vegetable oils, harvest pressure and a lack of exports. Chicago soyoil, European rapeseed and Malaysian palm oil were down. However, crude oil was higher after Russia attacked Ukrainian natural gas facilities last night. The post ICE Midday: Pressure returns for canola appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Intercontinental Exchange canola futures were lower on Friday morning, as the advancing Prairie harvest and a lack of support from most comparable oils weighed on values. Saskatchewan reported its provincewide harvest reached 84 per cent finished with the canola at 71 per cent complete. Alberta is set The post ICE Canada Morning Comment: Canola pulling back appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
Glacier FarmMedia — Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange were higher on Thursday amidst mixed sentiment in comparable oils. Chicago soyoil was steady, European rapeseed was mostly higher and Malaysian palm oil was up. Crude oil lost more than US$1 per barrel on speculation OPEC+ might raise output in November. An analyst said The post North American Grain/Oilseed Review: Canola, soybeans rise again appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
Glacier FarmMedia – Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange were higher in the middle of Thursday trading amidst mixed sentiment in comparable oils. Chicago soyoil was lower, European rapeseed was mixed and Malaysian palm oil was higher. Crude oil was in a downturn on speculation OPEC+ could boost output next month. However, G7 finance ministers The post ICE Midday: Canola finds strength appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Intercontinental Exchange canola futures continued higher on Thursday morning, attempting to add to yesterday’s increases. However, there was pressure from the advancing Prairie harvest and comparable oils. Manitoba reported yesterday that its overall harvest was 72 per cent completed, with 76 per cent of canola combined. Saskatchewan The post ICE Canada Morning Comment: Canola pushing upward appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
Glacier FarmMedia -– Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange corrected themselves on Wednesday after the November contract dropped below C$600/tonne for a brief period. Stronger soybean and vegetable oil prices underpinned gains. An analyst said the slow pace of exports and the ongoing canola harvest are pressuring prices. Another analyst said the contract might The post North American Grain/Oilseed Review: Canola, soybeans make gains appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
Glacier FarmMedia – The November canola contract on the Intercontinental Exchange dipped below C$600 per tonne earlier today before returning above that mark. An analyst said the slow pace of exports and the ongoing canola harvest are pressuring prices. Another analyst said the contract might test March lows at around C$580/tonne. Both of them doubt The post ICE Midday: Canola hits critical price level appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsFutures & Production Tips - Grainews
By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Intercontinental Exchange canola futures were lower on Wednesday morning, after the market was closed yesterday for a holiday. While the nearby November contract continued to hover above C$600 per tonne, it dipped below that level before returning above that mark. The advancing Prairie harvest, along with declines […] Read more| Grainews
A toolkit for community engagement on climate change This toolkit is being launched ahead of the publication of our major report on Climate Adaptation and Community Engagement on October 15th 2025. We will be holding an event in Grangetown, Cardiff on that day from 1pm – 5pm. If you would like to join us please […]| The National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Across philanthropic, academic, and policy landscapes, a growing national discourse is emerging around the well-being of men and boys. What was once seen as a peripheral concern is now gaining […] The post Reimagining Masculinity: Reevaluating the Aspirations of All Boys and Men in the Fight for Democracy appeared first on Horizons.| Horizons
Welcome to the September newsletter (subscribe here) from the Institute for Sustainable Worlds, and the Imaginaries Lab. First, a few announcements:| architectures by Dan Lockton
Sean Monahan, reporting from what seems to be the frontline of a nation speed-running the descent into decadence:| Velcro City Tourist Board
Glacier FarmMedia — The ICE Futures canola market was stronger at midday Friday, finding spillover support from advances in Chicago soybeans and soyoil. Optimism over the possibility of easing tensions with China was also supportive. A trade delegation to the major canola buying country had “constructive discussions” with Chinese officials, according to a statement from […] Read more| Grainews
From the MVP race to Super Bowl LX odds, Hard Rock Bet highlights the top NFL futures betting shifts ahead of the 2025 regular season opener.| Hard Rock Bet
I was recently a guest on Lance "it's ya boi" Robotson's alt-futures podcast Neomania. The post Talking Cultural Fracking and World Running on Neomania appeared first on thejaymo.| thejaymo
Hugh Smith and Benny Souto write about designing policies and services for the future in Camden Council.| publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk
Glacier FarmMedia – Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange took a downturn on Tuesday, pressured by weakness in comparable oils. Chicago soyoil lost more than one United States cent per pound while European rapeseed and Malaysian palm oil were also down. Crude oil fell more than US$1 per barrel despite tensions between Russia and Ukraine. […] Read more| Grainews
The lichen-ous current state of my work and community life, and what's coming for the rest of the year.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Back in February, 2023 I wrote an enthusiastic plug for including managed futures funds in an investment portfolio. That was based on several observations. First, bonds have become often positively…| Economist Writing Every Day
Bucs to win the Super Bowl? Baker Mayfield winning MVP? Hard Rock Bet dives deep into NFL offseason betting data as the preseason begins.| Hard Rock Bet
For the week ending August 2, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to as much as $10 higher. Quality yearling packages off grass were up as much as $15 in some cases. Prices for similar weight cattle were quite variable across the Prairies, which made the market hard to define. The market appears to be in price discovery mode for the grass yearling market.| Farmtario
Glacier FarmMedia — The ICE Futures canola market was weaker on Monday, settling below nearby chart support after trading to both sides of unchanged. Losses in Chicago soybeans and corn accounted for some spillover selling in the Canadian oilseed, with good Midwestern weather behind the selling pressure in those markets. However, persistent dryness concerns in […] Read more| Grainews
U.S.-based clients can now trade CME-listed cryptocurrency futures contracts alongside our market-leading spot crypto liquidity.| Kraken Blog
Most blogs explaining Java’s CompletableFuture rely on trivial examples (looking at you javatpoint). Those examples can already be provided and well-explained by ChatGPT et al. Furthermore, while they provide only a shallow understanding for beginner developers, they fail to offer anything challenging or insightful for seasoned developers. A more interesting and insightful example of the ... Read more The post CompletableFuture Example: Crawler appeared first on Concurrency Deep Dives.| Concurrency Deep Dives
On the standard library, Java has many “futures”: All these live within package java.util.concurrent. In this post, we focus on CompletableFuture, and its relation to Future. If you want to know more about CompletableFuture, namely what it is, and how to use it, there is a practical guide at A Guide to CompletableFuture. For contextualisation, ... Read more The post Java’s CompletableFuture vs. Future appeared first on Concurrency Deep Dives.| Concurrency Deep Dives
As explained in greater detail in A Guide to CompletableFuture there are 4 ways to create a CompletableFuture: Here we analyse runAsync and supplyAsync in detail, giving some practical examples. These two methods are the most used by programmers on day-to-day. These methods are static on class CompletableFuture, so you don’t need to have a ... Read more The post CompletableFuture runAsync & supplyAsync appeared first on Concurrency Deep Dives.| Concurrency Deep Dives
Overview This is an in-depth practical guide on how to use Java’s CompletableFuture. It is comprehensive and will serve you as a reference for when you have to work with them. It provides unique insights into how they operate, which you won’t easily find in other blogs and books. This will help you develop a ... Read more The post A Guide to CompletableFuture appeared first on Concurrency Deep Dives.| Concurrency Deep Dives
For the week ending July 19, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were unchanged from the previous week, although volumes were limited.| Grainews
When you imagine the future of your Street does it feel like a thriving place to live?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
By Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – Intercontinental Exchange canola futures turned weaker on Wednesday, despite support from gains in the Chicago soy complex and Malaysian palm oil. Speculation that a deal would see China reopen its borders to Australian canola likely accounted for some of the selling pressure. A trader said he […] Read more| Grainews
For the week ending July 12, Western Canadian yearling markets traded steady to $5 higher compared to seven days earlier. Calves weighing 550-800 pounds were quoted $5 lower to as much as $10 higher.| Manitoba Co-operator
By Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – Intercontinental Exchange canola futures closed higher on Thursday, riding support from other vegetable oils. Along with increases in European rapeseed, the Chicago soy complex turned around to finish on the upswing. However, Malaysian palm oil was still to the downside. Declines in crude oil put a […] Read more| Grainews
I know I had said I wouldn't be doing any substantive blog posts because of book writing (which is going well, thanks for asking) but this ...| qoppac.blogspot.com
Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — ICE canola futures were stronger Monday morning, taking back most of Friday’s losses with gains in the Chicago soybeans and soyoil providing support. The November contract briefly tested chart support at its 50-day moving average in overnight trade but was well above that level as the day session got underway. […] Read more| Grainews
I’m speaking at the UCL Languages of the Future conference on 6th June, presenting a paper titled “Are we even talking about tomorrow? Uncertainty, agency, and the encounter with the su…| matt finch / mechanical dolphin
You know when it’s baking and the heat is just bouncing off everything, you step in the shadows and the temperature instantly drops ten degrees? It ain’t sticking around, just bouncing right back. Anyway, I withstood this onslaught for ten minutes at London Bridge station before cramming into a train full of half-cut sweaty football fans and heading home. As the train meandred between the rooftops of Bermondsey, I caught sight of, for no more than half a second, a seagull nesting in a chi...| The Bounding Box
The VIX is a calculated measure of stock market volatility, based on the prices of stock options. It spikes up when there is a market upset, then seemingly always settles back down again after a fe…| Economist Writing Every Day
At the recent OER24 conference in Cork, Ireland, Laura Czerniewicz and I had the great honour of giving a joint keynote, in the company of another keynoter, the inimitable Rajiv Jhangiani. In addition, we were inspired by the range and depth of work shared by so many in the international open education community who presented…| Catherine Cronin
Many months before November’s election, here at Dot Connector we were already deep in the foresight trenches with our clients, imagining how the post-inauguration period might play out. But even with all of that future-proofing, the speed and callousness with which this new administration set... The post How is Dot Connector’s team making sense of this volatile moment? appeared first on Dot Connector Studio.| Dot Connector Studio
The problem I have, you see, is that I have chosen to spend so much of my time thinking about this damned AI thing. Now, back in 2017 or whenever it was where I was like ‘what’s going on with the stories around this thing’ I thought it was a kooky little wheeze that would […]| The Bounding Box
Chicago Board of Trade corn, soybean and wheat futures weakened on Friday on renewed worries that trade disputes could hurt demand for U.S. farm products, analysts said.| Grainews
Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures climbed to their highest level since October on Thursday as cold weather stoked concerns about potential crop damage in the Black Sea region, analysts said.| Grainews
This blog is now in its 20th year* and it’s been in the wilderness for a bit. I feel as though for the last few years, I’ve mainly used blogging, and the newsletter version of it, to recite lists of “things I have done”/”events I… Read more| architectures by Dan Lockton
Save the date: Imagining Future Everydays| architectures by Dan Lockton
The Jaguar campaign is a masterclass in futures non-thinking. Copy nothing. Think nothing. Do nothing. Demand nothing. Dream nothing.| Matthew Moran
The world of financial markets offers a diverse range of tools to enhance investment strategies, and options and futures stand out as powerful instruments. Understanding their roles can elevate your investment game and help manage risks effectively. Understanding Options and Futures To leverage options and futures in investment strategies, it’s crucial to grasp what these … Continue reading "The Role of Options and Futures in Diversified Investment Strategies" The post The Role of Options...| Disfold Blog
The net fund short position in canola fell to its lowest level in six months during the week ended Oct. 22, as speculators covered bearish bets and put on new longs, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).| Farmtario
I'm trying to calculate the average entry price for perpetual swap contracts for use in back-testing a trading strategy, as per Bitmex's documentation: A Perpetual Contract is a derivative product| Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange
Hamster Kombat's HMSTR token will be listed on OKX's new pre-market futures platform| crypto.news
When we study history, we come to understand that the structures of the contemporary world are not inevitable, they are a choice, and other choices were possible. Other choices are possible even now. More earthy choices. More natural choices. More imaginative choices. Choices more full of meaning. Choices which allow us greater agency. The study of history allows us to reclaim these choices for our future.| Matthew Moran
I said I had announcements, and I wasn’t kidding. I’m doing a bunch of public stuff this month, which is nice—not least because it gets me out of the house.| Velcro City Tourist Board
Want to help your students create new futures from these difficult times? Need creative ideas on how organizations can tackle inequality and exploitation? Join Adria Scharf, Joyce Rothschild, Katie Sobering, Victor Tan Chen, Katherine Chen (me!), & other researchers of democratic organizations on 8am PDT Sun., Aug. 7 at the American Sociological Association! We’ll discuss how to teach aboutContinue reading "How to create new futures during these difficult times"| Markets, Power, and Culture
This is a re-post of the Imaginaries Lab newsletter (subscribe here) It’s been too long since the last newsletter, back in those days before “all of this”. I didn’t even do one in 2020—the end of that year was just too fraught, too difficult. You’ve… Read more| architectures by Dan Lockton
We’d like to invite you to Climate Pathways, an exhibition of projects from the Imaginaries Lab‘s fall 2019 studio elective at Carnegie Mellon, Research Through Design. Download the catalog of projects Friday November 22, 5.30pm–7.30pm: Exhibition opening and project demos Saturday November 23, 10.00am–5.00pm: Exhibition… Read more| architectures by Dan Lockton
A case study in making a movie with AI tools You’ve probably seen lots of short movies being made using AI tools, and you’ve wondered how they’re done. Well, here’s an example of one, and I’m going to document the process of how it was made, and while going through that, also highlight the limitations of the technology that lead to many of these movies looking the same. Here’s the movie It’s kinda cool, and it tells a story. But once you’ve seen a few movies like this, you’l...| Laurence Moroney - The AI Guy.
A case study in turning a blog post into a video… A few days back, I wrote this blog post, covering a passion of mine – how AI can be used to change things that we use every day, and while so doing, improving costs, efficiency, and reducing waste, giving an overall positive impact on society and environment. And then I turned it into a video like this! It took about an hour of tweaking, and maybe $10 worth of my subscription credits to create this: This was achieved using a service caled ...| Laurence Moroney - The AI Guy.
Exploring the Wonders of AI-Generated Imagery with Decohere: A Personal Journey In the ever-evolving world of technology, AI’s role in creative fields is becoming increasingly prominent, as I recently explored through a fun experience with the Decohere website. This blog post will delve into two fascinating instances that highlight the capabilities of AI in generating unique visual content. Real-Time Image Creation: A Sci-Fi Vision My first interaction with Decohere involved crafting a scen...| Laurence Moroney - The AI Guy.
Revolutionizing Batteries with AI: A Leap Towards Sustainable Technology In a world increasingly dependent on technology, the quest for efficient and environmentally friendly power sources is more crucial than ever. A recent breakthrough, as reported by New Scientist, showcases how artificial intelligence (AI) is leading this charge, offering a glimpse into a future where technology and sustainability go hand in hand. Understanding the Breakthrough The heart of this advancement lies in an AI-...| Laurence Moroney - The AI Guy.
In the wake of the cryptocurrency boom, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) emerged as the digital darlings of the art and collectibles world. However, as we navigate...| laurencemoroney.com
The conceptual framework is excellent, the 7 prototypes selected heavily skew towards cutting edge technology integration. Eco-social renewal does not equal technological intervention by unquestioned default. This is a first world modern western science problem.| Ymmarrys Ry
In New Delhi, a month ago, I purchased this just published history by Sumit Guha for less than 10 euros. India gets special pricing for books and they are eminently affordable. I ended up purchasing 7 for less than 50 euros, including the hard cover of Amitav Ghosh’s latest. | Ymmarrys Ry
The arts provide alternative explorative means for approaching reality and expanding our understanding of qualitative experience (Eisner 2002). Research demonstrates immense untapped potential at the interface of arts and sustainability science.| Ymmarrys Ry
Ymmärrys ry offers a diagnostic toolkit that blends science with arts and innovation for a structured approach to resilient transformation and sustainable futures.| Ymmarrys Ry
I am writing this in the midst of the early ‘lockdown’ response to Covid-19. I do not underestimate the gravity of the situation – my view on that has been both bearish and I hope…| Will McInnes
We need motivation in the face of replacement, redundancy, or reduction.| Ymmarrys Ry
