Star Axis is complete. Fifty years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory on a mesa in New Mexico. A staircase, aligned with Earth's axis, climbs to a open lens that tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's gravitational wobble. Read the beautiful feature in the NYT:

[Call for submissions] Long Now Lab 001.2 is seeking an individual or team to investigate historical epistemic cycles — patterns of technological disruption that result in the breakdown of a society's shared ability to discern truth. Through a series of events and convenings, along with content development and publishing, this Lab will analyze historical ruptures (e.g. papyrus, printing press, social media) to provide insight for navigating the current epistemic crisis brought on by synthetic intelligence and generative media content. Submissions are open now through June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here:

How does one engage with the arduous and existential task of long-term thinking? How can we work on civilizational durability without dissolving into ambiguities? We can’t predict the arc of history, nor can we create a checklist for an immortal civilization. As our partners at the Protocol Institute wrote eloquently on Substack: in order to build truly useful tools and frameworks for long-term thinking, we must practice: - researching, to learn what has worked in the past - prototyping, to improve upon existing protocols and create new ones - entrepreneurship, to solve distribution so that what is learned and built actually reaches the people and institutions who need it This is exactly what Long Now Labs seeks to do. Do you have a framework or tool that belongs in the future? Bring your vision to Long Now Labs. Submissions are open: Read the full post from @tmbr_ss and @denisehearn_ here:

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. Lab Series 001 is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute to investigate three aspects of civilizational durability that are being radically reshaped by frontier technologies. -> Lab 001.1: Book of Time - An open call to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. -> Lab 001.2: Epistemic Cycles - Seeking an individual or team to investigate historical patterns of technological disruption that broke down society's ability to discern truth. -> Lab 001.3: Interspecies Protocols - Exploring the protocols needed to support interspecies ecologies. If you are a designer, researcher, writer, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are now open. Learn more about Labs and how to apply: