Kathleen Miles
@kathleenmiles.bsky.social
Executive Editrix, @noemamag.com. Online & in print 👉 http://noemamag.com/subscribe. Pitch: [email protected].
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I got my first issue of @noemamag.com in the mail the other day. I don't *agree* with everything in it but the writing is good, it's designed beautifully, and it's kind of a thrill to hear such radically different perspectives from what I'm normally exposed to
September 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I got my first issue of @noemamag.com in the mail the other day. I don't *agree* with everything in it but the writing is good, it's designed beautifully, and it's kind of a thrill to hear such radically different perspectives from what I'm normally exposed to
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Biggest @noemamag.com fan from down under—long weekend reading sorted.
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Biggest @noemamag.com fan from down under—long weekend reading sorted.
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"The successor to mass social media is... emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares," writes James O'Sullivan. Here's his piece for @noemamag.com.
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"The successor to mass social media is... emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares," writes James O'Sullivan. Here's his piece for @noemamag.com.
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
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What might replace American lawns? Entomologist Douglas Tallamy advocates for what he calls “homegrown national parks” — seeding native plants (oaks are an excellent choice for most places, he said) and reducing mowing and chemicals.
—via @olliemilman.bsky.social, @noemamag.com
—via @olliemilman.bsky.social, @noemamag.com
The Cult Of The American Lawn | NOEMA
Manicured grass yards are ecological dead zones. So why are they being forced on people by their neighbors and homeowner associations?
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August 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What might replace American lawns? Entomologist Douglas Tallamy advocates for what he calls “homegrown national parks” — seeding native plants (oaks are an excellent choice for most places, he said) and reducing mowing and chemicals.
—via @olliemilman.bsky.social, @noemamag.com
—via @olliemilman.bsky.social, @noemamag.com
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I’ve written for @noemamag.com about the need for a different approach to economic statistics - the data isn’t ‘rigged’ but it hasn’t kept up with the changing economy www.noemamag.com/the-critical...
The Urgent Need For Revolutionizing Economic Statistics | NOEMA
Donald Trump’s abandonment of honest economic statistics highlights what’s been true for a while: The way we measure economic activity has long been inadequate for modern political challenges.
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August 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I’ve written for @noemamag.com about the need for a different approach to economic statistics - the data isn’t ‘rigged’ but it hasn’t kept up with the changing economy www.noemamag.com/the-critical...
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Noema is a magazine whose goal is not to “keep up” but to slow down and think.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we do what we do.
#noema #magazines #independentpublishing
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we do what we do.
#noema #magazines #independentpublishing
August 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Noema is a magazine whose goal is not to “keep up” but to slow down and think.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we do what we do.
#noema #magazines #independentpublishing
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we do what we do.
#noema #magazines #independentpublishing
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In our Weekly Top 5:
* A first-person flood account @texasmonthly.bsky.social
* Californians icing ICE @rollingstone.com
* Sexually diverse vegetables @noemamag.com
* Pokémon: Go! @vqr.bsky.social
* Polo clonies @wired.com
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* A first-person flood account @texasmonthly.bsky.social
* Californians icing ICE @rollingstone.com
* Sexually diverse vegetables @noemamag.com
* Pokémon: Go! @vqr.bsky.social
* Polo clonies @wired.com
longreads.com/2025/07/18/t...
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
Showcasing stories from Aaron Parsley, David Peisner, Leah Zani, Joseph Earl Thomas, and Matt Reynolds.
longreads.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In our Weekly Top 5:
* A first-person flood account @texasmonthly.bsky.social
* Californians icing ICE @rollingstone.com
* Sexually diverse vegetables @noemamag.com
* Pokémon: Go! @vqr.bsky.social
* Polo clonies @wired.com
longreads.com/2025/07/18/t...
* A first-person flood account @texasmonthly.bsky.social
* Californians icing ICE @rollingstone.com
* Sexually diverse vegetables @noemamag.com
* Pokémon: Go! @vqr.bsky.social
* Polo clonies @wired.com
longreads.com/2025/07/18/t...
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🔥🌍 “The discretionary carbon footprints of the 1% are not only unjust on a symbolic level. They are also quite literally a material cause of the climate crisis.”
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t... @noemamag.com @doctorvive.bsky.social #inequality #climate #complexity
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t... @noemamag.com @doctorvive.bsky.social #inequality #climate #complexity
We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich | NOEMA
Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.
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June 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🔥🌍 “The discretionary carbon footprints of the 1% are not only unjust on a symbolic level. They are also quite literally a material cause of the climate crisis.”
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t... @noemamag.com @doctorvive.bsky.social #inequality #climate #complexity
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t... @noemamag.com @doctorvive.bsky.social #inequality #climate #complexity
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My latest longread for @noemamag.com explores the possibility that at some point in the future - perhaps 100 years from now, perhaps tomorrow - an eruption from the Sun will bring our networked society to its knees.
With spectacular imagery courtesy of NASA.
www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-f...
With spectacular imagery courtesy of NASA.
www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-f...
The Unseen Fury Of Solar Storms | NOEMA
Lurking in every space weather forecaster’s mind is the hypothetical big one, a solar storm so huge it could bring our networked, planetary civilization to its knees.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My latest longread for @noemamag.com explores the possibility that at some point in the future - perhaps 100 years from now, perhaps tomorrow - an eruption from the Sun will bring our networked society to its knees.
With spectacular imagery courtesy of NASA.
www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-f...
With spectacular imagery courtesy of NASA.
www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-f...
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The Noema team is over-the-moon to announce we took home 24 @lapressclub.bsky.social awards last night, with 6 first place, 8 second place and 10 third place winners! 🎉
Links below to read all the award-winning pieces 🏆
Links below to read all the award-winning pieces 🏆
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Noema team is over-the-moon to announce we took home 24 @lapressclub.bsky.social awards last night, with 6 first place, 8 second place and 10 third place winners! 🎉
Links below to read all the award-winning pieces 🏆
Links below to read all the award-winning pieces 🏆
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Articles from @noemamag.com always stretch and expand my brain in good ways; this is a really thoughtful read on territorial expansion and the politics of 'never again.'
The New Politics Of Territorial Expansion | NOEMA
“Never again” and the “responsibility to protect” now license forcible territorial annexation.
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June 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Articles from @noemamag.com always stretch and expand my brain in good ways; this is a really thoughtful read on territorial expansion and the politics of 'never again.'
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These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.
Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...
Gov. Ferguson signs bill restricting out-of-state military forces in Washington
Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a new law that restricts out-of-state military forces from entering Washington without explicit permission.
katu.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.
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My debate at the @noemamag.com anniversary is now online - it’s a spicy one! (albeit not by philosophy standards. No fireplace pokers were used).
Kara Swisher Hosts Fierce Debate On Future Of AI With Google VP, AI Ethicist
YouTube video by Noema Magazine
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May 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
My debate at the @noemamag.com anniversary is now online - it’s a spicy one! (albeit not by philosophy standards. No fireplace pokers were used).
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It's no small thrill to announce that my piece in @noemamag.com about the duality of tourism has been selected for 'The Best American Food and Travel Writing' anthology for 2025.
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's no small thrill to announce that my piece in @noemamag.com about the duality of tourism has been selected for 'The Best American Food and Travel Writing' anthology for 2025.
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The Noema team is very honored to share that we have 32 finalists in this year’s @lapressclub.bsky.social 67th SoCal Journalism Awards! Keep your fingers crossed with us until they announce the winners in June 🏆
May 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Noema team is very honored to share that we have 32 finalists in this year’s @lapressclub.bsky.social 67th SoCal Journalism Awards! Keep your fingers crossed with us until they announce the winners in June 🏆
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"We are lineages, not individuals." @saraimari.bsky.social is such a badass! Making great & under-appreciated points in this @noemamag.com piece: www.noemamag.com/ai-is-life/
May 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"We are lineages, not individuals." @saraimari.bsky.social is such a badass! Making great & under-appreciated points in this @noemamag.com piece: www.noemamag.com/ai-is-life/
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"Walloping the base of a tree with a sledgehammer has turned out to be a surprisingly efficient way to cause a column of rot to form above." —@mjponsford for @noemamag.com
How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMA
A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive.
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May 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"Walloping the base of a tree with a sledgehammer has turned out to be a surprisingly efficient way to cause a column of rot to form above." —@mjponsford for @noemamag.com
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Excellent, excellent science writing.
“The natural world — indeed, even just our gardens — is more diverse than the human societies within it, endlessly conceiving new models of sex, gender, family & ways to be.”
—Leah Zani
#gardens #gender #biodiversity
—Leah Zani
#gardens #gender #biodiversity
The Sex Lives Of Common Vegetables | NOEMA
Nature is full of species for which sex and gender are more fluid than the heterosexual gender binary that is commonly accepted in Western societies.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Excellent, excellent science writing.
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5 years of Noema! We were honored to celebrate with a very special event last weekend.
@karaswisher.bsky.social moderated a spicy panel on AI with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social; we debuted a performance work & the cover of Issue VI was revealed!
Stay tuned for more...
@karaswisher.bsky.social moderated a spicy panel on AI with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social; we debuted a performance work & the cover of Issue VI was revealed!
Stay tuned for more...
May 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
5 years of Noema! We were honored to celebrate with a very special event last weekend.
@karaswisher.bsky.social moderated a spicy panel on AI with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social; we debuted a performance work & the cover of Issue VI was revealed!
Stay tuned for more...
@karaswisher.bsky.social moderated a spicy panel on AI with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social; we debuted a performance work & the cover of Issue VI was revealed!
Stay tuned for more...
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I wrote about China's climate policy.
Did you know that China has enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world?
Well, it has — because it's positioning itself as global hegemon for the climate-changed future.
Trump's climate denial is only a stupid, tragic assist to that end.
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Did you know that China has enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world?
Well, it has — because it's positioning itself as global hegemon for the climate-changed future.
Trump's climate denial is only a stupid, tragic assist to that end.
🧵
April 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I wrote about China's climate policy.
Did you know that China has enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world?
Well, it has — because it's positioning itself as global hegemon for the climate-changed future.
Trump's climate denial is only a stupid, tragic assist to that end.
🧵
Did you know that China has enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world?
Well, it has — because it's positioning itself as global hegemon for the climate-changed future.
Trump's climate denial is only a stupid, tragic assist to that end.
🧵
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I'm now commissioning longform essays and reported stories for @noemamag.com. If you have have ideas for pieces on climate & the natural world, nations, democracy, AI & tech, or anything else the magazine covers, drop me a DM/email: [email protected].
February 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm now commissioning longform essays and reported stories for @noemamag.com. If you have have ideas for pieces on climate & the natural world, nations, democracy, AI & tech, or anything else the magazine covers, drop me a DM/email: [email protected].
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Last year in Uzbekistan I visited the world's youngest desert, left by the vanishing of the Aral Sea. But this post-apocalyptic landscape also contains new life, as well as a clock counting to the end of days and the mythical tomb of the first human. @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/signs-of-lif...
Signs Of Life In A Desert Of Death | NOEMA
In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecologic...
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January 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Last year in Uzbekistan I visited the world's youngest desert, left by the vanishing of the Aral Sea. But this post-apocalyptic landscape also contains new life, as well as a clock counting to the end of days and the mythical tomb of the first human. @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/signs-of-lif...
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December 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Arguably my favourite magazine (and not just because they published me 😘) is now on here! Give them a follow for some amazing long reads!
And if you're new to us, great! To get a better feel for our content, check out our favorite pieces from 2024.
This list explores ideas from why we should rewild the internet to the many possibilities of lucid dreaming to why AI might help rebuild the middle class: www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
This list explores ideas from why we should rewild the internet to the many possibilities of lucid dreaming to why AI might help rebuild the middle class: www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2024 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2024.
www.noemamag.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Arguably my favourite magazine (and not just because they published me 😘) is now on here! Give them a follow for some amazing long reads!
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What if we refused to accept ‘Internet ecosystem’ as just another BS marketing term?
And instead treated the internet as what it is; a deeply damaged and suffering monoculture that needs radical care.
And what if we rewilded the absolute fuck out of it?!
And instead treated the internet as what it is; a deeply damaged and suffering monoculture that needs radical care.
And what if we rewilded the absolute fuck out of it?!
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
www.noemamag.com
April 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM
What if we refused to accept ‘Internet ecosystem’ as just another BS marketing term?
And instead treated the internet as what it is; a deeply damaged and suffering monoculture that needs radical care.
And what if we rewilded the absolute fuck out of it?!
And instead treated the internet as what it is; a deeply damaged and suffering monoculture that needs radical care.
And what if we rewilded the absolute fuck out of it?!