Karin Hibma

From pioneering internet search to preserving humanity’s digital history, Brewster Kahle — digital librarian and founder of the Internet Archive — has helped shape the web as we know it. Last month, Brewster was honored as a 2026 Fellow by the Computer History Museum, joining past Fellows including Tim Berners-Lee, Katherine Johnson, and Steve Wozniak. More about the award and Brewster Kahle’s mission to provide universal access to all knowledge ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/03/24/bre… @computerhistory @Brewster_Kahle @timberners_lee

🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 At a time when parts of the web are disappearing, journalists are defending web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record. Read Mark's letter ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-t…

[Call for submissions] Lab 001.1 Book of Time: this Long Now Lab invites you to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Reviewed by leading artists, philosophers, and technologists, the top 25 most compelling concepts will be included in a Long Now print book and digital anthology. Additionally, we’ll select the top three concepts for follow-on investment to develop a working prototype. Submissions are open now through June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here: na2.hubs.ly/H05gQdN0

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: na2.hubs.ly/H05krt50 Read the full post from @tmbr_ss and @denisehearn_ here: na2.hubs.ly/H05krpy0

Are you a researcher, historian, technologist, or otherwise interested human in what past information revolutions can offer us today? Please consider applying to our Long Now Lab, or sharing with others in your network.

Happy Mother's Day!

A wild workshop for your calendar: Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats and Berggruen Press are hosting an event inspired by medieval bestiaries. Participants create their own handmade books while exploring the more-than-human. The books are collected in a physical and digital archive at na2.hubs.ly/H05gLlx0. Through exhibitions and the website, the public can learn from flora and fauna globally, and contribute books of their own making. The Library of the More-Than-Humane supports unstructured, process-based learning from nonhuman teachers, and serves as a critical resource for research on epistemology, ethics, and legal models that reflect and protect the values of nature. Wed May 16 at 6 PM PT. RSVP here: .na2.hubs.ly/H05gQdM0

Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️ Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣 When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️📰 Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine. ✍️ Sign here: savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders This campaign is a project of @fightfortheftr ✊

Start your week with some new photos from Artemis II! Though our journey around the Moon has ended, we're still retrieving plenty of new images. Keep an eye on our Artemis II multimedia gallery for image highlights from the mission: go.nasa.gov/4usiN8W

An orrery takes the vast timescales of planetary orbits and compresses them into relative motion. This was mindboggling technology in the early 1700s, when it was first created by clockmaker/inventor George Graham for the Earl of Orrery. The gear ratios encode the real astronomical relationships (e.g. Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun, Mars takes 687 days, Jupiter takes ~12 years) so when the gears are cranked the viewer experiences all the planetary timescales at once, with the outer planets circling slower and the inner planets spinning faster. The orrery was an important breakthrough for long-term thinking. The ability to visualize planetary movements in relation to ourselves reminds us that we live inside systems that are intricate, ordered, and interconnected. Drop by Long Now headquarters at The Interval to see the beauty and precision of an orrery in person.

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

Three books that give permission and guidance for why and how to be deeply optimistic all have "infinity" in their titles: INFINITE IN ALL DIRECTIONS (1988), Freeman Dyson THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY (2012), David Deutsch THE INFINITY MACHINE (2026), Sebastian Mallaby

We are thrilled to host philosopher poet Bayo Akomolafe this Tuesday 5/5 for his Long Now Talk "The Untimely". His work “pushes us to think outside every narrative we take for granted." Tickets are almost sold out, don't miss a memorable, time-bending evening. This event is co-presented by @ayinpress, publisher of 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘩: 𝘈 𝘉𝘢𝘺𝘰 𝘈𝘬𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳, and hosted by Ayin cofounder Eden Pearlstein. More info and tickets here: na2.hubs.ly/H05fbKp0

The paperback of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: JOAN DIDION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE comes out June 23! And I've hooked up with two iconic indie bookstores; if you pre-order a copy from them, I'll sign the copy before they send it to you!

What did the Artemis II astronauts do when they landed back on Earth? Share a bag of peanut M&Ms. "When we landed, we splashed down into the Pacific Ocean ... and Christina, out of her spacesuit pocket, goes, 'I got some peanut M&Ms, anybody want some?'" Wiseman said on CBS Mornings. "And so we're leaning against the side of the spacecraft, just come back from the moon, eating peanut M&Ms. We were happy."

@tmbr_ss @jameshome Couldn't ask for a better co-conspirator! Excited to be working on this together.

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: na2.hubs.ly/H059wn90

Exciting announcement + opportunity to collaborate with @longnow! Today we are launching Long Now Labs. Our inaugural Lab, Protocols of the Long Now, is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute. Read more + apply here: longnow.org/labs/001

Ever tasted gin from a tree that lives 5,000 years? Our Bristlecone Gin, crafted by St. George Spirits, was developed exclusively for The Interval’s Bottle Keep. Its botanicals and juniper berries are wild foraged from Long Now’s Bristlecone Preserve in Nevada, home to some of the world’s oldest trees. St. George Spirits was founded in 01982, making them one of the first craft distilleries based in the USA, and we’re so lucky to collaborate with them. Their HQ is just across the Bay in Alameda, CA. Master Distiller Lance Winters says, “You can crack open a bottle of our stuff a hundred years from now and it’s going to smell the same way it did as when we distilled it. We’re able to capture an olfactory slice of time.” You can find more of their fine work on The Interval spirits menu: Botanivore and Terroir gin, green chile vodka, and single malt whiskeys. If you're interested in having your own bottle keep of bristlecone gin, learn more about the program here: na2.hubs.ly/H057XwP0

Missing updates from the Artemis II crew? We have other humans in space you can follow! Meet the NASA astronauts currently aboard the @Space_Station in the thread below 👇