i wrote a 100 word short story about saints for my friend's substack which publishes only 100 word short stories veryshort.substack.com/p/return

I reviewed a new biography of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and his co-authored manifesto, The Technological Republic for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. Karp is marketing as Silicon Valley's philosopher-CEO, but what actually guides his business? www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

I missed the anniversary but nevertheless! Aaron Seward's hand-painted music video for "The Year I Lived in Richmond" by Advance Base has been out in the world for a whole, big, terrible year. Thank you Aaron for making beautiful magic. Watch it here: youtu.be/-LXwshEQjtg?...

This is a good and thoughtful essay. Photo booths are a strange thing to have persisted... There is something of the absurd in their invention, and thus, double absurd in their persistence. A romantic machine. artreview.com/how-we-were-...

I watched The Shrouds tonight at the cinema. A strange little film (in a good way). Seems like a real companion to Crimes of the Future.

Giving this another “bump” as the deadline is on Friday. Happy to chat to anyone who wants to know more. I’m, tentatively, very excited for it…

FAO those interested in databases. We/I have an open call for a workshop running in June. More details here: dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...

I love this article. Opens: "Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well." www.theverge.com/openai/62420...

Immanent System Death Drive #art #drawing #colorpencils

For years now, something akin to a ‘repressive hypothesis’ has taken hold in popular political discourse. Endless desire to have conversations that have been imagined to be repressed. It seems to me, my whole adult life has been dominated by endless talk about what is being repressed in politics.

But as one becomes more fluent in any particular system, the culture reveals itself. artreview.com/why-are-we-s...

Hello, First nascent post here. I am genuinely rubbish at this. Here is a blog piece I recently wrote for the DARE project website on the eternal search for a single medical record.... dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/et...