This time on Heart Reacts we take a letter about a friend who has all the right words but never follows through. Find it wherever you get your podcasts or at patreon.com/heartreacts

All new Heart Reacts, in which we talk friend heartbreak and Dougie MacLean, among other things, and I contribute the episode title in hilaaaaarious fashion 😇 www.patreon.com/posts/157964...

This Thursday, Convivial Code: The Politics and Pedagogies of Vibe Coding - a CIM × CDI collab with keynote from David Berry, responses from Janna Joceli Omena and Bernhard Rieder. Livestreaming on May 14, 11:00-13:00 BST: 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkP...

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

You can currently get 20% off CYBERBOSS on the @versobooks.bsky.social website in celebration of May Day 🚩 Offer ends 10 May and the discount rises to 40% for orders of 4 books or more... www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

i probably wouldn't pose for red carpet photos at an event i was covering as a journalist, but that's just me.

"[Eskimo] used AI to scrub out any sedition from their books, blacked-out pages, and diligently printed (at a loss) all sorts of Z-type rubbish" “I guess the entire publishing industry will now quietly join the ranks of the regime’s secret enemies.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Whenever I see passive voice in a work of fiction I get bothered. Passive voice is only supposed to be used for news articles downplaying the slaughter of innocents, not for purple prose.

A carpet of bluebells in Chempshill Coppice, Worfield. The fragrance was almost overpowering as I followed a footpath through this woodland near Bridgnorth, which I make a point of visiting every spring. Half the world’s bluebells are to be found in the UK, with... #Shropshire

⚠️New Report Alert⚠️ Economic Sovereignty and the Question of Post-Deployment Training AI sovereignty is about who captures the value from worker and organisational know how codified in workplace data. This presents a risk not only to workers, but also firms and nation states 🧵

Join us for a workshop on The Politics of Algorithmic Life May 19-20 in Durham, free to attend and travel bursaries are available for PhD students and early career researchers. #politics #machinelearning #algorithms #AI More details & sign up here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/event/politi...

Starmer managed the easy thing by not joining the war effort (but something something defensive strikes). Will he now do the screamingly obvious hard thing?

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Work with me! LSE's media & comms dept is hiring a new Fellow. Research + teaching role in a very supportive dept (one that will treat you WELL as both a colleague and a human – rare!) It's fixed term..but you get a mentor to actually help you develop along the way 🤓 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

No, we shouldn't keep hush about inexcusable behaviour "to protect the union" Latest Heart Reacts wherever you listen and at patreon.com/heartreacts

All-New Heart Reacts now available where you listen, or on patreon www.patreon.com/posts/154296... This week we take in the Cesar Chavez news and reflect on a common genre of letter we receive. We also hear more from our Lonely Male writer and talk about being the friend who sends the invites.

I’d say that this is the wrong way round: GB News is the consequence of it being made very, very clear in the late 2010s that there are no rules, and politicians and the press can just go absolutely crazy doing and saying whatever the fuck they want, with no negative consequences.

Live now!

In last 18 mths I've been involved with many convos abt LLMs, assessment + academic integrity w many thoughtful points raised. But few questioning how pre-existing assessment norms themselves undermine teaching+learning in the first place. Especially noticeable coming from industry back to academia.

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

All new Heart Reacts! This time @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I respond to a letter-writer who is struggling to move on after their labor union employer fired them while on disability leave (yep). Find us where you pod or at patreon.com/heartreacts

CAPO CIBER?! CYBERBOSS is now getting a Italian edition! (Thankfully I'm not the one translating it but rather the v chic people at Ombre Corte) The Spanish and Korean versions are forthcoming. As far as I'm aware the film rights *are* still available, so there's still time, Hollywood... Avanti!

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

This will be well worth a listen. I think over the years I've learnt more about the Labour party and its history, politics, culture (and implications for all of us in Britain) from @jemgilbert.bsky.social than anyone else. (Especially from #ACFM - check that out too)

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Low budget, high intensity! ✊💚

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Post-fossil internet and solar futures with the Non-Extractive Art School x CDI-TV x StreamArtNetwork @transmediale.bsky.social

This afternoon at 3:30pm I'll be in conversation with Kristoffer Gansing and Amelie Buchinger on post-fossil internet and solar futures as Non-Extractive Art School (NEAS) meets StreamArtNetwork (SAN): san-archipelago.super.site

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

This is what happens when you blame migrants instead of billionaires open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Misty morning in Cambridge!

For anyone who will be at transmediale, come say hi! The SAN Archipelago programme also has open-call slots available for anyone who wants to join for a discussion or performance via stream/in person. HMU

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)." @prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

NEXT WEEK: CDI-TV joins UKRAiNATV, 3022 & Konfluxus as StreamArtNetwork - live-hybrid-streaming from @transmediale.bsky.social - Silent Green, Berlin, 28.01-01.02 - transmediale.de/en

What's at stake for Kurds fighting in Syria, a Kurdish former student tells me, is the autonomous space for real democracy against centralized nationalisms and fascistic tendencies of both Iranian and Syrian states. I'm following @hamouniran on IG for breakdowns of Kurdish and Iran politics

The democratic revolution is fighting for its life in Rojava. We must not be silent. The Kurds who defeated ISIS to the benefit of the world have been sold out by the West, betrayed by the Syrian govt, and are now under renewed threat from Turkish and ISIS militants. novaramedia.com/2026/01/22/r...

New year, new Heart Reacts! This week: emotional libertarianism and its discontents Available at www.patreon.com/posts/episod... or wherever you get podcasts

On young people using ChatGPT because their friends are "too busy" and whether you're better off having a baby with your partner or your best friend. Out now at www.patreon.com/posts/145683... or find us on your platform of choice

A really stellar conversation. Highly recommended listening!

If you haven't heard the letter with the Big Linklater Energy yet then make sure you find it in your podcast feed! or find us at patreon.com/heartreacts yknow 😉❤️

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

You two, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @vivaharehills.bsky.social: This podcast, which I discovered like last week, has been such a companion to me. And I keep recommending it. Thank you for this gift of vulnerability and wisdom. Tis the perfect season to have you in my ears.💕🙏🏻

My latest article. Please consider circulating. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Absolute nightmare. For professors, but also for students, who will be deprived of life-altering truths.

Upload your grandparents so you can rent them forever <3

Pink Tide governments inspired the left worldwide. Now strongmen, crypto scammers & sharp-toothed ultra-rightists are taking their place. What happened? Tony Wood & Camila Vergara joined me on @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS to talk about the long ebb of the marea rosa. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

This from a university that is in a comparatively *good* financial position