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Well this is lovely. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like? In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox. 🧵

This is so depressing on so many levels. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Next, this. Once I get my head around emergent cohesion. 😜 substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Next, not reducing everything to narrative. judith-mll.medium.com/against-the-...

As part of this process I'm going to share a bunch of stuff I am reading as I think about how to do things better. First, slowing down. www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-tim...

Deep dives into both Three Horizons and Doughnut Economics today. Feeling the itch to rethink the way I am doing things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Kf...

Love this so much! hyperallergic.com/1049466/indi...

If you are in NYC. Ari Kuschnir is doing fascinating work with AI. luma.com/42fk6gdb?tk=...

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

ARTISTS OPEN CALL ALERT: Are you an immersive artist based in South Africa, Lesotho or Malawi? Futures_Past is inviting teams to reimagine heritage through immersive storytelling. electricsouth.org/open-call-fo... @electricsouth.bsky.social

The winter round of the @jerwoodfoundation.bsky.social Fund is open! For organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with the Jerwood Collection. jerwood.org/fundi…

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

1/2: Good to see a strong economic argument for #publicinterestmedia being made by leading economists including @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @francescabria.bsky.social @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in this statement: informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

Why was there a Kindertransport? Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them. Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

I hate the word "agentic" - it's almost as bad as "growth hacker."

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models go.nature.com/4miL25O

Johannesburg’s creative hubs are booming: how artists are rejuvenating a failing inner city theconversation.com/johannesburg...

Looking forward to reading this. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

When everything feels like parody how do you parody? slate.com/culture/2025...

I know this is very 1990s of me but driving around blasting Rage Against the Machine is incredibly cathartic.

Africa’s Most Ambitious Indie Game? Ben Myres on Building Relooted www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEa...

Another month, another artist unable to attend a festival to celebrate their work because visas are inefficient (and often unfair to boot).

A terrifying escalation:

💔 I don't think he had an easy life but what a gift he gave us through his music.

This article is from June last year but I finally got to try a Vision Pro and it's still relevent. The AVP was both wow and meh for me. But the accessibility affordances are incredible. nymag.com/intelligence...

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

The puppets are so beautiful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Bookmarking. www.costarnetwork.co.uk/latest/an-in...

📹 Setting up a livestream isn’t easy. That’s why we turned to an expert: Sophia Tung. See how this creative software engineer brought her signature mix of tech + chill to our new microfiche scanning livestream—now preserving government records in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93Q...

Great to see this amazing art centre in Uganda getting some love! rollingstoneafrica.com/film-tv/tv-n...

Today’s Chartbook features a tabular history of the world economy and the ascendant schools of economic ideologies (from Steven Blitz at TS Lombard). Truly fascinating stuff!

I did not know this.

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

I never thought I would love Miss Rachel so much.

This is one of the best headlines on the topic I have seen yet!

A “Heat Index” recently syndicated in at least two newspapers seemed like a normal summer guide—until readers noticed how much was made up. @damonberes.com and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the future of AI slop: https://theatln.tc/PZQA2kN9

BIG BOAT STUCK #BigBoatStuck

There's still time to submit a proposal for Mozilla Festival!https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2025/cfp

So much lost opportunity - and the system is often confusing and unnecessarily humiliating. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/t...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Read this piece from Teesa from a few years back. I love, love, love this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A fantastic initiative to support in Uganda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knhz...

I finally looked up the em dash today - I honestly didn't know there was a difference between hyphens, em dashes and en dashes until this very morning, listening to a podcast about AI tells. It's quite comforting to know there is still so much grammar to discover. 😂