Nothing says "America is Back Baby!" like "Allbirds became an AI hardware middleman because they wanted to pump their stock instead of going into bankruptcy, so they said they will find some computer chips somewhere, but can no longer sell shoes."

Check out the trailer for GHOST IN THE MACHINE, coming soon to PBS and your screen! This feature documentary features 40 generous and brilliant AI experts, historians, philosophers, sociologists, journalists and thinkers discussing their work with @valerieveatch.bsky.social.

This panel is worth a watch/listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1tJ...

I listened to this a few months ago and keep thinking about how how we can treat people as citizens rather than just consumers. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

"When trust in evidence collapses, the greatest casualty is not only truth online. It is accountability for real-world harm." www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-conte...

The UK loses out on brilliant students and they have their hopes dashed - making policies to try to placate the Reform agenda seems like a very bad idea to me.

One of the things I have loved about being in the UK this year is not having to use a car every day. theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Really enjoyed this thoughtful convo but did @dkthomp.bsky.social ever say what his theory is about why people have patience for long podcasts like Rogan while everything else needs to be short and scrolly? He said he would loop back but it's a mystery or did I miss it? crooked.com/podcast/canc...

This is a good listen. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202... I like this quote from Jasmine Sun: “The second-order effect of Claude Code was realizing how many of my problems are not software-shaped.”

Yes, so much reporting on AI is hype and nonsense and hypey nonsense. youtu.be/xUh3Gc-BAlo?...

This is a great reminder. If it changed before, it can change again: pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/c...

Oh boy this resonates. emilkang.substack.com/p/what-leade...

The Continent is distributed on WhatsApp, the one platform almost everyone across the continent already uses to talk to friends and family. www.readcommunique.com/p/offscript-...

New from 404 Media: an exposed Moltbook database let anyone take control of any AI agent on the site www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

I think lethal force against a target who didn't pose a threat is a long way of saying "murder". www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Yes! "Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible." jenka.substack.com/p/heated-riv...

"Joy doesn’t seem to the on the corporate agenda these days. Nor does anything that makes people aware that they do have agency." www.noproscenium.com/vr-winter-is...

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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

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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).