The Queer Zest Zine Fest final weekend is filled with zesty queerness! Come meet the zinesters, hear their stories, shop from them. Allies welcome. ✨ Saturday, September 27, 2025 ✨ Kelci Crawford 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT Oneironaut 17 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT 1/3

"There is a continual arms race in content safety, with pirates sooner or later finding ways to get around new technologies" Check out our piece on the tech challenges of keeping you intellectual property safe in the latest issue of ¡AU! Journal: heyzine.com/flip-book/e3...

Online conversations on #monsters in the creative arts and sciences! Come chat with me and ceramicist and monster Esti Reich on October 18, 2-4pm UK (8-10am ET). Tickets now available. #art #arthistory #sculpture #histsci #histmed #sff

¡AU! has launched a new event series, MONSTER LAB, where creatives of all types (from painters to brain surgeons) gather to talk monsters & see what we can learn. First MONSTER LAB is Oct. 18, 2-4pm UK time, online. Get your ticket now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monster-la...

Low carbon, all disco. Yesterday’s festivities on The Flint Green Line to #IBC2025

The big reveal! A first look at the print version of ¡AU! Journal, which we'll be distributing at the IBC Show this week in Amsterdam, one of the world's biggest trade shows for tech/tools for media & broadcast. @auworks.bsky.social will be making its IBC debut. DM me a line if you want to meet up!

Folks interested in #monsters and culture! #SFF and #art folks! I'm speaking in an online MONSTER LAB alongside ceramicist and monster sculptor Esti Reich! Oct 18 online.

From the new issue of ¡AU! Journal: "Content by no one, for no one: Surviving the #AI bubble" - an overview of the top threats #GenAI content poses to creative businesses, including erosion of trust, damage to integrity & financial instability.

"Real psychologists don't respond to people two minutes after a request with 12 carefully crafted paragraphs of copy" Read about journalist Rob Waugh's hunt for non-existent influencers, who are quoted in real newspapers, in the latest new of ¡AU! Journal... heyzine.com/flip-book/e3...

The next issue of ¡AU! Journal is out now! In this one we cover content security and how creative businesses are protecting themselves and their intellectual propertt from pirates, hackers and ravenous AI's. Read the digital magazine now: au-works.com/au-journal-a...

Hey, writers! We're commissioning guest essays at HEAT DEATH. We want to showcase your weird deep dives into history, ecology and culture, and intersections between them. We pay a $75 honorarium per piece, edit carefully, and you keep all rights. Pitch me at aelbein@gmail!

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Watch this chat from our Emergency DEI Summit on getting diverse talent into craft roles - plus a primer on training & education as a human right. That's right. You have a right to training & education. 🏋‍♀️ Features the fabulous Simon Devereux, Amanda Sapp & Ellen Walker. youtu.be/ocWxf2PlQfk?...

¡AU! Journal is finally here! The first issue of our quarterly magazine goes deep with the individuals, organizations, and businesses defending diversity in the media & entertainment industry, and how you too can push back against the assault. Read it now: au-works.com/au-journal-s...

We're so grateful to everyone who participated in the Content & IP Defense Summit yesterday! Great conversations among our formidable line-up. All sessions will be publicly available, along with analysis and additional commentary, in the fall issue of ¡AU! Journal, out at the end of August.

See you there!

Join us tomorrow for a look how content is being made worthless by #piracy, #disinformation and #AI. The Content & IP Defense Summit starts 10am ET/3pm UK! Free registraton & agenda here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/content-ip...

Come with questions.

We're thrilled to announce Pulitzer Prize winning @apnews.com journalist @felipedana.bsky.social & Media Cluster Norway's @hsvela.bsky.social will join the Content & IP Defense Summit, June 24. They'll discuss new tech for telling where the hell that content you're looking at actually came from.

👋🏼 DPC Members! Remember the discussion on the DPC-discussion list about database preservation? Well, we're following up with a Community Discussion on June 19th, 6am UTC (check your local time in the link). Join us to discuss and share experiences 👉🏼 […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Wish we could be there! We know everyone's going to have an amazing day! And we look forward to seeing you all at the Content & IP Defense Summit on June 24! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/content-ip... #contentauthenticitysummit #cai #c2pa

Digital identity protection is hitting a 2025 turning point. • NO FAKES Act now backed by Google, OpenAI, SAG-AFTRA • LinkedIn rolls out C2PA authentication • 68% of deepfakes nearly indistinguishable Here's why. #DigitalIdentity #ContentAuthentication #AIEthics www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...

Delighted to reveal AI expert Graham Lovelace will host a panel “Content by nobody for nobody: How to survive the Gen AI bubble” at Content & IP Defense Summit, June 24. 🤖 💣 Registration & agenda: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/content-ip... #AUcontentdefense

🔇🔇🔇Join us for an honest conversation with some of the people forging a better digital future. Event will be recorded for those who can't make it. ⏰ Thursday May 30th at 10am PDT/1pm EDT ➡️ Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-... More info on our amazing speakers below🧵

Astute & considered analysis of new tech by @eleanormorton.bsky.social

There are people working hard to steal your content. Or destroy it. Or make it worthless. How do you fight back? For starters, you can sign up for ¡AU!'s Content & IP Defense Summit, online, June 24 with sessions on #disinformation, #cybersecurity, #antipiracy. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/content-ip...

On June 24 we will be holding, the Content & IP Defense Summit, an online conference on the threats to factuality, rights, and security in media industry. Why? Here's why... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #AUcontentdefense

What a great time we had at the Media Production & Technology Show this week! We got to introduce ourselves and our work - including the upcoming Content & IP Defense Summit - to a UK media industry that is about to undergo tremendous - maybe unprecedented - change. #MPTS2025 #MPTS

Today we’re at the Media Production & Technology Show in #London, listening to stories of media biz disruption & transformation and getting out the word on our Content & IP Defense Summit! #mpts

🔥 At last month's Emergency DEI Summit, our panel “White supremacy is not a river in Egypt” took on the ongoing problem of racial hierarchy in the creative industries. This is an unmissable discussion that tells it like it is - and how it should be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Nf...

A run-down on today's Climate Storytellers' Summit which featured a flood of climate creatives sharing their experience and resources. The full program will publicly available in the next couple weeks.

Video of the opening session of our Emergency DEI Summit is now available! Thanks to our mighty panelists Amy DeLouise, Sadie Groom & Kirsten Schaffer for pointing us in the right direction about the place of women in film & TV in this crisis moment. au-works.com/emergency-de...

If you're furious that the biggest producers of culture in the world are falling over themselves to collaborate with the US government's brutal transformation project, join us TODAY at 3pm ET/7pm UK time for our Emergency DEI Summit. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

🔥 Carrie Wootten, co-founder of Media Talent Manifesto, will be part of Monday's Emergency DEI Summit! Join us for a fierce discussion on how the global media industry should respond to attacks on diversity in the US. Mon, March 24, 3pm ET/7pm UK, register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

🔥 We're delighted to announce Amanda Sapp, General Manager of Amazing 102.5 FM in #Houston, will join our "Emergency DEI summit" on March 24 Amanda will participate in our panel on diversity in media tech & craft roles. Join us! Free registration & agenda: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

🔥 We’re delighted to announce Sadie Groom, CEO & Founder of Rise, will speak at our March 24 online event “Emergency summit on the collapse of DEI". Read her new article "The importance of DEI" here: www.tvbeurope.com/business/opi... Free registration & agenda: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

We have partnered with The New Black Film Collective with a week of empowering events for media professionals, starting March 24. Join us! au-works.com/au-partners-... #DEI #blacksky #filmsky #London #TNBFC #TNBXPO2025

🔥 We’re delighted to announce #GALSNGEAR founder Amy DeLouise will appear at our “Emergency summit on the collapse of DEI” on March 24. Amy will join “A woman’s place is in the audience - and other lies” to discuss gender equity in media. Free registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

Today we’re at Connected TV World Summit, learning about how to get content to bigger audiences in better ways. #ctvws

The US collapse will make this even worse, but this is a predictable result of a sector still hoping it can get by on what worked 15 years ago. TV needs a rethink - and not by execs commissioning more white papers. It needs the pros in this piece to invent something completely new.

"A woman's place is in the audience & other lies" - one of our discussions at the "Emergency DEI summit" on March 24. Get serious about a future for women & join us for a discussion on the diversity emergency in the media business. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-... #internationalwomensday

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” - Tony Morrison

“You are number one in the world at the thing you do. Here are the reviews. And some awards. And the respect of your peers. And a bag of fan mail. And a booking to appear at BestAtYourJobCon25, in front of a cheering crowd. And a crown. Of course we will not be paying you. That’s for other people.”

My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.

Join us for the "Emergency summit on the collapse ofd DEI in the entertainment industry". Speakers, discussion & networking to build a defense against a media business too happy to throw minorities to the wolves. March 24, online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1264156709...

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

“I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer." - Hubert Selby Jr. https://buff.ly/3WO1alx. #musesnmentors

Hell yes it is.

"I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of." - Charles Foster Kane (as written by Herman Mankiewicz & Orson Welles) #musesnmentors

We're ¡AU! We're a new media and publishing company that puts humans first. We embrace inefficiency. We admire ugliness. We are suspicious of certainty. We trust in the power of the powerless. We are here to help you leave the 20th century behind and create something completely and very new.