minister of the thing no one knows what it is (ai) perfect for trust in democracy
Feds investing 2.7 billion to build 18 new housing projects in Toronto. Promises shovels in the ground on 4500 homes by end of year. PM inadvertently says "City of Ontario" (before catching self).
Maisonneuve is marking their 100th issue. Making it to 100 issues is a significant moment for any publication, let alone an independent print publication. The event will feature readings from New Feeling and Maisy contributors, some of whom have written for both! Hope to see you there!
New Feeling and Maisonneuve are partnering up for a Toronto reading event to mark two very special occasions. New Feeling is launching their anthology zine, which originally began as a member-only perk, but now is something they want to share with the world.
organizing helps you process the importance of doing the right thing over being right
arts and culture journalism is so important! if you're in Toronto on August 17, come celebrate a couple of milestones with New Feeling and Maisonneuve!
NEW FEELING@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 7h agoNew Feeling and Maisonneuve are partnering up for a Toronto reading event to mark two very special occasions. New Feeling is launching their anthology zine, which originally began as a member-only perk, but now is something they want to share with the world.
My new Trust Control podcast is LIVE! It's a documentary podcast about the weird yet surprisingly expansive world of "trust measurement." If you like Cold War history, weird science, psych, philosophy & AI tech criticism you'll dig Trust Control. Get it in Apple, Spotify & other pod platforms!
Trust Control
Technology Podcast · Series · Trust Control is a documentary podcast series about the weird yet surprisingly expansive world of trust measurement from investigative journalist and researcher Kate Kaye...
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which all reminds me... the transitional value of aphorism, good read: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A Theory of the Aphorism
An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures
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the credible work in tech policy is to make tech policy less important
Residency | Parallel Playground | UKAI Projects + World Creation Studio - application open until August 15 www.ukaiprojects.com/open-call-re...
Residency | Parallel Playground | UKAI Projects + World Creation Studio — UKAI Projects
UKAI Projects and World Creation Studio jointly launching a residency program with 2 streams running in parallel. Application open until Aug 15.
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"You can’t learn without sometimes coming face to face with the fact that your impacts didn’t match your intentions. The friction of feeling that feedback land isn’t a side effect to be mitigated away — that’s the whole damned thing." www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
To misunderstand and be misunderstood - Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale
Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font.
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"How do people communicate themselves? Writing is one of the most concrete ways of that, but it’s also a limitation." thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
Artist, activist, and author Edie Fake on communicating with images – The Creative Independent
Artist, activist, and author Edie Fake discusses learning by doing, the architecture of memory, and dealing with institutions that don't love you back.
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"Luceros y Penumbras unfolds across two giant pop-up spreads that evoke memory, culture, and discovery through rich imagery drawn from González’s personal history, the spirit of Los Angeles, and the history of Central Library." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/dani...
Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World's Largest Pop-Up Book
"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery.
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“Rollins was the last feral master of an art that has become at least partly domesticated. His improvisations confronted you with the possibility of failure, and thrilled you when he succeeded in pulling back from the brink.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Let Everything Change | Nate Wooley
I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...
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”I thought about consciousness and how it counts—matters? tallies?—and whether the mark of non-consciousness in LLMs is that they can’t, as far as I can tell, tell time." www.bookforum.com/print/3301/h...
Head Like a Hole
Getting lost in William H. Gass's anti-novel – Sarah Nicole Prickett
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THE MUPPETS ODYSSEY is there if Disney has the courage
“It’s the craft of it. You’ve got to be a librarian. If you’ve written something, you’ve got to keep an eye on what you’ve written” - Thom Yorke "I love that. I love that it’s based on a craft, rather than talk about inspiration...really practical advice." thecreativeindependent.com/people/music...
Musician and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien on turning dark times into beautiful things – The Creative Independent
Musician and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien discusses the ins and outs of his spiritual practice, why it's natural to suffer, and subconsciously creating utopias of sound.
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I find this stuff hard to think about, but Sarah E. Silverman's idea of non-utopian teaching and learning has been fruitful for me. beyondthescope.substack.com/p/non-utopia...
Non-utopian teaching and learning
A personal reflection on some of my writing over the past year
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“[we need a] politics less dependent on legal mechanisms; more on norms. Listening & sensing & improvisation. All, also, features of being in tune with music. Music calls us to be more in tune with our bodies, something technocratic culture has done its best to delegitimize, erase, & remove.” 🙏🏼
bianca wylie@biancawylie.com · last wk.Generative AI isn't progress, it's hold music. time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/elevator-hol...
One of the things I find so interesting about rowing is that in order for a group boat to work, everyone has to take up the correct amount of space with their stroke. When I started thinking about it that way, I started noticing how some people took up too much space in one dimension, but not ...
Generative AI isn't progress, it's hold music. time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/elevator-hol...
Elevator, Hold, Music, Progress?
In staying with Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millenium, today is a jump to the fifth: multiplicity. As far as this being a newsletter goes, what follows is “news” about the situations that t...
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technological sovereignty has to be one of the emptiest signifiers to ever do it
"Our civilization is characterized by the word ‘progress’. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure." - Ludwig Wittgenstein ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61...
