I recently watched Iron Man (2008) for the first time in over a decade, and it's a real lightbulb moment to realize that every executive, business bro and tech guy currently obsessed with using ChatGPT or Claude or whatever thinks they're like Tony Stark talking to Jarvis
My proudest achievement this year was finally putting together my first real attempt at an album. One that reflected both my deep love of ambient music and psychedelic rock Galactic North: The Album on.soundcloud.com/SV3YwPRBgr2D... @aucourantrecords.bsky.social
Galactic North: The Album
The Album
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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“For years, CEOs and venture capitalists told us the future was the metaverse... Almost overnight, all of them are now pronouncing with equal confidence that the future is in artificial intelligence—and the story sounds familiar”, writes James Ball
Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
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Write a critical AI book, and you become everyone's confessor for their AI sins. People in my life keep telling me about their guilty AI pleasures, in search of an explanation, absolution or condemnation: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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A.I., Journalism and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger warns A.I. companies are violating settled law and urges news organizations to stand up for their rights to ensure a sustainable future for reporting.
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🧵Grays Court, York is an architectural jigsaw puzzle spanning some 1,000 years: built on Norman foundations, expanded with a grand Jacobean gallery, refined with Georgian panelling, modernised with a Victorian bow room, and more recently restored into a luxury hotel. Phew! Tucked
Absolute cracker of a review here, like all good music journalism it helps frame and shape expectations in a positive way, thank you! #inferno #boc #boardsofcanada pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... @philipsherburne.bsky.social @pitchfork.com
Boards of Canada: Inferno
Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.
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Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instinct only The Wire Dr Who (Pertwee/Tom Baker) The Sopranos Brass Eye Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Thick of It Industry Mad Men I'm Alan Partridge Nathan Barley Black Mirror The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer The Simpsons The Mighty Boosh Twin Peaks
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 4mo agoName your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Twin Peaks The Sopranos Mad Men Deadwood The Young Pope/The New Pope Too Old to Die Young Andor Boardwalk Empire The Prisoner Game of Thrones I, Claudius Industry Halt and Catch Fire The Terror (Season 1) Channel Zero
How BBC Radio York covered York City's title-winning equaliser.
The right are furious that a white, English tradesperson got elected.
It’s on Google, even though it is making search worse. It’s on WhatsApp, even though I absolutely do not want “homework help” or “relationship advice” from my messaging app. In the year of our lord 2026, it is everywhere. And it *doesn’t work*.
So why do I feel so angry about this whole AI thing?
Some notes on the bullshit maximiser.
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I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, make your AI slop if you must, but making books for children is a privilege and a responsibility and you’re doing a gross disservice to kids if you let AI anywhere near the stories you’re telling them.
Perhaps if we all agreed to stop listening and reacting to the mad, rambling pronouncements, we could maybe get on with our lives?
Can we please stop referring to it as a social media "ban". It should never have been allowed for under 16s in the first place - see tobacco and alcohol. But then a rebalancing doesn't grab as many headlines or ragebait...
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
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Nick McCabe is one of the best guitarists the UK has ever produced and the main reason why The Verve were such a great band. Without him they'd have been peddling sub-Travis tripe. Just look at Richard Ashcroft's solo career for the proof.
I cannot wait for this! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war
Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare
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The latest batshit internet scandal is men accusing women of “lying” when stating a preference for Ollie Murs’ before pic. So I unpacked all that nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...
This internet poll is breaking men's brains!
And this is what we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences.
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