New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d4e9e311370b... 3 AI stories - how communities are opposing them with data collectives; how China's imply a different worldview; & how they might get us to fight for our common wealth. Also: great 'grams, & land and wind radicalism in Scotland!
Here's today's Superplay Report #13: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... "Natural friction" is a challenge to AI, in music and maths. The co-founder of Patreon, & the world's greatest mathematician, preaching from the same page. [For more insight/consultancy, go www.patkane.global/superplay/]
The Lewis "Guga [young gannet] Hunt" looks like it'll be stopped this year by @NatureScot. The tension between the rights of tradition, animal rights & patriarchy are taut - I try to map them. But there's both pathos & bathos here. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2642...
New Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Why Musk’s adoration of Iain M. Banks is so off; the tetra-class society of a badly-applied AI; Scorsese and Blomkamp try out text-to-movie; and more Neo-Luddites! For insight and consulting, go to www.patkane.global/superplay/
New Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Why Musk’s adoration of Iain M. Banks is so off; the tetra-class society of a badly-applied AI; Scorsese and Blomkamp try out text-to-movie; and more Neo-Luddites! For insight and consulting, go to www.patkane.global/superplay/
New edition of Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/52deb4c73b54... Editorial on Burnham's devo plans. Blogs: naming climate-crisis emotions, Japan's future party, low-cost "coolth" in hot times, & more. Updates to www.spring.site too. Enjoy! Share!
The @GSofA said this week it could not bear the cost of a "faithful reinstatement" of the twice-burned-out Mackintosh Building. But even if the funds can be raised, wouldn't CRM want his building to serve the future, not the past? My @ScotNational column: www.thenational.scot/comment/2640...
AI escapes its sandbox and threatens moral personhood; New York’s Neo-Luddites cleanse themselves of their Big Tech devices. The latest from my Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Further insight/consultancy here www.patkane.global/superplay/
AI escapes its sandbox and threatens moral personhood; New York’s Neo-Luddites cleanse themselves of their Big Tech devices. The latest from my Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Further insight/consultancy here www.patkane.global/superplay/
New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d59581a34715... Editorial on masculinity driving World Cup & the Odyssey. Items on politics of heat, culture & Manchesterism, a dragonfly eye on AI, & more. www.spring.site on batteries & renewables, & "sauna theatre". Enjoy, sign up!
New edition of my Superplay Report open.substack.com/pub/patkane/... There's a real abundance of "humanist" wrestlings with AI around at the moment. But one @Channel4News report on drone war in Ukraine puts the "human" in perspective... Insight/consultancy here: www.patkane.global/superplay/
Social media for kids & teens, says @JonHaidt, causes their worsening mental health. But what if he's wrong--& it's exam culture, social deprivation, Covid? Also: do these bans disempower youth, just as the future barrels towards them? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/262...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Sampling visions of AI that stretch from Romantic to Fatalistic, in a morning’s peruse. Today’s Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... [For further insights and consultancy, come hither: www.patkane.global/superplay/]
The summer of humiliation for Farage starts immediately, with his lead Clacton by-election contestant being the satirist Count Binface. CB is smart & witty. But the fundamental contempt for politics he expresses is no friend to Indy. My @scotnational col: www.thenational.scot/politics/262...
The summer of humiliation for Farage starts immediately, with his lead Clacton by-election contestant being the satirist Count Binface. CB is smart & witty. But the fundamental contempt for politics he expresses is no friend to Indy. My @scotnational col: www.thenational.scot/politics/262...
Superplay Report #8: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... How “let’s win a monopoly” sits behind the AI boom. & if it's the End of Reading, can we value the “spatial intelligence” that's arising? [Want deeper insights on play/creativity, radical tech & power? Go here www.patkane.global/superplay/]
Superplay Report #8: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... How “let’s win a monopoly” sits behind the AI boom. & if it's the End of Reading, can we value the “spatial intelligence” that's arising? [Want deeper insights on play/creativity, radical tech & power? Go here www.patkane.global/superplay/]
New Superplay Report open.substack.com/pub/patkane/... Why the bursting of the AI bubble is also an opening (to political control). & a new voice (@playrebellion) on technology and worldmaking. What is character, on a 🌍 of digital characters? [Do biz with us here: www.patkane.global/superplay/]
New Superplay Report open.substack.com/pub/patkane/... Why the bursting of the AI bubble is also an opening (to political control). & a new voice (@playrebellion) on technology and worldmaking. What is character, on a 🌍 of digital characters? [Do biz with us here: www.patkane.global/superplay/]
We're out touring our new @hueandcry album, "Everybody". Here's a live version of one of its lead tracks, the mega-love song "And Then You Bloom". Attend to my brother's amazing House sonics. [Get the LP here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... youtu.be/k6VPL_h4kyE?...
And Then You Bloom [Live] - Hue And Cry
YouTube video by HueAndCryMusic
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The games-makers are revolting - or at least, they’re pressing for union recognition at the Edinburgh offices of Rockstar, the company that publishes the coming GTA 6. But are these workers producing psychopathy - or deep satire? My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2625...
New Alternative Weekly out - editorial on how to realise peace in our time mailchi.mp/5bd128986904... Plenty more on rebel playful youth of Albania & Dehli, on AI tempered (& without bosses), Solstice in the City, & (at www.spring.site) small acts of repair in the Highlands!
Coined a new word in the Superplay Report today. @davidbrooks224 urges “the higher cultivation of desire [and drives]” as the purpose of human education, in a sea of artificial intellect. We could say “cupidation”… More here: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp...
Small confession: I’m a birrova Manchester romantic. Tho nowt dents my Indy commitments, I’ll be intrigued to watch the first properly Northern PM since Wilson. If Burnham sticks with his federal prior commitments…could be interesting. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/262...
Today’s Superplay Report #5 - what’s transformative about AI & radical tech… Major new 🖼️ for a society soaked in AI is @bratton’s “Agentworld”. But do we need AI taboos, suggests @ntnsndr? PLUS: Biotech Barbie! patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... To consult, come to www.patkane.global/superplay/
New edition of the Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/b9982f8479ed... regenerating localities in Britain, new sodium batteries, physicists against rearmament, AI and existential dread—and an editorial on the possibilities of data-centre protests. www.spring.site posts too. Share!
I’m in a cleft stick when it comes to AI-driven data centres. They’re clearly a mobilising opportunity for communities to resist corporate power. But I used to pine for automation to liberate the people… Can both takes pertain? My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2621...
Lots of energy for my Superplay Reports right now - it currently feels like a forging moment between creativity/play, radical tech (mostly AI) and elite-vs-democratic power structures. Here’s the archive, with today’s update: What’s your A.I. orientation? patkane.substack.com/s/superplay
Our (@hueandcry’s) new album, ‘Everybody’ is out there in the culture, available to listen to here slinky.to/EverybodyHue.... Sample this sci-fi summer epic, “I Remember”. Share! (but also: Dance!) m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tlt...
HI @douggay.bsky.social, can you check your X.com DMs please? A request from me…