FYI #102
Tim Wu with Lina Khan: The Age of Extraction | LIVE from NYPL. Wu has a new book out, The Age of Extraction.
Rethink: What is creativity without craft?, by Rachel Botsman
Letter from a Steward, by John V Willshire
Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive, speech on opening day of COP30 in Belém, Brazil
Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini, via Lithub
Come See Me In The Good Light - Official Trailer (2025) Documentary
Train Dreams trailer, a film from Clint Bentley
WHERE IT’S AT… with Jefferson Hack featuring Tilda Swinton, via Nowness. There is an exhibition dedicated to Swinton at the Eye museum in Amsterdam.
Watch Me Work is a communal work session, facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department. I joined for the first time this week, and really enjoyed it.
Opening & On Unlearning with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Mozilla Festival 2025
Greece Lightnin': My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, via Secret Life of Books, with Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole
AI Grief Observed, by Audrey Watters.. Our tools are cultural not merely technological, so while many people want to frame the emergence of generative AI as simply the latest development in the long history of computers, of artificial intelligence -- transformers, neural networks, tokens, and so on -- we have to remember that what emerges is not just a matter of engineering. It's a matter of markets and politics and ideology and culture.
What would Whitlam do? Fifty years on from the dismissal, his values could still guide Australian politics, by Peter Lewis, via the Guardian
The McKinnon Index: an annual dashboard of democratic health
Why Anime Is Becoming Undeniable in Hollywood, via The Town with Matthew Belloni. It’s not a genre I know anything about and enjoyed learning more.