FYI #106

• Emily LaBarge & Olivia Laing: Dog Days, via London Review bookshop

• You, You, You, Some possibilities with second person, via Craft Work, by writer Gretchen Shirm

• The gathering strategy behind Zohran Mamdani’s historic win, Priya Parker in conversation with Katie Riley, Deputy Campaign Manager of the Mamdani campaign

• Best of 2025, via the LARB Radio Hour

• Favourite Books of 2025, by Maria Popova and My Top Reads of 2025, by Emma Straub

• The 30 best Metalabel releases of 2025, by Yancey Strickler

• Remote Scottish one-bedroom dwelling named RIBA House of the Year 2025

• New work by Camille Laddawan

• 404 Media Is Making a Zine… Print can totally sidestep Big Tech’s distribution mechanisms. It can be mailed, sold in stores, and handed out at concerts. It can be read and passed to a friend, donated to a thrift store and discovered by someone killing time on a weekend, or tossed in a recycling bin and rescued by a random passerby. It is a piece of physical media that can be organically discovered in the real world. 

• Toy Story 5, out next year.. this time it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they're introduced to what kids are obsessed with today....electronics!

• Cory Doctorow talks to Ronny Chieng about the internet on The Daily Show

• Olive and Mabel - The Moon and The Sun.. sunrise beach run

• Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary, via the New Yorker Radio Hour.

• Jacinda Ardern on Ruthie’s Table 4

• This Spotify Wrapped season, don’t outsource your love of music to AI, by Liz Pelly