FYI #116

• Dose of Colour, a lovely photo, via Bondi Observer

• This Colorful L.A. House Will Make You Want Green Floors, via Cup of Jo

• Latest epsiode of Don't Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody

• The Fury and Humor of Frederick Wiseman (1930 - 2026), via Criterion

• A Movie Deal Is a Writer’s Dream—or Is It? 5 Authors Get Real About the IP Machine, via Cultured

• “Wuthering Heights”, by Jarrett Earnest, via 4Columns

• riffing your way to meaning, by Pat Thomson

• Courses offered by Equator magazine

• Touch Wood, by Helen Whybrow… What scares us about AI is not that it will make life easier but that it will make life emptier. That it will take away many of the human moments of connection and conversation, of problem solving and pondering, of grappling with what’s right action, even of debate and difficulty that leads somewhere new. In my experience, in a meaningful life most of one’s time is made up of such moments. Let’s hang tight to the imperfect and tangled but tangible moments of everydayness. Let’s not stop touching wood and feeling in the trees the pulse of something that is more akin to human than any robot will ever be.

• Watch an Ensemble Scene From ‘The Secret Agent’ | Anatomy of a Scene, via The New York Times