FYI #118

• Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder where you are, via ABC News.. interesting story on light pollution.

• Listening rooms are specific, disputable, and having a moment, via Priya Parker’s Group Life

• Revealing the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

• ‘Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future’, the Norwegian Consumer Council, includes a clever video explaining the idea of ‘enshittification’ (h/t John Naughton)

• An Artist's Abundant Cottage-Style Garden + Backyard Studio, via The Design Files

• Hey That’s My House, via Garland Magazine

• I went with African Parks to Chad!, via Ben Goldsmith

• Unkept: Kirtika Kain, interesting sounding exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum (Sydney)

• The Declarations of Interdependence Relay is a year-long, continent-spanning experiment in community (US)

• Olive and Mabel - Zen and Zoom.

• Peter Sarsgaard, on Ruthie’s Table 4

• AI: Unions put corporate Australia on notice, via ACTU

• Recent reads: Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction… ‘The last few decades have shown the folly in blindly relying on the beneficence of institutions never designed to promote humanity’s best interests’.