FYI #121
Stop despairing. Start building, Anand Giridharadas in conversation with Rebecca Solnit, via the Ink
Corrective for a Broken Heart, via The Marginalian
Emily Dickinson Wouldn't Have Survived Social Media, via Elif Shafak
Digital Rights Watch AI Harms Register
You Do Not, In Fact, Have to Hand It to Them, by Audrey Watters… The technology industry sells a story of inevitability. It is, in no small part, a profoundly anti-democratic story, one that dismisses if not denies any attempt at agency, let alone resistance.
Bombs, Leonardo and Motherhood, via Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in Art
Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet, via Channels with Peter Kafka
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O., via The Interview
Two Tiny Desk Concerts, Kronos Quartet and Mumford & Sons, via NPR
A fresh take on country in the city in a designer’s Thameside flat, via House & Garden
We time: Architect Je Ahn's re-made barn on the Isle of Wight, via The Modern House
Consultation is now open for the next National Cultural Policy, via The Minister for Arts
Going South: Tash Aw on Inheritance, Identity, and Escape, via The Shakespeare and Company interview
Fatima Bhutto with Georgina Godwin at the Daunt Books Festival 2026, via Monocle Radio’s Meet the Writers
flour and stone hot cross buns recipe, via Lee Mathews
Sofia Coppola & Marc Jacobs’s Closet Picks, via Criterion
Thinking in the Margins, by Bill Hayes, via The American Scholar
Real Food visual guide, via The Proof