FYI #131
Sydney Asian Art Series 2026 In conversation: Melissa Chiu and Maud Page, AGNSW, June 24
Do Not Resign From Life, by L.M. Sacasas If there is some thing that you are meant to do, who the hell cares if there is a machine that can be made to do it just as well or even better? It is still your thing to do.
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI, via Amnesty International
AI Discussion Paper, by Kate Chaney MP
Walking in Darwin’s Footsteps: A case for taking yourself on a field trip, by Rachel Botsman
Ignorance as a tool for better policymaking, by Thea Snow One thing that I think the Rawlsian Impact Assessment would do very effectively is to ask policymakers to step into the shoes of someone different and imagine how they would feel if this policy were applied to them. It is a way of connecting policymakers in a more visceral way to the potential implications of a policy for people who are different to them.
Knicks fan NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani signs an executive order repealing kids’ bedtimes during the NBA finals
Enjoying the energy of the New Yorker’s post game conversations, with David Remnick, Vinson Cunningham and Louisa Thomas
Chantal Joffe & Olivia Laing: Painting Writing Texting, via London Review Bookshop
Living in an Alive World, by Jenny Odell, via Longreads …listening is more interesting to me as a beginning than as an end. Listen deeply enough, and the act becomes more than a collection of impressions. It can instead demonstrate a world with far more participants, and participation, than you had ever before imagined. It is the door to a dialogue between earthly entities. And it opens onto a world that I personally find far less lonely.
'Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons on Bursting into Hollywood, Internet Fandom, and Old IP, via The Town with Matthew Belloni. I appreciated the way Parson spoke about AI and other things
Arthur Boyd: Tapestries, via National Gallery of Australia, 20 June - 18 October