FYI #132
A Bigger Splash, David Hockney, 1967,
David Hockney 1937 - 2026
Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Australian Chamber Orchestra
The love of my life (and why I need to share it with you), writer & bookshop owner Ann Patchett at TED2026
The Luddite Lab Resource Hub, via DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute.
If Australian data centres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return, opinion piece by Senator David Pocock
Tiny Awards 2026 - nominations open
Tim & Kev's Big Design Adventure Cassette, special bonus podcast episode, only available on cassette
NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members
New Yorker Radio Hour conversation with the Artemis II mission commander, former Navy captain Reid Wiseman
Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist, extract of Wulf’s new book, The Traveller, via Literary Hub
Interview with Antonio Spadaro, a Vatican adviser explaining Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, via Equator
Dozens of Irish Books for Your Summer Reading (with Maggie O’Farrell)!, via Culture Study
The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized, review of Robert Dorschel’s The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism, by Dave Mandl, via LARB