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