FYI #139

• Librarians Are Helping the Public Ditch AI, Hannah Cyrus and Alison Macrina on Tech Won’t Save US, with Paris Marx. Interested to learn about the Library Freedom Project and For the People.

• The Other Asimov: Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics have influenced AI’s development, but to what end?, by Nina Beguš and Nicole Oliva, via LARB.

• Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story, on The Critic and Her Publics, with Merve Emre

• Biennale of Sydney announces 2028 Artistic Director, Low Kee Hong

• Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2026 longlist

• Off the Record - AI Scribes in Australian Healthcare, via Digital Rights Watch

• Beyond Luddism, by Nathan Schneider, via Flaming Hydra

• On needing deadlines, Mindy Seu, via The Creative Independent

• Barack Obama’s Summer Reading & Music Lists

• Very sad news about Glen Hansard (1970 - 2026). Jack Johnson & Glen Hansard :: Any Day Now (I Shall Be Released), film by Myles O’Reilly

• Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories, by Hanif Abdurraqib, via the New Yorker

• The story behind Present & Correct, the perfectly curated stationery shop that’s every graphic designers dream, via It’s Nice That

• Hildur Guðnadóttir’s new music for Australian Chamber Orchestra links Iceland and Australia, via ABC News

• The Crafted Home: the wobbly world of designer Tessa Silva, via The Modern House

• A Graphic Designer's Guide to Marseille, film series via Never Too Small