FYI #147

• Weeds: brumbies, bird flu and humans - with Jack Gough (CEO of the Invasive Species Council), interesting (and worrying) conversation with Peter Lewis and Damian Damjanovski, on What’s Your Poison?

• Open AI attacked Australia’s health system – and then doubled down on its negligence. The time for ‘wait and see’ is over, by Kate Crawford and Ed Santow, via the Guardian

• The Homes That Stick With Us, by Gracy Olmstead

• On Wendell Berry, self-examination and the sound of rain, by Helen Whybrow

• 2026 Booker Prize shortlist

• Dressing the inner voice, by Bella Freud

• Ai Weiwei, Mushrooms, 2026, via the MCA (until April 2027)

• Australia launches bid for United Nations Security Council seat, media release & campaign film

• Democracy, AI and Cognitive Surrender, by Michael Ignatieff

• Is Anyone in Control of AI? On the myth that we can do nothing, by Ben Rhodes

• An OpenAI Engineer and His Friends Debate the Future | The New Yorker Documentary

• Inside the Nakashima Workshop Full of the World’s Rarest Wood | Architectural Digest

• Untranslatable Greek Words, via Remorandom