FYI #99
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control, via the New Yorker Radio Hour. Smith has a new essay collection, Dead and Alive
Jason Bateman's Closet Picks, via The Criterion Collection
Gathering attention (media thoughtz), by Kyle Chayka… ‘The ability to point to something and say this matters and have people engage with and trust it is in some ways the core value proposition of media.’ Chakya’s piece links to couple of other interesting reads… Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era, via Mozilla Foundation, and What the world needs now is groupcore, by Yancey Strickler
The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next, Peter Kafka talks with Brian Morrissey
AI vs AI, by Nicholas Carr… ‘As language models become the dominant tools the cats use to choose the information they circulate, language models will also become the dominant tools the mice will use in trying to reverse-engineer and influence the systems.’
Will the art of biography be lost when AI and algorithms control our data?, by Juliet Rieden, via the ABC
The inaugural Children’s Booker Prize will be awarded in 2027
Fall of Freedom, “a nationwide wave of creative resistance,” starts next month, via LitHub
Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country", via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Jones spoke at the San Francisco No Kings rally last weekend .. Look to your hearts and find the abiding strength that dwells there. Look to the sky and all the magnificent beauty that surrounds us still. Look to those who stand proudly at your shoulders. Look to your ancestors and claim your future.
We Are Family (Sister Sledge cover, feat. Sima Cunningham), by Jeff Tweedy.. green room rehearsal..
Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian, by Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer, via The Guardian
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian in 19 Ceramic Sentences, by Maria Popova, via The Marginalian
Mat Barnes: the architect on creating a playful, personal and 'uncopyable' family home, via The Modern House. In his conversation with Matt Gibberd, Barnes mentions The Drawing Office at the Sir John Soane’s Museum.
New-ish podcast, ill-advised by Bill Nighy
Inside Japanese Factories, YouTube channel