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recently Great writing from Rachel O'Dwyer on The cruelty of crypto in its promise to revive the American dream. I can't remember when or why I suddenly started listening to this one 2017 Kraftwerk live album obsessively but 3-D The Catalogue has scratched an itch
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here's why (the looming threat of AI) There's a bunch of elections this year. The stat that's been doing the rounds is that over 50% of the world's population will be eligible to vote, although I can't find a reliable
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When I first started writing I was expecting to send this to you in January, so a lot of the below has an awkward air of looking forward to the year ahead. I might not send another email for a while because I've really failed to do much
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Recently, Obsessed with Susumu Yokota's Song of the Sleeping Forest, which I heard on this great radio show on Radio Vilnius. That's me in the comments asking what the song is. I'm sure I should have read it a long time ago but I
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On Substack drama This bit of writing will relate closely to the last, but after finishing that long-winded tome with a neatly punctuating quote and getting all hyped up to smash that send button, I saw that Casey Newton of the excellent Platformer has just announced he's
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Happy new year! I switched my entire mind off for over three weeks. I began writing the below item in October but I've bumped it from every email since then because it was a mess. I need to move on to the things I should actually be studying
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Recently, I (finally) saw the UVA show Synchronicity at 180 Strand last night. It's extremely well-made work, thick with immersive atmosphere and perhaps pleasingly thin on unsubtle narratives like we've just talked about. That said, holistically the works don't congeal into the Jungian
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Reassessment One criticism I've received of the work is that it's perhaps too committed to the façade of an objective observation, and I'll admit, especially without exposition like the above, it does in part conceal my opinions on AI. This is an instinct, I
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I'm writing up notes in order to present the project I sent in the last email, I'm having a hard time linking them together into something cohesive, so I'm going to dump an attempt below. Honestly here we're scraping the barrel of
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For this email I'm just sending through a video and my writing around a recent piece of work I put together called Sparring Partners. You can view a video of the performance here, and below is some written justification. I've got another piece of writing discussing
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Before we get started: if you're in London then I'm doing a live performance of a new semi-improvised AI-adjacent work called Sparring Partners this Tuesday (21st November) at Iklectik, from 7.30pm. It's free but you need to register for a ticket!
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Recently: I read Cory Doctorow's The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation which is incomplete (perhaps by nature) in its proposed solutions but very clear and eloquent in its belligerences. I watched Wargames, which is still great. I was interested by how wildly crammed the