Category: Culture
-
🗳️ Vote SXSW… a little favour to ask…
Last year I was honoured to be asked to chair a panel at the inaugural SXSW London event. This year, I’ve pitched a talk at them, and it’s now down to a public vote to choose. Would you be a star and pop a vote in for me? The link to do so is here.…
-
Theiving AI firm ordered to pay authors…
Really interesting story in Wired the past couple of days, reporting on how the AI firm Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work: This is the first class action settlement centred on AI that…
-
Empathy is Over and “Silicon Valley’s New Religion is… Religion”
Fascinating feature in Vanity Fair this month about the rise of conservative Christianity among Tech Bros. Getting High and God-Like, anyone?! Honestly, someone should pay me to be a prophet 😀 One dimension of this is that people are claiming to be wanting to move beyond ‘the atheist liberal world’ that is repainted as ‘just…
-
Twitter: Life, Death, and a Special Kind of Nirvana
There’s an excellent new documentary on BBC iPlayer about the life and death of Twitter. What’s fascinating is just how early the genetic faults of the system were obvious, and just how strongly the founders refused to do anything to try to ameliorate their effects. As I’ve outlined in two recent books, Getting High, and…
-
Anthropy | Motivation
I was fortunate enough to spend a few days last week down at the Anthopy UK event in Cornwall. As their description goes: Anthropy brings together responsible leaders and organisations to look at how to make the UK a better place. Working with a cross-sector network welcoming business and non-profits alike, Anthropy facilitates changing practices,…
-
On keeping hope alive: living symbolically in a many-bodied world
Shared by a colleague a few days ago, and been on my mind since. Not sure if I fully buy the first part… but the Right definitely do, and – given that – it feels important that the rest of us make sure that the ground of ideas is kept fertile and well-sown with good…