Index

• Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski

  data visualisation, design, moon, science, space

• My machine and me – Los Angeles Review of Books

  art, internet, memory, photography, time

• Mysterious square structure spotted on Mars branded ‘wild’ has space fanatics completely baffled – LADbible

  aliens, conspiracies, NASA, science, space

• Napster pioneered music sharing over 25 years ago. It just got bought for $207 million – CNBC

  branding, metaverse, music

• Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after being sold for $207M – Ars Technica

  metaverse, music

• National Gallery mixtape – Google Arts & Culture

  AI, art, galleries, Google, music

• Netflix’s UK audience reach overtook BBC1 for the first time last year – Deadline

  BBC, Netflix, television

• New Dawn and the Parliamentary Archives – Parliamentary Archives: Inside the Act Room

  art, Mary Branson, politics, sculpture

• New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools – Semafor

  AI, journalism, writing

• Newport landfill site in £620m Bitcoin saga set to close – BBC News

  Bitcoin, crypto, environment, Newport, Wales

• Nixon in China libretto – Opera Arias

  classical, John Adams, music, opera

• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation – One Useful Thing

  AI, art, computing, design, illustration, LLM

• No rise in private school closures in England since Labour’s VAT proposal, data shows – The Guardian

  education, schools

• No to ethnic cleansing: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan – The Guardian

  Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, politics

• Normal time – Rhea Myers

  clocks, time

• Not my problem – Noema

  AI, art, environment, future, time, writing

• Ofqual to fine Pearson £250k over exams rules breaches – GOV.UK

  education, exams, schools, standards

• Ofsted offers first look at new report cards for schools – BBC News

  education, Ofsted, schools, standards

• Ofsted sets out proposals for fairer education inspections and new, more detailed report cards – GOV.UK

  education, Ofsted, schools, standards

• One for all and all for none – Notes, links, etc

  apps, design, health, software

• OpenAI ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos – The Verge

  AI, chatbots, LLM, productivity

• OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us – 404 Media

  AI, China, copyright, LLM

• OpenAI halts Studio Ghibli-style images trend, citing ‘important questions and concerns’ by the creative community – eWeek

  AI, animation, art, copyright

• OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions – Wallpaper

  AI, branding, design, graphic design, typography

• OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving – The Guardian

  AI, Jeanette Winterson, writing

• Opinion | Jeff Bezos: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media – The Washington Post

  Jeff Bezos, journalism, politics

• Paper apps™ – Gladden Design

  apps, games, paper, productivity

• Parkrun veteran, 82, runs final race in Leeds – BBC News

  age, health, Leeds

• Perplexity launches an assistant for Android – TechCrunch

  agents, AI, app, chatbots, search

• Philip Rosedale Community Round Table, Nov 2024, with videos + Audio – Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld

  Second Life, video games

• Photographs of sunsets as reflected through shattered mirrors by Bing Wright – Colossal

  art, Ben Wright, photography

• Photography is therapy for me: Martin Parr on humour, holidaying and life behind the lens – The Guardian

  art, documentaries, Martin Parr, photography

• Powerful A.I. is coming. We’re not ready. – The New York Times

  AI, future, technology

• Practical betterments

  self-help, tips

• Private senior school closes due to soaring costs – BBC News

  education, schools

• Prophecies of the Flood – One Useful Thing

  AI, LLM, research, writing

• Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement – Aeon Videos

  art, documentaries, drawing, painting, Surrealism

• Raketa, the beating heart of Russian watchmaking – Europa Star

  Raketa, Russia, watches

• Record keeping and retention information for academies and academy trusts – GOV.UK

  data, data protection, education, GDPR, schools

• Recoup the costs – Thinking About

  politics, Russia, Ukraine, USA

• Reference board final bosses and the irony epidemic – Vik’s Busy Corner

  celebrity, fashion, marketing

• Relaxations for the Impotent: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the contradictions of American smut – Public Domain Review

  art, book reviews, books, illustration, public domain

• Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece – BBC Culture

  art, crime, fakes, paintings, Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh

• Revisit episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s showcase of funny, irreverent & bizarre animation – Open Culture

  animation, archives, television

• Rhythmical Lines – The Paris Review

  art, drawing, Wacław Szpakowski

• Rural Arizona shows how Trump allies could try to thwart election certification – The Washington Post

  Donald Trump, elections, politics, USA

• Rustica Cybercafe – Second Life

  Second Life, video games

• Saving one screen at a time – Tedium

  computing, history of technology, technology

• Scared and betrayed – workers are reeling from chaos at federal agencies – The Verge

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, jobs, politics

• Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice – The Guardian

  animals, science

• Sculpture of a turd on Nancy Pelosi’s desk appears on National Mall – Hyperallergic

  art, politics, satire, sculpture

• Second Life in your browser: a new initiative from Linden Lab – Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld

  Second Life, software, video games

• Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections – Document

  Second Life, video games

• See the light pour through: how art can free us from the exhaustion of smartphone addiction – The Guardian

  art, Iris Murdoch, land art, mobile phones, Nancy Holt, Qualeasha Wood, tapestry

• Selling the collective: On Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” – Cleveland Review of Books

  Amazon, book reviews, books, Kevin Killian, writing

• Serbian parliament erupts into chaos as opposition hurl smoke bombs and flares – Politico

  politics, Serbia

• Sex scandals! Fights! Egos! Confessions of the chief whip – The Times

  Conservatives, diaries, politics

• Shock as Fulneck School, Pudsey, announces closure – Bradford Telegraph and Argus

  education, Leeds, schools

• Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand? – The Guardian

  schools, technology, writing

• Silver Quay Ambleside 5 bedrooms, 10 guests, from £2240 – Lakeside Retreats

  tourism