Index

• Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population – Rest of World

  age, AI, health, mental health, Singapore

• So. Farewell then Progress 8 – FFT Education Datalab

  data, exams, schools

• Social media given ‘last chance’ to tackle illegal posts – BBC News

  law, social media

• Social media is dead, you just haven’t noticed yet – Matt Muir

  Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, social media, Twitter

• Starter packs – Bluesky Directory

  Bluesky, social media

• Steve Reich: ‘We all wish art could counter the direction of US politics. But it can’t’ – The Guardian

  classical, music, Philip Glass, Steve Reich

• Strange, surreal and sexy: 31 images that changed the way we see our bodies – The Guardian

  art, photography

• Subway Therapy displays New Yorkers’ post-election thoughts – Hyperallergic

  art, Donald Trump, installation art, politics, writing

• Surveillance and the secret history of 19th-century wearable tech – The MIT Press Reader

  data, history, quantified-self, surveillance

• Tech right (disambiguation) – Jasmine Sun

  politics, technology

• The 30 best art books of 2024 – Hyperallergic

  art, book reviews, books, painting

• The AI we deserve – Boston Review

  AI, computing, history of technology

• The Augmented City: Seeing Through Disruption – Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech (pdf)

  AR, cities, environment, future, metaverse, technology, urban, VR

• The BBC asked marginalized groups how it could do better. They didn’t hold back. – Nieman Journalism Lab

  BBC, journalism, news

• The Best Available Human standard – One Useful Thing

  AI, business, education, LLM, writing

• The best way to get past an article’s paywall – Lifehacker

  archives, internet, reading

• The case for kicking the stone – Los Angeles Review of Books

  book reviews, books, communication, Nicholas Carr, social media, technology

• The controversy brewing on Elon Musk’s Wikipedia page – Slate

  Elon Musk, Wikipedia

• The cure for disposable plastic crap is here—and it’s loony – WIRED

  environment, science

• The Dalai Lama shares thoughts on China and the future in a new book – The New York Times

  Buddhism, China, politics, Tibet

• The DeanBeat: Will the metaverse bring the second coming of Second Life? – VentureBeat

  metaverse, Second Life, video games

• The Deep Research problem – Benedict Evans

  AI, computing, LLM

• The drift of things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888) – The Public Domain Review

  books, future, history, politics

• The edgelord AI that turned a shock meme into millions in crypto – Archive Today: WIRED

  AI, blockchain, chatbots, crypto, memes

• The end of search, the beginning of research – One Useful Thing

  AI, computing, LLM, research, search, writing

• The first AI bookmark for physical readers – Mark

  AI, books, gadgets, reading, technology

• The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression – MIT Technology Review

  AI, chatbots, health, mental health

• The future is too easy – Defector

  AI, commerce, gadgets, technology

• The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson – Simon & Schuster

  books, productivity, self-help

• The gentrification of video game history – Felipe Pepe

  games, history, history of technology, video games

• The ghosts in the machine – Harpers Magazine

  AI, music, Spotify

• The Great Wave: why has this become the defining image of our era? – The Guardian

  art, Hokusai, painting, printing

• The hardest working font in Manhattan – Marcin Wichary

  design, fonts, graphic design, typography

• The horizon line – The Noah Kalina Newsletter

  art, Noah Kalina, photography

• The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach – Scott Smitelli

  fiction, jobs, work, writing

• The inside story of Blenheim’s gold toilet heist – BBC News

  art, crime, Maurizio Cattelan, sculpture

• The leaked Signal chat, annotated – The New York Times

  communication, Donald Trump, politics

• The limits of virtual democracy – Virtual Jungle

  CDS, community, politics, Second Life, video games

• The media platforms that just won’t die – Axios

  branding, metaverse, music

• The Microsoft Excel World Champion isn’t worried about Copilot beating him (yet) – PCMag

  e-sports, Excel, software, spreadsheets

• The most expensive photos ever taken: the space shots that changed humanity’s view of itself – The Guardian

  art, NASA, photography, science, space

• The most polarizing thing on wheels – Texas Monthly

  cars, Elon Musk, technology, Tesla, transport

• The Museum of All Things – Maya

  3D, museums, Wikipedia

• The Necronomicon – Propnomicon

  books, design, graphic design, humour

• The one hundred pages strategy – The Lamp Magazine

  books, reading

• The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ – The Guardian

  conspiracies, journalism, satire

• The Onion just bought Infowars – The Verge

  conspiracies, journalism, satire

• The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars – The Washington Post

  conspiracies, journalism, satire

• The Painted Protest: How politics destroyed contemporary art – Harper’s Magazine

  art, galleries, identity, politics

• The peppermills of Jens Quistgaard

  design, sculpture

• The photographs that defined 2024 – and the stories behind them – The Guardian

  journalism, photography

• The problem with AI is about power, not technology – Jacobin

  AI, future, jobs, technology

• The Pudding Cup: The best visual and data-driven stories of 2024 – The Pudding

  data, data visualisation, design

• The Robot Watch – Los Angeles Apparel

  nostalgia, watches

• The search for van Gogh’s lost masterpiece – The New York Times

  art, painting, Vincent van Gogh

• The second wave of immersive institutions has arrived—how can traditional museums and galleries harness their power? – The Art Newspaper

  art, design, galleries, museums, UI, UX, VR

• The Shardcore Inquisition 2025 – LLM edition. – shardcore

  AI, language, LLM, video

• The singular wit of one of the New Yorker’s first women cartoonists – Hyperallergic

  art, Barbara Shermund, drawing, humour, illustration, satire

• The Soy Right needs a safe space – Dialectics of Decline

  activism, politics

• The stupidest chart you’ll see today – The Economist

  data, data visualisation, Donald Trump, economics, politics