Seems early for the worst take of 2024 but here we are

My *excellent* colleague Dominique Barron is joining a frankly starstudded line-up for this conference that includes some of the most inspiring makers, practitioners, and thinkers working in the arts right now. This will be fantastic.

In the last Digital Works Podcast of 2023 katie and I reflect on the year, considering AI, declining attention spans, shifts (and entrenchments) in online audience behaviour and more digitalworkspodcast.buzzsprout.com/841957/1413258…

😭It's been an absolute honour

At last someone says it - Elon Musk is not some benevolent AI god but a powerful and often flaky political player and Sunak should have treated him as such not indulged in mutual belly rubs

Over the moon with my gift of Oblique Strategy cards. Thank you Abandon Normal Devices I've wanted these for years 💜

Lovely to see this from one of our legendary presenters! h/t katie

Palestinian paramedic breaking down in tears as he tries his best to cheer up a baby they’ve just rescued.

Shame on this world. The nightmare of Gaza's hospitals:

“The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says”
apnews.com/article/palest…

Of all the reviews I've read of Factory International's Free Your Mind this one from The Mill absolutely nails it open.substack.com/pub/themill/p/… Yes it sometimes doesn't make sense but it's a wonderful tour de force.

If 👏 men 👏 had 👏 periods 👏 this 👏 would 👏 not 👏 happen bbc.co.uk/news/health-67…
'Women's health, be it reproductive, sexual, everything, is given less gravity because we are just expected to get on with it, to suffer it, to be brave. It's got to change,'

Oh heck

Come and learn:
-What content design is and why it’s important
-How people interact with online content and how applying content design practices can improve your website content
-Examples of good content design in action from the cultural sector

I went to the preview of Free Your Mind on Sunday. It's a high-energy, audio-visual treat.

You don’t see skeletons playing their ribs like xylophones much these days. Because of woke

45 min wait at Amsterdam Airport for Non EU passports, NO queue for EU passports (because they can use the automatic barriers).
Well done #Brexit voters!
But didn't we take back control and didn't wet get our millions back for the NHS.

I realise it's an art project... but at a time when so many people are struggling with housing and poverty it feels incredibly wrong to spend >$200k to build a beautiful structure and then just, burn it kickstarter.com/projects/templ… #BurningMan

Bet this dude is having a bad weekend