Here are the results from a survey I did on how people stay resilient and committed to #ClimateAction .
I'd love to know what you think??
I hope what's here is helpful as you work out your own strategies to keep persevering.
ruthvalerio.net/environment/su…

There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevitable end-point of any kind of for-profit online world.

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Festival Update!

This year’s festival will be a celebration of 40 years of independent literary publishing and the community around the journal and workshop. It will be held in Stourpaine from 20 – 22 September.

Find out more below.

tearsinthefence.com/2024-festival/

unquestionably the best record of the 1990s - available in full on youtube

Happy birthday Søren Kierkegaard. We can feel the flames.

For decades, scammy 'book doctors' and vanity presses spun a tale about how Big Publishing was too conservative and risk-averse for really *really* adventurous books.

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'As a more empathetic and intelligent generation, it seems they could probably teach us a few things about how to harness smartphone culture.'

seenandunseen.com/are-we-being-a…

The recording from our event 'AI and the Future of Religion' with Prof. Beth Singler earlier this week is now available at

youtu.be/WUJjbRV2z2k

Covering everything from deep fakes to AI religion to why some strive for a digital heaven it is well worth a view!

One of my problems being Christian was--I'm very sorry to say--I was never that into Jesus?
Like I saw my fellow Christians feel this deep connection I didn't feel. I don't think trinitarianism works for me (I tried to make it work!) I love the idea of God as the One.

.Pluto Press has also made the ebook 'The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe', edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally freely available: plutobooks.com/9780745340685/…

it's all too much

'Yet I had rather suffer all the miseries of life, and die many deaths, then shamefully to desert, or dishonourably to betray My own just Rights and Soveraignty'

- Charles, King and Martyr, barbarously put to death in Whitehall following a pretended trial, 30th Jan 1649

Draft cover reveal (I assume the Getty credit won't be on the final version)

Thank you for an excellent, informative, clear yet closely-reasoned talk at Wells Festival of Literature, Hein de Haas - I look forward to reading your book.

Bit annoyed with Gary Numan, to be fair. I mean, he says he 'hates to ask' whether any of my friends are electric, but with hindsight he'd clearly been leading up to it through the entire damn conversation.

'This is trash.' You're not wrong, Andrew. Well said, and well done.

youtube.com/watch?v=1PL-JV…

I'm glad that Interzone #1 is online (Internet Archive - other IZ issues too), for free - though I wonder what this means for writers and for our creative ecosystem generally.

('Information wants to be free' versus the joke about the musician who died of 'exposure').