Roblog

Andrew O’Hagan in the LRB reviews Andrew Lownie’s new book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York alongside Virginia Giuffre’s autobiography, and in doing so eviscerates Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the cheap, tawdry corruption with which he h…

In a lengthy article that is my new gold standard for analysing the actual consequences of introducing AI into an industry, Justin Curl, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan explore the effects of AI on legal work.

The New York Times has developed a tool to download, transcribe, and summarise various right-wing podcasts, part of what they call the “manosphere”, in order to spot signs of division and discontent within Donald Trump’s base: “When one of the shows publi…

One of my favourite YouTube channels at the moment is @saintcavish, Christopher St.

Creatives’ social media accounts are awash with lo-fi, analogue aesthetics, most of which are created digitally, often with cookie-cutter kits that undermine the whole idea of what “analogue” is supposed to represent.

Via Matt Webb, from his broader (and fascinating) post about the nature of work and what the roboticisation of domestic labour might take from us, comes this topical and counter-intuitive nugget about Olympians.

Dan Davies has written about how many systems (including the British constitution) use what he terms a “good chap” regulatory system: i.e. they rely on the system being mostly populated by decent people who obey the rules, even though they don’t technical…

A brilliant takedown of the menu icons in the latest version of MacOS, a version I’m still steadfastly refusing to upgrade to, from Niki Prokopov.

In mid-19th century Britain, deep in the throes of the industrial revolution, there was a pressing question: there was only so much coal in the world, so how did you avoid running out of it?

A couple of months ago I made my first documentary film: Chain Your Heart to a Star.