• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• The psychodynamics of the post-left