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Alys Key
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Writing UK 2.0, a newsletter about tech & politics in Britain 📩 | Freelance editor & journalist | Editorial at @britishprogress | Header @dancoxdesign
London Katılım Haziran 2011
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Enjoyed editing this (not that much was needed – Louis is a fabulous writer).
I usually opt for a painting or pattern as the background images for these, but for this I wanted something that felt more “made”. So I found this wonderful stained glass window by William De Morgan.
Louis Elton@LouisElton96
I've written a piece on how we reimagine Britannia for @BritishProgress's newsletter. Together, we can forge a new national identity that is both mythic and maverick, rooted and innovative, aristocratic and punk! ... and we start with the Cræft Prize! 🔗👇
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I've written a piece on how we reimagine Britannia for @BritishProgress's newsletter.
Together, we can forge a new national identity that is both mythic and maverick, rooted and innovative, aristocratic and punk!
... and we start with the Cræft Prize!
🔗👇
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@BeckyLTuch Only really for contests I would say. I do like Mslexia's themed writing showcase as it occasionally prompts some interesting ideas.
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Have you ever edited a poem/essay/short story with the express hope of publishing in a certain magazine?
Not just trimmed word count, made a theme more overt, etc. But actually tried to match the work to the magazine?
Is this something writers do (to publish in lit mags)?
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Is there a good theory about why sports betting has oneshotted Americans so badly when the rest of the world does just fine with it?
Is this the downside of American optimistic entrepreneurialism? Or do they just lack the societal antibodies that the rest of us have developed?
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Made a prediction about this in my newsletter last week.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Is there a good theory about why sports betting has oneshotted Americans so badly when the rest of the world does just fine with it? Is this the downside of American optimistic entrepreneurialism? Or do they just lack the societal antibodies that the rest of us have developed?
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Interesting morning at the @AnthropicAI event learning about agents, governance, and applications.
Have to admit though that I was most excited to try out a poetry camera. 📸
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In which I turn X anthropologist and talk about how this meme started, how it turned silly, and what we can learn from it uk20.substack.com/p/the-long-lif…
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Looks like the poster for a Don't Look Up-esque satirical film about the whole affair. Fred Armisen plays Amodei.
TIME@TIME
TIME’s new cover: How Anthropic found itself in an existential fight over the future of war time.com/article/2026/0…
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@alexlarman @spectator Agreed. I've been dreaming of going to a good book launch since I read about this dinner party launch in NYC. It helped that the author's boyfriend co-owned the restaurant. nytimes.com/2025/11/13/boo…
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A good book launch - such as the one of @realzoestrimpel’s I went to last week at the Freud Museum - is a thing of joy. A bad one is a shameful embarrassment for all concerned. I wrote about the best and worst of the literary shindig for @spectator spectator.com/article/bring-…
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I'd argue that one way to make the ~normie discourse~ feel more true to Step 1 discourse is to be open to talking to the media. Many journalists are operating in good faith and want to learn! (You can always speak on background, meaning your name and quotes won't be published.)
Séb Krier@sebkrier
Step 1: high quality group chats discuss a development, implication, limitation etc of agents and models. Step 2: about a year later, a prominent poaster will elaborate the same thing on a Substack post. Step 3: within a week, a hollow version of the claim is shared by popular high status X current affairs commentators that don't really keep up with AI. Step 4: about a month later, a journalist or think tank publishes an article on the topic, turning the floating meme into something that looks like analysis. Step 5: months later, a simplified and potentially distorted version of the meme begins to circulate among upper normie worlds, despite being broadly irrelevant by then.
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Notable essay from Jensen Huang. You can feel the AI crowd getting nervous about the backlash blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-5-laye…
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I've now written up my full takeaway on this protest for @ReadTransformer.
Speaking with people at the event, it was obvious that a broad coalition is being built to protest AI. The next challenge for activists will be holding those disparate strands together.
Alys Key@alys_key
Very interesting day talking to different people about their concerns around AI. Everything from existential risk to jobs to creativity. Some signs of a coalition emerging. Can it become an organised popular movement?
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