AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

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‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks It is an epic piece of music that literally falls apart – and it perfectly captured the end-of-days chaos after the tragedy. Composer William Basinski and musician Anohni recall its febrile birth in N...

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The McNeil Variations
[Dan McNeil, 2026]

The leadership we need

David Lynch

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

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‘For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy’: Salman Rushdie talks recovery and resilience at Sundance A new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed him

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The leadership we need

"Plant Architecture" by Remedios Varo features enigmatic figures navigating an intricate arboreal labyrinth, where tree trunks form arches and rooms. Varo's surreal vision blends mystical and architectural elements, showcasing her distinct style influenced by mysticism and the subconscious.

Plant architecture
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‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive...

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DS is wonderful.

And Here We Are (Happy New Year)
[Dan McNeil, 2025]

No More Heroes? The Death of Alice B Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.) by Meg Allen - Asylum Magazine I was just a teenager when I first read a novel by James Tiptree Jr. I loved the writing. It was wildly inventive, with a keen sense of injustice that put the excluded and marginalised at centre stage...

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The McNeil Variations
[Dan McNeil, 2026]

And Here We Are (Happy New Year)
[Dan McNeil, 2025]

The Balcony Continuum
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

The Pyramid of Desire
[Dan, 2025]

Swastika Night
[Murray Constantine, 1937]
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No More Heroes? The Death of Alice B Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.) by Meg Allen - Asylum Magazine I was just a teenager when I first read a novel by James Tiptree Jr. I loved the writing. It was wildly inventive, with a keen sense of injustice that put the excluded and marginalised at centre stage...

asylummagazine.org/2022/03/no-m...

The Descendants
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

Excerpt from ‘And Life, Orbiting A Main Sequence Star II’
[Dan McNeil, 2021]
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The Western Singularity
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

We Are Not Compatible
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

Excerpt from ‘And Life, Orbiting A Main Sequence Star II’
[Dan McNeil, 2021]
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Intersection of Insanity
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

The Soviet Sky
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music? Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime

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