Find out where you sit on the AI compass, which is a little similar to the vote compass. There are thirty AI classifications including sceptic, Luddite, conscientious objector, doomsday prepper, founder, and prophet. Each has a patron saint. Mine is Amanda Askell, though I’m not entirely sure I agree with my...

Individuals, educational institutions, and other organisations have to make payment in some form or other to access the work of writers, musicians, artists, and other creatives. It seems like a naive question, but why should it be any different for the tech companies who are presently helping themselves to whatever...

Perhaps we see something of the future when we look to the past. Chloe VS History, a YouTube channel, presents significant chapters of our history, hosted by a buoyant young woman named Chloe, a would-be time traveller, and seen through the lens of what is presumably a smartphone. While it’s moot point, the...

CJ Chilvers: Before influencers, there were bloggers. Before bloggers, there were TV stars, rock stars, and movie stars. Call them whatever you want, but individuals have always been the drivers of engagement and trust. This is a point Alex Cowen reiterated in a recent talk given in the UK. It seems to me you don’t...

Fred Kozlowski: My favorite figure in the post-Roman period is Theoderic — ruling 493 to 526, twenty years after the “fall” of Rome. He took over the structure of the Roman Empire and ruled it as a functionally emperor-like figure. He was a Goth and an Arian Christian, or in other words, a barbarian and a heretic. I...

George Musser, writing for Nautilus, ponders the nature of coincidence, particularly the more “out there” instances. Read about his repeated encounters with another backpacker, as he travelled — solo — in Africa some years ago. I could probably write at length on this topic. For instance… A few years ago, someone...

The first trailer for the Taika Waititi directed adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, Klara and the Sun has landed. I’m not one to complain about differences between the book and its movie counterpart — mainly because adapting a novel for the big screen is far from straightforward — but this two minute glimpse...

Nominations for the 2026 Tiny Awards, are being accpted until the end of the month, June. Entry is open to websites of a non-commercial and/or personal nature, launched between July 2025 and July 2026. Submissions from brands and agencies are not accepted. The same goes for apps. Given only relatively new websites...

Winter temperatures have been well above average, in recent times, on what is supposed to be the world’s coldest landmass. The unusually high temperatures being experienced in parts of Antarctica seems like it accounts for the so-far mild start to winter in our part of Australia. Here we are two-thirds the way...

Good Internet only started publishing, both online and in print, about a year ago. News that the founders have decided to cease publication indefinitely is sad for for the IndieWeb/SmallWeb community, whom the magazine supported. Running an online magazine is a major undertaking on its own. A print version is...

The Australian film director thinks it’s time to bring the story to an end. But a movie, and a separate TV series in addition, sounds like at least another several years worth of work. The first Mad Max film was made in 1979, and another four have followed, albeit with decades long gaps in between. Assuming the...

Hockney died aged 88 last week. The work of the British artist and painter, purveyor of bold colours, was required learning in my final year high school art history course.