FYI #12

Train trip to Canberra this week.

• I enjoyed listening to two interviews this week with Humza Yousaf, the First Minister of Scotland, on Leading with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, and Pod Save the UK, with Nish Kumar and Coco Khan

• ‘Australia will always pursue a world where differences and disputes are settled through institutions, agreed rules and norms, and not by force or coercion.’, keynote address to the 7th Indian Ocean Conference, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong.

• ‘Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe’, adapted from Kara Swisher’s soon to be released book, Burn Book, via New York magazine.

• ‘When I learn to live as a machine—by choice or otherwise—I become increasingly incapable of attending to the world.’… an interesting perspective on Apple’s Vision Pro by L.M. Sacasas, ‘Vision Con’, via The Convivial Society

• Review of Benjamin Taylor’s new biography of Willa Cather, Chasing Bright Medusas. I was introduced to Cather’s work by one of the excellent booksellers at my local bookshop who suggested I read My Antonia (1918).

• Title and details revealed for Archie Moore’s presentation (kith and kin) at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia — Creative Australia media release