There’s nothing like tiling your bathroom and finding out the previous owners tiled over floorboards instead of backing boards turning a 1-day job into a 3-day job chiselling adhesive off the floor to interrupt your newsletter schedule.

Anyway it’s bloody hot isn’t it.

Content of this week

• I often tell people to find the moments in the everyday that can become content by just pointing a phone at it. This journey of a painting from storage to exhibition is a good example from Albertina Museum.

• It’s nice to see an art gallery collab that really works.

• If you ever find yourself in a pinch, just read off children’s feedback.

• Enjoy this poem about an old social media stalwart, the Grant Museum’s glass jar of moles.

The bullet point bit

• It’s nice that governments are finally grappling with the wild west of disinformation on the internet, and the UK government’s looking into giving established broadcasters and media companies greater prominence on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. It’s essentially what X already does for right-wing broadcasters and influencers. But who decides who’s a trustworthy provider?

• As YouTube tries to shift responsibility for what children watch onto parents (which I have a little sympathy for) they’ve also just settled a social media addiction case in the USA, implying they do have some culpability too.

• Pretty much everyone has experienced overwhelming AI bot traffic on their websites, and the US government recently suspended Anthropic’s new AI tools for ‘safety reasons’ (read: hacking). We may be entering a future where cyberattacks are almost impossible to counter without access to the same AI tools.

Personal stuff I do for me and you can just skip this if you like

🎮📖 what I’m consuming as a consumer

Mainly sweating.

Also bought a new PC to save my laptop from hyperventilating whenever I open After Effects.

🐕 Keith

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