Lucy Harley-McKeown

Freelance journalist and co-founder @projectglitch_. As seen on your screen just now. Ex-WSJ and The Block. Signal: lhm.01 Email: lucyhm1 at

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

✨Semi-annual reminder that you can book me to write/edit/blog/report/help with media strategy.
🗞️Updated portfolio here, featuring clips from Channel 4, The Observer, American Banker, Project Glitch, Wired and others: https://t.co/dyACx6w0pU

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

@hthieblot MySpace / The Impossible Quiz / Omegle

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

increasingly prolific genre of Linkedin slop: person complaining about AI, written with the suspicious cadence of an AI

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

the marketing for this conference just makes all the speakers look like they're hanging out in a baddie's lair in a volcano

[Midnight @MidnightNtwrk]

Reminder for those joining @proofoftalk this week:

How do onchain markets protect trading strategies, counterparties, and sensitive data while still meeting compliance requirements?

@DrSajKay joins leaders from @elliptic, @BitGo, @DeutscheBoerse, and @STORM_Partners to unpack one of the most important conversations in digital finance.

See you at the Louvre.

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

I wrote about why I love the coots on Regents Canal that build their nests out of trash, the fertility crisis and Ben Lerner’s new book https://t.co/NcvbbhS9sB

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

Enjoyed this follow-up to my story last week: https://t.co/7xbFk9nghx

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

Always cool to get a story in print. For The Observer I wrote about AI children’s tv and a future where podcasters’ back catalogues could be data mines for new formats https://t.co/XhuXEak0KX

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

Bars

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Completely insane!

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

@Chris_FayPR Thanks, Chris!

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Me: I wish more people cared about the classics *monkey paw curls*
Guy online: this odyssey translation is not misogynist enough

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

'A preview of Steven’s World shows a young Bartlett as the main character, travelling through a glossy cartoon world with his friends'

Lucy Harley McKeown (@LHM1) writes on the entrepreneur's AI-generated children's tv show
https://t.co/fABWG0PGbA

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Steven Bartlett to launch AI-generated show for children.

The entrepreneur’s new venture comes as a rapidly evolving market for AI content leads to claims of platforms being hit by a wave of ‘podslop’.

✍️ @LHM1
https://t.co/fABWG0PGbA

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

Regardless of how ick this is, how tf are they verifying people’s income? Sounds like a total privacy nightmare.

[Zelex @OBEhizele]

A social network app in London that only accepts people earning £50k+ is genuinely hilarious. The idea of treating £50k in London as some elite social threshold in 2026. And people are prepared to submit their payslip/NI to join?? Lool.

[molly taft @mollytaft]

lots of corporate press / comms people asking me to share drafts of stories before publication (??) these days. baby that is not how it has ever worked

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

greatest cat in the world btw

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

This is crazy. xAI asked offered $420 to employees who were willing to donate their tax returns to the company for training data (interesting trend here of companies using employees for their own training). But it hasn't paid the employees who did so https://t.co/2r2w0UczM4

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

@LinLorienelen It’s in east London!

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

weirdly moved by this anon grave

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

https://t.co/cwIRZmWuMm

[Erisha @ErishaAnn]

“Dating”in 2026 is like so I met this guy, he’s currently on the moon yeah but we might be on the same planet in like October of 2027

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

"Governments have to resist the lure of unrealistic solutions — after all, there is no uninventing the smartphone. As Stone says: “If someone has bad eyes, we don’t fix their genes: we give them glasses.”

https://t.co/28hFWsgjGX

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

the algo is wild — went to sleep when this had like 2 RTs

[Lucy Harley-McKeown @LHM1]

weirdly moved by this anon grave