Pat Kane

Writer, musician, consultant, activist, curator, facilitator. Author of The Play Ethic & Radical Animal. 0.5 of Hue & Cry. Talk to me!

[Pat Kane @theplayethic]

Been refreshing my professional-personal site... It's now https://t.co/HCTKNtR7VR. Contains most of the ways I can be useful to the world. Looking forward to saying hello to you.

[Pat Kane @theplayethic]

Coined a new word in the Superplay Report today. @davidbrooks224 urges “the higher cultivation of desire [and drives]” as the purpose of human education, in a sea of articifial intellect. We could say “cupidation”… More here: https://t.co/0qd1zyRkRG

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Today’s Superplay Report #5 - what’s transformative about AI & radical tech… Major new 🖼️ for a society soaked in AI is @bratton’s “Agentworld”. But do we need AI taboos, suggests @ntnsndr? PLUS: Biotech Barbie! https://t.co/OOjiC4JMS5 To consult, come to https://t.co/vkpDgKB7CY

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Our (@hueandcry’s) new album, ‘Everybody’ is out there in the culture, available to listen to here https://t.co/4yh1rMHROs. Sample this sci-fi summer epic, “I Remember”. Share! (but also: Dance!) https://t.co/18dgPRX63P

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My Superplay Report #2 out—signs & leads for a world that’s exploded its sandbox… https://t.co/DMrWhQYl2T C. Thi Nguyen on play vs metrics, ASI (when it thinks like Einstein), the “messy middle” btwn here & the jobs Singularity. [Superplay Consultancy: https://t.co/vkpDgKB7CY]

[Pat Kane @theplayethic]

My Superplay Report #2 out—signs & leads for a world that’s exploded its sandbox… https://t.co/DMrWhQYl2T C. Thi Nguyen on play vs metrics, ASI (when it thinks like Einstein), the “messy middle” btwn here & the jobs Singularity. [Superplay Consultancy: https://t.co/vkpDgKB7CY]

[Pat Kane @theplayethic]

First run-out for my new enterprise, Superplay Consulting. Writing & insights into the melting boundaries between imagination & action, as radical tech (AI and more) faces us. I’ll do a weekly Superplay Report, first is one here https://t.co/5eiWlQlM6P Talk to me!

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My Omnipedia trends-letter returns, the solar eclipse clearing my head... Today: AI says, “you’re not so special”; play says, “you always are”—& the rest is sheer thrival. Also: Indy from below, China from above, Yoruba all over. RT, support, thnx! https://t.co/NyIwlc6Zay

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My latest Omnipedia trends-letter: SF giant Ted Chiang on taming AI, Scottish land (and film culture) seizes itself, eco-apocalypticism and its discontents, neuroscience & new animals—& more! Enjoy, RT, support! https://t.co/7fF5DEIMHR

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In the 20th anniversary year of my book @theplayethic, great to begin with this interview I did with Jane & Ronan of https://t.co/NJhKayXsJ2. Really summarises my play thinking in 2024. Video here: https://t.co/I5DFBhfY9f

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Proud of my bro Greg and the team at @nohalfmeasures for putting together “Labours of Love”—first episode of 12-part history of @hueandcry, to celebrate our 40th anniversary year. Below, 1984-85. RT, comment, enjoy! #hueandcry40 https://t.co/zpn6HJ8L36

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Here’s the first of my Omnipedia trend-letters of 2024. Lots of AI glories/horrors, some Edinburgh meditations, travel futures & Indy big-pictures & electric Miles (pictured below)—& much more! Share, support! https://t.co/LMBa92lqhQ

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I scoured the 2024 world calendar, and found enough arts, sports and space travel to counter the political shitshow that’s surely falling upon us this year. My @ScotNational column https://t.co/7HTcyI0KF6

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Well that’s one thing X is useful for—a map of what you found interesting & moving in 2023. For me it was AI (in all forms), climate disaster, direct action, the persistence of the Yes vote, & Barbenheimer. And war, always rumbling… My @ScotNational col: https://t.co/SgtNqfmdDE

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Latest Omnipedia trends-letter, at my E2 writer’s site. Psychoanalysis & Gaza, Genius Club ≠ Boys Club, the post-humans at OpenAI, the glory of early Simple Minds, & more. Enjoy, share, support! https://t.co/yJdagzaxZz

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As UKGov’s AI safety summit gets underway [https://t.co/HObiTTvpyY], here’s my open access, fully-linked column on it, at my E2 writer’s site. Sunak’s vainglory shouldn’t distract us from this epochal moment for technology. Share, support, enjoy! https://t.co/Gb8CiLbKnv

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Yes, Sunak’s AI safety proposals are partly about polishing his CV, at the fag-end of a Tory regime. But the issue is real. What happens when we have artificial superintelligences among us? That depends on what we’ve taught them… My @ScotNational column https://t.co/Z1oxObpaXb

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Fully research-linked & open access version of my Sat @scotnational col, on my E2 writers’ site… The net can both be a source of fun & profit, and raw exploitation. And sometimes the former (in the form of @Oobahs Butler) can subvert the latter (Amazon)… https://t.co/BaCEzWfMWV

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Very proud to be launching ticket sales—and monthly content flow—for our (@hueandcry)’s FORTIETH anniversary. Rarities, memories, performances… It’s the time of our lives—and yours… See you out there! https://t.co/7WZYWqmfTR

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Elizabeth El-Nakla, mother-in-law of @HumzaYousaf, gave me a path thru
the horrors of Gaza/Israel. Where are “people’s hearts”, ie the intertwined traumas of all parties, here? A brilliant Israeli sociologist, Eva Illouz, also helped. My @ScotNational col https://t.co/zBmwXEkG3B

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Here’s the latest trends-letter Omnipedia #31 from my E2 writers’ site. Actuaries actually want to save the planet; how William Blake can help us with radical tech; “human animals” at their extremes. And the Scotgeist trembles… Pls RT, support, enjoy! https://t.co/RSULIuL66N