Author: Brian Forte

Current editor-in-chief of The Verge, Nilay Patel, has a short essay out: ‘The people do not yearn for automation’, by Nilay Patel, The Verge, 2026-04-24. To quote from the opening: Software brain is powerful stuff. It’s a way of thinking...

For no reason other than the happenstance of free-time and some consequent semi-random bouncing around the internet, I am re-acquainting myself with the legendary, New Zealand-born-and-raised, Australian Jazz pianist and composer, Judy Bailey. Unfortunately, too many of her albums are...

Joanna Russ is dead, which is terrible and sad and depressing as hell. Her 1972 short-story 'When It Changed' blew my mind when I first read it in 1979 and still makes me re-cast my eye over so many things...