It chose my job, my two months in Australia and my city, but I never let it pick my lunch. It took me six experiments and a few thousand simulated versions of my life to figure out why.

Inspiration Forum is the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s platform for thinking about the contemporary world - Pubs Against Fascism! An Interview with Lauren Leek on Maps and “Third ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 4 days ago.

Barcelona just paid €7 million for the Grand Départ to a French private organisation. Bilbao claimed a €104 million return after doing so. I built a simulation to see whether the numbers hold up.

Why spend billions of sovereign wealth buying a football club when cycling will put your country’s name on the jersey for a fraction of the price?

Twenty-three rival tribes are present in Barcelona. When you look at who has ridden with whom, it collapses into one small town where everyone has shared a bus at some point.

Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 18 hours ago...

I tried to measure the decline of British community life by counting clubs. That was the wrong place to look. What’s disappearing is participation especially where deprivation is high.

The Devonshire’s landlord argues why, and how, we should save the British public house.

Why London keeps losing its independent neighbourhood restaurants, and what a basket lowered from a Lebanese window taught me about what is happening.

I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.

A damning cache of documents has laid bare the extent to which criminality has been allowed to take place in well-known venues.