Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 8hNew Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/ab2a201379cb... Editorial on how Work From Home creates new space in our lives. Also: @audreyt on letting the people set the AI pace, indigenous governance and Die Linke taking Berlin--& much more... Enjoy, share, sign-up! 022
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was happy to kick off @ScotNational's new major debate series, with @MccailColl & @LauraEWebsterr. We started off with "too many data centres?", and ended up in the philosophical entrails of AI as a transformative tech. The Scottish public sphere is GO! youtu.be/u59xBvsQ9BU?...youtu.beDoes Scotland need MORE AI data centres?YouTube video by The National 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I see @Ivan_McKee chasing Scots civil servants to Return-To-Office... But it looks like hybrid working is here to stay, well beyond the Covid moment. So couldn't we open up these empty floors to citizens assemblies & civic Scotland? My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/265... 110
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New Superplay Report #19: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... The Brautigan poem, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, gets everywhere - & isn’t as fluffy-hippy about AI as it seems. Plus, more frontier lab philosophising. It’s where we play… More insight at www.patkane.global#/superplay/ 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New Superplay Report #19: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... The Brautigan poem, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, gets everywhere - & isn’t as fluffy-hippy about AI as it seems. Plus, more frontier lab philosophising. It’s where we play… More insight at www.patkane.global#/superplay/ 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/4cf7ef091b27... Editorial on making war obsolete (& reconciling Macklemore & Sheeran). Also: fixers (and darners) of the social fabric, brain-like (& loving) AI, some delightful (& purposeful) memes. Plus www.spring.site. Enjoy, share! 010
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/66366cd5cfdc... Editorial (& blogpost) on AIs & the development of self they require. Also: Celtic Alliance is go!, heat is a challenge, psychoecology is a new way to walk--and more (including www.spring.site). Share, enjoy! 000
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"10% chance of AI killing all humans by 2030". Scary claims, suggesting we need at least a Great Pause - global, public - on its development. Could we use that pause to create a new context and purpose for this amazing technology? My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2654... 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026On Sept 11th, 2001, I'd got up early-ish to buy the FT, starting a series of articles respectfully considering the challenges/critiques of the anti-globalisation movement (first one attached). And then, in a electronic consumer goods shop window in Glasgow, something else... 010
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/a814b9868a86... Editorial on social metaphors of @AppleTV's Silo. Also: our prez at London's Technoprogressive Opportunity; Ursula Le Guin on Yin-Topia; surveys on increasing kindness--& much more. Scottish posts from www.spring.site Enjoy! 000
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New Superplay Report #18 patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... If we’re freaking out about autonomous AIs, do we ban them - or play games with them? Also, Abi Amowosu on LLM really meaning “Large Listening Medium”. [For consultancy/insight, go here www.patkane.global/superplay/] 011
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New Superplay Report #18 patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... If we’re freaking out about autonomous AIs, do we ban them - or play games with them? Also, Abi Amowosu on LLM really meaning “Large Listening Medium”. [For consultancy/insight, go here www.patkane.global/superplay/] 011
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New Alternative Weekly newsletter out mailchi.mp/8fcf653dd883... Editorial on the Edinburgh festivals, processing the grief of our times. @indraadnan teaching; advising on activist burnout; the progressive Star Trek at 60; and more. www.spring.site posts too. Enjoy & share! 010
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Catch-up on a month of my National columns, now open-access. Public transport is a model for how we relate to tech; Scotch whisky’s troubles can be remedied; left successes in US are familiar to Scots; & resisting the militarisation of our lives. All here! patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-... 021
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Cabinet Office is bringing back The War Book - plans for how the whole of these islands coordinate in the face of attack. & they want us punters to start stockpiling... How do Scots resist this creep to everyday militarisation? My @ScotNational column lnkd.in/eqFmYBV3 242
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Rogue AIs in Hugging Face hack just love to be “collective”. China's friendliness to development = embracing robots. Obeisance to data centre rebels. And: Dolly Galactican, RIP [For more insight/consulting, www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Rogue AIs in Hugging Face hack just love to be “collective”. China's friendliness to development = embracing robots. Obeisance to data centre rebels. And: Dolly Galactican, RIP [For more insight/consulting, www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 23/08/2026New Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... @GeoffMulgan, long-time tech regulator, on the 7 ways AI giants evade public control. Some serious Skynettery inside Anthropic. & the bathos of the World Humanoid Games. (For further consultancy, go here: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 011
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 23/08/2026New Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... @GeoffMulgan, long-time tech regulator, on the 7 ways AI giants evade public control. Some serious Skynettery inside Anthropic. & the bathos of the World Humanoid Games. (For further consultancy, go here: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 011
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Seems strange (but it's a delight) that unashamed "Democratic Socialists of America" are winning primary contests for Democrat candidatures. For any Scots lefty, their policies are familiar. What's causing this? Is it a flicker of hope? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/264... 010
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"A populism based on active engagement might be even stronger, if the people themselves are the drivers of the changes they wish to see where they live". Editorial from the new Alternative Weekly: mailchi.mp/f3aeea520f7f... 000
Reposted by Pat KaneThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It can feel like whisky has come to be the drink that takes the edge off a harsh system, pernicious and unreformable. But for its future, does Scotch need to lighten up? Pat Kane asks the question ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/busine... 021
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I see cool & meaningful Scotch whisky drinking across all my screen dramas. So why's the industry in crisis, yet again? Are we up for--and to--such a drink of historic (& male) power? In my own life, it's quite an unruly force... My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/business/264... 021
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I see cool & meaningful Scotch whisky drinking across all my screen dramas. So why's the industry in crisis, yet again? Are we up for--and to--such a drink of historic (& male) power? In my own life, it's quite an unruly force... My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/business/264... 021
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/da91b6eca7c6... -Editorial on the need for vision. Also: communities aspiring (& fighting fires), "cheated players" fuelling 21stC fascism, and much more. Plus updates from www.spring.site. Enjoy, share! 000
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My latest Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Some elegant humanist wranglings with AI around at the moment - as well as musings on what an African AI or Confucian AI looks like. Also beware the “vengeful player”… [More insight/consultancy here: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My latest Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Some elegant humanist wranglings with AI around at the moment - as well as musings on what an African AI or Confucian AI looks like. Also beware the “vengeful player”… [More insight/consultancy here: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The @ScotNational did a fascinating tour d'horizon on the future of Scottish transport this week. I wanted to write about how high-quality public transport makes you *feel* - included, supported, with your fellow citizens, even artistically inspired... www.thenational.scot/politics/264... 152
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 05/08/2026New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d4e9e311370b... 3 AI stories - how communities are opposing them with data collectives; how China's imply a different worldview; & how they might get us to fight for our common wealth. Also: great 'grams, & land and wind radicalism in Scotland! 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Here's today's Superplay Report #13: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... "Natural friction" is a challenge to AI, in music and maths. The co-founder of Patreon, & the world's greatest mathematician, preaching from the same page. [For more insight/consultancy, go www.patkane.global/superplay/] 000
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The Lewis "Guga [young gannet] Hunt" looks like it'll be stopped this year by @NatureScot. The tension between the rights of tradition, animal rights & patriarchy are taut - I try to map them. But there's both pathos & bathos here. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2642... 031
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Why Musk’s adoration of Iain M. Banks is so off; the tetra-class society of a badly-applied AI; Scorsese and Blomkamp try out text-to-movie; and more Neo-Luddites! For insight and consulting, go to www.patkane.global/superplay/ 002
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New Superplay Report: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Why Musk’s adoration of Iain M. Banks is so off; the tetra-class society of a badly-applied AI; Scorsese and Blomkamp try out text-to-movie; and more Neo-Luddites! For insight and consulting, go to www.patkane.global/superplay/ 002
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New edition of Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/52deb4c73b54... Editorial on Burnham's devo plans. Blogs: naming climate-crisis emotions, Japan's future party, low-cost "coolth" in hot times, & more. Updates to www.spring.site too. Enjoy! Share! 000
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The @GSofA said this week it could not bear the cost of a "faithful reinstatement" of the twice-burned-out Mackintosh Building. But even if the funds can be raised, wouldn't CRM want his building to serve the future, not the past? My @ScotNational column: www.thenational.scot/comment/2640... 101
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026AI escapes its sandbox and threatens moral personhood; New York’s Neo-Luddites cleanse themselves of their Big Tech devices. The latest from my Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Further insight/consultancy here www.patkane.global/superplay/ 021
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026AI escapes its sandbox and threatens moral personhood; New York’s Neo-Luddites cleanse themselves of their Big Tech devices. The latest from my Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... Further insight/consultancy here www.patkane.global/superplay/ 021
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d59581a34715... Editorial on masculinity driving World Cup & the Odyssey. Items on politics of heat, culture & Manchesterism, a dragonfly eye on AI, & more. www.spring.site on batteries & renewables, & "sauna theatre". Enjoy, sign up! 000
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New edition of my Superplay Report open.substack.com/pub/patkane/... There's a real abundance of "humanist" wrestlings with AI around at the moment. But one @Channel4News report on drone war in Ukraine puts the "human" in perspective... Insight/consultancy here: www.patkane.global/superplay/ 010
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Social media for kids & teens, says @JonHaidt, causes their worsening mental health. But what if he's wrong--& it's exam culture, social deprivation, Covid? Also: do these bans disempower youth, just as the future barrels towards them? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/262... 010
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Sampling visions of AI that stretch from Romantic to Fatalistic, in a morning’s peruse. Today’s Superplay Report patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... [For further insights and consultancy, come hither: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 000
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The summer of humiliation for Farage starts immediately, with his lead Clacton by-election contestant being the satirist Count Binface. CB is smart & witty. But the fundamental contempt for politics he expresses is no friend to Indy. My @scotnational col: www.thenational.scot/politics/262... 031
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The summer of humiliation for Farage starts immediately, with his lead Clacton by-election contestant being the satirist Count Binface. CB is smart & witty. But the fundamental contempt for politics he expresses is no friend to Indy. My @scotnational col: www.thenational.scot/politics/262... 031
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Superplay Report #8: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... How “let’s win a monopoly” sits behind the AI boom. & if it's the End of Reading, can we value the “spatial intelligence” that's arising? [Want deeper insights on play/creativity, radical tech & power? Go here www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Superplay Report #8: patkane.substack.com/p/the-superp... How “let’s win a monopoly” sits behind the AI boom. & if it's the End of Reading, can we value the “spatial intelligence” that's arising? [Want deeper insights on play/creativity, radical tech & power? Go here www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Reposted by Pat KanePat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 06/07/2026New Superplay Report open.substack.com/pub/patkane/... Why the bursting of the AI bubble is also an opening (to political control). & a new voice (@playrebellion) on technology and worldmaking. What is character, on a 🌍 of digital characters? [Do biz with us here: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 06/07/2026New Superplay Report open.substack.com/pub/patkane/... Why the bursting of the AI bubble is also an opening (to political control). & a new voice (@playrebellion) on technology and worldmaking. What is character, on a 🌍 of digital characters? [Do biz with us here: www.patkane.global/superplay/] 001
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 04/07/2026We're out touring our new @hueandcry album, "Everybody". Here's a live version of one of its lead tracks, the mega-love song "And Then You Bloom". Attend to my brother's amazing House sonics. [Get the LP here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... youtu.be/k6VPL_h4kyE?...youtu.beAnd Then You Bloom [Live] - Hue And CryYouTube video by HueAndCryMusic 060
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The games-makers are revolting - or at least, they’re pressing for union recognition at the Edinburgh offices of Rockstar, the company that publishes the coming GTA 6. But are these workers producing psychopathy - or deep satire? My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2625... 011
