Dan McNeil

‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

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‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music? Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Welsh people don’t have internet access?

Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃

Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.

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The Southern Angels
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

“Above, just out of sight, Andromeda burned.”

[‘The Arcachon Continuum’, Dan McNeil, 2022, Plutonics Journal, Volume XV].
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Available on Lulu or as free PDF download.

Century!
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

Berberian Sound Studio
[dir. Peter Strickland, 2012]

Indifference
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

The Principles of Decay
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

Subterranean Light
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

Underwater is not Underwater
[Dan McNeil, 2023]

The Antipope
[Max Ernst, 1941-42]

SONDER BEACH
[Dan McNeil, 2024]

Excerpt from
‘The Arcachon Continuum’
[Dan McNeil, 2022]

“a glittering beautification of cold silence”
[from ‘The Gallery Trap’, Dan McNeil, 2024]
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‘Colour is the Sound; the Sound is Red’
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
#surrealism #shortstories
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The Atrocity Exhibition
[JG Ballard, first edition, 1970]
#JGBallard #Surrealism

The Gallery Trap
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
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Except from ‘The Gallery Trap’
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
[Niels Bohr]

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
[JG Ballard]

The Entropy Lounge
[Dan McNeil, 2022]

The Angel Standing in the Sun
[JMW Turner, 1846]

The Biomechanics of Fascism
[Dan McNeil, 2024]