Making by Hand, AI in the Room & The Death of the Bird

June 2026 · Issue #357
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Something physical keeps asserting itself this fortnight: a Czech studio builds a game world from cardboard; a Mexican artist fills a former temple with living text; and OpenAI researchers take to the streets over AI's creep toward weapons contracts. Design leaders are asking the same thing from a different angle — what does it mean to lead a creative team when the machine is already in the room? Meanwhile, The Verge has filed the definitive archive of Twitter's collapse, using the tweets that watched it die.


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1. The Guardian celebrates David Hockney


Lovers, housewives, deserts and dogs—we'll never forget you, David.


Check it out

 

2. What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like?


Noema asks whether today's crises are forcing a civilizational reset as profound as any in recorded history.


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3. Inside the backlash to the AI war machine


Inside the growing resistance to AI's creep into military contracts, from OpenAI researchers to street-level protest.


Read on

4. Artist Turns a Former Temple into a Luminous Script Laboratory


Mexican artist Said Dokins transformed Mexico City's Art Alameda into a glow of living text and luminous organisms.


Listen now


5. Finding Your New Strategic Center


Companies that commit to one clear organizing principle gain speed and coherence while rivals drown in strategic drift.


Bulls eye

6. Design Leadership in a Hyperscaler


Our Delivered series asks what it means to lead a design team in the AI era, through hyperscale—while keeping your sanity?


Learn from Alexander Zeh

7. An entire game out of cardboard, paper, and a splash of 3D


Amanita Design built Phonopolis entirely from cardboard and paper, proving analog craft can outshine any render.


Unpack here

8. Oatly Just Dutchified the Drive-Thru


Oatly's Amsterdam bike-thru swapped cars for cyclists. If you're in Amsterdam Noord, it’ll put a smirk on your face.


Tring Tring

9. The Death of Twitter, told through its own tweets


The Verge tells the story of Twitter's death through the tweets that witnessed it — an oral history in 280 characters.

We miss the old days

10. Anthropic’s Claude Code boss, teach Claude 


Boris Cherny took the stage to explain how to get the most out of Claude Code S/S 26


It's all about agent loops now


“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”


— Richard Feynman —

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