Linked List: April 2026

Thursday, 16 April 2026

Where do we go from here ✶: The personal automobile reshaped streets, all but extinguished urban horses and their waste, supplanted local transit and interurban railways, germinated new building typologies, decentralized cities, created exurban sprawl, reduced incidental social contact, gave rise to the Interstate Highway System (bulldozing Black communities in the process), gave everyone lead poisoning, and became a leading cause of death among young people. Many parts of the US are highly car-dependent, even though a third of us don’t drive. As a driver, cyclist, transit rider, and pedestrian, I think about this legacy every day: how so much of our lives are shaped by the technology of personal automobiles, and the specific way the US uses them.

I want you to think about “AI” in this sense.

The video game where players stopped shooting and started talking.

Nice article about Arc Raiders, that I have not played since going on a long trip.

Time to go back to the surface.

On the Move ✶: Resources for artists and culture professionals who want to work internationally.

Breathtaking photograph of Earth seen from space by Artemis II’s crew on 2026 April 2, currently on a lunar flyby mission