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Moving fast and fixing things in the creative industries.

The latest issue of our magazine, ¡AU! Journal: https://au-works.com/au-journal-autumn-2025/

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¡AU!'s @nromanek.bsky.social up at the magnificent @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend. For a publishing start-up like us, you couldn't ask for a more inspirational event!

#thoughtbubble
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
At ¡AU! we understand this.
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Excellent overview of the issue facing every business (including media businesses) in a world where a handful of players - headquartered in a single country - have inordinate influence over our infrastructure.

The next issue of #AUJournal digs into this question of tech sovereignty & independence.
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Astonishing day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social in London today. In a world of empty digital frenzy, it’s humbling & inspiring to see so much dedicated work & concentration going into a single object - a book. Glory to the #book.
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
See you all there tomorrow!
It's almost here! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.

Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)

Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So we launched Monster Lab! 👽 Discussion covered everything from category-breaking to imperialism to artist intuition to The Muppets. Monster-sized thanks to our inaugural speakers, historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & sculptor Esti Reich.

Next Monster Lab is in December. 👹
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#MonsterLab kicks off tomorrow!
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
American broadcasters were ejected from the Pentagon after refusing to sign an updated press credentials policy which includes a pledge to only publish material authorized by the Department of Defense

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News networks vacate Pentagon after press credentials deadline passes | Moving fast & fixing things in the creative industries
New policies requiring Defense Department approval of stories result in a broadcaster backlash
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October 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Last week we talked with the next generation of UK film & TV talent at the Soho Media Club's BeYou Festival in London. Guests included Ash Atalla and Oscar-winning triple threat Rachel Shenton

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This year’s Be You Festival convened diverse creatives to plot a new future for UK media - Moving fast & fixing things in the creative industries
Guests included producer Ash Atalla who revealed what he really thinks about the industry's not-fit-for-purpose commissioning system.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today we’re at the Be You Festival in #London, by Soho Media Club, featuring guests like the great Ash Atalla.

Attendees here are figuring out the future of UK media. They’ll get back to you.
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The Queer Zest Zine Fest final weekend is filled with zesty queerness! Come meet the zinesters, hear their stories, shop from them. Allies welcome.

✨ Saturday, September 27, 2025 ✨

Kelci Crawford
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Oneironaut 17
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
1/3
September 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"There is a continual arms race in content safety, with pirates sooner or later finding ways to get around new technologies"

Check out our piece on the tech challenges of keeping you intellectual property safe in the latest issue of ¡AU! Journal:

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September 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Online conversations on #monsters in the creative arts and sciences! Come chat with me and ceramicist and monster Esti Reich on October 18, 2-4pm UK (8-10am ET). Tickets now available.
#art #arthistory #sculpture #histsci #histmed #sff
¡AU! has launched a new event series, MONSTER LAB, where creatives of all types (from painters to brain surgeons) gather to talk monsters & see what we can learn.

First MONSTER LAB is Oct. 18, 2-4pm UK time, online. Get your ticket now!

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September 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
¡AU! has launched a new event series, MONSTER LAB, where creatives of all types (from painters to brain surgeons) gather to talk monsters & see what we can learn.

First MONSTER LAB is Oct. 18, 2-4pm UK time, online. Get your ticket now!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monster-la...
September 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Low carbon, all disco.

Yesterday’s festivities on The Flint Green Line to #IBC2025
Yesterday a Eurostar carriage of media industry tech geniuses - plus me - partied from London to Amsterdam on the way to week’s big #IBCShow. It’s called The Flint Green Line. We hatched it when I was at The Flint last year to promote green travel to media biz trade shows.
September 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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The big reveal! A first look at the print version of ¡AU! Journal, which we'll be distributing at the IBC Show this week in Amsterdam, one of the world's biggest trade shows for tech/tools for media & broadcast. @auworks.bsky.social will be making its IBC debut. DM me a line if you want to meet up!
September 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Folks interested in #monsters and culture! #SFF and #art folks! I'm speaking in an online MONSTER LAB alongside ceramicist and monster sculptor Esti Reich! Oct 18 online.
September 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
From the new issue of ¡AU! Journal: "Content by no one, for no one: Surviving the #AI bubble" - an overview of the top threats #GenAI content poses to creative businesses, including erosion of trust, damage to integrity & financial instability.
September 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Real psychologists don't respond to people two minutes after a request with 12 carefully crafted paragraphs of copy"

Read about journalist Rob Waugh's hunt for non-existent influencers, who are quoted in real newspapers, in the latest new of ¡AU! Journal...

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September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The next issue of ¡AU! Journal is out now! In this one we cover content security and how creative businesses are protecting themselves and their intellectual propertt from pirates, hackers and ravenous AI's.

Read the digital magazine now:

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¡AU! Journal – Autumn 2025 - Moving fast & fixing things in the creative industries
Issue Two of ¡AU! Journal looks at the crisis of content theft and destruction - from pirates, hackers and ravenous AI.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Hey, writers! We're commissioning guest essays at HEAT DEATH. We want to showcase your weird deep dives into history, ecology and culture, and intersections between them. We pay a $75 honorarium per piece, edit carefully, and you keep all rights.

Pitch me at aelbein@gmail!
Heat Death
A newsletter about yesterday, tomorrow, and all the crises in between.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Watch this chat from our Emergency DEI Summit on getting diverse talent into craft roles - plus a primer on training & education as a human right. That's right. You have a right to training & education. 🏋‍♀️

Features the fabulous Simon Devereux, Amanda Sapp & Ellen Walker.

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"How to rise when you're below the line" - Session 3 at ¡AU!'s Emergency DEI Summit
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July 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
¡AU! Journal is finally here! The first issue of our quarterly magazine goes deep with the individuals, organizations, and businesses defending diversity in the media & entertainment industry, and how you too can push back against the assault.

Read it now: au-works.com/au-journal-s...
July 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We're so grateful to everyone who participated in the Content & IP Defense Summit yesterday! Great conversations among our formidable line-up. All sessions will be publicly available, along with analysis and additional commentary, in the fall issue of ¡AU! Journal, out at the end of August.
June 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM