Kester
@kesterbrewin.com
Writer, and Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work. Views my own. Latest book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI, is out now. All my books: http://www.kesterbrewin.com
Wow, true spirit of the season from @grantamag.bsky.social sending out rejections on Christmas Day morning. Super classy!
Seriously… even if this is automated… having a fuc*ing word with yourselves about appropriate settings etc. All tech is social, and this is grossly anti-
Seriously… even if this is automated… having a fuc*ing word with yourselves about appropriate settings etc. All tech is social, and this is grossly anti-
December 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Wow, true spirit of the season from @grantamag.bsky.social sending out rejections on Christmas Day morning. Super classy!
Seriously… even if this is automated… having a fuc*ing word with yourselves about appropriate settings etc. All tech is social, and this is grossly anti-
Seriously… even if this is automated… having a fuc*ing word with yourselves about appropriate settings etc. All tech is social, and this is grossly anti-
Hi Sky people. Quick favour… I’ve pitched at @sxsw.com #London to do a talk, and it’s down to a public vote. Be great if you were able to give this some love… and a share if poss! 🤖🙌 ☑️ sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/b...
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hi Sky people. Quick favour… I’ve pitched at @sxsw.com #London to do a talk, and it’s down to a public vote. Be great if you were able to give this some love… and a share if poss! 🤖🙌 ☑️ sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/b...
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Great to have been involved as a #writer at focus groups, and in research support/production for @ifow.org, for this brilliant new report on #GenAI and the #Novel by @clemicollett.bsky.social for @mctd.bsky.social at University of Cambridge: www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Great to have been involved as a #writer at focus groups, and in research support/production for @ifow.org, for this brilliant new report on #GenAI and the #Novel by @clemicollett.bsky.social for @mctd.bsky.social at University of Cambridge: www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
I’ve written a novel based there, drawing on themes of rising sea levels… and the rise of the right, centred on the 1953 flood that devastated the place. Just looking for the right publisher… ;)
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’ve written a novel based there, drawing on themes of rising sea levels… and the rise of the right, centred on the 1953 flood that devastated the place. Just looking for the right publisher… ;)
Spot on from Private Eye.
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Spot on from Private Eye.
'Talking about the possibility of a third term, Trump said: "I haven't really thought about it. But I have the best poll numbers that I've ever had."'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His approval ratings:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His approval ratings:
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
'Talking about the possibility of a third term, Trump said: "I haven't really thought about it. But I have the best poll numbers that I've ever had."'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His approval ratings:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His approval ratings:
Great to be in Parliament today with people from across the creative industries to discuss @bectu.bsky.social’s excellent report on pay levels and working conditions! More important than ever that this powerhouse of the UK economy is supported and sustained through this period of rapid change.
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Great to be in Parliament today with people from across the creative industries to discuss @bectu.bsky.social’s excellent report on pay levels and working conditions! More important than ever that this powerhouse of the UK economy is supported and sustained through this period of rapid change.
Privilege to be in Brussels, meeting with economists, policymakers, academics and trade unionists in the very room where Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto to discuss the #FutureOfWork and social democracy.
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Privilege to be in Brussels, meeting with economists, policymakers, academics and trade unionists in the very room where Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto to discuss the #FutureOfWork and social democracy.
Great to be in Liverpool today with @eyfoundation.bsky.social for expert round table of MPs, careers support specialists and firms presenting on how young people from lower-income backgrounds can access better jobs in this era of AI turbulence. Motivation is key, as is time for reflective practice.
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Great to be in Liverpool today with @eyfoundation.bsky.social for expert round table of MPs, careers support specialists and firms presenting on how young people from lower-income backgrounds can access better jobs in this era of AI turbulence. Motivation is key, as is time for reflective practice.
The gods of small things.
Interesting to see this come to pass (and further post on how AI has basically now consumed everything so… what next?) - something I talk about in my book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=god-like...
Interesting to see this come to pass (and further post on how AI has basically now consumed everything so… what next?) - something I talk about in my book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=god-like...
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The gods of small things.
Interesting to see this come to pass (and further post on how AI has basically now consumed everything so… what next?) - something I talk about in my book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=god-like...
Interesting to see this come to pass (and further post on how AI has basically now consumed everything so… what next?) - something I talk about in my book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=god-like...
Grab a copy of the book here, or - better still - go into your local bookshop and order a copy.
www.amazon.co.uk/Mutiny-Love-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Mutiny-Love-...
September 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Grab a copy of the book here, or - better still - go into your local bookshop and order a copy.
www.amazon.co.uk/Mutiny-Love-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Mutiny-Love-...
Creation Lake gets better the deeper you swim.
August 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Creation Lake gets better the deeper you swim.
A huge cultural presence in both the US and UK, his death was almost completely overshadowed by the assassination of JFK, which happened on the same day... as did the death of another towering figure: C.S. Lewis.
The questions each raised about our place in a theo-technological world still resonate.
The questions each raised about our place in a theo-technological world still resonate.
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A huge cultural presence in both the US and UK, his death was almost completely overshadowed by the assassination of JFK, which happened on the same day... as did the death of another towering figure: C.S. Lewis.
The questions each raised about our place in a theo-technological world still resonate.
The questions each raised about our place in a theo-technological world still resonate.
Huxley was suffering greatly at the end of his life, and asked his wife to speed his death with one last LSD trip. His work interweaving technology, religion and the power of psychedelics was hugely prescient - a story I tell in my book Getting High. www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=getting+...
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Huxley was suffering greatly at the end of his life, and asked his wife to speed his death with one last LSD trip. His work interweaving technology, religion and the power of psychedelics was hugely prescient - a story I tell in my book Getting High. www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=getting+...
Come to Oberkampf, Paris, for the boujee bars.
Stay because free, free Palestine.
Stay because free, free Palestine.
August 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Come to Oberkampf, Paris, for the boujee bars.
Stay because free, free Palestine.
Stay because free, free Palestine.
Also, new fiction in the works too. Been so enjoying working on some new stories.
Lovely to still hear from people enjoying MIDDLE CLASS - thank you!
Grab a copy: linktr.ee/middleclassn...
Lovely to still hear from people enjoying MIDDLE CLASS - thank you!
Grab a copy: linktr.ee/middleclassn...
July 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Also, new fiction in the works too. Been so enjoying working on some new stories.
Lovely to still hear from people enjoying MIDDLE CLASS - thank you!
Grab a copy: linktr.ee/middleclassn...
Lovely to still hear from people enjoying MIDDLE CLASS - thank you!
Grab a copy: linktr.ee/middleclassn...
Not been posting much on socials generally means I'm doing more writing :)
Some non-fiction and fiction pieces I'm really excited about.
As the AI spectre continues to haunt, been doing a LOT of thinking on follow-on from God-like...
Not read it yet? Grab a copy: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=kester+b...
Some non-fiction and fiction pieces I'm really excited about.
As the AI spectre continues to haunt, been doing a LOT of thinking on follow-on from God-like...
Not read it yet? Grab a copy: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=kester+b...
July 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Not been posting much on socials generally means I'm doing more writing :)
Some non-fiction and fiction pieces I'm really excited about.
As the AI spectre continues to haunt, been doing a LOT of thinking on follow-on from God-like...
Not read it yet? Grab a copy: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=kester+b...
Some non-fiction and fiction pieces I'm really excited about.
As the AI spectre continues to haunt, been doing a LOT of thinking on follow-on from God-like...
Not read it yet? Grab a copy: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=kester+b...
Superb exhibition of Dennis Morris’ work at Photographers’ Gallery. Highly recommended. Extraordinary career.
July 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Superb exhibition of Dennis Morris’ work at Photographers’ Gallery. Highly recommended. Extraordinary career.
A story of a man’s slow descent into violent madness, and then one of the violence of powerful men descending on a woman who pretends to give birth to rabbits. Thank you,
@galleybeggars.bsky.social, the novel is gloriously, riotously, alive and kicking 👏 🐇 🤬 🐇 🤬👏 (PS people, become a Galley Buddy!)
@galleybeggars.bsky.social, the novel is gloriously, riotously, alive and kicking 👏 🐇 🤬 🐇 🤬👏 (PS people, become a Galley Buddy!)
July 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A story of a man’s slow descent into violent madness, and then one of the violence of powerful men descending on a woman who pretends to give birth to rabbits. Thank you,
@galleybeggars.bsky.social, the novel is gloriously, riotously, alive and kicking 👏 🐇 🤬 🐇 🤬👏 (PS people, become a Galley Buddy!)
@galleybeggars.bsky.social, the novel is gloriously, riotously, alive and kicking 👏 🐇 🤬 🐇 🤬👏 (PS people, become a Galley Buddy!)
A wonderful, proud and complex place. Been a huge privilege to write about it.
July 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A wonderful, proud and complex place. Been a huge privilege to write about it.
Here's my great grandfather - a Stepney boy who was apprenticed to a surveyor aged 14 - sitting on the veranda of his chalet in Jaywick Sands with his old friend George Lansbury, a fellow East End boy done good, and one of the greatest social reformers of the 20th century.
July 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Here's my great grandfather - a Stepney boy who was apprenticed to a surveyor aged 14 - sitting on the veranda of his chalet in Jaywick Sands with his old friend George Lansbury, a fellow East End boy done good, and one of the greatest social reformers of the 20th century.
Lot's of cross-currents here for me, having helped design and lead action-research workshops with young people talking about their future hopes... and a novel I've got in the works set in a working class seaside community that my great-grandfather built in the 1930s... and smashed by floods in 1953.
July 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Lot's of cross-currents here for me, having helped design and lead action-research workshops with young people talking about their future hopes... and a novel I've got in the works set in a working class seaside community that my great-grandfather built in the 1930s... and smashed by floods in 1953.
My nephew saved my brother's life back in March when he went into cardiac arrest, and has been given an award by the ambulance service. Could. Not. Be. More. Proud :)
July 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My nephew saved my brother's life back in March when he went into cardiac arrest, and has been given an award by the ambulance service. Could. Not. Be. More. Proud :)