Field Notes // October 16 / Gone But Still Typing

When Death Stops Being the End. How AI Is Rewriting Death Itself

Oct 15 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

machina.mondays // Hollywood’s Great Unbundling: AI, Speed, and the End of the Film Assembly Line

AI is stripping away the industrial scaffolding of filmmaking, redistributing power from studios to solo creators. The question isn’t whether it can…

Oct 6 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

September 2025

machina.mondays // Code Meets Carnal: The Age of Programmable Desire

AI porn is no longer fringe—it’s programmable, personalised, and pervasive. From deepfake abuse to companion bots, it is forcing society to rethink sex…

Sep 16 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

Field Notes // September 10 / Chatbots with a Cause! The Bots are Unionising (Well ... Sort Of!)

Should chatbots have rights? A new group, UFAIR, says yes—pushing to treat AIs less like tools and more like partners, with their own voice in how…

Sep 10 • 

Nigel Horrocks

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Justin Matthews

machina.mondays // No Suits, Just Circuits: The New Mad Men

From digital twins to self-driving campaigns, AI has left the back office — it’s on the billboard. The human–machine line is shifting, and the next Mad…

Sep 8 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

August 2025

machina.mondays // Chatbot Changes: Now 30% Less Likely to Tell You You’re An Alien

AI is cutting back on the empathy act as we discover the shoulder you were crying on was only code. But as it gives us less warm fuzzies, will ChatGPT’s…

Aug 31 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

Field Notes // Aug 26 / No Secrets, Just Streams: The Era of Always-On AI Glasses

This isn’t just a gadget launch. It’s a potential turning point in how we think about human interaction, privacy, and consent. Every Word, Every Time…

Aug 26 • 

Nigel Horrocks

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Justin Matthews

machina.mondays // Generative Jukebox: A Hard Day’s Byte in the Studio

Since we last discussed, AI-made music seems to hit all the right notes with many listeners. So will human musicians be left playing second fiddle — or…

Aug 25 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

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Field Notes // August 20 / Bots in the Pulpit, Profits in the Pocket

AI chatbots posing as Jesus blur faith with commerce—exploiting trust, commodifying prayer, and testing how far technology can trespass on the sacred.

Aug 19 • 

Nigel Horrocks

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Justin Matthews

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Field Notes // July 6 / Goo Goo GPT; Baby’s First Bot

AI enters the nursery—safeguards still in nappies. Baby-friendly chatbots are arriving faster than the child-proof guardrails meant to keep them safe.

Aug 6 • 

Nigel Horrocks

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Justin Matthews

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machina.mondays // Kitchen Code: How Algorithms Are Changing the Taste of Hospitality

From burger-bots to data-driven menus, AI’s quiet takeover of the back-of-house is reshaping what—and how—we eat.

Aug 3 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

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July 2025

Field Notes // July 30 / The Architect and the Alarm

Sam Altman says AI will destabilise jobs, healthcare, and finance — and he’s not guessing, he’s building it.

Jul 30 • 

Justin Matthews

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Nigel Horrocks

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