Five Great Reads: the photo that stopped the world, hellish company towns, and the incredible expanding city

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Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

German photographer Boris Eldagsen with the prize-winning AI-generated image he submitted, Pseudomnesia: The Electrician.If you somehow slept on it, Pseudomnesia: The Electrician is the photo that took out one of the prizes in the Sony world photography awards. But its creator, Boris Eldagsen, subsequently revealed the image was generated using artificial intelligence and refused to accept the gong.

Whether it was designed to provoke – as its creator suggests – or just a publicity stunt is open for debate. In the meantime,Eldagsen suggests his craft should go by the former descriptor, but I think the Guardian commenter who offered up the latter may have an early word of the year candidate on their hands.The idea of living in a town populated only by colleagues is about as appealing as living in a town with just my family .

The Tesla founder, however, is following in the footsteps of Britain’s Cadbury family and big tech contemporaries Google and Meta with Snailbrook, Texas. The company town’s population currently stands at 12.Lessons from the past: When the residents of a Colorado coal-mining town owned by John D Rockefeller went on strike over their conditions in 1913, the conflict turned violent. The National Guard attacked the strikers’ tent city on the company’s behalf, killing at least 19 people, including a dozen children.Antidepressants are a critical intervention for millions of people and can be life-saving. But how well do we manage what comes next?Antidepressants, to borrow a quote from Rick James, are a hell of a drug.

Kicking them isn’t always easy, though. About half of those coming off the drugs will experience withdrawal symptoms, from vomiting to insomnia. And one UK-based expert suggests“I get countless emails now from people in Australia who want help coming off antidepressants,” saysMark Horowitz. “The fact that they’re talking to some random research fellow in London for help and not their doctors, I think speaks volumes.

 

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