Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.
Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the bailiffs from the door, the family endured a daily struggle to make ends meet. Even a child-sized wheelbarrow, made for the young George by his father, had to be sold; 60 years later he wrote that “I never forgot the boy that had my barrow”.
Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”.
It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads.
Oh, brilliant. Ghost has added filters to its web analytics - and full support for UTM parameters. Get in there!
I just discovered the Moodle (and Moodle email) supports Markdown, and I could not be happier. I’ll certainly be more efficient…
Best ever feedback from an in-house training/workshop delivered a few months back:
“He’s a proper journalist, who swears and everything”.
That is so going on my gravestone. It should probably be my LinkedIn bio, too…
When I was a regular at the Barbican in the early 90s, back when the RSC had a residency there, I never dreamed that I’d find myself on that stage twice a year 35 years later…
#CityStGeorgesGrad
Just discovered that I need a 30 year old filling replaced.
Fabulous start to the week. Now I have to decide which day I want to sacrifice to that delight in the coming months…
My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month.
I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while.
Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years:
A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035.
Interesting move. Warhammer-maker Games Workshop has banned its staff from using AI in its products.
This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created.
Off to poke at the reaction in the Warhammer subreddits.
I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for it”, yet it seems to have become the default for younger generations.
Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces:
As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and find some rational explanation for it that does not involve Donald Trump with a colon full of chess pieces.
I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial consciousness”.
AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society