Lovely pub dinner at the Black Horse, Findon

Three people are sitting at a table enjoying plates of fish or scampi and chips with sides, including peas and salad, along with beverages.

Lovely walk at Pulborough, as a belated birthday celebration.

Three people are walking along a leaf-covered path surrounded by trees with autumn foliage.

Should we regulate AI? Are the current moves to regulate the use of digital communication tools a government overreach – or necessary for the smooth running of society?

Last night’s Jeremy Tunstall lecture by Philip Schlesinger, and he put the current debate in historical and political context…


Nearly done on migrating one of our WordPress sites to Ghost, ready for the spring term. Oh, this feels good.


John Gruber:

Marcus’s post is on his Substack blog, which, annoyingly, requires you to be logged into a Substack account and to “subscribe”, even though it’s ostensibly a free post. What a rotten oppressive turd of a blogging platform Substack is.

Substack could end up as the Medium (remember that?) of the 2020s if it carries on making these kinds of decisions.


Interesting:

Apple’s Claris subsidiary is testing an app called Harbor, which turns Apple silicon Macs into a private AI server.

So many AI businesses are predicated on cloud compute. What if most AI usage is delivered locally?


The problem with all these AI-generated posters is that:

  • They all look the same
  • They blend into one

This could be any one of dozens of pubs in my area. They‘re utterly unmemorable, so fail as marketing.

Two colorful signs advertise food events featuring wood-fired pizza on wheels on Saturday at 4 PM and Happy Go Souvlaki with souvlaki pitas, fries, and loaded cheesy fries available Friday.

Started reading: Baldur’s Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher 📚


A sunny, cold morning in Windsor. A very enjoyable micro-break, with the girls away on a Guides trip.

A busy pedestrian street filled with people walking toward a historic castle under a partly cloudy sky.

This is genius.

A bear figurine made of pumpkins, with a scarf wrapped around its neck, is sitting on a bed of autumn leaves.