Doing my bit for the City St George’s undergraduate open day - persuading potential students that we’re the best place in the country to do journalism…
At this point, however, Medium is the pioneer that got Substack’s arrows in its back. And frankly, I don’t like either one of them, because they’re both silos, each with their own quirks and shortcomings.
Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour will step down after the magazine’s next cover release. The inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada will continue her roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer of publisher Condé Nast.
For context, I’m in my early 50s - so I was still at school when she took on this role.
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers:
At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art we make is a commodity, and our world wants things quickly, cheaply, and on demand. We are rushing toward a future where our novels, our biographies, our poems and our memoirs—our records of the human experience—are “written” by artificial intelligence models that, by definition, cannot know what it is to be human. To bleed, or starve, or love.
The iPad is already my preferred video editor for most tasks. It looks like that’s only going to get better with iPad OS26 later this year.
I’m excited! But not excited enough to risk the betas…
Forcing all prospective students to make all their social media profiles public is chilling. This will make it much harder for US universities to recruit - but maybe that’s the point.
It may be good news for other countries’ universities, though.
Yesterday, I went to the Worthing Dome with my daughters as a (late) Father’s Day treat.
What a beautiful cinema. I can’t believe I haven’t been before.
Walking the tightrope between AI and audiences.
I get the feeling that a lot of business are gonna take a tumble into a dangerous canyon…
Just corrected a 15-year-old typo on my blog.
Hurrah.
That typo was older than my oldest child. Some of my students were still in nursery when I made it.
Here’s @ayjay pointing out the major flaw in one of the weaker arguments for AI:
A useful mental exercise: when people say “AI isn’t going anywhere” or “AI is here to stay,” substitute for “AI” the word “cancer.” A great many things that are here to stay are really bad and should be resisted as energetically as possible
Oh, Dr Beeching.
A tribute to an infamous moment in UK rail history.
#mbjune Day 10: Rail 📷
All the images from the challenge.
A new look for One Man & His Blog.
The old theme was feeling dated, and isn’t being updated for new Ghost features, as far as I can tell. So, for now, one of the default Ghost themes has take its place. Some tweaking is likely in the coming weeks…
Oh, yikes. The home office iMac won’t get macOS 26. Somehow it’s still “my new iMac”, but it’s five years old now…
Time to start putting the money aside for a Mac Mini and a decent 5k screen.
