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.
When did you last reply to someone on social media?
As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more conversation, a little less promotion please.
The downside of falling behind with your email:
“Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I must book. Let’s see, when is it…? Oh. Two weeks ago.”
I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to take the idea of community-building around its journalism seriously.
Now it’s finally, finally happening I should feel vindicated and celebratory. But largely I just feel tired.
My daughter clearly likes hanging around in our local Warhammer shop too much. This was her latest procrastination technique in face of my “Ready to go yet?”
