One Man's notebook this week.
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.
Something it’s important to get sorted…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
