I spent an interesting evening yesterday at the launch of City St George’s new Institute for Creativity and AI.
How refreshing to see academics pushing forward on this while the technology is still nascent, and before it gets deeply embedded into society.
Well, this is profoundly worrying:
Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse.
Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.
Meta is actually going to try to win back young people to Facebook.
Good luck with that. I suspect they have more chance of annoying their current users than persuading teenagers and people in their 20s that Facebook is for them.
Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular?
Interesting read.
The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film.
I still have a film camera. One day I shall use it again. One day.
It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, I’d still continue.
It’d be less fun, obviously. But still worthwhile.
Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on.
Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave’s 30 years of blogging…
Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, contradictory and contain multitudes. The more it tries to shove people into algorithmic boxes, the less compelling its products become.
A simple way to improve the internet.
Headline of the day:
No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons
I was complimented on my hair by a cashier at the supermarket today.
If nothing else, this proves I can still have brand new experiences in my 50s.
A first experiment with Halide’s Process Zero while shooting with my iPhone.
The beach huts on Littlehampton beach this morning turned out to be a real photographic gift, as did an unexpectedly shaped café.
I must do more random photography like this.
Cheeky coffee and bap at Edge by the Sea after dropping my youngest at a Brownies day.
The clash between Sober October and London Cocktail Week feels particularly vexing this year.
Quite the reverse: challenger digital news brands are now snapping up traditional print media ones. But what should we make of the sale of The Spectator, and the discussions about Tortoise buying The Observer?
A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers - and the site attempt to infect you device with malware.
Moral of the story: don’t be a creep.
