Started reading: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie 📚

It’s possible that my childhood bedroom was a bit geeky.

A 1980s child’s bedroom with Star Wars wallpaper, an Empire Strikes Back duvet cover and a child in bed reading The Eagle comic.

🚨If you have old data in Google Analytics (version 3 / Universal Analytics), you only have until Monday to save it. 🚨

Here’s some suggestions for getting it safely exported and stored.

This is a fascinating experiment: use a newsletter to build a (paying) community, and once it’s large enough, launch a print magazine.

I’ll be watching this with interest.

Well, I didn’t have Rushi Sunak versus David Tennant on my bingo card for this election.

It’s easy enough to dismiss these birds [pigeons] as rats with wings, but if we hate them for their ubiquity, adaptive success and propensity to make life unpleasant for species that want to share their space, then maybe that’s just because they’re stealing our shtick.

— From Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚

‘There’s no such thing as bad weather,’ Alfred Wainwright once said. ‘Only unsuitable clothing’ He was right, I suppose. Although possibly also a trifle smug.

— from Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚

Cross-posting from micro.blog to Threads via the new API seems to be working perfectly. 👌🏼

Adult bullies are so much worse that child ones. They have much less excuse and no chance of “growing out of it”.

This is the person they have chosen to be.

The old lighthouse, Shoreham.

A lighthouse with a weathered stone exterior and a golden sphere on top is set against a clear blue sky.

Just scrolled through my Facebook feed. In the first 70 posts, there are just two from friends:

No. 5 No. 68.

The rest is all groups, pages and ads.

Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary festivals. Their campaign is full of good intentions, but the impact is dramatic.

Touching grass, very literally.

A close-up of a small white daisy with a yellow center amidst green grass and foliage.

Time to hear about making the vast Sussex Bay better…

A stage setup features a large screen displaying information about the "Restoring Sussex Bay, Together" event on 13 June 2024, alongside a kite surfer image.

Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails.

This is a different approach to AI.

I’m spending the day at a conference about newsletters for publishers. Here’s some live-blogged notes from a panel about lessons publishers can learn from independent newsletter companies.

Some good insights here.

Some good thoughts here from Matt Webb: Observations on Siri, Apple Intelligence, and hiding in plain sight.

Om Malik: Why Apple Should Support National Parks .

/signed

Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore.

Idiots. Physical back up right there.

I miss the old group blogs that were a big feature of the 2000s internet. Dave Winer thinks we should bring them back, but with a fediverse twist.