Lakeside.

A serene lakeside scene features lush vegetation and a pebbled shore under a partly cloudy sky.

Vigilant pigeon.

A pigeon peeks out from a hole in a stone wall near a padlocked wooden door.

In the mood for a little discovery.

A modern wooden building - the Rye Harbour Discovery Center - is situated along a pathway in a grassy, rural landscape under a cloudy sky.

I’ve just discovered that there’s an academic conference about Warhammer.

This delights me no end.

My lucky daughters are on a sailing course. I am drinking coffee in the café. Hurrah.

⛵️ ☕️

Kayaks and paddles are arranged along a pebbled lakeside shore with a grassy area and a small trailer nearby.A person in a pink garment stands near a café with a menu board and string lights.

Trading Post Coffee Roasters living up to their name.

A coffee roasting machine is situated in an industrial setting, surrounded by bags and barrels, with a "Trading Post Coffee Roasters" logo on the wall.A blue cup holds a latte with a heart-shaped milk foam design on a brown surface.

There are times when reality feels perturbingly like an architect’s CGI composite.

A London cityscape features modern skyscrapers mixed with historic architecture under a partly cloudy sky.

Having a blast from the past this morning. I’m having a quick coffee at the Bridge Café. I used to be a regular here in the pre-pandemic days, when Journalism.co.uk held its training courses here.

I’m off round to corner to run an in-house training course, but it’s nice to revisit the past.

A cozy café features eclectic artwork on the walls, mismatched chairs around wooden tables, and a counter displaying a menu.

Mike Masnick on who goes MAGA:

It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the generation that grew up online, that learned to mistake engagement for truth, that confused being heard with being right. This is as true of suburban millennials as it is of rural boomers. It is the disease of the algorithmically poisoned.

The same could be said to be true of rise of Reform in the UK.

Is the AI bubble about to burst?:

The neuroscientist Eric Hoel calls this the “supply paradox of AI”: “the easier it is to train an AI to do something, the less economically valuable that thing is. After all, the huge supply of the thing is how the AI got so good in the first place.”