One Man's Notes

So, just starting to get my head around micro.blog’s new premium offer. It took me a while to twig that, when you set up a new blog, you’re the same user, but with an additional blog.

That means that some of the automatically set up things - like an About page - make little sense, because they’re pulling from your original user account.

It’s all fixed by creating a new About page. But it feels like we could do with more per blog customisation settings, if more users are going to have multiple blogs.

So, Reddit is selling all the free labour of its users to an AI company to train its model.

Well, that explains the API changes last year…

Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: Unknown Exposures

I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow.

Ugh.

Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.

One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.

This duck is stylin’.

Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.

Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.

Bit of a “grab bag” protest in town. They’re against:

• Cashless payments
• Vaccines
• Ultra low emissions zones
• The World Economic Forum

I might not mention that I’ve been in the offices of the last one…

My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.

Friendly wee chaps.

Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Water level a bit on the high side, then.

semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation.

— Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚

Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!

Love a bit of crema

🔗 Hunter-Gathering For Wimps:

Making a conscious decision to shut the f@&£ up, not cause the planet bow and crack under the weight of more opinions, and just listen to people sometimes, even if they are talking total crap

I have realised that, in addition to its many other perks, this is a useful way to conserve energy.

Tom Cox nails it.

We’ve just had the world’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit.

What’s it going to take before people treat this seriously?

Looks like Apple has an image editing Generative AI coming. Quite Apple-y to be task specific.

Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…

Want to feel old? Somebody born when Leeroy Jenkins wiped his raid will turn 19 this year.

You’re welcome.

Finding the intro that finally makes the piece you’ve been struggling with work is such a blissful moment.

Let’s get phygital…

Apple’s Vision Pro is a tentative first step towards building a blended digital/physical world. But this is like the launch of the original Mac, not the iPhone.

Good morning from the Downs.