{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "One Man's Notes", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/03/1311.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://adders.blog/", "feed_url": "https://adders.blog/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://adders.micro.blog/2026/04/04/started-reading-blightslayer-by-richard.html", "content_html": "\n

Started reading: Blightslayer by Richard Stratchan đź“š

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Well, the #artemisII launch was the first time I had a real time news experience on Bluesky the way I did back in the early years of Twitter.

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OK. This is my absolute favourite piece of “special content” for today: Warhammer 40k: the Musical.

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This is a cautionary tale of letting ChatGPT do your research and writing for you, if ever there was one.

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MattGPT is going to stick.

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It looks like OpenAI shuttering Sora might well be all about money. After all, the orange one’s war has spiked energy prices, making AI inference ever more expensive…

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The last week has been a flashback to the days, 25 years ago, when my job involved a lot of waiting for connections in small rural stations…

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This sums up the state of the world.

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If every day was as productive as today has been so far, my life would be a lot less stressful.

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The first ever YouTube video is on display in the V&A Museum in London.

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It’s encouraging that we’re seeing museum and archives starting to take digital preservation seriously. As ever, to understand the present, we also need to understand the past.

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Dropped my daughters off at stupid o’clock for a Guides activity day, and rewarding myself with a good start to the day.

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There’s an awful lot of Underpants Gnoming of AI in journalism businesses.

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  1. Apply AI across the business!
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  3. Profit!
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Case(s) in point.

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This piece on interviewing (and how not to do it) from Om Malik is worth any journalism student (or any early career journalist) reading:

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The subject is interesting. The interviewer is credentialed. They agree with each other at length. Nothing is at stake. No one is surprised.

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Found a coffee haunt for a while, to hill time while my teen has style applied to her hair.

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Morning from Hove. Having a rare day’s holiday, mainly to be chauffeur for the family.

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I bought this mug for my Mum the best part of 25 years ago. I’ve now owned it for longer than she did; I inherited it 18 years ago. But I always think happy memories of her when I drink from it.

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All the pigeons. All of them.

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This sounded alarming at first glance:

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Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky, the social media platform exclusively announced to WIRED. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

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However, it turns out she’s staying on the board as chief innovation officer, and will have a hand in choosing her successor.

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The other side of the river vanished yesterday.

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Foggy on the river today.

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Humanity summed up in three photos:

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Interesting analysis of why Apple’s new chips might be more important than they seem.

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Relic of a grim time.

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What will our post-AI world look like?

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By post-AI, I don’t mean after AI disappears, I mean after AI becomes so ubiquitous that it no longer remarkable. After all, we’re already in the post-digital era, so what will the post-AI era look like?

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Happy day. My youngest daughter got her first choice of secondary school!

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Matt Bircher:

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I’m just really tired of execs, who’s every monetary need is satisfied, go in front of their employees and saying, “things have never been better, and that’s why we need to let a bunch of you go.”

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Context? Jack Dorsey laying off â…“ of his staff, so he can replace them with AI.

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