Might have hung on to this past its useful life…

Apparently I have the cultural sophistication of a 9 year old, as my youngest daughter and I have just nearly wet ourselves laughing at A Minecraft Movie.

It’s a terrible movie, but it’s gloriously terrible.

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Decided to put the fire pit back into service. https://adders.blog/2025/04/14/decided-to-put-the-fire.html

Some thoughts on journalism, trust, AI and… a 20 year old debate?

Trust me, I’m a journalist.

Hat-tip to @ayjay for starting this thought process off. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/04/trust-me-im-a-journalist/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share https://micro.blog/ayjay

This is the end. Embrace it. https://nextconf.eu/2025/04/its-the-end-embrace-it/

Hassocks Station. 📍

Testing the new check-in feature in Micro Social… http://maps.apple.com/?ll=50.924805,-0.145646

Layoffs at Automattic:

"This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction."

Ouch. Sympathies to those impacted. https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/

Rule for life.

Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it.

I know how he feels. https://micro.blog/paulrobertlloyd https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored/

ChatGPT has remade me in Studio Ghibli style:

Listening to an interesting talk by Professor Nick Couldry, who pointing out that we legislate to stop companies filling our rivers and land with pollutants. Isn’t it about time we started doing the same to companies polluting our social ecosystems with toxic social interactions?

He’s written a book explo... adders.blog https://adders.blog/2025/03/26/listening-to-an-interesting-talk.html

Taking advantage of micro.blog’s new EU hosting option to move adders.blog’s hosting to the EU.

For obvious reasons. https://www.manton.org/2025/03/25/microblog-expanding-photo-servers-in.html

Turns out there’s a lot of books I wrote in the pirated data Meta used to train its LLM. And I’m not the only family member impacted, either…

I’d be a lot more sanguine about this if it wasn’t, well, Meta. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/03/meta-stole-books-and-trained-ai-on-them/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=second-share

Meta’s AI Will Suggest Comments for Users to Post About Your Photos:

"Meta is testing an Instagram feature that suggests AI-generated comments for users to post beneath other users’ photos and videos."

So an AI can leave a comment on an AI-created image, while being shown an AI-created ad, and we can do something more meaningful with our lives. https://petapixel.com/2025/03/24/metas-ai-will-suggest-comments-for-users-to-post-about-your-photos/

Finished reading: Lucius: The Faultless Blade by Ian St. Martin 📚

Interesting dipping back into Warhammer fiction after 30 years. Surprisingly good for tie-in fiction. Predictably grimdark, but does a good job of making you care what happens to the characters, while still amazing it clear they are early a... adders.blog https://adders.blog/2025/03/24/finished-reading-lucius-the-faultless.html

Print isn’t dead, and doesn’t need to die. Because, in a digital-first world, it’s an invaluable form of retreat and escape. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/03/seeking-refuge-from-the-technofeudalist-attention-economy-in-print/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share

Bit on the nose…

(From a recent issue of the Avengers Academy digital comic.)

Betteridge’s Law applies: Will big AI save the world? https://unherd.com/2025/03/will-big-ai-save-the-world/

Why I’ve taken the first step in connecting One Man & His Blog to the #Fediverse - and why I think this will matter for media businesses in the coming years… https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/03/the-federated-one-man-his-blog/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share

The Ghost ActivityPub Public Beta is here!

(Well, for ghost(pro) users…) https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/?ref=adam-tinworth-fediverse