I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to take the idea of community-building around its journalism seriously.
Now it’s finally, finally happening I should feel vindicated and celebratory. But largely I just feel tired.
#mbjune Day 8: Travel 📷
All the images from the challenge. 
https://micro.blog/discover/mbjune/grid
#mbjune Day 7: Switch 📷
All the images from the challenge. 
https://micro.blog/discover/mbjune/grid
My daughter clearly likes hanging around in our local Warhammer shop too much. This was her latest procrastination technique in face of my “Ready to go yet?” 
Grabbing a coffee, some Aeropress filters and a vegan croissant at Small Batch Coffee. And catching up on my feeds in NerNewsWire.
The weekend! 
#mbjune Day 6: Contrast 📷 
Replacing scrolling with microjournaling:
"Microjournaling is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of setting aside 15 minutes to write in your journal, you’re going to shrink that to a minute or two. A microjournaling session could even last under 60 seconds. It’s just enough time to dash off a thought or two."
Or, y’know, microblogging. https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/microjournaling/
Ghost 6.0 coming “in the next few weeks”.
Another step towards mainstreaming ActivityPub. 
https://activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-up-for-expansion/
The leaked script for the Apple WWDC keynote…
"10:35: “Here at Apple,” Federighi continues, “we believe in honesty, in accountability, in holding ourselves to the highest possible standards. And when we make a mistake, we hold our hands up and blame John Giannandrea. Get out here, John!”"
My wife’s first book is released later this month. I’m in awe of how much work a textbook takes compared to the books I’ve written. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198834721
#mbjune Day 5: Reflection 📷 
Original 1980s #warhammer40k Space Marines, a relic of my long-ago teenage years.
#mbjune Day 4: Nostalgia 
This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete bullshit seem plausible at first.
Read the whole thing. https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
Shadows fall, but light remains.
#mbjune day 3: Shadow 📷 
Peter Bihr:
"There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop that is custom-tailored for recommender AI systems to go viral, creating stronger incentives to create more slop — and all the while drowning out human-created as well as higher-quality content. Which we need, because participation and democracy needs us to have good info." https://thewavingcat.com/2025/06/genai-polyester-slop-galore/
Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers Are Not OK.
We’re staring down a future where students exit education having learnt little but how to write good AI prompts, and then disguise the fact that’s what they did. https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
#mbjune day 2: Curve 📷 
Well, I loved that season of Doctor Who, and hope we get a renewal soon.
I refuse to let the wave on online negativity around this show rob me of the genuine enjoyment I get from it.
Now we’re cookin’ 
Preparing to do birthday sleep-over s’mores for my daughter and friends.