Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers:

"At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art we make is a commodity, and our world wants things quickly, cheaply, and on demand. We are rushing toward a future where our novels, our biographies, our poems and our memoirs—our records of the human experience—are “written” by artificial intelligence models that, by definition, cannot know what it is to be human. To bleed, or starve, or love." https://lithub.com/against-ai-an-open-letter-from-writers-to-publishers/

The iPad is already my preferred video editor for most tasks. It looks like that’s only going to get better with iPad OS26 later this year.

I’m excited! But not excited enough to risk the betas… https://petapixel.com/2025/06/23/the-ipad-is-about-to-become-a-much-better-video-editor/

Something it’s important to get sorted…

Forcing all prospective students to make all their social media profiles public is chilling. This will make it much harder for US universities to recruit - but maybe that’s the point.

It may be good news for other countries’ universities, though. https://wapo.st/3TGV6ck

Yesterday, I went to the Worthing Dome with my daughters as a (late) Father’s Day treat.

What a beautiful cinema. I can’t believe I haven’t been before.

A beer in a church - an under-appreciated combo.

Gorgeous afternoon down on the beach. 🏖️

Candle in the rain. https://adders.blog/2025/06/13/candle-in-the-rain.html

Walking the tightrope between AI and audiences.

I get the feeling that a lot of business are gonna take a tumble into a dangerous canyon…  https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/06/walking-the-tightrope-between-ai-and-audiences/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share

What happened to student Rag and Rag Weeks?

Just corrected a 15-year-old typo on my blog.

Hurrah.

That typo was older than my oldest child. Some of my students were still in nursery when I made it. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/10/on_the_web_social_media_is_just_media/

Here’s @ayjay pointing out the major flaw in one of the weaker arguments for AI:

"A useful mental exercise: when people say “AI isn’t going anywhere” or “AI is here to stay,” substitute for “AI” the word “cancer.” A great many things that are here to stay are really bad and should be resisted as energetically as possible" https://micro.blog/ayjay https://social.ayjay.org/2025/06/10/a-useful-mental-exercise-when.html

Oh, Dr Beeching.

A tribute to an infamous moment in UK rail history.

#mbjune Day 10: Rail 📷

All the images from the challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beeching https://micro.blog/discover/mbjune/grid

A new look for One Man & His Blog.

The old theme was feeling dated, and isn’t being updated for new Ghost features, as far as I can tell. So, for now, one of the default Ghost themes has take its place. Some tweaking is likely in the coming weeks… https://onemanandhisblog.com/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new-look-share

Oh, yikes. The home office iMac won’t get macOS 26. Somehow it’s still “my new iMac”, but it’s five years old now…

Time to start putting the money aside for a Mac Mini and a decent 5k screen.

Wow, Midjourney really struggles with the idea of scissors.

#mbjune Day 9: Wood 📷

All the images from the challenge. https://micro.blog/discover/mbjune/grid

Escaping email hell with a beach walk before school pickup.

When did you last reply to someone on social media?

As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more conversation, a little less promotion please. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/06/when-did-you-last-reply-to-someone-on-a-social-network/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share

The downside of falling behind with your email:

“Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I must book. Let’s see, when is it…? Oh. Two weeks ago.”