Book recommendations: Drax & Meta Paid Members Public
How money from the slave trade is still influencing British politics — and the inside story of the people in Facebook that ended up upending society.
Meta pirated books — and trained AI on them. Paid Members Public
And it looks like some of mine were in there.
Seeking refuge from the technofeudalist attention economy – in print Paid Members Public
Print doesn't have to die for digital to win.
The AI trap has closed around Apple. Don’t be next. Paid Members Public
Apple tried to make AI a personal answer engine. It failed. It's a warning to all businesses.
The humour and morality void at the heart of Meta Paid Members Public
A new book is confirming every dark suspicion we had about Facebook
The federated One Man & His Blog Paid Members Public
If you haven't heard of ActivityPub yet, now might be the time to start paying attention
AI: Take a guess Paid Members Public
LLMs are, in essence, guessing machines. They work by determining what’s probably the answer. And that means they’re great for ideas — and terrible for facts.
Media mutatis Paid Members Public
A new season of OM&HB is coming your way. And this might be the most interesting time to be writing about media in the two decades I've been posting here.
