Facebook
Book recommendations: Drax & Meta
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.
print
Seeking refuge from the technofeudalist attention economy – in print
Print doesn't have to die for digital to win.
AI
The AI trap has closed around Apple. Don’t be next.
Apple tried to make AI a personal answer engine. It failed. It's a warning to all businesses.
Facebook
The humour and morality void at the heart of Meta
A new book is confirming every dark suspicion we had about Facebook
fediverse
The federated One Man & His Blog
If you haven't heard of ActivityPub yet, now might be the time to start paying attention
AI: Take a guess
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
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.