Looks like it’s a rainy day today in Falkirk. Something quite nice about working with the sound of the rain in the background

Watched 28 Years Later last night. Never seen a movie go from a solid 7/10 to a 5/10 in the last minute of runtime before, kind of impressive how badly it fumbles the tone right at the end.

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Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

Not normally one to root for Disney, but hey if they wanna fight AI on copyright infringement I’m not gonna say no

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Close-up render of an iPhone with the new ‘Liquid Glass’ UI design, focused on a menu bar showing a row of icon buttons as well as a music player. The content behind the UI is blurred by the glass effect, producing an overly busy effect

If this is secretly Apple’s way to get people off their phones and looking at the world around them then they’re doing a good job I guess

Photo of an iPhone Home Screen with the new ‘Liquid Glass’ icons on display. The icons are translucent white and very hard to read.

Great work Apple UI design team, everyone has been crying out for insubstantial, unreadable yet somehow overly detailed user interfaces, everyone I meet tells me how much they hate looking at their phones

My website is ugly because I made it If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’t want good art – she wanted my art. Somebody with good taste...

Long time readers know how important we feel about creating your own thing. Hopefully this article gives you a push to make something — anything you can call yours.

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I re-read this post about 5 times, just to be extra sure.

Weekly Tip: Read, then re-read. Check for spelling. Doesn't matter if someone else wrote it or you did it yourself – in fact if you wrote it, get someone else to check it for you.

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Photo of 4 Brewdog beer cans, from left to right: Punk IPA (blue and black), Hazy Jane (teal and white), Lost Lager (gold and white), Elvis Juice (orange and cream).

Brewdog's recently rebranded some of their beers, and they're claiming the new look is 'revolutionary'. Looks pretty bland to me, but then I'm not surprised that the massive company that pretends to be punk while treating its staff atrociously has trouble coming across as authentic.

Good morning to the inevitable consequences of my own hubris

I love my cute little pocket computer which is now a direct portal to hell

You ever get into a proper flow state with a project, and all of a sudden it’s 2am and you’re tired and you’ve done more work in 4 hours than you’ve done in days?

#graphicdesign #adhd

Today is a good day because I'm buying fonts. #graphicdesign #typography

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Ah but what if they measure it wrong? Let’s get a third opinion, best two out of three.

Own your own content. You never know when platforms will get taken away, or taken over by weirdos.

More importantly: own your own knowledge.

Weekly tip:

Measure twice, cut once.

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Literally toxic masculinitea

The promise that wasn’t kept AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?

AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better".

That's not what's happening.

Photo of some takeaway pepperoni pizza

Birthday tea

Very different from their usual album art. Wonder if there’ll be some tracks highlighting the failings of the modern tech industry?

‘Stop using my voice' - ScotRail's new announcer is my AI clone Voiceover artist Gayanne says an AI used on ScotRail trains was trained using her voice.

Oh good, Scottish train passengers are being subjected to an AI generated announcer which was apparently trained on data that wasn’t meant for that purpose. Love to live in a cyberpunk dystopia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Photo of a notebook, pen and cup of tea. The notebook is cover is burgundy and features a map illustration from JRR Tolkien’s book the Hobbit embossed in copper foil

Starting a new habit today: morning pages! Seemed like a good a time as any to start this notebook #journalling

This message brought to you by my sudden decision to clear out my wardrobe instead of making a phone call

Massive disadvantage to working from home: it’s really easy to find ways to avoid a task you don’t wanna do

Been doing some epub development recently, and the key takeaway so far is: assume any CSS or graphics even slightly interesting won’t be supported by one or more of the biggest vendors. Fun?

bit windy today

Woo, custom domain handle. Fun!