I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…

Lawyers are at the forefront of debate and dispute over the technology’s lawful and responsible use

Bigger and better data sets and powerful AI models are allowing us to spot previously undetectable patterns

A recent study in Computers in Human Behavior provides evidence that a single smartphone pop-up derails mental focus for seven seconds. Researchers found that fragmented digital habits cause more cogn...

Last month, my wonderful hairdresser and friend Gemma left her job to fulfil her dream of starting her own salon with fellow stylist Aimee. 'Haus of Hair' opened last week. I visited on Friday and wa...

When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman

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Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

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Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

Photographer. Writer. Geek. Climber. Click to read Andy Day, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.

Ban the extraction of peoples behavioural data for advertising purposes. This extraction can happen on most internet-connected devices 24/7. Data is sold through Real Time Bidding (RTB) system which i...

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Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models

All three companies failed to adequately answer the complainants' access requests

LLM failures to reason, as documented in Apple’s Illusion of Thinking paper, are really only part of a much deeper problem

"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” - 1984, George Orwell

Surveillance shit is about to get real