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22 – 26 September 2025 – Walknotes

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God, I love the way that Denise writes:

On the train there’s an ad for Adobe Express: “Commercially safe AI. Trusted results”. The ad shows a photo slotting in to a design. Commercially safe for everyone but photographers and designers. I couldn’t get a seat facing forwards, so I head backwards into the future like some half-arsed AI metaphor.

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Earth

While I’ve been listening to Hounds Of Love, I’ve also been reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Here’s a passage from an early chapter as the crew of the International Space Station watch a typhoon forming: How wired and wakeful the earth seems suddenly. It’s not one of...

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Hounds Of Love

The album Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush turned 40 years old this month. It has really stood the test of time. It still sounds like nothing else. It’s kind of two albums in one. There’s the A side with all those perfect pop songs—Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, Cloudbus...

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Against the protection of stocking frames. — Ethan Marcotte

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I don’t think it’s controversial to suggest that LLMs haven’t measured up to any of the lofty promises made by their vendors. But in more concrete terms, consumers dislike “AI” when it shows up in products, and it makes them actively mistrust the brands that employ it. In other words, we’re some three years into the hype cycle, and LLMs haven’t met any markers of success we’d apply to, well, literally any other technology.

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Sponsor Web Day Out

If you work at a clever company, then you should let them know about sponsoring Web Day Out.

All the details are in this PDF sponsorship pack. Basically there are three (and only three) spots available, at three different levels of sponsorship.

One of the best things about the venue for Web Day Out is that always having an excellent auditorium, the Studio Theatre has a really nice space for the breaks. It would be the perfect spot to set up a stand and chat with all the smart attendees.

All the attendees will, by definition, be smart because they got tickets for Web Day Out—a steal at just £225+VAT.

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Harry Roberts is speaking at Web Day Out

I was going to save this announcement for later, but I’m just too excited: Harry Roberts will be speaking at Web Day Out! Goddamn, that’s one fine line-up, and it isn’t even complete yet! Get your ticket if you haven’t already. There’s a bit of a story behind the talk that...

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Dancing about dancing

I read recently read two books that had writers as their main protagonists: Death Of The Author by Nnedi Okorafor, and Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang. They were both perfectly fine. But I found it hard to get really involved in either narrative. The stakes just never fe...