“The acceleration of the past five years has been driven primarily by the ultra-fast-fashion business model pioneered by Shein and now followed by Temu and a growing number of imitators” but sure, data centres are the villains, not you.

🚨I have a new book coming out October 20: Co-Existence! It is about how we live & work with AIs that are sometimes (but not always) smarter than we are. And it has a cool cover. You can pre-order: co-existence.ai And here is a post with context: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/co-existen...

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

“I can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t become interested in this stuff as a filmmaker. It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera. It’s going to be better than CGI. I’m excited, I hope you are.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I had early access to Opus 4.8. Was impressed by it. Here is Opus 4.8's one shot of "create a visually interesting shader that can run in twigl, make it like an infinite city of neo-gothic towers partially drowned in a stormy ocean with large waves" (this is all done with math, no premade assets)

Amazon MGM Studio greenlights three #AI series and launches GenAI Creators Fund, including access to a new software suite (‘Project Nara’) that combines AI and industry standard graphics tools. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

A slide from my forthcoming presentation.

“People don't like the new app / website redesign and want the old one back” is an evergreen news story.

The polite way to put OP would have been "it convinces me there is such deep uncertainty on this topic that people are hungry for sources of moral orientation or affirmation." Which is fine; it's not a crime; I'm just observing.

I really enjoyed this book. Non-fiction with a fictionalised layer is the best way I can describe it. The story of John von Neumann, the Manhattan Project, the MANIAC computer, AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, humanity, madness, and artificial intelligence. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Found this picture of me holding the Premier League and FA Cup trophies from when #Arsenal won the double in 2002. Fingers crossed there'll be another one soon.

2016: On stage at I/O, Sundar Pichai says that Google is moving from a mobile first to an AI first company. 2026: Everyone seems baffled that Google is launching so many AI tools.

Brilliant deep research in this piece on how #Arsenal returned to the top by @gunnerblog.bsky.social. Free to read (gift link): www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

Gemini Omni Flash is a decent generation model, but an excellent editing model. It's not in the class of Seedance 2.0 - but it's cheaper and faster, so better for a general audience. #AI

The treble is still on: #Arsenal win the Prem and Champions League, and Tottenham go down.

ONE. TO. GO.

Once, many years ago, in the back of a cab, I heard a radio show guest describe football as a game of low surprise and high tension. It's always stuck with me. And never truer than tonight. #Arsenal #ARSBUR

Fucking hell, my heart… #Arsenal #WHUARS

80+ minutes of stress wondering if we can score. Now 10+ minutes of stress wondering if we can hold it. #Arsenal #WHUARS

I have a locked X account which I need for work; I don’t follow any accounts, don’t engage in any way. The algorithmic For You feed always has a recent Musk post first, followed by a page of absolute trash. That place is a cesspit.

In a recent presentation I called OpenClaw the most influential software you’ll probably never use. This by @fryrsquared.bsky.social is a really good pop intro to how it works and the potential benefits and hazards, and is recommended viewing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR...

If nothing else, Crypto has been amazing for propping up the North Korean dictatorship. www.trmlabs.com/resources/bl...

British weather has immaculate timing.

With AI tools the typical ad agency creative pair (art director + copywriter) can do most of the other’s work. Whether or not that’s a threat depends largely on if that pairing only exists for dividing a task by speciality, or if it exists because the sum of the two parts is greater than the whole.

"War Without Mercy on the Pessimist, Whose Weapon is the Discouragement of the Anti-Fascist People" (1936, Ramón Puyol Román)

Happy Horse, the new #AI video model from Alibaba-ATH, just launched. Features are what you’d expect: T2V / I2V, up to 9 image refs, up to 15s, 720p (upscale to 1080p), native audio, editing. Looking forward to giving it a run-out.

Pastiche or cliché? What Pelham II might mean for AI outputs Regular readers will know that I have been interested in the pastiche exception for a while now, mostly because it has always struck me as the most underused exceptions under modern copyright law in Europe and the UK. Perhaps it is not…

Explain OpenClaw in the style of Victorian British newspaper advertising, then create a mock photograph showing a Victorian flower seller in London’s East End sitting below a poster of that ad. ChatGPT Images 2.0. #AI

Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re Looking at the Wrong Culprit. “One drive to the work I do on the Colorado River used more than 20 times the water of everything I did with AI in 11 weeks.” [outsideonline.com]

I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that there is a quality threshold I didn't expect, where you can now get usable text, slides, academic papers Look at what it does with my "otter test"! (Zoom in)

OpenClaw explained: GPT 5.4 + ChatGPT Images 2.0 (left) vs Gemini 3.1 + Nano Banana Pro (right). I think ChatGPT Image 2.0 has the edge; the illustrations seem more of the right era. #AI #ChatGPT

Very emotional moment for me yesterday as I finally properly saw a Thames seal after previously only getting glimpses. This one was just hanging out on one of the little beaches. #London

🎯 open.substack.com/pub/generati...

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

The #AI Bogeyman in media reporting. Headline: “Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say.” Body: “The use of AI was not mentioned in court on Thursday, and the CPS did not rely on it for their case presented to court." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Surprising (to me) results from this survey by VSCO of photographers, both professional and enthusiast, on the adoption of #AI. 83% of all photographers use AI, and it’s higher in pros.

I signed this petition calling for a referendum on the renationalisation of water. TBH I don’t even think we should have a referendum, we should just renationalise it. The water companies are failing in their duty of care to our most precious asset. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

The quality and detail in #Seedance 2.0 videos is amazing, but most impressive of all might be how it maintains consistency over a 15 second clip.

Seedance 2.0 is now available to ALL users. Create studio-quality videos by directing text, images, video, and audio into a single unified scene with perfectly synchronized stereo sound and realistic physics. Hollywood-level production in less than 2 minutes.

Out of nowhere we had a 24° and sunny day today. The parks and pubs are full of people; all of London's out.

Milla Jovovich — yes, Milla Jovovich the actor from Resident Evil, The Fifth Element, etc — just released a top-rated #AI memory retrieval system on GitHub. github.com/milla-jovovi...

This post might be mediocre (at best) but I wrote it with Gemma 4 running locally on my phone. 🎉 So, while the content is only average, my carbon footprint is basically zero. Hello, zero electricity, hello, no unnecessary water! 💧🚫 😉 #AmateurWriter #Gemma #MehButGreen

Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code

"If personalization can be described in plain language and built on open infrastructure, then recommendation logic is much more understandable and controllable. That doesn't automatically solve [lockin], but it does challenge the idea that personalization has to belong to the platform alone"

Okay folks I've responded to the data center heat island paper. It is the worst study on AI and the environment I've ever read, by far. Thank you to @beijingpalmer.bsky.social for flagging. blog.andymasley.com/p/data-cente...

Seedance 2.0 is rolling out globally via CapCut and/or Dreamina. Very impressive: follows prompts exactly and results have excellent detail, motion, and camera work. It still suffers from some of the same issues as other video models (e.g. clip 3 ⬇️) but is best-in-class right now. #AI

Som evidence that AIs may reduce polarization, the opposite of the effect of social media: “while different AI platforms behave in subtly different ways, all of them nudge people away from the most extreme positions and towards more moderate and expert-aligned stances.” www.ft.com/content/3880...

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

When is the Bored Apes movie coming out?

Michael Hafftka uploads half his work for #AI training. “I decided that I could best use my work as a huge dataset.So many artists are reluctant to collaborate with AI, but I like the idea of doing that… I could actually wind up with a much better-trained model.” www.fastcompany.com/91514741/mic...