Archive - Ultra-Processed News

Degenerative Design

It’s really hard to stand out these days … and with generative-AI taking over the design over: standing-out is only going to get harder.

Aug 19 •

July 2024

The politics of hope

What happens when people actually qualified for the role get into positions of power...? The UK (and perhaps the US) is about to find out.

Jul 25 •

June 2024

You might have missed the most important thing about Apple's WWDC24 announcements yesterday...

Jun 11 •

May 2024

Identity in an algorithmic world.

How do Jacks of All Trades compete in a world of Masters of One?

May 22 •

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Things are about to get very weird, very quickly...

May 15 •

Nourishment for the mind...

It's time I got better at talking about what I'm trying to build ...

May 13 •

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April 2024

Stop buying hate.

It's not the Met Police's responsibility to protect the public from the intentional lies of the British media. It's yours.

Apr 28 •

February 2024

Be yourself – or don't bother being.

Assistive AI might seem alluring - but it will erode your very soul. Don't let it.

Feb 27 •

Back to reality…

We are fast approaching the point where media reality is drowned out by media fiction – and we couldn't have picked a worse moment.

Feb 16 •

January 2024

Free to go anywhere.

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Jan 16 •

Half the whole truth...

As Artifact closes down we must remember, it's not about what you read - it's about how much you read it, at the expense of reading everything else...

Jan 13 •

If it sells, it's creative.

Is AI creative? According to the godfather of advertising, perhaps it is. Let's try a little experiment...

Jan 9 •

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