Cartooning in the Age of AI #23: How I Used AI to Save Hours Creating Better Book Pages (And What Went Wrong) I want people to find my work with AI. I'm using AI to make my website AI-friendly.

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Worldshift: The Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit 2025 Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit

I'm working on a novel. This might be helpful. worldshift.manyworldswriting.com

Cartooning in the Age of AI #22: If AI Takes Over Search, Is It Worth Having a Website? AI-powered search is bad for news sites, but could be good for cartoonists.

Cartooning blogs and websites could make a comeback. open.substack.com/pub/alexhall...

A little Life in England – Our little Hyundai Inster is an (Almost) Perfect Car for Us From Chippy the 19-year old, petrol-powered Fiat Punto to Zippy the new, electric Hyundai Inster

Including ten reasons why an electric Hyundai Inster is better than a 19-year old, petrol-powered Fiat Punto (and a few reasons why it’s not). open.substack.com/pub/alexhall...

Vehicles can drive through Moreton ford but Jack Russells have to swim.

I haven’t seen that movie, but I know what you mean. And decades of under investment and education has contributed to the lack of critical thinking which makes people susceptible to misinformation and disinformation.

Lovely cartoon.

A robot is saying, "use of colour is primitive to a cartoonist" who is wearing headphones working on a computer.

alexhallatt.substack.com/p/cartooning... If we let AI take over all our mundane tasks, we may lose more than our data.

We love days like this on Portland. #Dorset #TopHill #Summer

True.

WePresent | A story of hope and solidarity on the Bibby barge and beyond Theo McInnes & Thomas Ralph’s project “Bibby Boys” tells the story of the men seeking asylum in Dorset, and the passionate local community that rallied around them

What a lovely story of compassion: wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/theo... The people who formed this group are the kind of people I want to connect with in my new home of Portland, Dorset.

Or dog. They know how to live life.

A little Life in England – Reclaiming Portland's Quarried Landscape Apart from the beaches, my favourite places in Portland are where nature is taking things back.

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Cartooning in the Age of AI #20: AI Stole My Work, But At Least It Fixed My Finances AI Helped Me Discover I'd Been Haemorrhaging Money for Years.

I don’t want to know how much money I have lost over the years by not having a better bank account.
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A little Life in England – Island Life and a New Car Beckon Chippy got us to the island, but is struggling with hills. Even little ones.

I’m a believer in Hills, not Pills, so Portland in Dorset will suit me well.
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Cartooning in the Age of AI #19: We'll Need Multiple Sources of Income Government sees artificial intelligence as an economic saviour. It is unlikely to protect human creativity and the income that brings.

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Oh my god that’s organised!

It’s easy for a Jack Russell to be out of her depth in the River Piddle.

Cartooning in the Age of AI #18: Meeting People In Real Life One of the advantages of being human is we can go out and about and meet other people IRL. There are moves to bring AI there too. But AI doesn't make cake.

Wearable AI all-seeing, all-listening devices are on the cards at OpenAI. What could go wrong? open.substack.com/pub/alexhall...

Tea is such a delight to work with, I can’t imagine why anyone would ghost her.

A little Life in England – We Got Here and Now We Need to Get Around I wish I didn't have to drive.

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I’m back in England, housesitting and I can’t find where anything is. I’m drinking an IPA from a mug and I confess I like it. Why do we use glasses for beer anyway?

Molly and I accidentally made the national paper, the New Zealand Herald. Because it has been raining a lot here and our poor neighbours who have just built a new house had a slip. It is between our house and the tennis court where Molly likes to chase the ball.

Cartooning in the Age of AI #16: Show You're Human. With a Dog. Dogs have helped humans in the real world for millennia. Now they are helping their humans connect online.

I'm not good at self-promotion, unless it's by accident. Having a dog helps with that. Dogs are awesome. open.substack.com/pub/alexhall...

SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Living in Lyttelton – If It Rains for Three Days or More There Will Be Slips Because of the steep slopes, loess and under runners. I was unfamiliar with the last two before I moved to New Zealand.

Loess is weird stuff. alexhallatt.substack.com/p/living-in-...

One of the things I love about England is the place names. This is from the Dorset wildlife trust: “Every donation to the project during the Big Give Green Match Fund week will help us plant 6,000 trees across three of our nature reserves – West Holme, Ashington Meadow at Happy Bottom ...”

Cartooning in the Age of AI #15: AI is Reading Everything AI is helping companies who are overwhelmed with data. But it's not helping their clients if there are no humans to correct their inevitable mistakes.

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