Notes from the Editor

This list on Substack has been quiet, and now we’re shutting down our account entirely. Why? Well it’s because Substack is on the same route as X. I’ll explain why I think that is and, if it bothers you, what some alternatives are.

Creative grumpiness is changing how we blog and post to social media.

The Week in Botany, a newsletter, is preparing for a post-Twitter era by using Botany.fyi, a link shortener, to compile popular posts from various social media platforms.

After a few months of working with AI, we’re revising how we use it. Some of this reflects changes in the capabilities of AI, and some of this reflects feedback on how we use it.

AI authors are like predictive text on your phone. They help writing words, but are less good at sentences and cannot be used for writing whole articles at the moment.