Is artificial intelligence the future of content creation? — A recent story here on Medium recommended a free website called ‘Jenni AI’ which uses artificial intelligence to generate articles, emails, stories, blog posts… basically any written content you need with almost zero effort and in a fraction of the time it takes to write your own content. Intrigued, I…

Is the new A.I. text-to-image function on Canva any good? — I’ve been seeing a lot of stories on Medium recently about A.I. art. Seems it’s set to be the next big thing in content creation. But I didn’t realise until about a week ago that Canva, a platform I use all the time to generate free images for social media…

Signposts to freedom from a contemporary spiritual teacher — Mooji is a contemporary spiritual teacher whose simple, direct teachings and deep wisdom have touched many thousands of hearts all over the world. Born in Jamaica in 1954, as Anthony Paul Moo-Young, he arrived in the UK with his mother when he was just one year old and was to…

Can someone please explain to me the difference? — The internet is up in arms today after a woman mistakenly shot a husky instead of a wolf. During a hunting trip to Montana, Amber Rose Barnes shot and skinned the dog, before posting the photos on Facebook to brag that “I just smoked a wolf pup.” Barnes had set…

A lesson from Conan the Barbarian — When I was a schoolboy, I went through a phase of reading Conan books. Long before Arnold Schwarzenegger made his appearance as Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film of the same name, the giant, swashbuckling meathead (Conan, not Arnie) was fighting, drinking and wenching his way through volume after…

Is it acceptable for vegans to eat animals killed on the road? — It’s an old question — is eating roadkill vegan? You’re driving along a quiet country road and you spot a freshly-killed rabbit, pheasant or deer. As a vegan, is it acceptable to take the corpse home and cook up a rabbit stew or game pie? After all, you’ve not killed…

That’s the bizarre question everyone is asking today — Who remembers Dennis Avner? Born in 1958 in Flint, Michigan, Dennis Avner worked as a solar technician in the US Navy until 1981, when he left to become a computer programmer and technician in San Diego. In the early 1980s, driven by a strong affinity for tigers, and in particular…

I thought their salads were supposed to be vegan — I used to think Subway were a fairly progressive company. Sure, they still sell a sh*tload of meat and dairy, but they have some pretty tasty vegan options, like the meat-free meatballs and the vegan TLC (‘Tastes Like Chicken’). What’s more, they always change their gloves before prepping any vegan…

How massive cuts to legal aid in the last seventy years have become a barrier to people defending their rights — In 2020, Ruth Green of the International Bar Association made a damning pronouncement. ‘The demise of legal aid,’ she wrote, ‘threatens to erode access to justice and prevent ordinary citizens from enforcing their rights’. This short essay will examine whether a reduced provision of legal aid throughout England and Wales…