Richard Golian

When I read that Meta is testing a new way to charge for organic posts that link outside its platform, it confirms how right I was to become steadily less dependent on the big platforms and on social media.

What AI can do, how I use it, what effect it will have on the world, how I try to adapt to the new world.

When you think, or hear from others, that artificial intelligence still does not deliver good enough output, that it is unusable for certain tasks, it is worth realising that this may no longer be true today.

Over the past days I was at home in Slovakia.

Employees have the best AI models available at work, the connectors are hooked up, they know how to use them, and they have colleagues who already use them.

The same task.

For years I mostly read books.

Walking through the dead internet, I sometimes come across something alive.

A few weeks ago I installed a small local AI model on my laptop.

Some time ago I wrote about how I developed my own analytics tool.

I will speak for myself, for what makes sense to me to read and to write.

You will stop knowing things you once knew.

Sixteen of twenty-seven sources did not check out.

Seventy per cent.

We treated the internet as the main road.

A few days ago I interviewed a senior marketer.

Galați, Romania (EU and NATO territory), 29 May 2026.

AI can now produce the graphic for an advert.

In April, in the first part of this series I wrote about an AI prediction system I had started building on my own machine.

Prague, 13 May 2026.