You do not have to use generative AI "art" in your blog.  

Jenn Schiffer shares a useful list of websites where you can get beautiful, free images licensed for use in your creative projects.

I enjoy a few blogs and newsletters that obviously use gen AI to make header images. Those images do the writing zero favors. As I writer, I understand the impulse to outsource image generation to an AI tool where you can describe what you want with words. But just because you can, does not mean you should. Imagery that’s obviously generated by AI has a who cares smell about it, and I don’t use it here.

Media Menu.  

At the end of 2024, I was inspired by a few year-end media roundups, like Soderbergh’s extensive list and a friend who keeps a spreadsheet of every movie she’s ever watched. So I started writing very brief reviews of all the media I consume at Media Menu. It’s been a rewarding–and sometimes difficult!–practice to write about what I like and what I don’t. I plan to keep this going.