Web Wanderings (June 2026)

Bot traffic has officially surpassed human traffic on the internet, according to a report cited in a roundup of June 2026 web wanderings. The Bank of England is asking the public to vote on animals for new banknotes, while Spotify founder Daniel Ek's Neko Health offers full-body health checks for £299. AI company Midjourney has developed a full-body scanner to rival MRI machines at lower cost.

A few sites and articles of interest I came across this month. Maybe blogging is falling out of favour because Gen Z think it’s too “cringe” ? The Bank of England is asking people to vote on which animals should be ont the next series of bank notes. Poor frog Bot traffic has officially passed human traffic on the Internet . Great. Spotify founder Daniel Ek is now running Neko Health , full body health checks for £299. To reclaim our personal tastes and cultural standards we must abandon algorithm-driven platforms . AI company Midjourney have developed a full-body scanner to rival MRI machines at a fraction of the cost and complexity. Inside Anthropic . Lettera is a new, standalone Markdown editing app for macOS. It's an extraction from the Bear Notes app . Interesting to see Taylor Lorenz now writing in The Guardian. I hope someone in the government is listening when she says The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech . Miguel Carranza RevenueCat writes a well-informed article about AI in tech companies. AI shouldn't shrink headcount. It should shrink teams . Private equity is everywhere in the UK. Nearly half of all vet practices are now PE backed. The Guardian has a very informative visual explainer .