: Please Use AI - by Shawn Smucker I’ve seen several links to this poem, and deservedly so. I noticed …
: I published a repo for an Alfred workflow that I made for searching my links using the GoodLinks app …
: Moral Excellence unforgiven – The Homebound Symphony …Isaac with his indifference to any moral excellence he himself …
: New Old Typewriter I was inspired by Chris Aldrich’s post to purchase, clean, and repair an old typewriter. I never …
: A lot of people are fleeing from Twitter/X looking for the next place where ‘everybody is.’ But …
: Last night at a middle school band concert, the director announced a student would play “a little …
: Stories about reality Because Large Language Models are trained on human language about reality, their chatbots can often …
: Brooding: Should Our Children Have a Political Party? Most of us have loved ones whose beliefs don’t …
: Finished reading: Martin Heidegger by George Steiner 📚
: Accountability sinks | A Working Library Once you start looking for accountability sinks, you see …
: Other People's Projects Pluralistic: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (26 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links …
: “merlin mann” apple site:music.apple.com at DuckDuckGo Merlin doesn’t share his profile on Apple …
: Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚
: Finished reading: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 📚
: Finished reading: Low Anthropology by David Zahl 📚
: Finished reading: Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf 📚
: Finished reading: America’s Theologian by Robert W. Jenson 📚
: Finished reading: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on …
: Finished reading: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚
: Finished reading: The Humans by Matt Haig 📚
: Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
: Finished reading: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s a big book with diverse parts …
: Finished reading: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚
: The Homebound Symphony Perhaps [‘the history of anarchism, almost alone among modern social …
: A great test for Large Language Model AI’s would be to remove some artist’s specific work and see if …
: Finished reading: Across the Everglades by Hugh Laussat Willoughby 📚
: Finished reading: I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven 📚
: The First Battleground of the Age of AI Is Art Kottke says: Like, just think about how powerful this …
: Finished reading: The 2 Oz. Backpacker by Robert S. Wood 📚
: Finished reading: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas 📚
: Finished reading: The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry 📚
: Fences Pirkei Avot 1:1 & English Explanation of Pirkei Avot 1:1:1 from the Talmud Making a fence around the …
: The American Crisis Discourse The Homebound Symphony But goodness, is it difficult to get many editors interested in books that …
: A Treadmill for the Mind As a long time user and admirer of Apple’s products, I find myself in a new situation: I am not only …
: Ted Gioia on AI music. In agreement with my 2023 goal of doing work that cannot be replaced by AI.
: Austin Kleon: Whether you’re into AI or not, it’s worth spending some time honoring what is not …
: I’ve done similar before with two lists: ‘cultivate’ and ‘resist.’
: I know there are bookmarklets, but I’d love a Safari extension that put micropub actions onto a …
: Preservice Music at Christmas Eve
: No one ever tells the bad guys, “This time you’ve gone exactly the right amount of far.” I mean, …
: Pack your own parachute, Roll your own rig. If you want to make a Newton, Bring your own fig. We …
: Maybe we should re-examine our trope that kids today are such ‘snowflakes’ that they cry when asked …
: Maybe we should re-examine our trope that kids today are so entitled that they think they can get …
: I should have made better notes for myself when I set up my micropub endpoint…
: Really appreciate the great, quick updates with excellent release notes from @joec and his app …
: No, not everyone is Ernest Hemingway, but imagine for a moment a world where the majority of people …
: Ten Minutes of Peace If you use an iOS device and you’ve upgraded to iOS 12, do yourself a favor and add this Shortcut, …
: One time I listened to so much Wilco I showed up to all my appointments on Central Time.
: Pastor: Jesus said ‘I am the Bread of Life.’ Parishioner: ‘Sheesh. Some people just need to be …
: Verizon throttled California fire department during wildfire crisis - The Verge The Revolution will …
: Is Facebook evil? Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason — Quartz Is Facebook evil? Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason — Quartz Without …
: In a country that slew indigenous people and was built on slave labor, White Nationalism is always …
: 273.16 degrees of Kelvin Bacon is so close to being a good joke.
: Seven Books I Have Loved I can’t say ‘favorite’ because these are basically the earliest books I loved, or the latest books I …
: My ego is like a Cable News pundit telling me how to think and feel about everything that happens, …
: How’s it going? - BrettTerpstra.com → Hey buddy, how you doing? I’m good, thanks for asking. You …
: Since the time my firstborn was very little it’s always been clear he’s going to roll his own …
: Oscar Romero, May 11, 1973 Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they …
: I’m Not Driving I love my iPhone’s Do Not Disturb feature which mutes the parade of bells and vibrations that come …
: So, do we just accept that people use the phrase ‘anal’ to mean ‘anal-retentive’ in polite …
: Daring Fireball: Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation That Sandberg and (presumably) Zuckerberg resisted investigating and disclosing everything they …
: The Horse I’m stepping into a great big backyard. It’s familiar, yet new to me. It stretches on farther than I …
: When I take my metal coffee thermos out of my bag it rubs against a grommet and sounds like a sword …
: Joining Micro.blog has really gotten me curious about the IndieWeb movement. Looks like more changes …
: I’m less angry if I accept at the beginning of the day that being a parent will elicit physical pain …
: Internet Friends: 1: How We Met on the Internet This podcast about the internet and society really resonated with me, in particular, how each of …
: Pastor Lura N. Groen: Spiritual Abuse at the Meeting at ULS regarding Dr Latini I understand Dr. Latini’s desire to control her own story and her own identity. And yet she has …
: I’m putting microblog posts in the same stream as regular posts. It’s blog succotash!
: Lake Street Dive - Good Kisser (Live Performance - YouTube) → Chills. If the rest of the songs are …
: Do you ever have that thing where you write something incredible in the ecstasy of a caffeine …
: I have a fairly long history with meditation but I just got Mindfulness for Mere Mortals by …
: Safety Sen. Marco Rubio, in 2014, in a bid to raise his NRA rating from a B+ to an A: The safety of our …
: I love and work alongside older adults everyday, yet I can’t help but think we need a Jubilee …
: At the gym there are three muted TVs set to Cable News, SportsCenter, and a contestant show…and they …
: Explicit Bias If your skin is white, like mine, I urge you to take the online Implicit Bias test conducted by …
: Not only that but when you finish making your website you will have gained superpowers: you now have …
: Carpet with the color and smell of spilled coffee as a feature, not a bug?
: Yes, Florida has seasons. You just don’t look at the tree leaves to tell them apart.
: Parenting is helping children grow from generally being monsters to whatever specific type of …
: Doors and Walls I’ve been finding myself feeling frazzled pretty regularly which is something that happens when I …
: Getting close to having all my micro.blog basic setup in place!
: I wouldn’t be a true micro.blog user without a blog post on setting up my micro.blog, right?
: How This Site is Built Update to the Update: Site is now hosted on Wordpress with IndieWeb plugins. Update: I’m now putting …
: Health I spent way too much of 2017 sick. My goal for 2018 is to be much healthier. Some causes of illness …
: Comfort in Beliefs I think there’s a difference between taking comfort in my beliefs and taking comfort in my own …
: Hungry, boy? Back in my freshman year of college, my roommate Jon had gotten involved with an on-campus Christian …
: Stress When I fall apart under stress it looks like this: I become disillusioned with everything: with …
: Jolene Despite its sexist premise (it’s the other woman’s fault this man can’t honor his commitment?) and …
: The Greater Evil I have a feeling that many Americans will be going to the polls without a lot of passion for their …
: A Communion Parable There once was a man who had a neighbor. The neighbor invited him to a great party. Food was shared. …
: Music Ghosts When you make music, you call up a lot of ghosts. American music no less than any other. This …
: Phrases that are Always Lies “The more, the merrier.” “Be my guest.” “No offense, but …” “It’s not a threat; …
: Multitasking Considered Harmful Clay Shirkey banned laptops in class even though he is a proponent of technology. But distraction is …
: Prayer for Depth My mom recently told me that when I was born, she sincerely prayed for me to have to particular …
: Richie Havens When I was pretty young I read an article in Guitar Player about Richie Havens. Thirty years after …
: Four Reasons Why I Procrastinate The Obvious One I just don’t want to do it. Solution: Just do it. The Pernicious One I’m feeling …
: Baptism and the Cross This essay was written for a class I took in seminary called “Interseminary Seminar” in which …
: Clint Eastwood and Mass Culture On the movies of Clint Eastwood, by The New Yorker: “Mass culture is a machine for showing desire,” …
: Free Speech, Free Will Legally we have free speech, but in reality, it’s anything but free. Our public communication is …
: Message and Medium We can use the growing resources of electronic communication to bring the gospel message to many who …
: Net Full of Fish Just after daybreak, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. …