What I want AI to do: 'Open my Mellel files in the Liturgy folder, and save them as Word files in the Word Liturgy folder’.
What I don’t want AI to do: ‘I changed the word “sonic” in your text to “Sonia” because you don’t usually talk about acoustics.’ [But I don’t know anyone named Sonia!)
Welp, maybe that means *two* Marvel films I won’t bother seeing….
(until they make their way onto a streaming platform to which I subscribe)
What does ‘volte-face’ mean?
Discovery…
Well, we know half of the answer
I just re-read this article I wrote 2 years ago. It's really good and I hope you read it too!
Fun fact: I worked hard to distribute this survey on violence to women who bike in Utrecht & most respondents were baffled by the questions. Most couldn't understand how biking could be unsafe for anyone.
Diminished steadiness/sense of balance is a sign of ageing…
Fragsky, I’m moving on from a long-term relationship with L’Instant de Guerlain Homme. I recently ordered a package of small samples, and I’ll post my (and my wife’s) responses to the samples as I work through them.
First sample: MONTALE
Oud Sapparot Eau de Parfum…
Margaret gave this an ‘agreeable’. It led with a sweet and smoky scent, then settled into a gently earthy, spicy lasting impression with elements of wood and leather. She say that if this is the best, she will like it.
Fragsky, I’m moving on from a long-term relationship with L’Instant de Guerlain Homme. I recently ordered a package of small samples, and I’ll post my (and my wife’s) responses to the samples as I work through them.
First sample: MONTALE
Oud Sapparot Eau de Parfum…
Germany has watched carefully, then decided to completely ban voting machines. All our ballots are hand printed and hand counted.
I am probably the glass conservatory, because a cup of coffee in morning sunlight is about the best there can be, but the billiard room if not the conservatory.
I am the *anti*- sunken killer bathtub.
How often does it come up?
Oh, great — now *my* friends will be using small children to compel *me* to answer my phone. Thanks a lot, Jay.
Paging *literally every non-MAGS political theorist of the past hundred years*…
Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
This was revelatory for me because I've never heard of a woman being lauded in the context of AIDS drug expertise. I've only heard about genius white guys.
Iris Long was the woman who taught ACT-UP and who initiated what became ACT UP’s famous treatment and data committee.
Sociopathic Grifter: Come to me for Christian medicine!
Media: Christianity’s Medical Problems…
SG: Equal time for Christian Mathematics!
Media: Christian Maths Solves New Equations…
SG: Join the Society for Pushing Christianity onto Animals!
Media: No Cats in the Bible? Why So Many in Our Cities?
Maybe they want some privacy? And to have control over the media they love?
Next time, book time in our [next home's] soundproof studio/library… Comfortable lodging and vegetarian food, too.
But these are cases in which the marketing was directed toward selling *one specific alternative* version of the technology rather than ‘everyone must adopt the technology’. It was Microsoft VS Navigator, or AOL VS Compuserve, or among innumerable brands of mobile phones.
This mage depicts a typescript page from the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biblical Studies, a chapter entitled ‘What is Interdisciplinarity? An Introduction, Overview, and Justification of the Concept for Biblical Studies’, by A K M Adam. The abstract below it reads, ‘This chapter clarifies the meaning and value of interdisciplinarity by distinguishing it carefully from disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, and the uncritical expansion of a single discipline’s authority. Drawing on theorists such as Bourdieu, Klein, Geertz, and Culler, the author argues that disciplines confer coherence and legitimacy by organising knowledge through shared conventions, institutions, and standards of evidence. Multidisciplinary work juxtaposes such disciplines without challenging their internal priorities, whereas genuine interdisciplinarity emerges only when multiple disciplinary perspectives interact transformatively, destabilizing inherited assumptions and producing insights unattainable within a single field. The chapter then applies this framework to biblical studies, showing it to be a historically hybrid field shaped by philology, history, theology, and literary criticism. The author contends that biblical studies has no unique disciplinary essence but gains vitality precisely through interdisciplinary risk-taking that unsettles its dominant historical conventions.’
Coming to a bookstore, library, friend’s bookshelf, or possibly PDF collection near you…
MacKenzie Scott, or Melinda French Gates, or George Soros, or a team of the lot of you: Please found a university dedicated to—you know—university ideals, faculty governance, real books, no AI, diversity along multiple axes, free speech in service of academic ideals. Start a well-funded competition…
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You’ve evidently been reading the Bible: ‘Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.’ Ezekiel 23:19f.
Just to note how long-lasting the effects of post-graduate training can be, I still salivate and check my plans whenever I see the phrase ‘refreshments provided’… and I’m about to retire.
Looks younger than I figured…
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‘This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.’
The Letter of Polonius, I.iii.565