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@ablerism @mwerickson One year, back in the Nineties I think, Coles was the speaker at Wheaton’s Faculty Development Day. He was inspiring, to say the least.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/20/i-wrote-a-grumpy-sardonic.html","date_published":"2026-06-20T14:57:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"14:57","date_timestamp":1781967445,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92548540","content_html":"One of the strangest figures of the first half of the 20th century was Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who began his life as an English prince, the grandson of Queen Victoria, but as an adolescent was plucked from his life at Eton and transported to Germany where he had unexpectedly inherited a dukedom. What happened then is described in his DNB entry:
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This piece of mine is half-essay and half-homily.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/19/this-piece-of-mine-is.html","date_published":"2026-06-19T15:53:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-19 15:53","date_timestamp":1781884401,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92493052","content_html":"John Ruskin, from The Crown of Wild Olive (1866):
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/19/john-ruskin-from-the-crown.html","date_published":"2026-06-19T12:32:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-19 12:32","date_timestamp":1781872379,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92452833","content_html":"All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty. And I want you to think a little of the deep significance of this word 'taste;' for no statement of mine has been more earnestly or oftener controverted than that good taste is essentially a moral quality. ‘No,’ say many of my antagonists, ‘taste is one thing, morality is another. Tell us what is pretty; we shall be glad to know that; but preach no sermons to us.’
\nPermit me, therefore, to fortify this...
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Also from Sara, Pattern Recognition - Comment Magazine:
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You know, I’ve seen the Uffington White Horse and it doesn’t really look like this.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/18/you-know-ive-seen-the.html","date_published":"2026-06-18T13:41:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-18 13:41","date_timestamp":1781790109,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92429981","content_html":"Resting after running.
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/795e537f7a-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/18/resting-after-running.html","date_published":"2026-06-18T13:36:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-18 13:36","date_timestamp":1781789787,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92356649","content_html":"In which I explain why I’d like to be the first biographer of Bob Dylan.
\n(I also posted this to BlueSky because I want to see how long it will be before someone responds, “Actually, there are already several biographies of Bob Dylan.”)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/17/in-which-i-explain-why.html","date_published":"2026-06-17T13:05:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-17 13:05","date_timestamp":1781701525,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92306569","content_html":"Gary Saul Morson and Julio M. Ottino:
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/16/gary-saul-morson-and-julio.html","date_published":"2026-06-16T18:42:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 18:42","date_timestamp":1781635327,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92299774","content_html":"\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/16/texass-newest-state-park.html","date_published":"2026-06-16T17:05:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 17:05","date_timestamp":1781629554,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92289231","content_html":"Artificial intelligence can process vast datasets, identify patterns invisible to human perception, and generate explanations with remarkable coherence. Faced with such capabilities, it is tempting to believe that uncertainty can finally be overcome — that the future can be rendered legible in advance.
\nBut the deeper effect of AI lies in its ability to reorganize the past. Given sufficient data, AI systems can produce narratives that make outcomes appear coherent, even inevitable. They can identify correlations, reconstruct causal chains, and highlight what they...
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@manton Hard to pick a winner!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/92289231","date_published":"2026-06-16T14:13:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 14:13","date_timestamp":1781619239,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92288799","content_html":"![\"CleanShot](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/cleanshot-2026-06-16-at-09.03.302x.png\")
@ablerism I told Aaron Z that that should be a new ministry for him.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/92286903","date_published":"2026-06-16T13:33:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 13:33","date_timestamp":1781616787,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92281503","content_html":"David Hackett Fischer, from Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America:
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/16/from-albions-seed-four-british.html","date_published":"2026-06-16T11:39:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 11:39","date_timestamp":1781609985,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92233562","content_html":"\nShortly before the American Revolution … the Anglican Society for the Propagation of Gospel sent missionaries to Massachusetts for the conversion of the “heathen.” They built one of their missions not on the frontier but across the street from Harvard College and labored to convert the sons of Congregational New England. The head of this Anglican organization, Bishop Thomas Seeker, made no secret of his contempt for the colonists, whom he collectively characterized in 1741 as “wicked, and dissolute and brutal in every...
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\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/15/edward-mendelson-oxford-reprinted-the.html","date_published":"2026-06-15T18:12:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 18:12","date_timestamp":1781547176,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92221817","content_html":"Oxford reprinted the anthology in hard covers until the mid-1960s, then issued it in paperback in 1973, a few weeks before Auden's death, under the title W.H. Auden's Oxford Book of Light Verse, as if to signal that it was more of a personal selection than one that came with the authority of its publisher. Oxford also commissioned Kingsley Amis to compile a New Oxford Book of Light Verse, which appeared in 1978. This collection of undemandingly amusing verse (about half the length of Auden's) was effectively the book that Auden's disappointed reviewers had hoped to see in 1938. In...
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I keep seeing these petulant-to-angry stories in the London sports pages about how vast North America is and how hot — as though ICE had expanded the continent and heated it up to make Europeans uncomfortable. Sorry, but it’s always been this way. North America is more than twice the size of Europe...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/15/over-at-cosmos-malick-a.html","date_published":"2026-06-15T13:02:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 13:02","date_timestamp":1781528535,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92214820","content_html":"\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/15/francis-young-i-have-been.html","date_published":"2026-06-15T12:31:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 12:31","date_timestamp":1781526703,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92211199","content_html":"I have been interested in Faustina Kowalska’s experiences ever since I first read about them when I was eighteen. I am not usually much of a fan of modern-day (or even early modern) devotions, and I was never sure what to make of things like Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje, and so on. But for some reason I never had this lurking suspicion when it came to Faustina’s visions of Divine Mercy…. The Divine Mercy, which at the time was an intensely popular devotion – especially among Poles but also well beyond the Polish community – also seemed to have substantial theological content, in contrast...
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Autocinema: cosmosmalick.net
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\nA similar trend is under way in other countries — and in other forms of entertainment. From Asia to the Americas, music charts are increasingly dominated by local sounds. Hollywood television-streaming companies are commissioning more local productions in foreign markets, causing consumption of American shows to...
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Marcin Wichary is right: Apple keeps talking about making things faster, but users just want things to work reliably.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/13/marcin-wichary-is-right-apple.html","date_published":"2026-06-13T14:38:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-13 14:38","date_timestamp":1781361500,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92100537","content_html":"Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in Oxford on this date in 1893. The cover of my forthcoming biography of her might look like this:
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ayjay.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F06%2FDLS.png\")
@manton I wish that something like iocaine was implenmentable on micro.blog. I’m not formally requesting it and don’t expect it, but it would be cool.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/92054328","date_published":"2026-06-12T17:25:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-12 17:25","date_timestamp":1781285151,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92051598","content_html":"\nWhen I was a kid, my dad often bought these Ace Doubles, and they seemed magical to me. Read a book, flip it over, read another book. But I also often think of a comment made by the editor Terry Carr: If Ace were to publish the Bible they’d do it as a Double: on one side War God of Israel, on the other The...
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91348035","date_published":"2026-06-01T19:33:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-01 19:33","date_timestamp":1780342397,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91347866","content_html":"@patrickrhone I am retired from all forms of public speaking, including podcasting! Maybe I’ll comment further later, but note that I didn’t say anything at all about Talarico or his politics. I just need something more powerful from church than I could get from scrolling through BlueSky.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91347866","date_published":"2026-06-01T19:29:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-01 19:29","date_timestamp":1780342141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91157114","content_html":"@manton I mean, they’re preaching to the choir, not to “normies.” But if they and people like them don’t learn to take our concerns seriously and respond with evidence rather than mockery, things could go very wrong for the Big Tech companies.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91157114","date_published":"2026-05-29T16:40:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 16:40","date_timestamp":1780072851,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91156120","content_html":"@manton Their sneering at “normies” who have gone “off the reservation” is exactly why so many people hate big tech and its shills.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91156120","date_published":"2026-05-29T16:17:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 16:17","date_timestamp":1780071458,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91084999","content_html":"@manton Yep, that’s why I say we really need to be thinking about this. One way or another, the recognition that people now receive for AI-generated work will get harder to come by. Remember The Incredibles, when Dash’s mom says “Everybody is special,” and he mutters, “Which is another way of saying that nobody is.”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91084999","date_published":"2026-05-28T15:43:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-28 15:43","date_timestamp":1779983024,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91024191","content_html":"@manton That’s a troubling blog post — he doesn’t seem altogether stable. He says that IF Silver Lake win they will destroy WordPress, then he says they have already won. He doesn’t seem aware of the decisions he made that led to this situation. I’m worried for him.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91006900","date_published":"2026-05-27T13:18:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-27 13:18","date_timestamp":1779887930,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90840279","content_html":"@manton I want to love it, but the size of that bezel!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90840279","date_published":"2026-05-24T20:03:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-24 20:03","date_timestamp":1779652982,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90556075","content_html":"@wcaleb This is making me think I should actually read the ones that are coming to me.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90556075","date_published":"2026-05-20T12:21:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-20 12:21","date_timestamp":1779279678,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90554429","content_html":"@wcaleb LOL. I’m starting to think that the AI giants’ sales pitch should be “If you really don’t care, use our chatbot!”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90554429","date_published":"2026-05-20T11:55:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-20 11:55","date_timestamp":1779278122,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90510701","content_html":"@manton That’s make the lawyers mad but maybe you’ll be the beneficiary!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90510701","date_published":"2026-05-19T19:59:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-19 19:59","date_timestamp":1779220760,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90505408","content_html":"@manton The trademark issue might be key: trademarks only expire if the trademark holders don’t defend them. Lawyers always insist that trademarks be defended because if not then anyone can use the trademarked I.P., sometimes in intentionally misleading ways.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90505408","date_published":"2026-05-19T18:43:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-19 18:43","date_timestamp":1779216211,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90260965","content_html":"@manton Brett Terpstra has also been having trouble getting approval for Marked (an app I use all the time). Even for me as an ordinary user, it’s frustrating to see long-time Mac developers who are obviously good citizens get caught in Review Purgatory while scammers seem to sail right through.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90260965","date_published":"2026-05-15T22:18:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-15 22:18","date_timestamp":1778883524,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90167881","content_html":"@ablerism That’s a very interesting post! — but I am befuddled by his description of Twitter as a place where respectful and constructive scholarly exchange happened. What he describes as the norm there I never experienced, in more than a decade on the platform!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90167881","date_published":"2026-05-14T16:30:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-14 16:30","date_timestamp":1778776233,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90121917","content_html":"@royal Fixed – but now you’ll probably just hit a paywall!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/90121917","date_published":"2026-05-13T23:56:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-13 23:56","date_timestamp":1778716610,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89943193","content_html":"@mwerickson Thanks!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89943193","date_published":"2026-05-11T20:51:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-11 20:51","date_timestamp":1778532695,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89765296","content_html":"@jabel Indeed.
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