{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Alan Jacobs ","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/ayjay","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"650","username":"ayjay","bio":"✝️ 📚  📖  🖊   ⚽️  🏀  🎸 🎵  🎥  ","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":89,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/650.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"91206565","content_html":"<p>If I were the Emperor of American Christianity, I would forbid any complaints about how persecuted American Christians are unless they include the following three points: </p>\n<ol>\n<li>The early church had it, and Christians in many parts of the world right now have it, <em>infinitely</em> worse than we do; </li>\n<li>Jesus <em>promised</em> us...</li>\n</ol> <a 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companies.</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> Their sneering at “normies” who have gone “off the reservation” is exactly why so many people hate big tech and its shills.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91156120","date_published":"2026-05-29T16:17:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs 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13:35","date_timestamp":1780061733,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91137832","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1800148/this-is-a-true-story\">Colin Dickey</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 1947, a man named Kenneth Arnold was flying his two-seater near Mount Rainier when he saw nine flying objects cruising at high speeds, a sighting that launched the modern UFO era. [Gray] Barker was then working as a film distributor, and by the early 1950s was finding success with science fiction fare like <em>The Day the Earth Stood Still</em>. His own entrance into UFO research came in September 1952, when the Associated Press reported that seven people in nearby Flatwoods, West Virginia, had seen a glowing fireball descend into a nearby hilltop. Barker drove out to interview the...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/29/colin-dickey-in-a-man.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/29/colin-dickey-in-a-man.html","date_published":"2026-05-29T10:49:07+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":"2026-05-29 10:49","date_timestamp":1780051747,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91097148","content_html":"<img src=\"https://micro.blog/books/9780374281175/cover.jpg\" class=\"mini_cover\">\n<p>I tried listening to <a href=\"https://micro.blog/books/9780374281175\">A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler</a> on Audible, but the A.I. narrator drove me crazy and I had to stop and switch to text. (It’s an outstanding book!) I persisted as long as I did because I’ve been dealing with eyestrain, but the strange stresses and mispronounced words —...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/i-tried-listening-to-a.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/i-tried-listening-to-a.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T19:47:38+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":"2026-05-28 19:47","date_timestamp":1779997658,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91096039","content_html":"<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/24e0256335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\"></p>\n<p>Jane Freilicher, <a>Study in Blue and Gray</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/jane-freilicher-study-in-blue.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T19:18:56+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":"2026-05-28 19:18","date_timestamp":1779995936,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91089206","content_html":"<p>Yeah <a href=\"https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-tech-industry-problems\">I’m 😂 as I eat lunch</a>. </p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Because the truth is, tech doesn’t <em>have</em> an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/yeah-im-as-i-eat.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/yeah-im-as-i-eat.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T17:03:22+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":"2026-05-28 17:03","date_timestamp":1779987802,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91086263","content_html":"<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/pushball-competition-m.jpg\" alt=\"Pushball competition.\" width=\"799\" height=\"583\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n<p>The decline of <a href=\"https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pushball/\">pushball</a> = the decline of civilization. </p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/the-decline-of-pushball-the.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T16:03:36+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 16:03","date_timestamp":1779984216,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91085176","content_html":"<p>Now that I have three blogs — <a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/\">The Homebound Symphony</a>, <a href=\"https://cosmosmalick.net/\">Cosmos Malick</a>, and micro.blog — I really don’t know what I would do without <a href=\"https://redsweater.com/marsedit/\">MarsEdit</a>. What a great app. </p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/now-that-i-have-three.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T15:46:43+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":"2026-05-28 15:46","date_timestamp":1779983203,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91084999","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> 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 <em>The Incredibles</em>, when Dash’s mom says “Everybody is special,” and he mutters, “Which is another way of saying that nobody is.”</p>\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":"91082138","content_html":"<p>The most important point about rising AI use in the arts is simply this: Millions of people <em>desperately</em> want affirmation. They don’t want to go to the trouble of writing or painting or drawing or making music — or maybe they are afraid that their own work won’t be good enough — but they want people to <em>believe</em></p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/the-most-important-point-about.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/the-most-important-point-about.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T14:50:16+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 14:50","date_timestamp":1779979816,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91081702","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/audens-faith/\">In which I disagree with Edward Mendelson about Auden’s Christianity</a>. </p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/28/in-which-i-disagree-with.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T14:42:10+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 14:42","date_timestamp":1779979330,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91048285","content_html":"<p>The best thing I have seen so far on Pope Leo’s encyclical is <a href=\"https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/idols-of-the-valley?emc=edit_rd_20260527&amp;instance_id=176266&amp;nl=ross-douthat&amp;regi_id=257161&amp;segment_id=220551&amp;user_id=8e173878f85534174423fc745022ce54\">this reflection by Yuval Levin</a>, in which Yuval notes with pleasure Leo’s use of the story of the Tower of Babel but wishes that the story had been pursued further. For anyone who might be interested, some years ago I wrote a series of posts on the...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/the-best-thing-i-have.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/the-best-thing-i-have.html","date_published":"2026-05-28T00:54:07+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":"2026-05-28 00:54","date_timestamp":1779929647,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91037448","content_html":"<p>Some years ago Edward Mendelson published an essay about <a href=\"https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/03/20/secret-auden/\">Auden’s secret acts of kindness</a> — sorry about the paywall — and anyone who studies Auden keeps stumbling across his generosities. Just today, for example, I happened to read that (a) when James Schuyler had his first psychotic breakdown Auden paid for his hospitalization, and (b) when Joseph Brodsky was forced out of the Soviet Union Auden arranged for him to have a job at the University of Michigan. One favorite anecdote from Mendelson’s essay:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At times, he went out of his way to seem selfish while doing something selfless. When NBC Television...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/some-years-ago-edward-mendelson.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/some-years-ago-edward-mendelson.html","date_published":"2026-05-27T21:40:31+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":"2026-05-27 21:40","date_timestamp":1779918031,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91024191","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> 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.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/91024191","date_published":"2026-05-27T19:11:46+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 19:11","date_timestamp":1779909106,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91006900","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/help\">@help</a> FYI, photos are showing up in the “Posts” list but not in the timeline or on my blog.</p>\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":"91006945","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/is-peter-thiel-the-target-of-pope-leos-gandalf-quote-an-investigation/\">Nate Anderson</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don’t think this Pope operates according to categories like “throwing shade.” As we saw when Leo tangled with Donald Trump over his war of choice in Iran, Leo sees his job as preaching and proclaiming.</p>\n<p>His Gandalf quote may well be targeted at Thiel, or perhaps more broadly at those who think in similar ways. But it is not confrontational or insulting. It is a way of speaking across differences using a line drawn from a shared cultural resource between the two camps. It offers up a different interpretation of Tolkien’s tremendous work to those who see in it a license for warfare,...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/nate-anderson-i-dont-think.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/nate-anderson-i-dont-think.html","date_published":"2026-05-27T13:17:51+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":"2026-05-27 13:17","date_timestamp":1779887871,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91006682","content_html":"<p>From the same article, The Eadwine Psalter (c.1155-60)</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0264-m.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/from-the-same-article-the.html","date_published":"2026-05-27T13:10:21+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":"2026-05-27 13:10","date_timestamp":1779887421,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91006471","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/ardis-butterfield/when-horses-snigger\">The Winchester Bible</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0263-m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/the-winchester-bible.html","date_published":"2026-05-27T13:04:03+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 13:04","date_timestamp":1779887043,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91005081","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/technology/pope-leo-ai-religion.html\">At the A.I. Epicenter, Technologists Dismiss Pope Leo’s Warnings About the New Technology</a>: Well, of course! Did anyone expect thoughtful response? The people who run the big A.I. companies believe that they are so rich and powerful that they can do anything they want, and don’t require public support to do...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/at-the-ai-epicenter-technologists.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/27/at-the-ai-epicenter-technologists.html","date_published":"2026-05-27T12:06:42+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 12:06","date_timestamp":1779883602,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90966374","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-better-algorithms-of-our-nature\">Tom Stafford</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A lot happened in 2016. It would be easy to imagine that the entire reason for this change was the election of Donald Trump as president, and to stop looking for other causes, but something else also happened which I think we should at least consider, and that other thing says something important about how social media and human psychology interact.\n</p>\n<p>In March 2016 Twitter completed their transition to the algorithmic feed, meaning that it was the default for all users to have their timeline populated by what Twitter thought they would want to see, rather than a chronological feed of posts...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/26/tom-stafford-a-lot-happened.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/26/tom-stafford-a-lot-happened.html","date_published":"2026-05-26T20:23:20+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":"2026-05-26 20:23","date_timestamp":1779827000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90961902","content_html":"<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/infographic-1-magnifica-humanitas-introd--cap-1-en-b-m.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic 1 - Magnifica Humanitas - Introd &amp; Cap 1 - EN B.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1132\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n<p>Count me a big fan of the <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BNkr8_q_OYCMrJEmSvE3ZZXB9zKVvGAW\">infographics</a> the Vatican has helpfully made to illustrate the main points of Leo’s encyclical. </p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/26/count-me-a-big-fan.html","date_published":"2026-05-26T19:04:37+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":"2026-05-26 19:04","date_timestamp":1779822277,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90906988","content_html":"<p>The last few weeks have been pretty miserable, honestly, but tonight I’ve made myself a <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/dining/29tipsy.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20cocktail%20is%20actually%20a,strained%20into%20a%20coupe%20glass.\">Frisco</a> and am listening to <a href=\"https://store.ververecords.com/products/ella-fitzgerald-sings-the-rodgers-and-hart-song-book-acoustic-sounds-series-lp?srsltid=AfmBOop61OspySJ2ZFnzMsf-_vd3M4O2TI6gIOAEREKBRcPg6003pOe0\">Ella singing Rodgers &amp; Hart</a>. So for the moment I have <em>absolutely nothing to complain about</em>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/25/the-last-few-weeks-have.html","date_published":"2026-05-25T23:02:47+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":"2026-05-25 23:02","date_timestamp":1779750167,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90906619","content_html":"<p>Six years ago, I called for <a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/plurality-and-unity/\">the Gandalf Option</a> — and now I see that <a href=\"https://assets.ewtnnews.com/en/Magnifica_Humanitas_Full_English.pdf\">Pope Leo has endorsed my call</a>. I admit that he didn’t mention me by name, but come on, the debt is <em>obvious</em>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/25/six-years-ago-i-called.html","date_published":"2026-05-25T22:54:26+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":"2026-05-25 22:54","date_timestamp":1779749666,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90875590","content_html":"<p>Disney was an early adopter of a then-struggling technology called Technicolor: you can see it in the landmark shorts “<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5rvGmwBfk\">The Three Little Pigs</a>” (1933) and “<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9uL_ruafU\">The Grasshopper and the Ants</a>” (1935). But while the artwork and animation in those films are first-rate by the standards of the time, they haven’t aged...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/25/disney-was-an-early-adopter.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/25/disney-was-an-early-adopter.html","date_published":"2026-05-25T12:34:20+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":"2026-05-25 12:34","date_timestamp":1779712460,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90874692","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/rowan-williams-on-solidarity/\">I wrote about Rowan Williams’s new book on solidarity</a>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/25/i-wrote-about-rowan-williamss.html","date_published":"2026-05-25T12:11:20+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":"2026-05-25 12:11","date_timestamp":1779711080,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90840279","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I want to love it, but the size of that bezel!</p>\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":"90839682","content_html":"<p>I do love a new version of BBEdit, but what I love even more is reading Bare Bones’s <a href=\"https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-16.0.html\">release notes</a>. E.g. “Made some small changes to improve performance of the tag balancer in pathological cases.” — Ah yes, those “pathological cases.”</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/24/i-do-love-a-new.html","date_published":"2026-05-24T19:44:29+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 19:44","date_timestamp":1779651869,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90556075","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/wcaleb\">@wcaleb</a> This is making me think I should actually read the ones that are coming to me.</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/wcaleb\">@wcaleb</a> LOL. I’m starting to think that the AI giants’ sales pitch should be “If you really don’t care, use our chatbot!”</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> That’s make the lawyers mad but maybe you’ll be the beneficiary!</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> 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.</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> 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.</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> 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 <em>never</em> experienced, in more than a decade on the platform!</p>\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":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/royal@theres.life\" class=\"u-url mention\">@royal</a></span> Fixed – but now you’ll probably just hit a paywall!</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mwerickson\">@mwerickson</a> Thanks!</p>\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":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> Indeed.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89765296","date_published":"2026-05-07T13:58:08+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":"2026-05-07 13:58","date_timestamp":1778162288,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89583862","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a>❗️😁</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89583862","date_published":"2026-05-04T17:56:25+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":"2026-05-04 17:56","date_timestamp":1777917385,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89579578","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> Love the (wonderfully varied) art on the wall!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89579578","date_published":"2026-05-04T16:55:48+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":"2026-05-04 16:55","date_timestamp":1777913748,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89477118","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> A plurality of pedagogically preservationist pilots produce a provisionally persuasive prototype!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89477118","date_published":"2026-05-02T22:52:28+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":"2026-05-02 22:52","date_timestamp":1777762348,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89473224","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jeremycherfas\">@jeremycherfas</a> Anything you can find!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89473224","date_published":"2026-05-02T21:13:17+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":"2026-05-02 21:13","date_timestamp":1777756397,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89473218","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> I wonder if in this respect design can follow pedagogical necessity. (Or will universities insist that pedagogy conform to existing infrastructure?)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89473218","date_published":"2026-05-02T21:13:05+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":"2026-05-02 21:13","date_timestamp":1777756385,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89467200","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> I actually talked about the value of rooms like that in a talk I gave twelve years ago! <a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/attentivereader/\">blog.ayjay.org/attentive…</a></p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89467200","date_published":"2026-05-02T19:14:59+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":"2026-05-02 19:14","date_timestamp":1777749299,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89450851","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/philbowell\">@philbowell</a> The Quicksilver comma trick was life-changing for me.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89450851","date_published":"2026-05-02T13:44:59+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":"2026-05-02 13:44","date_timestamp":1777729499,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89450091","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/philbowell\">@philbowell</a> Oh goodness. I’ve tried every launcher for the Mac, but nothing matches Quicksilver. I may have to try Tuna, though I’m fairly invested now in Alfred.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89450091","date_published":"2026-05-02T13:29:06+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":"2026-05-02 13:29","date_timestamp":1777728546,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89311799","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> Buggy MS software will follow us to the ends of the cosmos.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/89311799","date_published":"2026-04-30T13:03:15+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":"2026-04-30 13:03","date_timestamp":1777554195,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88929950","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mbattles\">@mbattles</a> I’m not sure it’s beyond assessment either, but, as I said, I don’t know how the assessment might be done or whether Neuman is even interested in that.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88929950","date_published":"2026-04-24T14:18:35+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":"2026-04-24 14:18","date_timestamp":1777040315,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}