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@ReaderJohn The way I spent most of my days— working with my hands, taking breaks by walking— gives me lots of time to think of stuff that seems brilliant and profound in the moment and very little to write it all down so I can see that most of it isn’t.

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@ReaderJohn Well, yes. And of course you can’t do that if you define yourself and your humanity in terms of machines.

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@ReaderJohn I posted that because I have had a note to self since December to write something on “the humanity of the gaps” and now I don’t have to. But figured it would be slightly obnoxious to say yeah dude, already thought of that. :) I actually think the closing two paragraphs are… well, money. So to speak.

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L. M. Sacasas:

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Discussions around the human in relation to technology, specifically AI, parallel older debates about science and religion. In that discursive context, there was a form of argument known as “God of the gaps.” The idea was that God was simply a name for the gaps in our scientific understanding of the world. Of course, once those gaps were filled, God would be effectively squeezed out of the metaphysical picture. Similarly, we are operating with a “human of the gaps” model when we try to locate the essence of the human creature by pointing to what cannot yet be accomplished by a machine,...

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@isaacgreene Congratulations. I assume the college will be making accommodations for your horse?

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Salad days

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@todd Not a whoopie pie. Fruit topping like canned cherry pie filling sort of thing?

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@bbowman This surely doesn’t address whatever you have in mind, but I ran across it this morning. David Kline on Amish worship:

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>I always look forward to church in the barn… It seems so right to worship in a farmer’s cathedral. Most of the old barns have well-worn flooring that was pounded for many years by hooves and wheels… In years past, and occasionally today, to remedy the roughness, the farmer spreads his finest hay, usually a second or third cutting of legume and grass mix, on the floor for a covering. To me, the aroma of that new hay beats any incense imaginable.

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@jabel I used to call mine a “halfway homestead” but that implied that a whole one was coming.

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@tinyroofnail And the thing is, it keeps happening. Not once but continuously.

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@JohnBrady Yeah, I almost stepped on her this afternoon. I prefer to see her in the rafters of my workshop where we can watch each other from a little distance.

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@jabel Probably not. Ivy even read a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder when she was older. I haven’t seen the tv series since I was a kid and it was in first run, but I think she has watched some of it.

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@jabel Having listened to the entire series on audiobook on car trips with my daughter I am going to be compelled to watch this even if it is a complete train wreck.

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Came home this afternoon to find the local five-foot black rat snake (whom I call Ermengarde) sunning herself on the front steps digesting a chipmunk-sized bulge. I always like seeing Ermengarde, but she is less excited to see me, so we kept it brief. (Maybe you’ve had relationships like that.)

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@isaacgreene @ablerism Thankfully I no longer have to bang my head against that wall, but I appreciate the poem at the end. (And will file away “cognitive surrender.”)

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All right, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s a go at some butterflies.

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@jaheppler “black like my soul” is great. Ever since I read Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys I have been waiting for someone to ask me how I take my coffee so I can answer “black as night and sweet as sin,” but nobody ever asks.

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Matthew Walther:

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“Blasphemy” is not a phrase we are used to seeing in print these days even in magazines like this one. When it does appear, it is usually in a non-literal sense, meaning something like “insouciance.” But blasphemy is not a mere casual lack of concern for sacred things; it is their willful profanation.

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If the image posted on Trump’s TruthSocial account on Sunday evening… is not blasphemous, the word has no meaning.

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Walther’s rare hot takes always manage to be both cogent essays and barn-burners, but I’m going to push back, gently, and say that if one accepts his definition of...

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@todd I appreciate it!

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@todd I feel like if I’m going to drive 10 hours this fall I may as well come a month earlier and drive another five, and go to Handworks. I had thought that if I did I’d stop in Indiana (there are days, working alone, that I have more conversations with people in Indiana than in NC!), but I don’t know if it’s going to be practical.

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@isaacgreene Primitive telephone?

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@JohnBrady one of the cherubs appears to be tasting the contents of the pot, so I hope it’s not glue. (And of course if it were a good painting it wouldn’t be half so much fun to analyze!)

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@jabel Maybe, but it looks like it’s fixed to the wall. And then if he took it down to use it what happens to the bird?

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@isaacgreene One of these days I mean to build a shaving horse - Roman bench hybrid to replace my current horse.

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@isaacgreene I assumed if you hadn’t gotten it from Schwarz he’d seen it. I was disappointed the bench wasn’t Roman style, actually!

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@todd FPR conferences always look like something I’d attend if they happened locally but not if they require a full day’s drive each way.

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@isaacgreene Is Mary knitting while Jesus holds the yarn? I can’t see close enough. Also, from this angle it looks as though the board that angel is sawing is a structural piece of the workbench, which is going to be a problem.

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@bethanyh Fair.

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@bethanyh I think the logic behind this conversation is wrong. It’s about use. Boo-ey makes clear that you’re not chucking a male child into the water, but with “lifebuoy” and “buoyant” there’s no fear of confusion. It’s the same reason I say I fed the dog this morning but not that I wed the garden yesterday.

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@ffmike What would really be funny is if the poster art were AI generated.

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Man. Now lay we mortal flesh upon the fire,
\nAnd, raising toothsome searings to our nostrils,
\nBring us pleasure.
\n       Dog. My jowls are all a-water!
\nMan. Sit thee on thy haunches, knave, and wait!
\nSweet morsels will I grant a trusty servant.

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\n\"meat\"the\n
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Currently reading: the new Library of America volume of John McPhee books (early evenings); a paperback P. G. Wodehouse collection I picked up this week at a used bookstore (on the nightstand); and David Kline’s The Round of a Country Year (a little at a time, in the morning).

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Field madder, another tiny flower I’d never noticed before—or mistook for bluets from walking eye level. Apparently native to Europe, North Africa, and West and Central Asia, but naturalized here. (“Here” very specifically being along the edge of a mini-park.)

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Ground ivy, which I had never noticed before. (I would say “never seen” but that probably isn’t true.) Lovely flowers that my phone refused to focus on even in macro mode, but you get the idea.

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Ten reasons not to use a tool

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Mary Harrington on scrolling as the return of Charles Taylor’s unbuffered self:

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[W]e should also pause for a moment on how post-print selves are now formed, in practice. Specifically: as selves are growing less buffered, many are embracing this new state of affairs with remarkably little discrimination on how external influences may contribute to the formation of mental habits…. [A]nyone who simply absorbs whatever the scroll throws up, without discernment, will end up being formed by discourses often optimised less for truth, or wisdom, or human flourishing, than for maximum immediacy in playing on...

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Finished reading: The Matter with Things Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist 📚

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Those who have said that this is one of the most important books of the past (n) years are not exaggerating.

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I didn’t do it, but I’m filing the idea away in case I ever turn to a life of crime.

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To make scrapple at home: social.davidwalbert.com

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An update on the cowbird situation

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If you’re looking for some music to welcome in the new year, may I suggest\n“Spring” from Ailbhe McDonagh’s Irish Seasons? I love the whole work, but that’s (obviously) the place to start.

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Six carved panels in a reclaimed window — a work for spring, that also represents the Annunciation. (More birds singing Bach. My birds always sing Bach.)

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\"six-panel

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You’re going to get AI whether you like it or not, because that’s where the money is.

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In which I am elected an honorary cowbird

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Made a soup for lunch involving yellow-eye beans and butternut squash with fresh thyme, rosemary, and olive oil and I really cannot decide whether I like it. I think it’s growing on me. If this sounds good to you feel free to stop by, I have plenty.

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“No matter how hard I try, I just can’t get used to the ‘science fiction clown shoes’ most people wear today.“

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The ability to dig up a quotation from 10, 100, or 1000 years ago containing a criticism or prediction that parallels some contemporary argument, and observe that “history” proved that prior criticism false, is not an argument about what action to take in the present. The moral of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is...

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Birds-eye speedwell and henbit deadnettle. They’re not ostentatious but they’re everywhere around here. And they have ludicrous names.

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\n\"Birdseye\"Henbit\n
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The Trugreen truck with its motto “Live Life Outside” never seems to be parked in front of a house where people actually do live life outside. In fact it’s more or less the opposite.

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The original Game of Life, in 1860, included squares such as Ruin, Disgrace, and Suicide. I like it! Can we bring that back?

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