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@jakeanbinder.bsky.social capital strikes again smh

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@davoh My condolences.

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@bethanyh Nice! It’s been on our list of things we’d like to install in our house, too.

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Arthur Carhart warning about western stock interests undermining the public lands in 1947.

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@ayjay Terrific album with terrific design.

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Dan Sinker: “All the things that made social media so vital a decade or two ago have fallen apart, replaced by algorithms, engagement hacks, and endless, bottomless, screaming.“

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I wonder if this is also driving many of us back to blogging again. Long live the blog.

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Hard to beat this afternoon so far: rain falling accompanied by hard bebop jazz as I edit a piece I’m finishing up.

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@dwalbert My children have come to calling raccoons “dad’s nemesis.”

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@patrickrhone What I wouldn’t give to have this kind of device make a return. I regret getting rid of my iPod Nano a few years back.

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@jabel Hmm, maybe I need to pursue my interest in leatherworking 😂

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@jabel Nice piece. I’ve always been drawn to his teacher’s idea of “stickers” (it’s another reason why I’ve been keen to write a new Stegner’s biography some day).

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@patrickrhone ha, I came across this recently on YouTube as well. So good.

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@isaacgreene They’d set up a whole agent-driven way to develop SMART goals. Just what my supervisor wants to read, I’m sure.

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@isaacgreene There’s an option to not engage with any of the AI stuff, thankfully. But, yes, in the info session I just got done with they talked a lot about it! They even encouraged checking for hallucinations because HR had things submitted last year that were AI generated because hit hallucinated job tasks for people.

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Seems to me there’s a different solution to this!

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If I needed evidence that employee performance reviews are not taken all that seriously, it’s apparent from the amount of “write this with AI” features now part of our process.

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Currently reading: Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley 📚

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@ablerism oh my gosh, I hadn’t seen this news yet.

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@todd Dang, that thing is cool.

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Really proud to be coaching these fifth grade volleyball ladies, they did great in their first tournament game today. 🏐

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@rscottjones I’m writing a book about this sort of stuff and it’s always a little bewildering how often I could just replace names around a news story or public statement and it would sound exactly like today’s fights.

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@isaacgreene Will do! So far it’s very good.

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Beautifully cool morning. Hoped to get some outdoor work done but lingering thunderstorms from overnight might keep me inside most of the day instead.

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Currently reading: Fidelity by Wendell Berry 📚

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Starting my jaunt into Berry’s fiction.

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@renfro.bsky.social Wow that seems significant.

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@patrickrhone Cheers!

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Windy afternoon on the lake.

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@kevinmkruse.bsky.social I got something very similar the other day that was clearly an AI-summarized paragraph based on some copy-and-pasted text straight from my publisher’s book description.

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@ablerism Same here. In fact I was just talking to my kids yesterday about my memories of that day.

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Finished reading: The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier by Megan Kate Nelson 📚

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@davoh Congrats!

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@ayjay My deepest condolences, Alan.

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I don’t think the Siri listening/summary stuff on the Apple Watch is a good idea. But the iPhone Duo is pretty cool, I’d like to see it up close but it’s definitely the sort of device that would replace my current iPhone and iPad.

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@patrickrhone YES

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Our present-day conflicts over public lands have long histories. Efforts to privatize them have been around for nearly as long as public lands have been a thing. Here’s an example from 1947.

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@wcaleb I’ll take it, better than being sus.

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Morning at the lake.

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My sister in law caught a nice snapshot.

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@davoh Thank you!

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@cjhubbs Thanks! Agreed, they had in the first half but seemed find their groove in the second half.

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I went kayaking and I’m smoking a brisket and it’s Husker game day and we’re making kvæfjordkake. Good way to start my next rotation around the sun.

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Birthday kayak.

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Finished reading: Nature’s Laboratory by Elizabeth Grennan Browning 📚

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Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚

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Spent the morning laboring about the acreage with Nick Offerman reading the audiobook of Berry’s Unsettling of America.

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“I begin with the proposition that eating is an agricultural act.”

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Berry had a way of cutting through to the core.

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Wendell: updates.jasonheppler.org

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Boy, what a rough week. Rest in peace Wendell, and thanks for your words.

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I think it’s Not Great that there are (many) times I am suspicious that either an AI wrote a thing, or whether the person uses AI so much they’ve just internalized it’s writing tics.

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