I'm very grateful for Stephen J. Schuler’s review of my biography of Paradise Lost over at FPR.
A fascinating and deeply encouraging post by @dancohen on how his library is connecting chatbot inquiries to library resources:
This output encourages the student — or the faculty member or the general public — to consult the texts themselves, which popular chatbots eschew during spasms of summarization. Instead, through our software we want to foreground the expressive works of human beings — the articles, books, documents, and works of art, rather than the AI’s digests of these objects.
Updated a post in response to a fierce correction from Phil Christman.
Re: my post from earlier today, my friend Jono Linebaugh sent me this picture of a sign he came across in his travels. This one has the added virtue of theological acuity.
An old theory of mine: Online, big work gets smaller, while smaller work stays the same or gets bigger.
Different from/than/to — honestly, I’ve reached the point where they all sound wrong to me.
Very pleased and slightly disoriented at the prospect of hearing Rowan preach in my little parish church. Worlds colliding!
Yesterday’s post: Should Christians be leftists? Today’s post: Should Christians be anarchists?
Finished reading: Why Christians Should Be Leftists by Phil Christman — and I wrote a long rambly post about it here 📚
For those of you who aren’t on micro.blog … you should really consider it! It’s a great service, and its fearless leader, Manton Reece, is one of the truly Good Guys of the Internet. A while back I wrote about some of the hidden features here, and then about what I call the three paths of the service. And it has only improved since I wrote those posts. You can adapt it to so many different use cases: for instance, it’s a great way to keep a reading journal and an equally great way to make a photo blog. Please do explore it if you haven’t.
As Iistened to Ezra Klein’s interview with Brian Eno I felt that Ezra was doing 75% of the talking. He wasn’t, but he did talk way too much, especially when you consider that his guest is one of the most interesting people on the planet. I kept wanting the Ezra Klein Show Minus Ezra Klein, like Garfield Minus Garfield.
The wisdom of Bertie Wooster — whose intellectual acumen has finally been justly acknowledged.
I remember a couple of years ago at Laity Lodge hearing Claire work out this lovely song — so good to hear it in its completed version.
Most political writing is “Why My People Are Correct and Those Other People Are Wrong,” which is why I rarely link to political writing. There’s a shortage of good analysis. Noah Millman’s new post demonstrates why he’s one of the best political analysts around. So I’ll link to Noah!