I know from long experience that it’s the hope that kills you, but I’m gonna go way out on a limb here and say it: I don’t believe Arsenal will be relegated this season.
It’s Sunday morning in northeastern Alabama and there sure are a lot of guys around here wearing camo. (I’m having some pretty overwhelming Proustian memories of my grandfather taking me quail hunting, even though we didn’t wear camo.)
Sara Hendren: “But in rejecting the distorted and gendered version of small-s sacrifice, I threw out also the big-s Sacrifice that is one crucial way of becoming more than selfhood.”
Will be doing my thought-experimental Reading the New Testament class again next term.
Now that I’m taking a break from my big blog and posting many small things here at micro.blog, I am just so impressed by how well thought-out this service is. It’s a delight to use, so much more streamlined and less cumbersome than WordPress. Props to @manton & crew.
An extremely raucous murder of crows in the neighborhood this morning is reminding me of lines from a poem by E. B. White: “In their assemblies at the edge of town, / Crows introduce resolutions, then vote them down.”
What an image. Among the silent trees a Russian rocket finds its resting place. (Taken near a Ukranian village by Francisco Seco / AP.)
Temple Grandin: “Some visual thinkers, like me, are ‘object visualizers’—we see the world in photorealistic images. Many of us are graphic designers, artists, skilled tradespeople, architects, inventors, mechanical engineers. ‘Spatial visualizers’ see the world in patterns and abstractions. They are the music and math minds—the statisticians, computer coders, electrical engineers, and physicists. Being an object visualizer means I’m good with my hands, at fixing and making things. But I’m terrible in areas such as algebra, which rely entirely on abstraction and provide nothing to visualize.”
Currently reading: Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada Palmer 📚
Noah Smith: “The authoritarians of the world are already making a pretty good case for liberal democracy simply by being incredibly incompetent.”
The Cineaste’s Guide to Watching Movies While Stoned. This was basically my life back in the day. Not gonna be more specific.
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt: “One day, a government source informed the synagogue that we would be expected to support the war — or else. It was then that my wife and I decided to leave the country.”
Alternate spelling. Pangram!
“If these problems are intrinsically linked to consolidated tech giants like Meta, Google, and Amazon, why not embrace technologies that decentralize power?” — The Battle for the Soul of the Web - The Atlantic