Anglican • Ph.D. in American & Environmental Literature with a minor concentration in Poetry • Board game hobbyist • Aspiring Ruskinian Socialist
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The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
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A research administrator at the University of Kentucky objected on religious grounds to the pressure the university was putting on him to rely on AI in his work, and was able to secure a Title VII exemption from using the technology. dailynous.com/2026/10/30/hum…
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“We have become used to the reality that numberless people are being crushed to death through our affluence, just as one might grab a bug and squash it; we have ceased to give a thought to those who are destroyed because of us.” —Eberhard Arnold
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5th row down, sixth column is perfection.
Erich Dieckmann (1896–1944) • Bauhaus. Exploring the evolution of tubular steel chair design.
#ErichDieckmann #Bauhaus #Design #Chair
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I must be pretty slow because I still don’t understand the business model of making every academic book two hundred quid to buy.
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This is why Ruskin rules at @WheatonCollege art history so long as I have a say.
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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is doing a public service if it gets the general population to question why, precisely, folks lend so much credence to documentaries as vehicles of truth. thebulwark.com/p/you-can-see…
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Is it #portfolioday ?
I'm Ben, an artist from Belgium. I create immersive, dark fantasy scenes, and I'm currently looking for work! Reach out if you're interested in my art 🤝
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These days, when I see someone say this, I just feel bad for them. Too many young people have been propagandized into preferring pedantic lectures and political sermons over the sublime experience of being turned inside out by truly transcendent art, music, and Literature.
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A deeply under-discussed & under-appreciated American poet. Kenneth Koch is among my favorites.
There isn't time enough, my friends—
Kenneth Koch
ALT YOU WANT A SOCIAL LIFE, WITH FRIENDS You want a social life, with friends, A passionate love life and as well To work hard every day. What's true Is of these three you may have two And two can pay you dividends But never may have three. There isn't time enough, my friends— Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends— To find the time to have love, work, and friends. Michelangelo had feeling For Vittoria and the Ceiling But did he go to parties at day's end? Homer nightly went to banquets Wrote all day but had no lockets Bright with pictures of his Girl. I know one who loves and parties And has done so since his thirties But writes hardly anything at all. —KENNETH KOCH
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This is a horror story of a publisher just ceasing to care about production at level, from copy-editing to relations to production. Am insult to authors and readers. (Yes, print-on-demand is part of the nightmare.)
Only a total fiasco could so utterly demoralize such an outstanding author as Alan Jacobs. Shame on you OUP
I am sure will be insightful as Alan's work always is, but it gives me pause about ordering anything from OUP ever again. buymeacoffee.com/ayjay/the-l…
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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I think anyone thinking about big institutions at all could benefit from the amazing first season. Sometimes whole institutions of credentialed people just meme themselves into crazy ideas that anyone smart can easily see through. features.apmreports.org/sold…
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Jerry: It’s a show about nothing
Lucretius: But nothing comes from nothing
Jerry: Now, see, I don’t like that
Kramer: My friend Bob Sacamano made nothing from nothing
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.