Sunday Digest No. 4

Thanksgiving - Writing - Addiction - Ai - Tarot

Cameron M. Bailey

Dec 01, 2024

My posts from the previous week, and some of the very best from Substack. I hope that you enjoy this collection!

selective focus photography of squirrel eating walnut on tree brunbch — Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash

Society

On Family And Friends

Cameron M. Bailey

Nov 25

In this house, we are Seahawks fans.

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American Dreaming

Oh, However Will We "Survive" the Holidays?

We all know how incredibly stressful the holiday season is — how horrific it is to spend time with our relatives, how nerve-racking shopping can be, and how the pervading sense of anxiety tinges this whole time of year. Or so we are endlessly told. The cultural cliché of the holidays as a harrowing, high-stress ordeal that we must be mentally prepared t…

a month ago · 3 likes · Jamie Paul

Like everyone my generation and older, I grew up under the very real threat of nuclear annihilation. I remember the Atomic Clock being discussed on the news, when a committee of learned people would decide if we were further from nuclear armageddon or closer to it from week to week, sometimes day to day. I remember the movies and the books exploring h…

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The Intrinsic Perspective

I said no to $20,000 because writers must take a moral stand on AI

With the news having been broken that around 10% of Substacks have some AI-generated content in them (and probably plenty of bigger outlets as well, this problem isn’t specific to Substack) I’d like to tell a tale…

a month ago · 195 likes · 40 comments · Erik Hoel

What then?

What Counting Coup Teaches Us About Risk-Taking

a month ago · 33 likes · 28 comments · Sam Alaimo

The Ghost

Don't Miss It

Today is the day when retailers will be reminding you to not “miss it.” The deal. The offer. The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Just the other day, I was reminded by a younger someone living in my house that when you spend $190 on eight pieces of clothing, that’s an incredible deal, one you really can’t pass up. She had a point…

a month ago · 17 likes · 9 comments · Jeff Goins

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Clinsights

Breathing Life into Your Muse

We normally think of a Muse as a force, or being, or a part of our subconscious that delivers inspiration from the Mystery to us. But it’s not a one-way flow from Muse to Artist. You are in a relationship with your Muse and your job is to inspire each other…

4 months ago · 34 likes · 13 comments · Clintavo

On Large Language Models

Cameron M. Bailey

Nov 27

Yesterday I read a superb essay by Erik Hoel about ‘writers’ using Ai to ‘write.’

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Emeth

On Writing

On Saturday my friend W. Patrick gave me a copy of Emperor Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…

a month ago · 9 likes · 4 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Seasons

Why I Adore The Night by Jeanette Winterson

Military-Industrial Complex

Farewell Address by President Eisenhower

The 100 Days

Ukraine's Percolating Hatred of America

There’s a haunting video out there of Ukrainian military conscripts being serenaded by a young woman. It takes place in a drab auditorium. The men, their heads newly shaven, sit in red faux-velvet chairs, glum and bored, some looking at their cell phones, clearly wishing they were anywhere else…

a year ago · 750 likes · 454 comments · Matt Bivens, M.D.

Tarot

Tarot with Janet

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Over two decades ago, I tried to learn Tarot…

a month ago · 3 likes · Janet Boyer

Substack

A Reflection On This Thanksgiving

Cameron M. Bailey

Nov 28

I spent decades writing as a part of my job. I’ve been blessed to have really interesting jobs, but the writing wasn’t very interesting. Bureaucratese by its nature is really dull.

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Wisdom

“You are what you click.” -

Charlotte Pendragon

“Everything is so complex now. It never fails that when something requires some kind of slight change, people decide to lean whole hog into it and swing the pendulum in the total opposite direction. Then we spend years rectifying that, and sometimes we end up coming close to getting back to true centered sanity, and someone comes along and kicks the pendulum again.”- Demi at

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