Sunday Digest No. 4
Thanksgiving - Writing - Addiction - Ai - Tarot
My posts from the previous week, and some of the very best from Substack. I hope that you enjoy this collection!
Society
I'd Rather Not Be Vaporized
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…
Writing
On Large Language Models
Yesterday I read a superb essay by Erik Hoel about ‘writers’ using Ai to ‘write.’
Seasons
Why I Adore The Night by Jeanette Winterson
Addiction
Technology
Freemasonry
Military-Industrial Complex
Farewell Address by President Eisenhower
Tarot
Substack
A Reflection On This Thanksgiving
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.
Wisdom
“You are what you click.” -
“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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