Reasons for Revelry
The US edition of A&S is published this week
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Ergot in the Beremeal
—A compromised Lammas dream harvest— What’s going down in this post: * Musings on Dream Harvests past and present * A micro-podcast version of this post * Harvests from the archives * An invitation to this Sunday’s Outlier Hour For the last few years, I have posted a poem at Lammas. I
Hope in Strange Places 👻
--a july round-up-- In this missive: * Musing on Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt ’s Oblique Strategies * Reading Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison * Watching Conclave, Virgin Island and Murderbot * Planning a Lammas-adjacent Outlier Hour! This photo was taken on a recent
On the Misery of Others: The Salt Path Scandal
At the beginning of the month, the British newspaper The Observer ran a damning expose of author Raynor Winn. Her memoir The Salt Path is a ‘true story’ of a couple made homeless through property investments gone bad. The book recalls their survival walking hundreds of miles while her husband
7 Ways to Minimise GenAI in Your Life
—and why this matters— In this Missive: * Soul searching about the ecological & spiritual cost of Generative AI * 7 Ways to Minimise the Presence of Generative AI in Your Life * Links to other posts I have written about GenAI. This was a much longer post, but I lost several files