An absolute icon

This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.

CFB Watch Grid, Week 1: Saint Origen and Cam Skattebo

Riooooooooo #lfc

I feel you, Toad.

Wrote about a couple of songs I love, and turning to music to get through dark times

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Michael O'Connell reflects on David Tracy and the Catholic imagination. jesuitmedialab.org/in-memoriam-...

Post someone who looks good in a hat

The @aadl.org Summer Game is the best!

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die. If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise. If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar. Our fool is building his paradise

Featuring Stephen Colbert, Thomas Merton, George Saunders, JRR Tolkien, and (of course) Ignatius of Loyola.

Wrote about @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social recent podcast with Stephen Colbert, and mystical experiences, for Ignatius Day

In memory of Ryne Sandberg - the funniest/ most memorable baseball card story of my youth:

Wrote about Diogo Jota. And Wimbledon. And dealing with awful realities

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain Bon Iver - For Emma Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Decemberists - Picaresque Death Cab - Transatlanticism Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Flight Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

“The source for your entire worldview, if they get their way, will be bots with access to the most vulnerable parts of your psyche and the capacity to influence your thinking, without you ever noticing, in directions the owners of the bots control.”

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Just to accurately lay out the course of events, people were yelling at him because his auto-responding robot that was trained on Twitter’s userbase still displayed — against all odds — a modicum of empathy. He then made the robot speak like him and within hours it was calling itself Mechahitler.

“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.” —Frederick Douglass

Wrote an ode to the regional amusement park

Wrote about David Foster Wallace, the 20th anniversary of “This is Water,” and why AI is bad

Wrote about David Foster Wallace, the 20th anniversary of “This is Water,” and why AI is bad

I wrote about Wes Anderson’s new movie, and what we want art to do to us

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan … yes I will Yes.”

Red Sox are embarrassing. Took the trio of youngsters coming up this season for me to (finally) start letting go of the Mookie resentment, and now this? 😔

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Wrote about the Muppets

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

I remind you, AGAIN, that the Pacers ONLY play batshit games

AI is Getting Worse, but It's Getting Worse

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

I wrote - half in jest and half sincerely - about @lastweektonight.com ‘s plan to rebrand the @erieseawolves.bsky.social

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What a picture 👑

Wrote about how we often need to put in the work ahead of time to really appreciate, or even notice, what’s going on around us all the time

AI companies really figured out this playbook: 1) build a giant ramp to nowhere in the middle of the freeway 2) countless vehicles sail off this ramp and crash, the road is no longer functional 3) the media reports breathlessly on our future of flying cars

“Time and place and eternity do meet there—in the churches found at these crossroads, and in the sacraments celebrated inside, and in the people who gather to worship together. In ways that we can feel but do not always understand—and sometimes in ways that we believe but don’t necessarily feel.”

Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...

It's happening.

Some thoughts on my youngest’s first communion, and the pope’s funeral, and the Catholic Imagination

I mean, this is genuinely ridiculous. It's a novel being played out live on a football pitch.

As a neutral, this soccer game is *very* entertaining

Some thoughts on my youngest’s first communion, and the pope’s funeral, and the Catholic Imagination

The more the people who control the Internet talk, the more I think we should destroy the Internet and all go hang out in curling rinks and bowling allies

I wrote about Liverpool winning the Premier League, and the collective experience of shared joy #ynwa

Writers: gen ai is theft Artists: gen ai is theft Narrators: gen ai is theft Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT

WE'RE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆 #LFC