Jon Boyd

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Listen. To. The. Games. On. The. Radio.

Any time that AI vitiates or replaces the creative work that remains central to our human vocation, or any time that it undermines the hard work of human relationship, it must be rejected: “I fear that A.I. is undermining what makes us most human." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.

deeply sensible of the shortness and uncertainty of life

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

Yeah man, that's how it worked forever. Your job didn't get to dominate your life and suck free labor off of you 24/7.

In 'God's Presence with Us and in Us,' biblical scholar Miguel Echevarría explores how the divine personal Spirit has one of the most prominent roles in the Bible. Get the newest volume in the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series today!

Today's architecture column. The building was designed by David Haid "whose most recognized work is the auto pavilion where Cameron Frye’s dad kept that ill-fated red Ferrari in the 1986 movie 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.' The architect supervised the repair of the pavilion’s glass after the scene."

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.

“Fear cannot be where knowledge is….” —James Stephens, ‘Irish Fairy Tales’ (1920)

Writing is thinking and much more than a skill. Writing and writing knowledge are methods for thinking through ideas and storing insights so we can return to them later. Writing allows someone to build their ideas & imagination into reality.

but they were only begun, and never read through

I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.

Now that’s one literate feline. (photo credit: @annthebrave.bsky.social)

“Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, That more to mighty hands then rightfull cause doth trust.” —Edmund Spenser, ‘The Faerie Queene,’ 2.2.28 ll. 8–9

Seen at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social yesterday. “New and Notable” indeed. NB @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

How is it that data centres can just “pop up” around the country?

“Solar panels bolted over 2 working irrigation canals in California’s Central Valley cut evaporation beneath them by as much as 70 percent, and the aquatic weed that fouls those channels dropped by about 85 percent”

we must account for all our powers and privileges

We tend to think social problems have consumer-side solutions. Don't buy this or that. That's atomizing poison, weakens institution here to make life better. Your consumer behavior won't change much. This is a job for regulatory policy. This is why we have govt. Vote FOR taxes and regulation.

O Lord, make haste to help us.

Reading is the greatest act of resistance in an age designed to destroy attention. We are currently witnessing the biggest war over human attention in recorded history.

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There are many advocates that need to stop defending e-motos as if they're bicycles. The longer we pretend this scrutiny is unwarranted, the more damage it does to actual e-bikes, which are legitimate tools enabling people to safely and affordably ditch their cars.

Last night at Sox Park was unreal. Here are a few words I wrote to help you understand. www.commonwealmagazine.org/millies-whit...

“Each goodly thing is hardest to begin….” —Edmund Spenser, ‘The Faerie Queene,’ 1.10.6 l. 1

Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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"Deep reading, careful listening, and constructive conversing are harder to do than they used to be...These things have been made harder to do by structural adjustments to our systems of media, politics, and economy on behalf of consolidated power." www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...

New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.