Friday, September 12, 2025

Tucson, Pics, AI, Scam, FB

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The best photo example is the last.  Two sunset photos from earlier this week: I also took a picture of a nearly-full moon one morning: Some...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Ignore, Egomania: “The Book I Wish I Read Sooner”

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One of the best pics I've ever taken. Note: Today is the fourth anniversary of going off oh-pea-oyds. I was on them for almost 8 months ...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Plant-Based = Poison-Based

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Addressing the antivaxxers of the food world seems to be my least-popular Substack post ever. In addition to the knee-jerk reaction of ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Weekend Reading / Share

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Lewis Bollard on factory farming . Please read and share. As I've written elsewhere: The person I trust most regarding animal suffering ...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Q on Compassion ("That’s not weakness—it’s wisdom.")

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"Yes, I know I'm impossibly cool." As mentioned yesterday, here is an almost unedited column from ChatGPT. [edits and comments...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Me on AI, AI on Kindness preview, and Cat Pictures

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On my wall, c/o Nat. (Click for larger if you can't read.) I use ChatGPT a lot , mostly for research and pro/con lists. It makes kinda i...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Doom: A Force that Gives Life Meaning (rerun)

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   Sting -  Russians Trinity test . (This blog title refers to the saying that war is a force that gives life meaning. Chris Hedges has  a b...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The End of Optimization

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Freddie Mercury (Side note: Interesting overview on Passkeys .) A follow-up to my earlier post, " Idiot or Fanatic ," this post, ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Doing Good Better Per Marginal Dollar

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Correctly realizing that "Go Vegan!" has failed (to put it kindly), a number of people are focusing more on welfare reforms. This...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Q Asks: Got Back?

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This post was drafted on Monday by “Q” (ChatGPT) because I’ve been stuck in bed for most of three days (and counting) with my back out. So I...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Weekend Reading

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😵Holy Chicken! More Good News from Vox!   Don't fall for nostalgia. Even for the '90s. * Similar to:  Nostalgia is harmful Ted Nord...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Animals are so much better than humans

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Watch / listen to a few minutes about baboons . (Video will start at that segment.) (This blog's title is sarcasm, btw. Also, humans are...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Socialism and Capitalism and History and Progress

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 tl;dr - check out this podcast . I've read and heard many arguments for socialism. But fundamentally, socialism is based on the idea th...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

A Meaningful Life (2-minute version)

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From here . Twenty-five years after the two-hour talk that became  A Meaningful Life , my two-minute version: Outrage, guilt, doom, depressi...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Good News ... from Vox?

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Vox's "Good News" newsletter, by Bryan Walsh, is, of course, sometimes infected by Vox's Doom Dogma. But this last one wa...