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Two New Albums of My Music Are Available to Stream Today i am erth (that’s me), has two full length albums of music being made available today. Courtesy of the democratic nature of our digital society, go on, little pilgrim, and The Crystal Witness of Ancient Fire may be found and enjoyed (ultimatel...

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world- by Emily ThomasRead on Aeon

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is get out of bed and turn on my fairy lights. I read for a little while under the warm glow of the lights while the sun is not yet visible in the winter morning. I am reading a book about Nature right now – stories of walking. When I read, I can b...

When novelist Van Jensen decided to do a special art print to celebrate the hardcover release of his book Godfall, he had an ace up his sleeve. Jensen’s mother, Jean Jensen, is an acclaimed painter whose work has been exhibited around the Plains and Midwest and had works selected to be displayed at ...

Common Sense was subversive in 1776. Maybe its ideas are what we need now.

Consciousness feels like the most familiar thing in the world, and yet science still can’t say what it is, where it begins, or why it exists at all. Annaka Harris examines the assumptions shaping consciousness research, from the belief that awareness requires complex brains to the intuition that tho...

I recently wrote about how LLMs have made simple software trivial to create, but additionally, it's made features incredibly simple to test with very little effort.As an example, just today, I was using my own Mastodon app, Best-o-Masto, and was thinking about what I could do next.

It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things that take me right back to being nine, eleven, thirteen and fifteen years old.

An interview with United CEO Scott Kirby about how rebuilding United's technical infrastructure laid the foundation for transforming the airline.

Time is the book we fill with the story of our lives. All great storytelling has the shape of music. All music is a shelter in time. In these lives hounded by restlessness, trembling with urgency, we need this shelter, need a place still enough and quiet enough to hear the story of our becoming. Reb...

I wrote and illustrated a book in 2025, so the purpose of reading was, primarily, not for more writing, but to escape writing. I didn’t give myself any quotas or any goals. I didn’t worry about what I should or shouldn’t be reading. In fact, after years of threatening to do as much, this was […]

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