Thanks for the warning so I can save time by ignoring 100% of this AI slop content. Writing is thinking. Communication is relationship not just 'content'. I don't want to read words which don't have a person on the other end. Quicker, easier, more seductive is the Dark Side.

The smartphone is an intensification of the shift from book-based, Gutenberg culture to screen-based, post-Gutenberg culture. Our culture is being reshaped over the course of just a few generations and it’s hard to argue for the better - see Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death

Latest reading... Paul Kingsnorth ‘s Against The Machine sSeems timely as the government flexes its Machine instincts with the proposal for compulsory digital ID, though Kingsnorth's analysis goes deeper than the merely political to the philosophical and spiritual.

Taking today’s feast day as an opportunity to do a PSA. St. Francis of Assisi never said, “Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.”

Yes please!

Big “How do you do, fellow kids?” vibes here 😬

Having lots of fun watching #CelebrityTraitors... it's very silly, but it pretends less to be serious than, say, The Apprentice. And they're onto Wossy! 🫣

How can anyone write about the Narnia books, in the style of the books themselves? I don't know, but Caleb Woodbridge 👨🏻‍💻📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has done it. This breathes the awe, beauty and truth of Narnia. Thank you. #Narnia #CSLewis #literature #children #books

Watching #CelebrityTraitors is so (entertainingly) frustrating! I keep thinking, surely this episode is where they'll vote Jonathan out, but nope. Celia, Celia, why didn't you vote for him this week when you suspect him?

Kate trying to get her head round Nick's tactical reasoning in #CelebrityTraitors

Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’ ‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’ ‘Gandalf!’ ‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’