@poemblaze

Thanks, Matt!

Any thoughts on something you'd like to submit to issues #2 or #3?

We're a very inclusive #Zine!

@poemblaze

Mister Ed had spent so on 'readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmatic, he'd never learned the power of healthy platonic relationships!

@CanisPundit

Anything that brings back a strong, good memory for you?

@northernbassist @Warpspeed3 @Bix @tgraph52 @CinnamonGirlE @JoyfullyDazed @Mfieck @InUnfunky

@CanisPundit

Thank you for sharing this. :)

@northernbassist @Warpspeed3 @Bix @tgraph52 @CinnamonGirlE @JoyfullyDazed @Mfieck @InUnfunky

@Sandywb14

Right? It's just such a lovely affirmation that good things *can* be carried forward, even if so much of the world is filled with daily reminders of how much we forget and toss along the way.

My afternoon plans were sidetracked by my eldest nephew calling to talk about his high school English homework, which *may* have involved a long digression into how much he enjoyed reading James Joyce's "Araby" and what it meant to him, and me trying not to get all weepy over the staying power of literature (and the amazing work of good teachers!).

Didn't get out the door for my pre-writing, VM-answering walk before he called, though, so... Round 2? 🙃

Walkies and talkies (answering VMs) before my next writing task?

Don't mind if I do~! 🍃

@Graci, how you doin', girl?

It's been a little while, so I'm just checking in.

I hope you're caught up in the very best of goofy wife-ing adventures, or filling the idle hours with some other wonderful campaign - but just in case this wee note finds you Going Through Things, I just wanted to send a heck of a lot of love your way.

Hope you're taking good care of yourself, and have all the tools and space you need to b̶u̶r̶y̶ t̶h̶e̶ b̶o̶d̶i̶e̶s̶ get back into your groove again soon. 💜

@elbutterfield

Thanks for the smile, E.L.! The Good Place is a *perfect* tie-in, in no small part because Chidi's character has some strong Peter Singer vibes at times!

TGP also beautifully encapsulates the tension between philosophers pontificating on morality and people simply living in the world, as messy and as inclined to awfulness as it is.

Thanks for being here in the "trenches" with me, E.L.! :)

More so than other writing, I find that writing on philosophy is never finished--only abandoned. So, after dragging my heels on posting, here's Part 2 of my reflection on Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (1972). Partly for all, partly for paid subscribers, we look at systemic questions skirted by Singer's moral appeal to affluent people in his community.

Are we too hung up on trying to improve individual "goodness" in this deeply "un-good" world of ours?

https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/again-is-it-possible-to-be-good

New client meeting time. 🤞

Have a great morning, CoSo!

It's exhausting that this is becoming its own subgenre of news article. (Also frustrating that, in this case, there was actually a product warning not to use this tech in high-risk areas!)

"A machine learning engineer said he initially discovered hallucinations in about half of the over 100 hours of Whisper transcriptions he analyzed. A third developer said he found hallucinations in nearly every one of the 26,000 transcripts he created with Whisper."

#AI #Technology
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/researchers-ai-powered-transcription-tool-hospitals-invents-things-115170291

@Jorro

It sounds like you carry in your heart the gift of a powerful bond from early years in the faith.

I'm so sorry you haven't been able to find a community like that since. I remember a study noting that church-going is often a lonelier experience than not going at all when one doesn't feel connected to other members.

You know what's missing in your churches, though, and you try to live up to higher standards.

I hope you find a community that supports such wonderful convictions, friend.

And now, after I finish a couple of posts (Substack, Patreon), plus 3-4 hours of work tomorrow morning (potential new client; we'll see how the meeting goes), I *should* have time to dust off my Duel-in-Space story this weekend, and get that ready to send off to Analog sometime soon. 🤞

It took a little while to get the engine going again, but methinks the fiction-writing muscle is returning.

Night, gang!

I hope your own weekends are as productive/restful as you'd prefer.

Oh, thank freaking goodness.

I've been working on this novelette for 18 MONTHS. Rewrote it a million ways, but *finally* locked into one that feels like it works.

I'm a big fan of letting a story go (if the theme is true, it'll come back to you), but this one had all the right elements, so I couldn't shake it. It haunted my dreams!

Now it rests, to be submitted Monday. 💪

(And the next story better not be a freaking princess like this one! No one has time for such nonsense!) #WritingCommunity

@Tacitus_Kilgore

I love that folks like @JGSchaeffer share these beautiful glimpses of their travels. We can't all journey out from home, but there's something special about living vicariously through others' trips - because the way JGS moves through a space might be very different from the way I would; and so, seeing others in the world also means getting to see the world *through other eyes*.

Love it to bits. Thanks for sharing the fruits of your splendid journey, JGS! ♥️💃🏻🛩️🌍 Safe trip home!

@BipolarArtist @corlin

I'd love for you folks to decide on the content you want betwixt yourselves, actually! I will adapt the pages to accommodate your vision, but my editorial role shouldn't get in the way of your preliminary dreaming. I look forward to reading what you generate, as the fruit of your life experiences in these domains!

#Zine #Buddhism #HarmReduction #Meditation