@jcsolomons

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Human Ties newsletter. Applied humanities, arts & theatre. Anglo-Jewish Theatre research. Written/spoken/on-line communication. College Teacher.

I have read a lot by Rebecca Solnit, and I am stull inspired by her book Hope in the Dark. This interview is on the occasion of the publication of a sort of sequel to that book.The Beginning Comes After the End

https://youtu.be/sOJ_uaffG5s?si=Flgep0GFtciczCu-

You See Chaos and Doom in the World? Rebecca Solnit Sees Possibility. | The Interview

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Arizona sky this morning, Mar. 4, 2026. Alane's first AZ carer started yesterday!
Arizona sky. Mar 2, 2026. North, East and South.This is what you post when you have so much on your mind that you don't know where to start.
Arizona sky, Feb 20, and those are raindrops on the car window!
Arizona sky Feb 20. 2026.

Thank you #RichardOsman for this:

“After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through #ChatGPT, and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.”

It's from We Solve Murders published last year.

WT... The American Airlines chatbot seems to be called #Savita. And no one was stoned when they named it?

Nice quote in the footer of an English football newsletter:

“We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.” - Philip Larkin

The full poem (trigger warning for all hedgehog lovers)
https://allpoetry.com/The-Mower

Job search websites seem spammier than ever.
PJ Harvey & Tricky. Later with Jools Holland BBC2 12.05.1998. "Broken Homes"

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