Just finished Ezekiel 28, which officially brings me under 100 chapters left to write about for Chapter by Chapter.
It doesn’t seem like much compared to the 1,090 I’ve already written, but it includes Daniel and all the minor prophets.
Reading
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
- Total Party Kill by The Incomparable
- The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish
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I have reached Ezekiel 25 in my Chapter by Chapter notes, and now all I want to do is watch Pulp Fiction.
I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.
— …
We should celebrate this kind of obsessiveness more often and more loudly.
The AI Detector Eats Itself
Today’s newsletter from Matt Ragland is… weird.
It’s titled, “The two words that out you as an AI writer” and boils down to: “genuinely” and “quietly” make your prose sound AI-written. …
Every Monday, Matt Gemmell posts a new short story. They’re usually good, or at least original and interesting.
Today’s is exceptionally well executed.
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I just realized I’ve finished notes on more than 90% of the Bible for Chapter By Chapter.
As of today, I’ve finished 1,086 chapters, or just over 91% of the Bible.
I have 103 chapters left to write about.
TIL
New word for me from today’s Apple crossword: “pluot.” Well, and “aprium.”
You’d think they were plum/apricot hybrids, and they are, but it’s more complex than that. Simple hybrids are calls plumcots and apriplums; these are “later generations.” …
Cal Newport says that there’s no concern that Tesla’s FSD will “go rogue” in the sense of disobeying traffic laws.
All I have to say is that he may not be as familiar with the state of AV technology in general, and Tesla in particular, as he is with …
travel
The bad news is my flight home got diverted.
A minor silver lining is I got to experience a new piece of Flighty UI.
Today, I realized I listen to two (totally unrelated) podcasts whose acronym uses the letters TPK:
Now I just need podcasts abbreviated KPT, KTP, PTK, and PKT.
When I encountered Mrs. Cotton’s delightful The Doors Stay Open, I initially thought that perhaps The Grudgery was leaking.
Considering the author, I’m not convinced it’s not.
Legibility of Care, Not Effort
Some of my oldest habits as a human creator have become markers of AI slop.
Example one: I love the em dash. I use it all the time. But for some reason LLMs, especially early chat models, developed a conspicuous fondness for the em dash—often in …
Visiting DC this week, and I continue to laugh at Americans who stand directly in front of subway doors to board and then get shocked when they have to move to let people off the train first.
The Guardian managed to write almost three thousand words about the history of the modern industrialized two-day weekend—published on a Sunday—without using the word “Sabbath” once.
Remarkable.
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TIL
Despite the repeated warnings about the invader/conqueror from the north, the book of Jeremiah doesn’t actually mention Babylon by name until chapter 20.
He spends nineteen chapters talking about this impending disaster “from the …
Does this make ChatGPT Codex half-Mac-assed?
On The Talk Show 452, “A Scam Held Together with Patriotism and Golden Paint”, John Gruber said:
One of the things that, to me, just defines a Mac app is being able to open whatever the element of the app is, you should be able to open …
Saturday Is the Day of Pre-Rest
“No, Saturday is the day of pre-rest. Yeah, so that way, when you actually get to Sunday, you’re rested enough to enjoy your rest.”
—Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls, S1E17
Our marathon-of-marathons has surfaced a lovely bit of wisdom: Lorelai …
Yesterday’s thunderstorm cooled off the valley enough for me to get outside for the first time in a few weeks.
AllTrails estimated 2.5 hours for this trail, so I was fairly surprised to find myself back at the parking lot in 97 minutes.
Yesterday, during a thunderstorm, the Costco we were in lost power. Everyone continued to shop with phone flashlights until they herded us out.
Apparently the registers ran on battery, so we were all able to check out, but then we were trapped at the …
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Working my way through my Chapter by Chapter notes on Jeremiah tonight, I kept thinking, These chapters are really long!
Fortunately, I had already built some Bible-data machinery for this article. So naturally, instead of getting back to my notes, I …
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The ESV study Bible’s notes on Jeremiah begin,
Determining the authorship of the book of Jeremiah is complicated by several factors…
I understand and appreciate the challenges; I just love the juxtaposition of the name of the book, …
We have started our Fall marathon-of-marathons a little… early… this year.
First up: Gilmore Girls.
An uneven show for sure, but I’ll never turn down something with such excellent dialogue delivered so well.
Bonus trivia: Star’s Hollow uses the same …
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I finished taking notes on Isaiah today in my quest to complete the Canon by September 25. That brings me to 1,005 chapters (84.5% of the way there)!
Isaiah was definitely the hardest book left, but Jeremiah and Ezekiel aren’t easy, and …
books
Finished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
Wow, this book was very nearly serious fantasy! It has huge stakes, multiple meaningful races, some hope that what they do in this book will have impacts on the next one, and some …
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Finished reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
This book takes place inside cosmic bubble wrap. Dinniman’s brain reminds me of a Gary Larson quote:
You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain …