Remember the video I shared about Suzanne Lupien a few days ago? Well, there’s also one about her bread baking that is even more beautiful.

🎵 I’m proud to be an American / where I know there’ll be a fee 🎵

Beautiful video: “Suzanne Lupien, a solo 70-year-old homesteader, uses draft horses, compost, and traditional tools to grow food for 20 families.”

Listening to the first episode of the Newkirks’ series on mediumship. Turns out there is an active Spiritualist camp in Indiana with a very colorful history. I know the destination of my next road trip!

Quoting myself from two years ago:

Two ecosystem services provided by humans: gratitude and awareness.

Good article on the fake personality of chatbots—in part because of lack of persistence through time. (Via @ayjay) As I’ve been using Claude more, I’m finding that it’s best at amplifying my own ideas and spinning them in new directions, not generating anything new or even factual.

Good episode of The Emerald podcast: “Reimagining our Ancestors.

Adam Kotsko on how the post-literate AI world will kill God

We’ll see how committed to the truth the Democrats are when Bill Clinton gets implicated in the Epstein affair.

Really good essay from @jaheppler on 19th century Americans bringing bison near to extinction.