10 Rules to Diffuse AI Bro Arguments
Just got a wonderful zine in the mail yesterday from Power Tools of AI by Bart Fish: Power Tools of AIPower Tools is an art series focused on critiquing AI toolmen and genAI. Featuring zines,
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Meanwhile...Back on the Fediverse
I worked with a friend only to develop a guide for introducing platforms like Mastadon for Quakers who are looking for an alternative to Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. See that guide below or find it online here: https://friendsonthefediverse.com
Gathering In Light Redesign
I've been working on the redesigned of the site over the last few weeks using Claude Code. I have always enjoyed working on website designs, and have a number of favorite custom designs in the history of Gathering in Light.
Updating My Tools
This morning, after listening to the most recent episode of the Pen Addict, I was inspired to create an "analog defaults" page with the pens and notebooks I use everyday.
Story Boarding Fiction
Some of what I have been doing in my morning writing and research time is trying my hand at a dystopian short story about AI going to a Quaker meeting. I hope to share that here sometime soon, once I find myself out of the editing phase.
Scenes from an Igloo (Class)
As I mentioned earlier, I built a homemade igloo this weekend with my kids. As a result of all this snow we’re getting here in North Carolina, we had a remote day today at the college where I teach. With having classes today, I knew I had Zoom on the docket for today.
Coming to PNW this March
I’m visiting PNW Quakers putting March (7-8) for three "talks." The first is a workshop I'm offering at the Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends Quarterly Meeting in Camas, WA
Looking for Privacy Focused Blogging Platforms
My beloved WordPress is becoming more and more corporate and finding more and more ways to tie data-tracking and AI into their product. I’ve used the self-hosted WordPress install for most of my blog’
On The Rebound
My son has recently gotten interested in basketball. This has had an unintended consequence. Up until now, he has not showed much interest in it but his friends at his new school invited him to
Riding Uhwarrie National Forest
About 50 miles south of where we live is the Uhwarrie National Forest 51,000+ acres lying just West of Badin Lake. I have been down to Uhwarrie a couple times, once of my motorcycle,
Sharing: Hush – Songs for Christmas by Seth Patrick Martin
If you’ve been around the site, or me much, you know I love the music – and friendship of Seth Patrick Martin. He’s just shared a new Christmas album with us that I wanted
Are We In A Post-Social Media World?
I was lucky enough to get to talk with Georgia Sparling of Thee Quaker Podcast a little while back about social media and some of the things I’ve wrestled with as a Quaker theologian,