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In <a href="https://social.ayjay.org/2026/07/14/currently-listening-count-em-by.html">my previous post</a> … | Alan Jacobs

In my previous post I used the line “Can you dig it? I knew that you could.” It’s a line I've been using for fifty years, since I heard Billy Crystal deploy it in a routine on Saturday Night Live in w

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Freddie on “Our Poptimist Dystopia": Aesthetic hierarchy of any kind has become the last obscenity, the one judgment we’re no longer permitted to make, because to say that one thing is better than an

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<a href="https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/worm-blossom/">Robin Sloan</a>: <blockquote> Basically, <a href="https://worm-blossom.org/">this</a> … | Alan Jacobs

Robin Sloan: Basically, this is one of those designs that might not totally “work”, but the attempt is so vital and so valiant that it punches through the dimension of merely “working” or “not workin

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The Fading Promise of Higher Education is the theme of this excellent new issue of the Hedgehog Review. I don’t have anything in the issue on that important theme, but I did write a reflection on hear

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Francis Young: I have been interested in Faustina Kowalska’s experiences ever since I first read about them when I was eighteen. I am not usually much of a fan of modern-day (or even early modern) de

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Donald Knuth: I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one l

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<a href="https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk265/bsdtalk265.mp3">bsdtalk265 - Sunset on BSD</a>

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Playing around with the gopher protocol. Description of gopher from the 1995 book "Student's Guide to the Internet" by David Clark. Also, ...

<p>In <a href="https://social.ayjay.org/2026/07/14/currently-listening-count-em-by.html">my previous post</a> … | Alan Jacobs

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<p>In <a href="https://social.ayjay.org/2026/07/14/currently-listening-count-em-by.html">my previous post</a> … | Alan Jacobs

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<p><a href="https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/worm-blossom/">Robin Sloan</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Basically, <a href="https://worm-blossom.org/">this</a> … | Alan Jacobs

<p><a href="https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-fading-promise-of-higher-education/articles/the-fading-promise-of-higher-education">The Fading Promise of … | Alan Jacobs

<p><a href="https://drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/building-the-city-of-mercy?publication_id=2277382&amp;post_id=201446684&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=2i8cnl&amp;triedRedirect=true">Francis Young</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I have been … | Alan Jacobs

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<p><a href="https://drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/building-the-city-of-mercy?publication_id=2277382&post_id=201446684&isFreemail=false&r=2i8cnl&triedRedirect=true">Francis Young</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I have been … | Alan Jacobs