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• Bondi kill.
  and it speaks toour collective lapse.That an awl of crimson horrorcan puncturea Bondi sunset beach.
• My favourite things of 2025.
  I simply remember my favourite things…..and then I dont feel so bad.
• Ice-cream wild.
  “Let the case for the destruction of the earth rest. We are smothered with facts. They are both depressing and endless. What is unsettling is that we are all so apathetic.The social reasons for our apathy are numerous: religious traditions such as Christianity and Buddhism that glorify acceptance and condemn emotion (particularly anger) and judgment;… Read more: Ice-cream wild.
• A plea, from Flea.
• Its a fucking climate emergency.
  I have been doing a little reading during this trip. I wont bore you with links to the research or the titles of books (I don’t want to bore you, I want to shock you……….as in here, hold these two wires), but I will share a video at the end of this post. Our planet… Read more: Its a fucking climate emergency.
• AI manipulates language, but it does not think.
  Without diving too deep into the linguistic weeds here, the upshot is that human beings, as a species, benefit tremendously from using language to share our knowledge, both in the present and across generations. Understood this way, language is what the cognitive scientist Cecilia Heyes calls a “cognitive gadget” that “enables humans to learn from… Read more: AI manipulates language, but it does not think.
• Recommended read: Leaving Space for Grace.
  This is the read I’ve been looking for. A long essay that explores our navigational plot through these times of existential crisis. And calibration of the compass based on Victor Frankl’s three-step model in our search for meaning. What we need, it seems (now, more than ever) are more tragic optimists. […] what we can… Read more: Recommended read: Leaving Space for Grace.