It was great to be there! (It also happened to be my birthday, and that was my present to myself.)

For all I know it’s the right read? But I’m still laughing. Sure, the secular paintings. That’s what they’re all stroppy about 😏

And I came across this in his Wikipedia page, which in this context I find utterly hilarious

Closed for cleaning…?? probably nothing to worry about 👀

& there's no better way than fiction to become acquainted with those patterns, or to get to know one's own convictions & values in response to them. In other words: fiction (& scifi in particular) is at the crux of the whole book, the textbook part as much as the anthology part.

but the basic patterns of our individual & shared lives -- the way we see & treat one another, the way we imagine our own powers & limitations in response to circumstances -- there are deep patterns there. Those patterns matter more for ethics -- even CS ethics! -- than any specific technology...

How any socialist project obtains if materiality is a corrupt trick to cage the eternal soul escapes me but I’m eager to be informed!

And @rsperkins.bsky.social of course!!

St Luke / “Babooshka”

St Matthew / “Running Up that Hill” (which he heard for the first time in 2022 but everyone deserves to start somewhere)