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A genuine musical mystery: essentially no pop music is in 3 or 6, whereas a huge amount of Christian pop worship music is in 3 or 6. Any theories??

Idolatry works at first, sometimes spectacularly. And idolatry always stops working. It happened to Steve Jobs with his eating disorder, which led him to refuse cancer treatment. This astute piece makes me think something similar is happening to Elon Musk. unherd.com/2025/03/how-el…

I've been pondering a written piece about how to live faithfully while our leaders behave so recklessly, and maybe I'll publish something, but there is one journalistic problem—I start writing about some example of recklessness and then something wildly more reckless comes along.

This is prophetic in the precise sense — not foretelling the future, but speaking truth to the present about the alternative futures that lie before us. nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opi…

Apparently this platform will not show my last post to very many people because it has a link. I refuse to bow to that algorithmic nonsense. Privilege, to be sure, since my livelihood (and Ross's) doesn't rely on exposure here, but if yours does, I'd seek a new livelihood fast.

Arrgh I forgot Illich! YES, Tools for Conviviality. Essential.

a guide to MODERN CAMP HOMES 10 New Models & Plans for Persons of Japanese Ancestry uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/783002691… Kyrie eleison.

What it means to be a redemptive builder: explaining our core convictions at Praxis (Praxis) in just under three minutes. youtube.com/watch?v=qjT7Qg…

My recent and upcoming reading as I prepare for a bunch of talks, etc., on AI in 2025-26: Hartmut Rosa, The Uncontrollability of the World (just reread, SO SO good) Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour Nicholas Carr, Superbloom Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine