The differing perceptions of AI are wild. The country just voted against data centers on 40+ provisions nationwide and hates AI. (Plenty of legitimate gripes.) But most of those people are just unaware that AI is finding a new cancer cure or treatment weekly, going through decades of peer reviewed data and uncovering mountains of errors, that its correcting, throughout every academic field. Replacing billions of man hours of drudgery. Closest thing to a “miracle” I’ve ever witnessed. When I talk to people outside of tech/VC, they’re just unaware of all of it.

A friend notes: Tennessee and Alabama each have two losses. Tennessee’s were both by a field goal or less. Alabama is ranked 5 and Tennessee is 13. Tennessee beat Alabama 26-10. The Committee is insane or corrupt. Or both.

Many thanks to the amazing @StevenEKnepper and Fr. Ryan Duns for this Halloween-appropriate conversation! This week at Christians Reading Classics pod @mereorthodoxy christiansreadingclassics.bu…

I am excited to announce The Intimate Strangeness of Poetry: William Desmond and Literature (@wipfandstock) , featuring Desmond, @DunsSj @matt_wickman @TakeshiMorisato @TerenceJSweeney @TomDEvelyn @Sophiologist_ Cyril O'Regan, Caitlin Smith Gilson, Paul Camacho, and others!

We're open for submissions to our December issue until October 31. For this issue, we're especially interested in poems dealing with the theme of Home (broadly construed), but will consider work on any subject, and in any style. Guidelines in reply.

I'm convinced that the R1 model will always disfavor the humanities and liberal learning and that we need to be very savvy and strategic in how we understand ourselves and our place within that model. Very few humanists agree with me, I've found.

NVR's 2026 Halloween issue is now available! Featuring poems by @PoetForest @jennifereeser @katieabeswick @timothygreen @dpatsheehan @MidgeGoldberg @s_e_ashbach Timothy Steele, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Susan McLean, Matthew Buckley Smith, Ellen Kaufman, Gregory Emilio, and others.