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I love it when cultural essayists rediscover a core Quaker observation about plainness and human nature and finding it up with a new name. A few that’s ago, “normcore” became a thing.
Now we have “uni-context,” the idea that our online social lives bleed into all of our different networks (think: friends, work colleagues, romantic interests) so much that the networks ...
An interesting Reddit thread on “Quakers and Generative AI Art” by user balsawoodspirit.
I encourage Friends to please remember that Generative AI art is produced unethically from AI models that scrape the work of real artists w...
The new issue of Friends Journal is up. I wrote the Among Friends intro this month, waxing lyrically on the “sonic landscape” of m...
From Sergei Grushko, a look at the choices of Quaker institutions in a time of war:
> World War II presented a severe challenge for American colleges. But perhaps no group faced a more difficult dilemma than the institutions of higher education founded by Quakers. How could they reconcile a centuries-old witness to peace with the need to survive?
I didn’t kno...