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Canned Dragons

A personal weblog reflecting mostly on culture, faith, noise and tech. Written by Robert.

Canned Dragons pulls in thoughts from other independent blogs as well as social media accounts and major publishers.

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Bishop Militia

Is arguing online about high Christology a frutiful activity?

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Moondrop Displacement

If you live in a first-world country with a sizable knowledge work sector, you might find it hard to escape the subject of AI. That’s probably an understatement. We are saturated with talk of artificial intelligence and, in particular, large language models. The economist Edgar R. Fiedler is quoted

A vintage cartoon of a man in a 1930s style suite in a matching office with rotary phone, typewriter and a modern computer screen looks shocked at what he sees on the screen.

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Portland Town

One of my greatest joys in 2026 has been the release of new material by British riot twee band Heavenly. I’ll admit I approached the release of this year’s brilliantly named Highway to Heavenly LP with a certain amount of skepticism. After decades of radio silence, it’s

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Attie

I just signed up for access to Attie, a new AI-based app from Bluesky, which allows you to shape your feed on the social network using plain language. To be honest, I wasn’t that excited about the app when it was first announced. It can be hard these days

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The Novel Cure

Every time I finish a novel in which I have invested a lot of time and emotion, I feel a bit unmoored. What other worlds are out there now that this one is gone? It’s like the characters in that world died and will be grieved. Some even after

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A Change In The Atmosphere

With the announcement on the A New Social blog that Bridgy Fed, was bringing longform to the Atmosphere, I found myself wanting to play with some of the current blogging tools running on AT Proto.1 Bridgy Fed has been helpful in syndicating my Fediverse posts from Ghost to Bluesky

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Hurts Like Hell

Charlotte Cornfield is the latest musician to put out something via Durham, NC’s Merge Records. Hurts Like Hell is also the first long player by the Canadian singer/songwriter since becoming a mother. The title track, “Hurts Like Hell,” wallows in a remembered sentimentality with the advantage of looking