Follow Contravex: Essaies de Pete D., filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/contravex-essaies-de-pete-d Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:05:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkplc5E968-SQrG7Iy_4u0x9 Strength true as Silence, Shoulders broad as Rainbows, Frame fertile as Chaos, Maid milky as The Way. Skin serene as Routine, Bosom burning as Midnight, Light glowing as Praise, Folds fastidious as Gardens. Bread real as War, Bounty rich as Tradition, Moment earnest as Ethic, Honour lasting as Impression. Werk maakt je waardig.]]> Sun, 28 May 2023 14:29:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkplc5E968-SQrG7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkp94KnPW0gKslw3HFUzDTIP The city most ancient, all prophets respect, Where history and heavens connect, Jerusalem: White City on high, Graced eternal ‘neath endless skies. Bedrock of stone stronger than Samson, One building material binds heroes to grandsons, Each block a spell disguising growth, More cars and cranes so little loath’d. Its creamy white coat, an ancient poem, […]]]> Sun, 21 May 2023 14:25:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkp94KnPW0gKslw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqrcqc2XwPnJhhSCv31NykC מַסָּדָה נָשָׂאת גַּאוֹן, מְגַדֵּל עַל הַמִּדְבָּר, סֵפֶר צָרוֹתֵיהֶן מְרוֹרֵר, רֶשֶׁף מִכַּתֵּף הַזִּכְרוֹן, דַּמְעוֹת הַנַּעַר וְהַזְּקֵן, נֹפְלוֹת כַּמַּיִם מֵעֵינוֹן, הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִי חוֹזֵק, אֵינוֹ פֹּחֵד מִפְּנֵי הָאוֹיֵב. נִקְשֵׁי הַגּוֹרָל קָשֶׁים, כֵּן, אֲבָל הָאֱמוּנָה גְּדוֹלָה, הַמָּוֶת לֹא תָּמִיד מְפַחֵד, פַּחַד מִן הַשִּׁפְלוּת יוֹתֵר. מֵאָז וּמֵעוֹלָם הִז Since then and forever, the memory…]]> Sun, 14 May 2023 14:45:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqrcqc2XwPnJhhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqDzhYjspYply3FFO_xyF25 מַסָּדָה נָשָׂאת גַּאוֹן, מְגַדֵּל עַל הַמִּדְבָּר, סֵפֶר צָרוֹתֵיהֶן מְרוֹרֵר, רֶשֶׁף מִכַּתֵּף הַזִּכְרוֹן, דַּמְעוֹת הַנַּעַר וְהַזְּקֵן, נֹפְלוֹת כַּמַּיִם מֵעֵינוֹן, הַרומִּי רוֹדֵף, אֲךְ בִּנֵי הַמִּדְבָּר אֵינָם פֹּחֲדִים. נִקְשֵׁי הַגּוֹרָל קָשֶׁים, כֵּן, אֲבָל הָאֱמוּנָה גְּדוֹלָה, הַמָּוֶת לֹא תָּמִיד מְפַחֵד, פַּחַד מִן הַשִּׁפְלוּת יוֹתֵר.מֵאָז וּמֵעוֹלָם הִז Since then and forever, the memory…]]> Sun, 14 May 2023 14:15:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqDzhYjspYply3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrMZa2-J8Xv-GZMehmtHS8- Israel is in the midst of what you might call an “unconstitutional crisis” and I’m on the front lines to see what it’s all about. Y’see, the little country that could doesn’t actually have a formal written constitution and its current Strongman-in-Chiefi Bibi Netanyahu is doing everything in his executive power to keep it that way, […]]]> Sun, 07 May 2023 14:37:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrMZa2-J8Xv-GZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkp0Id161HVh66bel3Iu4GjH Home is where the ego isn’t Nes gadol hayah shami More meaning Less material More prosperityii Less peace More openness Less obsequiousness More sun Less security More tradition Less tranquility More community Less Karen More smokeiii Less smallness More humanity Less homelessness More walking Less wallowing More stray cats Less stray glances More doing Less […]]]> Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:24:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkp0Id161HVh66bel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqM16v592cPzGZMehmtHS8- The sea is always splitting There is always a wayi We strive for immortality But fear its banality Longing for belonging And prolonging our lives, grasping At meaning, cups overflowing With anything but something A hundred years or more we wish Of life so full we’d never stretch Denied Pandora her botox’d blush Her charm-filled box […]]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:26:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqM16v592cPzGZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkoT-Sxt7BWfP6vLeqE6yv18 Tick tock Goes the clock Not my watch The one for men Father again If only I could I surely would I have the time And the space For sure the means With energy Enough at least If You’d please Lord now above Spread the love Daughters or sons Bestow’d like Huns Real roulettei Make […]]]> Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:02:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkoT-Sxt7BWfP6vLeqE6yv18 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkraNIMUEXidZ--bbeigX9oC Last week AI, this week EV!i And who could’ve predicted that regulators – at least in the automotive domain – are taking exactly the approach I proposed vis-a-vis AI but for EV, which is to say “rest and digest” a little more than “fight or flight”? So it is that the “bans” of combustion engine vehicles […]]]> Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:52:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkraNIMUEXidZ--bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrz7stpNSLPNC3FFO_xyF25 As discussed previously on these pages, I’m not much for nostalgia, but that being said, I’m increasingly seeing the value in taking time to digest new innovations, not least of which is AI. I mean, Emperors Tiberiusi and Vespasianii certainly thought so, and how much smarter could I (or the rest of our contemporary political leadership) possibly be than […]]]> Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:24:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrz7stpNSLPNC3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkr6g0nYfcVxCclTP0vptTFR No, not with life, with writing! With this – not “thing”, we know those don’t really exist – but with this intention; attention; effort; attempts; essais, if you will. Who, what, where, when, and why? Who are they for? Are these essays for you, dear reader, to peer into my (peerless) mind? To gaze into the infinite expanse […]]]> Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:55:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkr6g0nYfcVxCclTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkoA-mdxt0e9eEGT5aWO9DEx No, not my retirement… not to worry. I’ve been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. I’m here to stay now. But this week let’s talk about “retirement” more broadly! Before we get to the illusory state-sponsored version of “retirement”, let’s dig into the potentially more curious case of the self-funded version. If we were to believe […]]]> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:35:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkoA-mdxt0e9eEGT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqlLrVfcshOeQpx5_w21kha Like most self-respecting art lovers, the idea of putting up reproductions of Old Masters paintings on one’s 65″ Samsung Frame TV as an ever-present wallpaper is, well, pretty revolting. It’s almost worse than “right-click-saving” because, at least with digital art, the unowned reproduction maintains the full fidelity of the original. But with 500-year-old Renaissance paintings of […]]]> Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:48:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqlLrVfcshOeQpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqTRc2ZILipQnOFESPuQWsX As much of a cocktail party conversation starter as anything, The Girl asked me a very interesting question on one of our walks this week: If you’d passed awayi today and could only come back to Earth for 5 minutes with your body, and that you could do anything, anywhere in the world, what would […]]]> Sun, 05 Mar 2023 15:58:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqTRc2ZILipQnOFESPuQWsX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrgyrbV1RyQ6gp41t9tiERU Acclaimed art critic (and somewhat stereotypical Elderly Gotham Yid) Jerry Saltz took a swing at the world’s most famous screensaveri artist this week in a tirade entitled “MoMA’s Glorified Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.” In the hit piece, Saltz calls out Anadol saying that “Unsupervised is a digital version of the dead-on-arrival Zombie Formalism […]]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrgyrbV1RyQ6gp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqdt34EUUWJBRhSCv31NykC During the GREAT (NFT) BULL RUN OF 2021, there was much support for the mission of “don’t let the institutions steal [y]our JPEGs“. Indeed, we banded around this collective objective, slurping up and hodling anything resembling “blue chip” even if they’d been minted the day before, all while we daydreamed of the future fortunes that would inevitability accrue to us. “Early-As-A-Service” in all its 8-bit glory, those were […]]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:34:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkqdt34EUUWJBRhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkpE5IQ30ddUUYfjc6hd5eWF Desert stars, Connecting stars, Constellations, Coyotes inviting The moon. Wholesomeness Unbounds us, Warm air Surrounds us, Big cacti Atune us, Jazz music Soothes us, Apple cider Warms us, Growing boys Ground us. Las Noches De Las Luminarias, Missing only My yin half, Yet still so close To the asymptote, Wholesomeness. She’s far away, On her way back, […]]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 15:30:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkpE5IQ30ddUUYfjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkoZfhID3j7pJQX50KYzL9tX Listening to Rick Rubin Talk about his taste, Denying the ego, Sending his awards To his parents’ house, Tyler Cowen leans in, They’re a decent match. We’re driving together Towards the workshop, About an hour From downtown, Into the country, But really a million Miles away from The left-brained buzz. Out to the acreage, To […]]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:22:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkoZfhID3j7pJQX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrTmhtgfHizaem6srrLMsqK Behold a scale! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Scuti’si giant mass,ii Now less than smallest pools, in zero’d room Throng numberless–like that Googolplex spaceiii Beyond the Holy mount; or faery grace, Whose divinities divine, by sweeter-side Of finitude, some precious Processiv sees, Or dreams it sees, while overhead our Moon Sits obscured, and nearer to our Earth Veiled in pale grandeur: […]]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2023 15:45:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrTmhtgfHizaem6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrKGrY0o7AgAq7VFky8BpXO A continuation of last week’s keener efforts, now with our little 4-year-old dreameri in the driver’s seat! So this week our Little Leftyii provides a solid 70% of the effort in the ChatGPT prompts below, with Daddy providing about 20% just for guardrails and 7-year-old Big Bro throwing in 10% for the assist. On y va: Sunday: 1. What is the largest cargo […]]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 13:30:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xxQ6XwlJGkrKGrY0o7AgAq7VFky8BpXO