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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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You Could Do Anything

Shelly Ridenour penned an article for Qobuz on the stellar alternative albums from 1991. One observation that I found particularly poignant from having grown up during this period was around the change that Nirvana’s Nevermind brought to mainstream music with regard to gender dynamics. Within a couple of months,

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Olly Thoughts

Olly, the developer of the Pagecord blogging software, just published a post on something I was thinking about with regards to music. I’m not buying a lot of physical media these days, but when I do, it’s usually CDs. I just went to a new record store called

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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