I recently purchased a Baisl special edition pen from Everyday Karas, and it’s a lovely pen with the bold action, but it did not fit the Pentile Energel refill cartridge like I had hoped. The diameter of the Energel is slightly, almost imperceptibly bigger than the Pilot G2. After some tinkering around, I realized that using very fine sandpaper (220 g) worked perfectly for sanding the barrel. I just wiped the barrel of the Energel down for just a couple of minutes in testing until it adjusted just enough to fit into the barrel. I did wipe it down with a wet napkin to kind of polish it a little bit, and it works perfectly.

Hi Friends, I hope that you are well. I mentioned in a previous post that I've been hard at work with a number of projects this summer. Here is the video of my plenary from NEYM I gave this past weekend if you're interested. New England Yearly Meeting

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Attached: 1 image This is how the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue There is no conceivable way to break even for the AI industry—let alone to repay an investment that requires $2Tn a year from now to the end of the decade. That's about 3% of the entire planetary GNP. Just to break even.

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This is a sermon I preached at Camas Friends Church in Camas, WA about the Attention, Empire and the Good Samaritan on March 8, 2026 Empire's Algorithms I have been thinking a lot about attention recently. Last fall I taught a first year class for Guilford students called "Boredom as

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President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 billion fund to pay claims made by his friends for purported unfair prosecution. “The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in his department’s Monday press release, announcing “The Anti-Weaponization Fund.” “As part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.” “The Fund will consist of a Commission of five members appointed by the Attorney General. One Member will be chosen in consultation with congressional leadership,” the Justice Department’s press release states. “The President can remove any member, but a replacement must be chosen the same way as the replaced member was selected.” According to the Justice Department, “on a quarterly basis, the Fund shall send a report to the Attorney General outlining who has received relief and what form of relief was awarded.” If Blanche’s previous decisions to protect Trump and go after his alleged enemies are anything to go by, there will therefore be little to no oversight beyond Trump loyalists. The president has long claimed that he and his allies have been targeted by the Biden administration—including, as _Mother Jones_ ’ Michael Mechanic pointed out on Saturday, defendants who were charged for involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization filed the $10 billion lawsuit this past January after IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn leaked the president’s tax returns to ProPublica and _the New York Times_. In a Monday amicus brief shared with MS NOW, House Democrats said Trump’s lawsuit “undermine[d] the Constitution” and the potential “Truth and Justice Commission” was a “slush fund.” “Never in the history of the United States has a sitting President sought a monetary settlement from the government he leads—let alone sought many billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,” the Democrats wrote, arguing that Trump was “filing a collusive lawsuit only to immediately dismiss it in order to produce a collusive settlement.” And this is a pattern. Just think about the ABC lawsuit, where the process of the Trump administration’s pressure and subsequent settlement resulted in a form of extortion. As for the IRS settlement, the president now has a $1.8 billion compensation fund to support future attacks against anyone who opposes him.