Making an impossible . . .

It’s the Satyr's day . . . The moon waxing toward a full soon-Moon-day.

The U.K. poet laureate Ted Hughes was born on this date in 1930 Mytholmroyd, England.

A.I. nationalism — the idea that a country must develop its own tech to serve its own interests — is spreading. The E.U. is leading the push for regulation.

Joyce Vance underscores how important turnout is in this election. Trump needs to be defeated by such overwhelming numbers of votes that it’s virtually impossible to claim fraud.

The longstanding rhetoric that positions Republicans as true Americans defending the country against those who would destroy it has metastasized into the determination of MAGA Republicans to replace American democracy with a Christian nationalism that cements the power of white patriarchy. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American.

Earth-Moon

Once upon a time there was a person
He was walking along
He met the full burning moon
Rolling slowly twoards him
Crushing the stones and houses by the wayside.

…

Till it was nothing
But a silk handkerchief, torn,
And wet as tears.
The person picked it up. He walked on
Into moonless night
Carrying his strange trophy.

– Ted Hughes, “Earth-Moon,” Earth-Moon, Rainbow Press. 1976.