I'm new to Substack and your letter was one of the first I subscribed to. I just love your aesthetic. I've just started writing here and wondered if you had any thoughts about the AI systems training their systems with your writing? It's already started. Read about this important topic in my post https://boodsy.substack.com/p/the-ai-bots-are-coming-for-your-substack
What an incredible body of work! Well done on fostering such an incredible community of readers and writers with your Stack. You have certainly made this online world a better place! Kudos to your sustained, prolific output. So much thought provoking material here . . . the discussion is also a dream!
You are a wonderful model exemplifying the potential that this platform has to offer to us all. Keep up the good work!
Once you see how our income-based laborforce really works (the fact that high profits depend on low wages), then you’ll finally understand why a digital (moneyless) system matching people to jobs, resources to communities, and daily production, consumption, and waste management operations to personal and professional demands is actually more sustainable and ethical than today’s global political economy, mainly because, compared to scientific-capitalism, scientific-socialism is a lot more democratic; it values and views our very basic, very intuitive belief “universal protections for all” as both a human need and an environmental right.
Hi! I was recommended your newsletter as I'm thinking about starting my own Substack, one of element of which would be serialising my own fiction. I'm about to launch into your archives and try and soak up all your advice!
Thank you so much for the subscription gift - I am excited to read through your articles. I have just been reading another post about ‘unexpected gratitudes’, of which this is one. Many, many thanks.
Thank you for writing this index, I am excited to read through your articles. And I love your illustrations. Sorry, I can't afford to be a paid subscriber.
I love your substack and it has helped me to start thinking more along the lines of a better world. U am curious if you have read Nomad Century by Gaia Vince. It is nonfiction and dystopic, but talks of what will be necessary to do to adapt to millions of climate refugees.
This is a great reference to get a flavor of your writing. Do you use tagging on your posts so that the indexing is easier? Good luck in the transition to full-time Substack writing.
I wasn't going to subscribe. Heck I'm a writer struggling to make a living myself and I need to ensure my sub stack subscriptions don't outweigh my sub stack earnings. And after the death of a poor abused homeless woman in my serene seaside neighbourhood recently I am over capitalism. And I'm over hedonism. And this is where you snagged me. Give her a chance, I thought. She has new ideas or renewed ideas so search with her for a little while.
This led me to your 'I'm So Over Dead French Writers' because I am not. Not over them. And I came to your paragraph on Anthony Bourdain and suffering and you snagged me completely because you refuse to accept that we give up and die. You don't see the answer in using ourselves and abusing ourselves, turning away from the light to the darkness.
I am going to subscribe as a mark of faith for you and me, that we can create something new, renew something that glimmered and which could glimmer again.
The belief that we can save ourselves and others. I will probably have to limit further the few treats I enjoy but this treat will replace those...
I saw this book and thought of you. "From What Is to What If" by Rob Hopkins
Have you read it? Has it been discussed in The Elysian and I missed it?
Hey Elle,
I'm new to Substack and your letter was one of the first I subscribed to. I just love your aesthetic. I've just started writing here and wondered if you had any thoughts about the AI systems training their systems with your writing? It's already started. Read about this important topic in my post https://boodsy.substack.com/p/the-ai-bots-are-coming-for-your-substack
Congratulations, Elle!
What an incredible body of work! Well done on fostering such an incredible community of readers and writers with your Stack. You have certainly made this online world a better place! Kudos to your sustained, prolific output. So much thought provoking material here . . . the discussion is also a dream!
You are a wonderful model exemplifying the potential that this platform has to offer to us all. Keep up the good work!
Happy reading, happy writing, all!! :)
Brock Eldon
Once you see how our income-based laborforce really works (the fact that high profits depend on low wages), then you’ll finally understand why a digital (moneyless) system matching people to jobs, resources to communities, and daily production, consumption, and waste management operations to personal and professional demands is actually more sustainable and ethical than today’s global political economy, mainly because, compared to scientific-capitalism, scientific-socialism is a lot more democratic; it values and views our very basic, very intuitive belief “universal protections for all” as both a human need and an environmental right.
Hi! I was recommended your newsletter as I'm thinking about starting my own Substack, one of element of which would be serialising my own fiction. I'm about to launch into your archives and try and soak up all your advice!
Thank you so much for the subscription gift - I am excited to read through your articles. I have just been reading another post about ‘unexpected gratitudes’, of which this is one. Many, many thanks.
Thank you for writing this index, I am excited to read through your articles. And I love your illustrations. Sorry, I can't afford to be a paid subscriber.
Hi Elle,
I love your substack and it has helped me to start thinking more along the lines of a better world. U am curious if you have read Nomad Century by Gaia Vince. It is nonfiction and dystopic, but talks of what will be necessary to do to adapt to millions of climate refugees.
Hi Elle,
I'm notably impressed with Hanzi Freinacht's ideas in this article surrounding utopia and protopia >> https://metamoderna.org/whats-the-difference-between-utopia-eutopia-and-protopia/
Thoughts?
Elle, may I ask where you get your art, and also, which art style is it?
Hi, Elle,
As we exchanged comments about hopepunk a while back, I just came across this and thought you might find it interesting....
https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-by-ada-palmer/
This is a great reference to get a flavor of your writing. Do you use tagging on your posts so that the indexing is easier? Good luck in the transition to full-time Substack writing.
I wasn't going to subscribe. Heck I'm a writer struggling to make a living myself and I need to ensure my sub stack subscriptions don't outweigh my sub stack earnings. And after the death of a poor abused homeless woman in my serene seaside neighbourhood recently I am over capitalism. And I'm over hedonism. And this is where you snagged me. Give her a chance, I thought. She has new ideas or renewed ideas so search with her for a little while.
This led me to your 'I'm So Over Dead French Writers' because I am not. Not over them. And I came to your paragraph on Anthony Bourdain and suffering and you snagged me completely because you refuse to accept that we give up and die. You don't see the answer in using ourselves and abusing ourselves, turning away from the light to the darkness.
I am going to subscribe as a mark of faith for you and me, that we can create something new, renew something that glimmered and which could glimmer again.
The belief that we can save ourselves and others. I will probably have to limit further the few treats I enjoy but this treat will replace those...
I'm in!
Thank you for the shoutout, and for the inspiration - there is an intimidating amount of good stuff and writing to dive into here!
Thank you for the shout-out :)
It was very interesting to read about these numbers, gives you something to think about. Thank you!