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Martin Hackworth - Howlin' at the Moon in ii-V-I

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    For whom the AI bell tolls (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="517" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hncs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bdd1ef2-bd74-409d-8f5f-192a217ae17d_412x517.jpeg"

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Things I won’t apologize for saying out loud (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (opens the original)

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    I owe the inspiration for this piece to a recent exchange of notes with a reader who writes on Substack under the nom de guerre, Opmerker. Thank you, and salute! I hope that you are not offended by being associated with this rant, but I somehow suspect not. The top of my literary batting order includes Sophocles, Voltaire, and Hemingway—with Shakespeare batting cleanup. These writers clearly and memorably articulated what it means to be human across vast gulfs of time and distance. You just cann

  4. Issue · Aug 29, 2026

    Once more, unto the breach, dear friends... (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    The rot in the academy runs deep (opens the original)

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    I’ve spent the past couple of weeks wearing out academic fraudster Jason Arday and his defenders. Arday, as you know by now, was an academic extraordinary only as a con artist. Arday was exposed as a serial plagiarist and fabulist. But before checking out by his own hand, he was wildly famous as the youngest black professor in the entire eight hundred-year history of Cambridge.What he was

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