SocraticGadfly: Reading Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — or not

September 20, 2024

Reading Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — or not

I signed up for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Substack after seeing his great tribute to Bill Walton. He followed up with a nice one to Willie Mays. But, there was something missing in between.

And, that was the reason why I signed up.

The Captain says nothing on his Substack about The Logo.

Or so it seemed, when I started this.

Rather, in a note at the bottom of this piece, he said he wasn't ready to talk yet. And, that reaffirmed my faith in Abdul-Jabbar.

On the other hand, he IS, it seems, a duopolist. A big one. And I've unsubscribed because more and more of his posts were paywalled, he never had talked about West by Sept. 10, and then he mentioned having an AI version of his voice do readings of his posts. Yikes on that.

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