reposting my shavuot text for the days of awe. still working on the expanded version. share widely if you like it.

At least nearly a dozen LifeWise Academy Ohio programs have taken public school students on field trips to the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky, which claims humans lived alongside dinosaurs and the Earth is only 6,000 years old. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/24/l...

Yes & to have this abortion referendum in Ohio voters first defeated the republican legislature's attempt to change our constitution and raise the threshold for winning a referendum from bare majority to 60%. We beat that at the polls in August and killed their anti-choice effort that November.

Anyone in the Princeton area owes it to themselves to stop in and see Martin Heijdra’s marvelous new exhibit on the history of global bookmaking in Firestone library!

It's funny. all these technologies and what might actually save democracy are pamphlets that people print at home and hand out on their street corners (or, in the case of my rural town, in front of Walmart)

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.” Steinbeck's stunningly timely meditation on humanity penned at the peak of WWII www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/30/j...

LIVE NOW! Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby Co-sponsored by @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Stream here:

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

2 things I haven't seen written much about this Texas A&M thing: 1) The student also said that what the prof was teaching goes against her religious beliefs. And the Supreme Court has paved the way for this to count as an expression of her religious freedom that institutions are enjoined to honor.

My essay on The Immanent Frame's series on karmic historiography: ...our moral task with regard to places is to discern the karma of the place by seeing where there is suffering in it, and to take up our position of responsibility with regard to that suffering.... tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/27/t...

Jin Park's Karma as Active Resistance in @immanentframe.bsky.social 's series Karmic Historiography: tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/20/k... "To conceive of karma as active resistance, then, is to cultivate awareness and agency in ways that challenge both structural and internalized forms of domination."

I think now is a time we could learn from goldenrod. If it's not a plant you know here are a few things about it: It finds its way into marginal spaces at the edges of a mowed area, the un-mulched spot in the flower garden, the gravely side of the road.

A new book on #Shinto and famous #Kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 (1776-1843) has just been published open access and free for download by the preeminent historian Dr. Ann Walthall! You can check it out here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

A thoughtful and informed thread on the crisis at the University of Chicago (my PhD alma mater):

Reposting this with link to all my photos. I recently visited and took stereo photos of the stunning Sanctuary Museum outside Cleveland. It contains beautiful, lovingly-restored art from closed local Catholic churches. See all my photos at cohenkiraly.com/3dgalleries/... [more]

Great introductory post to an Immanent Frame series on karmic historiography by Jonathan Gold. I'll have an essay in this series in a couple weeks so stay tuned...

Great introductory post to an Immanent Frame series on karmic historiography by Jonathan Gold. I'll have an essay in this series in a couple weeks so stay tuned...

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

Winnicott on the qualities of a healthy mind and a healthy relationship www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/19/w...

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it. This week @danmcquillan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/286_...

Keep shoving this unwanted AI shit on teachers and we’ll go back to fucking quills and inkwells

An invitation from Serge, who will be moderating our Mindful Town Hall on August 6th. Link to sign up: lu.ma/m04j962h

I am anti-personal automobile.

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

The International Court of Justice #ICJ found that 1.5°C is the ‘primary goal’ under the Paris Agreement and countries must act on climate with the 'highest ambition' to meet this. Statement from @billhare.bsky.social explains what this means for #climateaction 👇

More #AAS2025 inspiration of the latest #academicbooks: Olivia Milburn (tr.). 2024. Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue (Wu Yue Chunqiu 吳越春秋). SUNY Press. @sunypress.bsky.social #chinesehistory #chinesestudies #chineseculture #china

The number of immigrants detained in Ohio jails has tripled since January. President Trump's mass deportation plans are inhumane and reckless. Local law enforcement should reject his overreaching and harmful agenda. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...

🎉 I recently launched a Substack to provide state #politics updates and calls to action! It's focused on #Ohio, but my goal is to cover many states 📲 Become a free OR paid subscriber here: substack.com/@rachelcoyleoh With enough paid subscribers, I could do this work full-time!

Joanna Macy, a foundational figure in Buddhism and ecology, has passed away. She trained Stephanie Kaza (the most sophisticated American writer in this field) and many others, was a pioneer in facing eco-anxiety, and tireless activist. #buddhism #buddhist #engagedbuddhism #ecology #sustainability

I'm deep into Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, again. Working on an essay that I first started in like 2011 with my phd comps. Revived in 2014 but didnt follow through. Apparently revived in 2020 and had forgotten about that. Found that folder a few days ago and...it's good! So I'm reviving here in 2025.

Hung out yesterday with 2 old friends of my dads. They all attended Borromeo Seminary in Cleveland way back. The Catholicism of these three men and that of Vance et al are worlds apart. Makes me sad b/c feels like something is lost. But then, the young often resurrect good things too so we will see.

This was not random, but I once spent the night at Demi Moore's apartment on Central Park West. She hosted a little group of us for dinner, and gave me and my friend a room to sleep in. She was a very gracious person.

When I first did an actual search engine search, all on my own, in 1995, using Alta Vista or some such, I felt like I'd landed on the moon. When I've entered the essay questions I assign to students into ChatGPT to see what it'll spit out, I've felt like I wanna do a murder. Vibes = very different.

Hung out yesterday with 2 old friends of my dads. They all attended Borromeo Seminary in Cleveland way back. The Catholicism of these three men and that of Vance et al are worlds apart. Makes me sad b/c feels like something is lost. But then, the young often resurrect good things too so we will see.

This was not random, but I once spent the night at Demi Moore's apartment on Central Park West. She hosted a little group of us for dinner, and gave me and my friend a room to sleep in. She was a very gracious person.

I was a hostess in a fancy Manhattan restaurant one summer. Dan Rather came in to dine. He looked at an object near the front door, looked at me and said, pointing at the object, "young lady, what is this?" I said "It's an umbrella stand". He said "Ah, I see. We journalists are curious people."

The neighbor you definitely do not want: a data center. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

The AI hype in education has become an overwhelming din. On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, @charleswlogan.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to cut through the noise. Monday, July 14, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

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🔌💡 #Greensky Just finished @mikegrunwald.bsky.social ’s We Are Eating the Earth. It's a must-read for anyone who cares at all about climate, for at least three big reasons: (1) It will deeply challenge your understanding of what makes agriculture “sustainable” (unless you’ve already read...

I just caught up on the Mamdani/Lander appearance on Colberts show. I want these two to take this show on the road. America needs this.

MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is available on @bookshop.org for $1 less than on Amazon plus free shipping if you order by July 11. Once you’ve ordered, fill out the form here to win cool stuff and have me send $ to @trevorproject.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

This is very neat.

Been using @bookshop.org for all book buying needs (aside from my actual local bookstore) since I first learned of it 5 or so years ago. It's great, it's easy, and it's not Amazon. Highly recommend switching if you haven't already.