ICYMI: Under EPA rule gutting Clean Water Act, up to 96% of Ohio wetlands and streams will lose protections that reduce pollution. @devinnunnari.bsky.social @signalcleveland.bsky.social: bit.ly/3YegyrM Comment deadline: Jan. 6. @healthylakes.org @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org

How to fix breakdowns in communication www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/11/c...

Musician should do what the Colorado anti-gay baker did: because your actions are against my religious values, your request that I use my artistic expression to support your actions violates my freedom of expression.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. 1994 is the year that made me, in no small part due to Under the Pink.

Accurate. I haven't heard *one single* pitch for "AI" in education that isn't one of these three: 1) It's inevitable so hop on board; 2) Employers want to know prospectives can use it; 3) We must stop it from hurting our students by training them in it. None promise better educational outcomes.

One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. (Published Feb.)

Ohio legislators passed a law ending the state’s practice of counting mail ballots that are postmarked prior to Election Day but that arrive up to four days after polls. This is a priority for President Trump, and the state is following his lead.

The 3 Buddhist steps to repairing any relationship – immortal wisdom on love from the great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/10/t...

this has nothing to do with OP's original (and worth your time) point, but i got an SAT question involving the word "inveigle" correct b/c this episode of the X-Files had aired the night before and I had looked it up.

Inside Higher Ed had an article a few days ago called "AI is innovating in education." It was about how teachers are innovating to avoid the effects of AI.

I happen to be reading Confessions by Augustine at the moment, so this op-ed hit more directly than most. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Accurate. It's one of the many reasons I look forward to a car-free future.

I wrote a book, it now has a cover, it's all feeling very real! Coming out (open access) in February, for all those with an interest in, well, religion, gender, and/or politics in Sri Lankan history. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Spokespeople for the Department of Education did not respond to questions about whether advantages in admissions based on gender will be scrutinized in the same way as purported advantages based on race." They will not be, once DOE folks find out who benefits from gender-based affirmative action.

If you're thinking of doing a graduate degree in Religion, consider FSU! With 23 full-time faculty, we welcome students in a wide range of topics and traditions - including funding for both MA & PhD programs. It's a great department, with strong support from the university.

I'm sorry but Protestants could never

"Nothing refracts the light of being like music. Nothing reflects the health of a culture and nothing predicts its durability better than how well it treats its song-makers." Beautiful!

“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.” Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)] zenodo.org/records/1567...

I can't speak for everyone on Bluesky, but this by @anthonymoser.com speaks for me. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This is very encouraging testimony and jibes entirely with what I've observed traveling and speaking about More Than Words. 1. Students want to learn. 2. They can be suspicious about school as a place for learning. 3. Making class and experiences more human works. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Soon to be one of Delhi's hottest cultural attractions. The replica of the gateway (torana) from Sanchi indicates that this building is about to take on the role of a stupa -- i.e., a burial mound and shrine to venerate the mortal remains of a saintly person. Here, that will be the Buddha himself.

Reagan’s trickle-down theory failed for many reasons. Big Wellness functions under the same illusion—and will certainly yield the same results. derekberes.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

You may be interested in this piece I wrote about liability and the disingenuous indemnity offered by AI companies, including but not limited to OpenAI. @joybrennan.bsky.social

presented without comment futurism.com/artificial-i...

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Charles Godfrey Leland, Fusang, or the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (London: Trübner, 1875): books.google.de/books?id=_ZT...

This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care. If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...

Saturday, Nov. 8, is Dorothy Day’s birthday. Day, with the title “Servant of God,” is currently in the first formal stage in the canonization process. religionnews.com/2025/11/07/o...

Karma Yonten Gyatso concludes his excellent series on Buddhist publishing in our modern age, bringing it all back home... "The Dharma is not the sole refuge. You need the Buddha, represented by the teacher, and the sangha, your community of spiritual friends." www.buddhistdoor.net/features/so-...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

"Questions the company hoped the seminars would answer for the fellows included: What is the West? What are its challenges and how do we think through them? And, perhaps most important, is the West worth defending?—which Palantir sought to answer in the affirmative." It's indoctrination...

Are you thinking about running for office in #Ohio? Apply for this FREE @leadohio.bsky.social campaign academy! www.leadohio.org/campaignacad...

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. We obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. (Published Nov. 2024)

Excellent 4 part series by @pbs.org looking at how global cities are coming to grips with the real-time effects of rising seas and extreme weather. Episodes linked in the following 🧵 #ClimateEmergency

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

A 3,000-pound ice sculpture spelling out the word “DEMOCRACY” was seen melting on the National Mall within view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

"The great rebalancing of area studies is underway. The question is not whether this shift will continue — it will — but whether Western institutions can adapt quickly enough to remain relevant in an increasingly multipolar academic landscape." eastasiaforum.org/2025/10/11/t...

"Since 2022, 30,000 #Ohio children have lost health insurance because of cost concerns, while the state has provided billions to the wealthy in tax cuts and billions to private schools" This is Ohio with a Republican supermajority. Your kids deserve so much better. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...

So, the religious left (broadly speaking) got a lot of attention this week. If you’re curious to know more about the modern religious left — the iterations that have emerged in the last 10-20 years — I, uh, wrote a book about it. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062...

We’re looking for anonymized photos of prescription bottles to help us determine where those drugs were made. Here’s a quick guide to sending in your label securely ⤵️

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

As an educator, I agree with all of this.

Tired of letting algorithms divine who you are, define what you see, and distract you with ads? Try the Marginalian newsletter—an oasis of undistracted inspiration and illumination, free, ad-free, algorithm-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter