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

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Need help finding a person/old Twitter thread. Please repost to amplify. A few years ago someone had a thread on the Right's methods of cultivating leaders, esp. tracking how they've used academic institutions as part of their pipeline. Also described why there is no equal on the left. Who was it?

“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...

Smart words from my colleague:

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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

Me too

"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.

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For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My new book is coming out in August 2026. uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...

Beginningless greed, hate and delusion (Buddhist answer)

Today and tomorrow are Anti-Prime Days on Bookshop.org. I have been buying all books on there for a number of years now and it's great: I get what I need while supporting independent bookstores. Highly recommend!

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them. How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care www.propublica.org/article/heal...

Yes to this. And it's a weird circular argument to say we shouldn't build more non-car infrastructure because everyone drives, since "everyone" drives b/c many of us live in places with scant to no non-car infrastructure!

Here is the full document that universities are being asked to sign. It's well worth your time to read.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

If academics & researchers in AI (like myself) don’t want the coming AI winter to destroy our field, we need to be accountable for how we allowed another hype cycle on our watch. We have the expertise to stop it. We need to speak truth to power in our own institutions!

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...

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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.