Joy Brennan

"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

Ah, a train ride! Been wanting to take my daughter on one. Excellent way to see the country. Enjoy!

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My theory is they are mimicking Mamdani's own videos, which they themselves perceive as parodic b/c they cant believe that anyone sincerely believes that it would be good to help poor people. They think he's running a scam and the way to expose it is this.

I recently spent a bit of time with an indigenous family in the pacific NW. i learned how central baskets and basket weaving were/are to their culture. It is one of the sanest things Ive seen in a while.

Four aint bad!

Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship “A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow th…

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

Vive la revolucion

you nailed it!

Theres a strange idea circulating that people's words & ideas have no relationship to their character. Like when we were supposed to be appalled that a journalist pointed out that Steven Miller is a hateful person. I appreciate you correctly perceiving the link between words/ideas & character.

Sounds like thousands of car crashes waiting to happen.

On my to do list *was*: look into a Protonmail account. Have seen them recommended by prominent folks concerned about tech security/avoiding other pitfalls of big tech and getting off American-made tech.

Anyways, never mind that.

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

This is a sweeping stereotype. Says a lot more about you than "red state students."

I should have written "are considered management." Not sure our status/domains of power really do = management, but thats how labor law has been treating it.

Faculty at private colleges are management. Not formally unionizable. But a robust AAUP chapter would help.

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

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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...

ICJ: 1.5°C is ‘primary goal’ under the Paris Agreement and countries… The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a fundamental set of findings that reinforces the centrality of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, and the duty on ...

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

We're supposed to believe this David Sims guy over our own lying eyes?

This is so sad. ❤️

I used to live in nyc and wish i could move back just to vote for you

“This is becoming so like Nazi Germany:” The cruelty of throwing hordes into camps in un-American Today in Ohio podcast hosts draw stark comparisons to historical atrocities as families are torn apart and taxpayers foot the mounting bill

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.
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seems like a different world

I went too! Rode my bike up from Hyde Park. So jubilant. Such elation.

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A headshot of Joanna Macy in her later years. She has grey hair and mother-of-pearl earrings, with a red cloak. Picture is from https://believe.earth/en/

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.
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