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I like the company at the bottom of the article which has no products but is valued at $32bn because it's called Benevolent Computer God Inc

Please join Adeana McNicholl and myself for the inaugural Buddhism and Caste Seminar at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Boston (November 22-25)

Panel 1: Sat. 3:00PM - 4:30PM | Sheraton, Tremont (Third Floor)
Panel 2: Mon. 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor)

It would look like this

I signed up for @zeteo.com. The number of fluff opinion pieces they put out every day is exhausting and I canceled immediately. If they put their opinion writers on investigative work, they might have 10% of the articles but they'd be much more interesting articles. Rage machine at work

From the MacOS community on Reddit: PSA: macOS 26 bug leads to performance issues in many apps (with fix) Explore this post and more from the MacOS community

If your browser starts halting, you need to run these commands in terminal. www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comm...

Read closely, this is a tendentious paper. Kelly exploits nuance in his analysis and goes for the most extreme possible conclusion. Still, I think I will make use of it. Kelly has an interesting point that scholars have tended to shape their conclusions around Festinger, who was careless.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

You guys got suspended from Xitter!! Unbelievable

I guess it's better than 左翼

broken link!

A photograph of Mount Merapi, an active volcano, looming high above the city of Yogyakarta and Prambanan Temple. There is a volcanic smoke pillar emanating from the peak.

Popular mountains in Java like Merapi (pictured), Lawu, Arjuna, Sindoro, and Salak are rich sources of haunting local folklore that urge climbers to be cautious and act respectfully. Among the most popular tales are disappearances around pasar setan, or "ghostly markets". 1/3 🧵

#WyrdWednesday 👻

Episcopalian church across the street from me has art by a trans artist in front

JR山手線の環状化まもなく百年　大正期から首都発展支え 東京のJR山手線が大正時代に都心を一周する環状運転になってから、11月1日で100年を迎える。東京、上野、新宿といったターミナル駅をつなぎ、私鉄やバス路線とも接続して首都の発展を支えてきた。34.5 ...

The Yamanote Line first became a full loop in 1925, and November 1st next week will mark the 100th anniversary of its complete encirclement of the city centre. www.47news.jp/13346469.html

YouTube video by Japan Media Review (Podcast)Japan's New Minister for Managing Foreigners Onoda Kimi: Will She Stop Immigration?

New Podcast! Japan's New Minister for Managing Foreigners (Onoda Kimi): Will She Stop Immigration?

youtu.be/ey9henrAp44

大正4年10月8日付『大阪毎日新聞』職業としての巫女事情が面白い。巫女の素人化。目下大阪では「仲居雇女と同じく入方と云ふのがあつて各神社に供給」、巫女を輩出していた家筋でも娘が電話交換手等に就くことが増え、神社は入方が一週間ほど所作を習わせただけの素人を雇うしかなく風儀が悪化した(笑)

October 1915: Employment crisis at the shrines! Families that formerly supplied their daughters to work as miko are now finding more profitable work for them as switchboard operators. Shrines have to hire amateurs with no knowledge of decorum!

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

Marie Kondo has a new book coming out and I can't wait to read it. Letter From Japan is the book I'd been hoping she would write. Tracing the connections between her ideas and Japanese culture and religion.

Just wait until Japan gets its first Sanseitō prime minister.

Is South Korea’s ‘Buddhistcore’ Aesthetic a Fad or a Spiritual Awakening? Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch. Monks and experts hope the buzz will translate into deeper engagement.

Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch. Monks and experts hope the buzz will translate into deeper engagement.

A realistic depiction of a Black sitter, possibly a seamstress, who is dressed in a fine but sensible black day dress with touches of Italian luxury. She is holding a gold ornate clock in her hand.

In celebration of Black History month, here is:

'Portrait of an African Woman holding a clock' (circa 1583/5).

attributed to Annibale Carracci.

Is it cheating to say The Namesake?

The Passionate Life of an Egyptian – Communist and Jew A journey of almost a century through the history of Egypt, from monarchy to republic, from British occupation to national independence and the (…)

Because, adhering to the Soviet party line, they felt the UN plan should have been followed orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...

Rather than Religion 101 introducing undergrads to "world religions," it could introduce disciplinary dimensions — sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, political science of religion — demonstrating how knowledge of religion can offer insight into various fields.

YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981) w/ English Subs

New translation!

The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin"

Enjoy!!

Trump wrote "because they need things from us". So maybe he's promising to unfreeze the funds of the Afghan National Bank, which they need for disaster recovery

Some terrifying monsters drawn by Lafcadio Hearn. Shinjuku Historical Museum, Tokyo

Did the Wafd vanguard still exist in 1950

Reads to me like he was a man who thought always of preserving culture for posterity and never of his own career. Fascinating

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."