This video was so much fun. I've never been so invested in learning about a fish. Kudos to Hank Green for making it so interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9M...
fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do
it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it
I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
My Daoist Canon video I published forever ago has surged to become the second most viewed video on the channel over the last 72 hours. Did i miss a Daoist-themed news peg or something? Algorithms are weird.
Just watched the lovely work by @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social on ties between the sacred groves and the societies that form them, treasure them, and alter them. A useful reference for worldbuilders curious about the wilds.
#indiedev #writing
“The sweeping study includes focus groups and interviews with K-12 students, parents, educators & tech experts in 50 countries…It found that using AI in education can ‘undermine children's foundational development’ and that ‘the damages it has already caused are daunting,’ though ‘fixable.’”
Only a few spots left for this!
After the huge success of last year's tour, I’m again leading an Ancient Christianity Turkey tour in May 2026!
We’ll walk the streets of Ephesus, visit ancient churches and synagogues, and nerd out about ancient religion together.
Spots are limited →
www.wetravel.com/trips/ancien...
It’ll be a good time!
Why Psychedelics Feel So Religious | Entheogens Explained | Nebula
@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social,
As language and cultures change, the words people use to describe their experiences will change as well. We can only use the words we know based on our cultural background.
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Finishing up a video on the living descendants of Confucius. About 80 generations. Though historians doubt the genealogy’s historicity before 1055 CE.
It was wonderful to meet Simon recently, and really great to be mentioned in his latest opinion piece for the @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/afa5...
Honored to have my book *Religious Affects* discussed as part of this outstanding Religion for Breakfast video essay from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social reviewing the evidence for religious behavior among animals!
I’ll be leading the tour myself with mini-lectures, site walks, dinners together, the whole thing. If you enjoy my videos, this is that… but in real life, in ancient ruins.
I’ve designed the week after a graduate-level study-abroad trip I did for my PhD. It's a week-long dive into lived religion, religious diversity in western Asia Minor with a focus on putting NT texts like Revelation into their archaeological, material, and cultural contexts.
After the huge success of last year's tour, I’m again leading an Ancient Christianity Turkey tour in May 2026!
We’ll walk the streets of Ephesus, visit ancient churches and synagogues, and nerd out about ancient religion together.
Spots are limited →
www.wetravel.com/trips/ancien...
Yeah, it’s exactly. Literal title and thumbnail A/B testing
Dear friends and worthy enemies, next week I will be giving this online talk for those who might be interested, thanks to the good offices of @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social . It is a pay what you want event which will be live streamed and recorded. I will try not to say anything TOO seditious.
Already thinking of content for The Odyssey next year. What scholars of Homeric Greek literature and religion would you recommend?
Interesting how enshittification leads companies to flip their entire mission statement. From upward economic mobility to gambling your way to bankruptcy.
I was an early adopter of the stock trading app Robinhood in 2013. Their whole thing was democratizing investing with zero-fee trades, and it honestly enabled a broke grad student like me to invest. But now, I get daily spam from them to gamble on sports and elections. Predatory, extractive bullshit
You can take my survey of contemporary Paganism, plus a number of other awesome seminars with brilliant scholars!
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Looks like YouTube is launching a "likeness detection" tool that will alert me if someone creates an AI video with my likeness. I'm sure there are downsides I'm not thinking of, but I'm glad YT is making an effort to protect against my face being used by AI. Next I'd like to see "voice detection."
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
We are offering Coptic again!
