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Why Henri Nouwen Fell in Love With the Trapeze Daring to have spiritual lives that swing toward freewheeling motion, community inclusion, and humor.

"Nouwen’s fascination with the Flying Rodleighs and their travelling circus community offers an imperfect yet joyful image of the interdependence that is essential to life together."
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FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

If I were JD Vance I would simply fear God and repent and become a desert hermit

his name is george clinton

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I always share this quote, which I *hope* speaks to them at least a little.

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore”

that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you

these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.

You're taking a class, not buying a product.

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...

I've thought that I need to put a passive-aggressive line in my email signature to signal that I detest this technology to my core.

"I promise to never use an LLM to write to you" or some playful "Quality guaranteed • 100% human-written text • No LLMs have been used in the writing of this email."

When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is:

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

the well-known 4-step process

Available today for the first time - my interpretation of Gavin Bryar's legendary work, 'The Sinking of the Titanic,' performed with celebrated violinist Todd Reynolds, and recorded live in Philadelphia in 2007 @toddreynolds.com

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BBC News headline: David Bowie's secret final project discovered locked in his study

When I die, regardless of whether or not you find anything interesting, please say that I had a study

The callbacks to evangelical culture in Fantasy High are so good!

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

Using ChatGPT

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

Return of the Revenge of the Attack of the Robots of Babylon — Anthony Etherin Paperback, 105x148mm, monochrome, 32pp The chapbook follow-up to 2023’s The Robots of Babylon , Return of the Revenge of the Attack of the Robots of Babylon presents a sequence of sonnets ...

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new chapbook, RETURN OF… THE ROBOTS OF BABYLON!

27 poems. This is my first collection of new poetry in nearly two years.

Get your copy here!

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Screenshot from reddit r/OneOrangeBraincell u/9813_RD 19h Title: Our golden boy tag: searching for service 📶 Photo of an orange cat laying on a carpet. His front paws are tucked up by his face. He has a slightly derpy expression. There's a piece of cardboard on his head. Someone has drawn the golden ratio spiral over him and it fits really, really well

my god he's perfect

Have the boards of the leading AI companies considered replacing the CEOs of their AI companies with AI?

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

“Networks of social solidarity” is a fancy way of saying “having your friends’ back.” The question we should be asking ourselves now: do we have strong friendships? Do we have networks of reliable people we can call when there’s an emergency? If we end up saying “not as many as I want,” we…