So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social
Deanna Kreisel 🌱
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Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist • 100% AI-Free Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
Lately I've been allowing myself these little mini mental vacations. I sit somewhere quietly for a couple of minutes and imagine that there is no such thing as climate change, Tr*mp never happened, and there is no A.I. And I just relax fully for a few moments and bask in low-grade happiness.
In a society grappling with Darwinian evolution and the new discipline of psychology, some Westerners admired Buddhism’s long history of studying the mind’s activities. Post based on work by @doctorwaffle.substack.com daily.jstor.org/rudyard-kipl...
Rudyard Kipling’s Buddhism - JSTOR Daily
Long read as an imperial novel, Kim also reflects Britain's changing ideas about Buddhist thought and spiritual practice.
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I mean, this writing is poo. I'm not nearly as disturbed that it was generated by A.I. as I am that it won a prize.
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...
Finally to be freed from the tyranny of the 3-day-old Biscoff cardigan pocket discovery and attendant ethical dilemma accompanied by faint wave of nausea
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3mo agoIn a devastating move for Biscoff cookie fans, Delta Air Lines announced it will no longer serve free snacks and beverages to economy passengers on flights of less than 350 miles, starting May 19. Our travel reporters have thoughts:
Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants
Bizarre factoid of the day: the Nobel Prize laureate and mathematician John Nash has two sons, both of whom are named John.
Did you know? There have been 7 cholera pandemics since 1817, the 7th one began in 1961, and WE ARE STILL IN IT
Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes
This is kind of stunning. The comments are running about 10:1 against Reeves on this one. Many commentators framing resistance to data centers (and AI more generally) as an issue that brings left and right together. Sorry, Tater Tot www.facebook.com/tatereeves/p...
I wish I had not just learned the term “family annihilation” 🥺
Suspect dead after 8 children killed, 2 women wounded in Louisiana shooting
The suspect, who was the father of seven of the children, was killed after a vehicle chase, police said. The slain children were 18 months to 12 years old.
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I forgot to take my cellphone with me to my lecture class and my first thought was "What if there's a shooter?" #JFC #HowWeLiveNow
Imagine if this had been the guy who went to the moon. "Whatever." Nonchalant paw lick. "What did you bring me?"
Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · 4mo agoPeter Magyar, the new Prime Minister of Hungary, is a cat guy!
"any business that’s even partly owned by a permanent legal resident with a green card is no longer eligible for the loans" -- JFC
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoGreen-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
Wondering why there are so many new shows about academics when everyone fucking hates us? 🤔
Help me settle an argument with my partner: can something be a “grift” if the practitioner truly believes in what they’re offering? (Eg. crystal healing, “vibrational cleansing,” etc.) Or does a grift require intentional duplicity?
Paternal grandfather: dairy farmer. Maternal grandfather: tool and die maker with an 8th grade education who was mostly unemployed after the age of 30
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhether or not you’re running for Congress and trying to seem rugged (and you probably should run, because, look who’s out there) what did your grandpas do for a living?
Do you like breakfast? Do you like breakfast so much you'd stick samples of it in your notebook? Joseph Thomas Fowler would!
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders
SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.
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Sitting in an orthopedist’s waiting room in Mississippi, where Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin” is blasting over the speakers 🤔
