I've been reading about and teaching about griefbots for a few years. Excited for new ideas!

I’ve tried this: took German in French and took Arabic in Hebrew. My Hebrew did get better, but I don’t think my French did. I would say that language families matter in this context, but I took Aramaic later and it was a terrible experience.

Have been thinking about that all day.

Hire more religion reporters.

New horizons in interfaith dialogue.

I always describe them as out fro silflay too!

This student was actually upset. I just kept saying that I didn't need to bake things from work. Then there was a shift to talking about multitasking, and I tapped out.

A student told me yesterday to ‘check my bias’ about smart appliances. And that I was obviously biased because I hadn’t grown up with them. Whew!

No one knows. It's a new line of research. She's at the forefront.

The blood and soil stuff getting this kind of hearing is making me nauseated.

Terrible news...

Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center | TechCrunch A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.

There are real American heroes all around us if we pay attention.

techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/k...

Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

It should be the Ides of March! Thanks for sharing your story--we need to hear it. I worked in a hospital for the first 18 months of COVID and given that experience I can't believe that masking was ever dropped. Truly insane. I hope your symptoms become more manageable while medicine catches up.

Driving and playing cards at the same time explains a lot.

Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.

"It's a mind harassment," Ida said.

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

I laughed out loud at “no more copy-pasting.”

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Your Data Will Be Used Against You with Andrew Guthrie Ferguson - American Campus Podcast How colleges collect our data.References and suggested readings:Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2026. Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance. New York University Press.&...

A particularly urgent episode of @llassabe.bsky.social’s reliably good pod, featuring @profferguson.bsky.social.

Unconscionable. EBV and Shingles have wrecked my health for the past couple of years and they are very hard to keep in remission with conventional tools.

The year is 2034. 98% of the population of the planet is employed as a life coach. All the life coaches have life coaches. Life coaches decide to redouble their efforts, going in hard to all the last remaining outposts where people exist simply as people rather than life coaches or people striving to live their best life via life coaches. “Can I be your companion on your journey to yourself and give you the life advice that will make you a proper person?” ask the life coaches. “Can you get out of my kitchen, please?” say the people. “I’ve already had six of you in here this morning, trying to tell me how I can be the ultimate version of me and unlock my true potential. I never asked for this. I just want to be able to live my most average, flawed life in peace and finish cleaning the oven.”

An extremely short horror story I wrote, set in the future.

Reminder, your personal data can be weaponized against you — even by companies you may typically trust.

...original sin complicates the idea of innocence for babies. It rarely comes up in abortion conversations.

More importantly for our current political context, emphasizing innocence is to argue that some people do deserve to be killed. It's a form of justification hiding in a pro-life position.

Opinion | Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

My enemies are theologically anemic, but speak loudly, often, and on a large stage.

The word "innocent" is doing a lot of work in this conversation with Ross Douthat.

First, it skirts around the Christian idea of original sin. Love it or hate it...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

Probably. But I bet he did know the Bible well; had even read it. I have less faith that my newer theological enemies have ever read it.

It does seem like he tasked interns with finding specific passages and they used the internet and got a variety of translations. Which might also mean that there wasn't a Bible to be found anywhere nearby.

Yup!

The post I cited added screenshots of the rest of the talk, but yeah, I agree.