Thanks for this...and for explicating it with a bang.

The jackals in the machine are really mad.
Be at peace.
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We ask for grace to hear the Voice of Christ the Good Shepherd in Scripture, Tradition and the patient ministry of Peter’s successor.

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Missed today's NSF LTER community call? The recording, featuring the "Life after Death" working group and the "Consumer Functional and Taxonomic Diversity" working group is now live on our YouTube: youtu.be/K4SRfOfvwiQ
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I don’t even have words for this.

This is awesome. A window to a new dimension to think about biodiversity diversity.

Beautiful!

More here:
bsky.app/profile/jstu...

This introduction to Minakata Kumagusu's non-teleological notion of "kokoro"--learned from slime moulds and esoteric Buddhism is astounding. So worth your time.

New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/

#envhum #envhist

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

awesome pedagogy

Oregon snowpack: 14% of normal

Useful; this is the heart of it IMO

Grew up in 1950's or so church, built for a working-class community in the baby boom. I still feel somatically, the nausea produced by looking through smeared yellow and purple stained glass windows.

But I heard sermons quoting theologians who engaged real issues with depth. I remember that more.

techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-...

www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd...

The contrast of these two stories is so on _our_ nose:

BYD's disciplined engineering practices that build real things and win with quality and innovation.

Anthropic's Claude Code built on wildly cludgey and inefficient Claude slop code. Burning compute @ scale to win the crap future.

Thankful that NASA is delivering for KSP fans:

www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Chiang's "Omphalos" is a hilarious challenge to creation science...as anti-pious as science fiction can get, but it leaves a mark. Weir seems to disavow such a task.

It's a sad, small and weak wonder that can't touch politics or society. I've not read Weir, but found that shallowness in the film of The Martian. What's the point?

After I saw Arrival, I read everything by Ted Chiang I could find. His fiction asks questions, some silly, some profound.

No, I had no idea. It's on my list now! Thanks!

Thank you Colleen! The film and the soundtrack summoned the writing. It was so deeply affecting. The review was a way of working that out.

Its theatrical release was limited. It's streaming now. Watch it, really.

@commonwealmagazine.org published my review of Mona Fastvold's astounding film "The Testament of Ann Lee." I was anxious when I heard of the project, but Fastvold's film is stranger, more affecting and more powerful than I could have imagined.

Le patriarche latin empêché d’entrer au Saint-Sépulcre le dimanche des Rameaux « Un précédent grave », dénonce un communiqué après que la police israélienne a empêché le patriarche latin de Jérusalem et le Custode de Terre Sainte d’entrer au Saint-Sépulcre.

#Jerusalem Le cardinal Pizzaballa interdit par la police israélienne de célébrer la fête des Rameaux au Saint-Sépulcre. "Un grave précédent".
L'accès à l'esplanade des mosquées et au Saint-Sépulcre a été interdit dès le 26 février (frappes sur l'Iran).
www.terresainte.net/2026/03/le-p...

Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Jerusalem, March 29, 2026  Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may the Lord give you peace.  We are here at Gethesamne

L'homélie du Card. Pizzaballa, à Ghetsemani, après l'interdiction des processions des Rameaux par la police

lpj.org/en/news/medi...

"In this afternoon of Palm Sunday we gather without a procession, without palms waving through the streets. This absence is not merely a matter of formalities...

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Stunned to realize how contemporary vs. 4 and 5 are...and will be.

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Meanwhile, in reality....