Overshooting 1.5°C looks likely—but it’s not game over. The key is limiting how far (and how long) we exceed it, then bringing temperatures back down with rapid cuts + carbon removal. Every fraction of a degree still matters.
👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪
The reason to do repentance work is not because you are BAD BAD BAD until you DO THESE THINGS but because we should care about each other, about taking care of each other, about making sure we’re all OK. Taking seriously that I might have hurt you – even inadvertently! even because I wasn’t at my best! – is an act of love and care. It is an opportunity to open my heart wider than it has been, to let in more empathy, more curiosity about how my choices or knee-jerk reactions have impacted you, have impacted others. To care about others’ perspectives. To let your experience matter, deeply, to me. To look at another person – or a community, or a team of people – and say: Where are you? What are you feeling and experiencing now, and how might I have (even unwittingly) brought you pain or difficulty? And to care about making that as right as I can. It’s an act of concern. And facing the harm that I caused is an act of profound optimism. It is a choice to grow, to learn, to become someone who is more open and empathetic.
Thinking a lot about this passage in @theradr.bsky.social’s brilliant, essential ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
I wish more people realized/cared that true repentance benefits the person doing the work, and society as a whole.
Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
ICYMI: The New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism interview with Mushim Ikeda is now available on video on our YouTube channel and website.
Also as a podcast on our Substack.
Above links on our LinkTree in bio.
You can find the podcast on Buzzsprout too:
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And you always think you can read in there, but then your hands are wet and wrinkly, it's hard to find a good way to hold the book up, and the parts of you that arent in water (so you can hold the book up) are cold. Bleh.
Let me say a few words about who this book is for, and how to get the most out of it. I have intentionally tried to make this book as accessible as I can, and so I have tried to write it without presupposing that the reader is already familiar with the jargon, theories, and methodologies of academic philosophy and epistemology. Each chapter includes an annotated list of further readings where I make suggestions about where an interested reader might follow up on various issues covered in that chapter, and there is a glossary at the end of the book which gives the reader struggling to keep track of the various labels a place to quickly check their understanding (though precisely what is meant by many of the terms listed is part of what’s under contention in the chapters). Despite these steps, I don’t think I have wholly succeeded in making all of the topics and chapters accessible to all readers; some of the discussions remain unavoidably complex, and I have kept them in only because I judged them too central and significant for the topic of this book to leave out. What I have done is try to restrict the most difficult material to later chapters in each part of this book. This means that the text builds up to the more difficult chapters, in a way that hopefully keeps as many readers as possible on board, but it also means that readers can choose how deeply they want to engage with a particular topic. Chapters 10 and 11 are probably the most difficult in the whole book.
Since people might be thinking about topics and texts for teaching next year, I thought I'd post the bit of the preface of my recent book 'Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction' about who it's for and how to use it. (Alt-text is spread over this image and the one in the next post)
May I inquire what paper this is about? I just came across your post and am interested.
This is the core reason I assign only in-person essay writing (on paper) in my intro courses now. It's not the students, it's me. I became distrustful of everything they submitted, which is awful, and I could not read essays under that condition.
I relate to this. I started assigning only in-room essay writing for my intro courses. I told the students that I believe most of them are honestly doing their writing, but I became so crazily suspicious that it was ruining my basic trust in them, which I did not want! It's terrible.
This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Important 🧵 on "AI":
But, weirdly, this AI school is for rich kids!
This de-professionalizes teaching while still demanding that the "guides" do the social-emotional work of teachers. I assume the "guides" are also the ones in charge of the rest of the day's "hands-on workshops focused on life skills, teamwork and project-based learning." Also what teachers do.
Despite repeated pledges that the department does not enforce immigration violations, recent filings from lawsuit reveal Pima County Sheriff's deputies have picked up and turned over Spanish-speaking men w/out suspicion of any crime.
For @lookoutnews.bsky.social
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This early photograph from Tourane (today’s Da Nang) shows three Buddhist monks at the Marble Mountains temple complex.
It is a rare colonial-era view of the full hierarchy of Vietnamese Buddhist monastic dress, from a novice’s plain robe to the ceremonial vestments of a senior abbot.🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Vietnam
I therefore fear I may be the only one who saw it exactly for what it was. Now unsure what to do. Anyways, your analyses always put helpful words to things, so thank you again.
...and his promise of great fruits of practice - bliss, virility (which he drew from Sanskrit virya, which is indeed a perfection of a bodhisattve, but associated directly with sexual virility), and "you can still go to the bar." I was the only person above the age of 22 in the room.
This is great, so thank you. It is also timely in my life: I just saw a Buddhist dharma teacher give a talk unlike any I've ever seen another Buddhist dharma teacher give. It was entirely based on charisma, manifested in his person (good looking, exuding sexy-guru vibes) ...
I saw your post before watching the video, but was still not prepared for just how much he did not disagree.
Better still when their drinking buddies were WW2 vets who told them to STFU.
Does anyone know what minutes this clip is at in the full video?
I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change.
They failed.
Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11
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This is such a fun thread to read. One grandpa, WW 1 vet, installed boilers for the East Ohio Gas Co. Other grampa, WW 2 vet, worked at the bomber factory in Cleveland, and then helped put in I-90, and later was a janitor for the Cleveland Metroparks.
Where did this distilling of cedar oil happen? I assume it's regional?
Thank you for this. It made me realize that probably all moralists are nihilists. They fear that if they don't cling to some idea of morally perfect action in the morally perfect society, all that waits (for them and others) is a dark abyss.
Yikes!
My mother was a teacher at my high school, which was horrible, but now I am the middle aged mother of an almost tween daughter. So I don't know if I am cringing with your daughter or laughing with you.
Yes, that's the nearest thing. And completely not worth the externalizations. And also, I have to write a lot of emails, but they are really, really not that difficult. I would find it way more burdensome to read tiresome mind-numbing drafts written by the probabilistic text generator!