Unregulated technology allows many, many ways for law enforcement *or* vigilantes to identify and hunt down women suspected of being pregnant. My new essay explains why avoiding this as an individual—by deleting apps or being careful—will not be feasible. nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opi…

It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist.~Lama Surya Das

The "gods" had not permanently disappeared, they had just become invisible to the modern mind, with its gaze directed outwards, and its vision blinkered to any other psychological reality save for that of its own conscious awareness and rational volition.~Keiron Le Grice

As an archetype Dionysus, like the soul, is eternal. The body dies, the soul lives on—or, as in many Eastern religions, returns to live another life on earth in its pursuit of wholeness. If we deny Dionysus, we deny our soul and we will become dangerously off balance.~RA Johnson

“My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left” - The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

#Casteabolitionists Please report the handles Phield Martiall Jambavan and OSINTवा for caste abuse on @Twitter. This is an example of the dominant bigotry that big tech has enabled. When bigots cannot tolerate #dalits their go-to tactic is violence. Stand up to hate and report them now.

Levi Vonk The deep irony of the US popular anti-intellectualism is that it embraces collective stupidity as a way of combating elite knowledge instead of just trying to make knowledge accessible beyond existent hierarchies.

This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Probably the fastest rightward shift in my life and it’s happening while democrats control the house, senate, and presidency

I say this as someone who writes about the politics and economics of self-tracking: delete those fertility apps now.

“The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision... We plant the seeds that one day will grow... We are prophets of a future not our own.” - St. Óscar Romero

Today SCOTUS took another swing at the separation of church and state by ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton that public school employees can lead students in public prayer. Andrew L. Seidel wrote for RD in January on the possible ramifications of this decision: religiondispatches.org/praying-for-a-…

Lying about facts in a case to destroy the Establishment Clause. Like what am I even doing in this profession?

JUST IN: “The ultra-conservative majority of #SCOTUS has redefined the constitutional promise of religious freedom for all as religious privilege for a select few,” says Rachel Laser of Americans United. Read our statement here: au.org/the-latest/pre…

Here are my preliminary thoughts on the majority op. in #Kennedy. I'll start out by saying that I won't go through and explain each place in the opinion that I yelled about how the facts are (mis)construed. There are way too many. /x

They picked the least sympathetic plaintiff possible with the worst possible set of facts for their case. He turned these kids' high school football games into media spectacles. He and his lawyers lied about the record. They lied about what he was doing. And they still won!

"Islam offers us a powerful alternative departure point for imagining what material conditions are needed for liberation that promises a deeper solidarity of spirit, of our humanness." - Chaumtoli Huq

Noticed that McKinsey has a special talent in producing talent that will present themselves as the smartest folks in the room even when they have no clue what they are talking about. What is the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen a McKinsey consultant say/do?