Tay Moss

This is awesome !

Oh, were you at EPN? Me too--it would have been fun to connect.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

To be clear... I'm not saying Christian Communities have a perfect record at protecting people. I'm just saying that these religious communities learned some HARD lessons and have responded with policies and procedures that are, at least, a place to start.

Maybe this has changed in recent years, but when I dabbled in Buddhism 20 years ago, they didn't do things like background screening, psychological assessments for clergy, clear reporting-investigative frameworks, and mandatory boundary training--all of which is standard in mainline Xn denoms. (3/3)

The gaurd rails that exist in Asian cultures where Buddhism comes from don't necessarily exist in Western contexts, and people here reject the kinds of accountability structures you see in churches, so communities founded here often have nothing (or very little) in place to protect people. (2/3)

Yeah... the problem is that you need some pretty serious guardrails around people in power. "Organized" religion often fails to protect people, but at least it TRIES to do so, and has some structures designed for the purpose. (1/3)

Yeah, I think westerners who go to Buddhism because they are trying to ditch Christianity’s baggage regarding sexism will be disappointed, alas. There are lots of good reasons one might find the Dharma compelling, but this ain’t one of them !

"[9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya] overheard one immigration officer tell another that if she had been 10 years old, they would have been able to keep her separated from her mom. That ... is when the real fear set in."

What else could it be? A capybara? More likely some unfortunate ABD student who couldn’t escape the confusion of their own ideas.

Yeah. I agree. I have to ask the AI to remind me of why I had certain requirements in the spec—I guess MY context window is too small

Yeah—I used to just ask an experienced Lay Minister.

ROFL

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

I had to have ChatGPT decode it for me: but this dialect is “manosphere” jargon. Uhg.

Yes! You are experiencing the Dunning–Kruger effect. The good news is it does get better.

💯! It also seems to be sub-culture dependent: education and faith-based institutions, for example, are lagging IMHO, on forming imaginations able to deal with this shift

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Mobile First" is no longer a design strategy that makes sense. You need to be all about "Context First." That is, what is the correct representational schema for the state of your user and the product you wish them to experience? #codeinpublic

C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, professors, journalists and others.

The CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.

Let me know if you want coordinates to a special beach with hardly anyone at it. But you’ll need to be willing to walk about 30 minutes to it. It’s public, but the difficult access keeps it sparse

If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

Opinion | What a Baby’s Laugh Actually Tells Us A kid’s first joke reveals a complex mind.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Laughter and humor are fundamental to how babies learn about and participate in the world,” the developmental psychologist Gina Mireault writes.

Just shipped the beta version of a major new upgrade to Episcobot. We’ll probably release in a few days after testing. So good. I love some of the new directions.

The Marathon Moby-Dick Reading Is a Radical Act It’s an all-analog mass redreaming of a flawed American gospel: superbly countercultural.

The annual “Moby-Dick” Marathon reading, held at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, is a radical act—and a profound kind of literary patriotism, James Parker argues.

I love that area of Hawai’i

A news article displays a photo of a person in a dark face covering and blue jeans being led away by two heavily armored officers in tactical gear, one wearing a gas mask, on a city street. The article's headline reads: "ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises," with the photo caption stating "ICE in action in Portland."

Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation.

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