Some (more) Tuesday night music: Sixty Years On, by Brandi Carlile. youtu.be/0wFK8KvY91w?...
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Some (more) Tuesday night music: Sixty Years On, by Brandi Carlile. youtu.be/0wFK8KvY91w?...
Some Tuesday night music: Revolution 0, by boygenius. youtu.be/LorJaLwI_XA?...
March 10, 1970. The debut of: It’s Not Easy Being Green. youtu.be/51BQfPeSK8k?...
"Israel's airstrikes, which it says target Hezbollah infrastructure, are putting civilian lives at risk." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
![In Hannah Arendt’s essay, “The Crisis of Education,” Arendt rejects “scientific” approaches to pedagogy that became and still are dominant in the field of education. She notes that education is “the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it” and “to prepare [our kids] in advance for the task of renewing a common world.” Although a liberal education is about freedom, it does not produce a person unbounded by responsibility. Rather, a liberal education forms the person to extend themselves deeper into the world by affirming and loving it, and ultimately claiming responsibility for its transformation. Instead of this robust sense of education as the practice of freedom, education gets positioned as the fostering of retreat from the world.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nghvdaftfotoynliahfhi33o/bafkreigcq5vrucjc4erofls32mk3zlal5axxeumeum6sfymajkakfjtdty)
In Hannah Arendt’s essay, “The Crisis of Education,” Arendt rejects “scientific” approaches to pedagogy that became and still are dominant in the field of education. She notes that education is “the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it” and “to prepare [our kids] in advance for the task of renewing a common world.” Although a liberal education is about freedom, it does not produce a person unbounded by responsibility. Rather, a liberal education forms the person to extend themselves deeper into the world by affirming and loving it, and ultimately claiming responsibility for its transformation. Instead of this robust sense of education as the practice of freedom, education gets positioned as the fostering of retreat from the world.
"If liberals want to see things change in 2028, they (and everyone else) should concern themselves more forcefully with the role of the liberal arts in educational institutions and invest to become the primary champion of books in the public square." www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...
... every 15 years because Saturn, like Earth, undergoes tilt-driven seasons. This means that as Saturn goes around the Sun, its equator and rings can tilt noticeably toward the Sun and inner Solar System, making them easily visible, but from other orbital locations will appear almost not at all."
"Galileo did not know what they were and so called them 'ears'. The mystery deepened in 1612, when Saturn's ears mysteriously disappeared. Today we know exactly what happened: from the perspective of the Earth, Saturn's rings had become too thin to see. The same drama plays out ...
"Where are Saturn's ears? Galileo is credited, in 1610, as the first person to see Saturn's rings ..."
Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear
(Image Credit & Copyright: Natan Fontes)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25042...
Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.
Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.
New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
Detainees struggle to obtain medication and health care, lose concerning amounts of weight because of a lack of food, and live in fear of private security guards known to use force to put down disturbances. The ceilings in the windowless tents leak when it rains, and detainees only see sunlight during brief outings once or twice a week to a cramped recreation yard.
"At one point he ... overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome" apnews.com/article/suic...
"Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war." kottke.org/26/03/the-hi...
A SHORT PERSONAL RANT:
I was born in the Eisenhower administration. I grew up in a rural Midwest town with a shitty school system. And yet I’ve been able to locate the Strait of Hormuz on a map since age 14.
Why? Because energy is defined by OIL then and now. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Some (more) Sunday night music: Buckle, by Florence + The Machine. youtu.be/xXQmje2bjWc?...
Some Sunday night music: True Blue, by boygenius. youtu.be/R_lIApYxIIE?...
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
Of particular interest is Oppenheimer’s account of the five-year period when Blume wrote 10 books, including ones she’s still known for, which roughly coincided with the end of her first marriage to John Blume, whom she married when she was 21, and a fledgling union with Tom Kitchens, whom she met on a plane. They were married for only a few years, bouncing from London to Los Alamos to Santa Fe with Blume’s adolescent children in tow. Bruce Springsteen has “Nebraska,” which grew out of a time of lonely turmoil; Blume has “Tiger Eyes,” a thematic departure from her earlier work.
"Now 88, Judy Blume is so beloved by her fans that she has somehow entered the public domain, becoming a stand-in mother, friend, confidante and teacher to people who don’t know her but feel as if they do." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/b...
There simply is no substitute for learning about a subject and coming to understand it well enough to advance the subject, whether by contributing your own additions or by critiquing its flaws. That's not to say that we shouldn't aspire to participate in discourse about areas that seem interesting or momentous – but asking a chatbot to contribute on your behalf does not impart insight to you, and it is a gross imposition on people who have taken the time to understand and participate using their own minds and experience.
"That is a fatal flaw in the idea that we will increase our productivity by asking chatbots to summarize things we don't understand: by definition, if we don't understand a subject, then we won't be qualified to evaluate the summary, either."
"If you've read something you disagree with but don't understand well enough to rebut, and you ask an AI to generate a rebuttal for you, *you still don't understand it well enough to rebut it*."
No one wants to read your AI slop. pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n...
... The escalating outbreaks across the country makes it likely the U.S. will soon lose its measles elimination status."
"The editorial comes just as the country has crossed a sobering milestone.
On Friday, the U.S. surpassed more than 1,000 measles cases in 2026 alone, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm." www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...
I would add not just incompetence but malign indifference to human life
Some Saturday night music: Shelter, by Ray LaMontagne youtu.be/WtxLqKnNvnw?...
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
As for its Pentagon contract, OpenAI says that while it can’t control how the Department of Defense uses its models, the company has built in safeguards limiting its use for autonomous weaponry and other nefarious applications. But if Hegseth believed that removing those safeguards meant life or death for his soldiers, what’s to stop him from taking a step that it threatened Anthropic with—invoking the Defense Production Act to take over the company and remove the safeguards?
