What an utter travesty. I demand to speak with MSU’s supervisor. I can’t even see the bottom of the reflecting pools.
What an utter travesty. I demand to speak with MSU’s supervisor. I can’t even see the bottom of the reflecting pools.
Steve Rosenberg reporting from Moscow:
But on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin said nothing about the drone assault. The news bulletins on Russian TV channels barely mentioned it.
When Russian newspapers reported the story the following day, I detected a common thread in their coverage: a coordinated message, perhaps, for the domestic audience.
It can be summed up as this: “However bad it is for us, Ukraine’s suffering more”.
Ghost in the Shell TV shows (I’ve seen the films, haven’t spent time with the Manga) remain one of my favorite artistic expressions of a creative studio trying to articulate the sociological implications of an information economy driven society. We’re about to get a new reinterpretation.
🎓📚Reading more Williams and Da Silva on postliberalism:
“Milbank remarks that “‘post’ is different from ‘pre’ and implies not that liberalism is all bad, but that it has inherent limits and problems.” Moreover, the inherent limits and problems that Milbank sees in liberalism have little to do with its institutions (Milbank is no opponent of electoral democracy and civil liberties), but rather with the philosophical anthropology and (tacitly) theological presuppositions that actors within these institutions usually take for granted.” Williams and Da Silva, 2025, p. 68
I don’t understand why I have to be completely logged in and awake before I can plug a Dell Laptop into a Dell Docking station hooked up to 2 Dell Monitors for the monitors to activate. Shouldn’t I just be able to plug the laptop in and go?
📚 My daughter (first child, almost five and a half) has expressed to mom that she wants to start reading Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime, and both of us are basically treating this whole situation like encountering a flighty horse on a cliff side that we desperately don’t want to spook.
As someone who has come to rely on Markdown as a useful alternative to Word and Google Docs these are a delightful discussion and read:
A deeply nerdy (complimentary) look at the history of Markdown. And more on Markdown, its function and legacy from Anil Dash.
🎓📚Reading more about postliberalism’s foundations today. A summary from Jacob Williams and João Pinheiro Da Silva:
“Postliberal theology thus reflected, among other things, a profound skepticism of individualism as a social ontology, perceiving a need to recover a hermeneutic that recognized its inseparability from the life of a particular community rather than speciously positing an epistemic foundation (whether modern or traditional) lying outside the community.” Williams and Da Silva, 2025, p. 64
Anyone else have a pinboard.in account and having trouble reaching a server?
📚 Currently reading: The Flag and the Cross by Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry. On the deep story progressives have to contend with to truly build a multicultural democratic movement:
Secular progressivism also has its deep story. In that story, a morally and intellectually advanced elite shepherds a backward and benighted mass toward prosperity and enlightenment. In the early 20th century, this deep story was entangled with nativism, imperialism, and eugenics. Today it is tinged with “workism,“ meritocracy and technocracy. And, in many cases, with an instinctive antipathy toward organized religion, which is regarded as a mortal threat to personal autonomy or even a form of “child abuse.“ If they are really serious about liberal democracy, then secular progressives will also have to set aside some of their own most deeply held prejudices, prejudices that have also played an important role in stoking populist resentment and driving political polarization. (P.129)
⛪️ Up North 📷
Some up north 🌳 bathing 📷
Some Up North 📷
Some light reading on a Tuesday from Luke Sheahan:
“From [Robert] Nisbet’s perspective, the post-liberal attempt to redirect state power from individualizing the populace to integrating the populace into meaningful community is dubious because the origins and structure of state power renders it an inherent social solvent.” (Sheahan, 2025, p. 178)
Reading scholarly work as I’m trying to define the contours of a “postliberal” education policy landscape. An early question I have is whether or not any resistance to the subordination of institutions to partisan aims requires a pluralistic approach, or if resisting deinstitutionalization requires a ‘your for us or against mentality on both sides.’
Judging from the headline and thumbnail of this endorsement editorial post the @houstonchronicle.com sounds like Southern Baptists in 1998.
Spring Progress 📷 2026.05.28
Final photo to label spring. Summer ascendant.
Here’s the whole progression:
Been sitting with the news that Destiny is going into the gamer vault with no firm plans for a future release. It’s got me reminiscing on The Taken King, and all the evenings I remember fondly running raids or PVP with my friends.
After 2 years, Michigan State University is once again searching for a new president. I suppose I shouldn’t be too shocked. When he arrived Dr. Guskiewicz discussed he expected the Board to refrain from the meddling that plagued his predecessor. It didn’t, and so he’s leaving.
📷 The Red Cedar used to host a raw sewage discharge point, power plant, and heavy industry along its banks for large portions of its history as Michigan evolved from a frontier territory to Arsenal-of-Democracy. Decades of environmental advocacy and robust regulation have gotten it to a point you can see the riverbed on most days. When I walk its banks I try to remind myself to never take clean water for granted.
Ebola is often called the disease of compassion by experts like Dr. Craig Spencer. It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids, which means it spreads when a family member tends to the sick, when a nurse stays at the bedside, or when a community gathers to bury their dead. In other words, it’s spread through acts of care.
But the phrase has been sitting differently lately because this outbreak is spreading not only through compassion but also through the global withdrawal of it.
