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In the beginning was the word, and shit got weird…"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies"...

In the beginning was the word, and shit got weird…

"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

📺 I've watched two episodes of "Surface" (Apple TV+, 2022–25), but I think I'll leave it at that. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is...

📺 I've watched two episodes of "Surface" (Apple TV+, 2022–25), but I think I'll leave it at that. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is interesting in the lead, but the show is emotionally flat. It seems to have more style than substance, and none of the characters is distinguished by depth or likability.

📺 Anders Puck Nielsen (@anderspuck) offers clear, level-headed analysis of the U.S. administration’s changed posture toward Ukraine in...

📺 Anders Puck Nielsen (@anderspuck) offers clear, level-headed analysis of the U.S. administration’s changed posture toward Ukraine in a new 12-minute video called “Trump gives up on fast peace process” at https://youtu.be/XtOIQYVq26o. 🇺🇦 #RussoUkrainianWar

📺 I watched the first episode of "Masters of the Air" (Apple TV+, 2024), and that was enough. Its soundtrack, emotional arc,...

📺 I watched the first episode of "Masters of the Air" (Apple TV+, 2024), and that was enough. Its soundtrack, emotional arc, and flat characters made it feel cliched, predictable, inauthentic.

"Sounds from Diana's Baths Walk" (3 ten-second recordings) at...

"Sounds from Diana's Baths Walk" (3 ten-second recordings) at https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/02/sounds-from-dianas-baths-walk.html

#NH #MtWashingtonValley

Echo Lake, North Conway, NH, on May 1, 2025. There were already a couple people in the water because the lake is small and relatively...

Echo Lake, North Conway, NH, on May 1, 2025. There were already a couple people in the water because the lake is small and relatively shallow. #photos #NH #MtWashingtonValley

"The game just got bigger, did you?" -- Helen Hunt playing Nancy Campbell in "A World On Fire" (PBS, 2020), s. 1, ep. 1.

"The game just got bigger, did you?"

-- Helen Hunt playing Nancy Campbell in "A World On Fire" (PBS, 2020), s. 1, ep. 1.

"Photo of 1909 Child Labor Protest" https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/01/photo-of-child-labor-protest.html #OldPhotos #May1

"Photo of 1909 Child Labor Protest" https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/01/photo-of-child-labor-protest.html #OldPhotos #May1

August 2, 2019: I like the color of the Niagara River south of the falls. #photos

August 2, 2019: I like the color of the Niagara River south of the falls. #photos

Palate cleanser: burn the magadness right out of your head. 🔥https://zirk.us/@markstoneman/114425260570985129

Palate cleanser: burn the magadness right out of your head. 🔥
https://zirk.us/@markstoneman/114425260570985129

Hot peppers at a market in Guiyang, China, July 13, 2015.#photos #food #China

Hot peppers at a market in Guiyang, China, July 13, 2015.
#photos #food #China

Various soy products at an outdoor market in Guiyang, China, July 13, 2015. #photos #food #China

Various soy products at an outdoor market in Guiyang, China, July 13, 2015. #photos #food #China

Visited extended family in another part of the state today. One of them will be the first in their family to attend college, starting this...

Visited extended family in another part of the state today. One of them will be the first in their family to attend college, starting this fall. I am so happy for this kid.

There are so many illegal detention stories. I'm sharing this particular one because of the man's inspired response to his...

There are so many illegal detention stories. I'm sharing this particular one because of the man's inspired response to his incarceration. I'm also proud to have earned my PhD from an institution that has been standing up to the administration's attacks on higher education, Georgetown University. (2/2) 🧵

"Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center," by Nader Hashemi, New Lines Magazine, April 23, 2025,...

"Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center," by Nader Hashemi, New Lines Magazine, April 23, 2025, https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/teaching-gandhi-in-a-texas-detention-center.

"A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk."

#Authoritarianism #ICE #Academia (1/2) 🧵

Bernard Clasen, "Trump und Selenskyj im Petersdom: Ein wundersamer Trump-Moment," Die Tageszeitung, April 27, 2025....

Bernard Clasen, "Trump und Selenskyj im Petersdom: Ein wundersamer Trump-Moment," Die Tageszeitung, April 27, 2025. https://taz.de/Trump-und-Selenskyj-im-Petersdom/!6082039/
"Ein vertrautes Gespräch zwischen Trump und Selenskyj ist nur eine Momentaufnahme. Aber mehr Respekt ist in Zeiten von Krieg oder Frieden nicht wenig."

"Women and Children First" by Theo Matejko, ca. 1939, blogged at...

"Women and Children First" by Theo Matejko, ca. 1939, blogged at https://markstoneman.com/2025/04/27/women-and-children-first-by.html. (It's very short because I live in the country away from research libraries.)
#WarAndSociety #AirWar #Atrocities #Gender #EverythingHasAHistory

#Congress #EverythingHasAHistory #USpol #Commonplacing #UShistory

#Congress #EverythingHasAHistory #USpol #Commonplacing #UShistory

The creatures out back are even louder tonight. https://markstoneman.com/uploads/2025/9a6b8aafc4.m4a#sounds #spring #NH

The creatures out back are even louder tonight.

https://markstoneman.com/uploads/2025/9a6b8aafc4.m4a

#sounds #spring #NH

Powerful 13-minute short about a man who spoke up (and one who didn't) during an unexpected ID check to filter out ostensible enemies on...

Powerful 13-minute short about a man who spoke up (and one who didn't) during an unexpected ID check to filter out ostensible enemies on a train stopped by armed Serbs in Štrpci, Bosnia, on February 27, 1993: "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" (Croatia, 2024), https://youtu.be/nlwg0eOpEa0.

#Movies #BosnianWar #Atrocities