Vipassana
@vipassana.bsky.social
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This whole earth, this whole life
(she/they)
This whole earth, this whole life
(she/they)
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I want this posted in every hallway of every university and then ask your students, why have a library when we can have slop?
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I want this posted in every hallway of every university and then ask your students, why have a library when we can have slop?
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Library boards play an extremely influential role in defining what the public library should be, what it should do, and who it should serve. But despite their critical role, library boards are missing from all long-running library research surveys. (1/4)
September 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Library boards play an extremely influential role in defining what the public library should be, what it should do, and who it should serve. But despite their critical role, library boards are missing from all long-running library research surveys. (1/4)
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Come join NYC PLAN on October 4th for our 2nd People's Assembly @ NY Society for Ethical Culture!
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September 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Come join NYC PLAN on October 4th for our 2nd People's Assembly @ NY Society for Ethical Culture!
www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...
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The NYC City Council has 51 members and we at NYC Public Library Action Network are recruiting people who are constituents of every member to set up meetings with them to get them on record for our main demand. It's an easy lift and we hope that folks will sign up. More soon on this.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The NYC City Council has 51 members and we at NYC Public Library Action Network are recruiting people who are constituents of every member to set up meetings with them to get them on record for our main demand. It's an easy lift and we hope that folks will sign up. More soon on this.
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A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT.
Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ?
Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends.
It's not a search engine.
Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ?
Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends.
It's not a search engine.
June 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT.
Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ?
Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends.
It's not a search engine.
Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ?
Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends.
It's not a search engine.
This is so great. Something that is giving me hope!
BREAKING: Mamdani and Lander will cross-endorse.
The partnership, which is being announced one day before early voting begins, would effectively turn Mamdani and Lander into something of a joint entry. They hope that one of them will eventually accumulate many of the other’s votes as a result.
The partnership, which is being announced one day before early voting begins, would effectively turn Mamdani and Lander into something of a joint entry. They hope that one of them will eventually accumulate many of the other’s votes as a result.
Mamdani and Lander Will Cross-Endorse Each Other in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is so great. Something that is giving me hope!
What does it matter if AI revolutionizes weather forecasting if there are no trusted institutions disseminating weather alerts. Please be real
June 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What does it matter if AI revolutionizes weather forecasting if there are no trusted institutions disseminating weather alerts. Please be real
Karen Hao’s new book sounds fascinating. This interview includes a fascinating framing of AGI orgs as empires competing/bolstering each other that seems like an important frame
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI
Podcast Episode · The Sunday Show · 05/23/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Karen Hao’s new book sounds fascinating. This interview includes a fascinating framing of AGI orgs as empires competing/bolstering each other that seems like an important frame
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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We are in a loneliness hangover from the pandemic. Many of our embodied and connective experiences have been replaced by what Monica Roa calls: “individualized consumption of entertainment and services.”
May 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We are in a loneliness hangover from the pandemic. Many of our embodied and connective experiences have been replaced by what Monica Roa calls: “individualized consumption of entertainment and services.”
"The cycle of rupture and repair is a requirement of living, a cost of surviving, something that goes hand in hand with another reality of survival: that, throughout your life, you may not only lose people but also gain them."
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"The cycle of rupture and repair is a requirement of living, a cost of surviving, something that goes hand in hand with another reality of survival: that, throughout your life, you may not only lose people but also gain them."
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
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Over 1,000 faculty members at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan are officially unionized under United Auto Workers after a two-thirds majority vote in favor.
School of Visual Arts Faculty Are Officially Unionized
Nearly 1,200 faculty members at the New York arts and design institution will be represented by the new union after a two-thirds vote in favor.
hyperallergic.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Over 1,000 faculty members at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan are officially unionized under United Auto Workers after a two-thirds majority vote in favor.
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social Hi Garth! I hope you’ve been well and was thrilled to see Small Rain win the PEN Faulkner. I was wondering if there is a way to get access to the recording of your class on submissions, agents, etc. I recently got into my first ever workshop (tin house) … 1/
May 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social Hi Garth! I hope you’ve been well and was thrilled to see Small Rain win the PEN Faulkner. I was wondering if there is a way to get access to the recording of your class on submissions, agents, etc. I recently got into my first ever workshop (tin house) … 1/
This should make so much sense to anyone who knows how much junior roles in the non profit sector pay.
In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This should make so much sense to anyone who knows how much junior roles in the non profit sector pay.
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Join the NYC Public Library Action Network for A PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY — about our city's libraries, how we can support them, what we want for them — on Saturday, May 17, 1:30 to 5:30pm @ Greenpoint Reformed Church!
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April 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Join the NYC Public Library Action Network for A PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY — about our city's libraries, how we can support them, what we want for them — on Saturday, May 17, 1:30 to 5:30pm @ Greenpoint Reformed Church!
www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...
www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...