Małgorzata Kalinowska
@malkal.bsky.social
Polish Jungian analyst, author and translator. Co-creator and editor in chief of Instytut Studiów Kulturowych Raven, the publishing house and education center.
https://raven.edu.pl
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⚡️4 killed, 17 injured in Kharkiv amid Russian drone attack.
Russia launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.
Russia launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.
4 killed, 17 injured in Kharkiv amid Russian drone attack
Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.
kyivindependent.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
⚡️4 killed, 17 injured in Kharkiv amid Russian drone attack.
Russia launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.
Russia launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.
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Introducing Letters from Afghan Women, a project giving women inside #Afghanistan a platform to speak freely. In the 1st letter, Roma Ayuobi talks about her day-to-day reality & her hope that women will one day have the chance to fight for a better future: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/we-l...
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Introducing Letters from Afghan Women, a project giving women inside #Afghanistan a platform to speak freely. In the 1st letter, Roma Ayuobi talks about her day-to-day reality & her hope that women will one day have the chance to fight for a better future: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/we-l...
“But after Babel, nothing really means anything anymore––at least not in a way that is durable and on which people widely agree.”
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
www.theatlantic.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“But after Babel, nothing really means anything anymore––at least not in a way that is durable and on which people widely agree.”
"It’s shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid’s Tale from the shelves of the high-school library. I have been rendered “unacceptable.”
"How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."
"How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."
Go Ahead and Ban My Book
To those who seek to stop young people from reading The Handmaid’s Tale: Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more.
www.theatlantic.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"It’s shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid’s Tale from the shelves of the high-school library. I have been rendered “unacceptable.”
"How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."
"How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."
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The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
August 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
"Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Trump does not understand Zelensky because he does not recognize the concept of being bound by the law or the constitution while making decisions about your country.
Ukraine Doesn’t Have to Defeat Russia. They Just Have to Outlast Putin.
Why Trump won’t get a “peace deal” in Alaska.
www.thebulwark.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump does not understand Zelensky because he does not recognize the concept of being bound by the law or the constitution while making decisions about your country.
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The Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal.
@timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...
@timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...
August 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal.
@timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...
@timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...
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Believe it or not, one of the constraints on Trump's foreign policy is a "congressional manacle" partly crafted by Marco Rubio. Trump does not have unlimited power.
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
August 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Believe it or not, one of the constraints on Trump's foreign policy is a "congressional manacle" partly crafted by Marco Rubio. Trump does not have unlimited power.
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
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Some CDC staff say that they have long feared the day that escalating animosity toward the agency would culminate in actual violence, @landmanspeaking.bsky.social reports:
‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.
bit.ly
August 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Some CDC staff say that they have long feared the day that escalating animosity toward the agency would culminate in actual violence, @landmanspeaking.bsky.social reports:
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"Either their long-term game is there won't be free elections or we'll fix the election or we'll steal it or gerrymander it, or they're perfectly prepared for someone who they disagree with to be able to use those same tools at some point in the future."
August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Either their long-term game is there won't be free elections or we'll fix the election or we'll steal it or gerrymander it, or they're perfectly prepared for someone who they disagree with to be able to use those same tools at some point in the future."
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You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy refused US President Trump’s suggestion to exchange parts of Ukraine’s land in return for peace
Trump’s proposal, lacking details on which territories might be swapped and security guarantees, sparked outrage among Ukrainians euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/09/u...
Trump’s proposal, lacking details on which territories might be swapped and security guarantees, sparked outrage among Ukrainians euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/09/u...
Ukraine is not real estate deal: Ukrainians see Trump’s land concession proposal as betrayal
Kyiv warns the West’s secret talks risk chaining Ukraine’s fate to a handshake with Moscow that will be broken before the ink dries.
euromaidanpress.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy refused US President Trump’s suggestion to exchange parts of Ukraine’s land in return for peace
Trump’s proposal, lacking details on which territories might be swapped and security guarantees, sparked outrage among Ukrainians euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/09/u...
Trump’s proposal, lacking details on which territories might be swapped and security guarantees, sparked outrage among Ukrainians euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/09/u...
"Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human. It can liberate us from the mundane to unleash creativity and connection, or it can shackle us to mindless robotic drudgery of isolated meaninglessness"
'By mistaking language as merely a tool that’s a means to an end—little different from a spatula—too many people have lost sight of the fact that understanding language provides the basis of smart thinking. If you offload it to machines, future generations will never develop their own superpowers'
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
July 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human. It can liberate us from the mundane to unleash creativity and connection, or it can shackle us to mindless robotic drudgery of isolated meaninglessness"
For anyone interested in how the East Bloc’s intellectuals influenced Chinese public intellectuals, these recollections by one of China’s leading public thinkers, Cui Weiping, is absolutely important. She discusses her work with the recently departed Fu Guoyong and their work with Michnik and Havel
崔卫平：守望漫漫长夜——我与傅国涌的交往点滴
Cui Weiping: Keeping Vigil Through the Long Night—My Interactions with Fu Guoyong
open.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For anyone interested in how the East Bloc’s intellectuals influenced Chinese public intellectuals, these recollections by one of China’s leading public thinkers, Cui Weiping, is absolutely important. She discusses her work with the recently departed Fu Guoyong and their work with Michnik and Havel
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The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
More than thirty years ago, Havel complained, “I cannot avoid the impression that many people in the West still understand little of what is actually at stake in our time.”
Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis”
Lessons from the Czech writer Václav Havel on how to resist “the irrational momentum of anonymous, impersonal, and inhuman power.”
www.newyorker.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
More than thirty years ago, Havel complained, “I cannot avoid the impression that many people in the West still understand little of what is actually at stake in our time.”
“The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.”
Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?
The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.
www.theatlantic.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.”
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"Under conditions of terror most people will comply *but some people will not*"--Hannah Arendt. A unitarian minister friend sent me this clip from "The Avengers" as an illustration:
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July 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
"Under conditions of terror most people will comply *but some people will not*"--Hannah Arendt. A unitarian minister friend sent me this clip from "The Avengers" as an illustration:
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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”--Hannah Arendt
Empathy as Resistance - Democracy Seminar
Lynn Feinerman is the producer of Women Rising Radio, which she describes this way: Women Rising Radio project had its first broadcast in 2003, profiling visionarywomen in leadership across the globe for all the critical issues of today, includinghuman rights, democracy and civil society, ecology and sustainability, and all the freedoms. Based in California, we've
democracyseminar.newschool.org
June 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”--Hannah Arendt
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⚡️Maternity hospital in Odesa damaged in a Russian overnight attack, Mayor Trukhanov said. According to him, there are no casualties or injuries.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
⚡️Maternity hospital in Odesa damaged in a Russian overnight attack, Mayor Trukhanov said. According to him, there are no casualties or injuries.
🎥 truonline/Telegram
🎥 truonline/Telegram
"I did these things because I know I am mortal."
ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.
hedgehogreview.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"I did these things because I know I am mortal."
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Remembering the legacy of Harvey Milk, the gay pioneer who tragically became a martyr
Remembering Harvey Milk, the gay pioneer who tragically became a martyr
Harvey Milk Day is celebrated on 22 May each year in memory of Harvey Milk, the gay pioneer who tragically became a martyr.
www.thepinknews.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Remembering the legacy of Harvey Milk, the gay pioneer who tragically became a martyr