Julia Kristeva sheds a lot of light on this process through her notion of the abject
10.03.2026 13:00
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Julia Kristeva sheds a lot of light on this process through her notion of the abject
You haven’t missed your chance to learn a new language!
Yes, kids may pick up accents more easily, but adults bring focus and language experience to the table – and can still become fluent.
There’s no age where language learning “switches off”.
New from me:
The robot umps are here!
Here’s what to watch for this spring, including this fascinating question:
What should an umpire say if the catcher asks, “Where was that pitch?”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
"Stuckey’s second sentence may be the key to understanding Evangelical responses in Trump’s second term. There is little reason to question her sincerity in condemning Trump’s post, yet she makes it clear that her political loyalties are unchanged."
"Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment—one that this Court has rejected as punishment even for people who have been proven guilty." trib.al/x9CrHSj
Famously irreligious Trump has the full backing of Christian nationalists on Iran.
Has anyone ever reported out a story asking anti-vax/science people : “when in your life did you stop believing science?”
Like, kids (at least in my experience) are fascinated w/learning. I believe my job as a parent is to foster that and help them learn how to learn. So when do folks turn away?
"Moderate Democratic voters are not centrists clamoring for a return to the Clinton era or rebukes of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders." trib.al/12NCA6z
Yes, and we just don’t know the cost of adapting to this political reality that we’re living in, what we’re having to annul to survive it. And what we have to do to adapt, we don’t always know. But it wouldn’t be odd if people became more withdrawn, more immured, more impermeable, more remote, etc. Because to be fully alive to this present reality could easily feel unbearable.
www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...
accents are one of the fastest ways we determine social proximity (eg friend/foe, in-group vs out-group) membership
also the way in which notions of identity are tied to those of authenticity (eg an "authentic" X accent)
The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is 19% faster than the M2 Ultra in the Mac Pro in single-core performance (Geekbench 6).
The MacBook Neo starts at $599.
The Mac Pro, which is still for sale, starts at $6,999.
I am currently single
Important ruling on immigration operations in Minnesota
Judge Tostrud (Trump appointee):
"Plaintiffs have made a clear showing that Defendants have adopted a POLICY authorizing federal immigration officers to conduct investigatory stops based on ethnicity or race without reasonable suspicion."
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It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...
How dare her!! 🧐🤨
"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
Fr. Pierre al-Rahi, had earlier refused, along with other priests, to obey an order by the Israeli military to evacuate the Christian village of Qlayaa, a Maronite village of some 8,000 inhabitants in the Marjayoun district, a few miles from the Israeli border.
lamb works fine; mutton for special occasions
which is exactly the opposite of what the world’s been doing culinarily and sacrificially for millennia 🤷🏻♂️
The simplest way to understand these well-spoken monsters is they don't believe in the universality & equality of all before the law. They believe in law as a weapon for disciplining & vaporising lesser humans & for protecting & shielding superior humans like them & their allies from consequences
AirTag leads volunteers to hidden cat and six kittens in Waltham #news
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/03/09/airtag-leads-volunteers-to-hidden-cat-and-six-kittens-in-waltham/
halal butchers in my area often have it
Dhaba Gosht with basmati and roti 👨🏻🍳🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🚨🚒
watching my oldest prepare summer internship applications at various microbiology labs across the country
and wondering how my total humanities DNA ever managed to help produce a budding scientist👨🏻🔬 🦠 🧪
U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros Discovery , according to government disclosures.
last stop on the way home: the Indian grocer
to get what we need for a special welcome home supper tonight 👨🏻🍳 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 🚒
just hit our high of 66°F / 19C in Boston
can almost taste spring
it’s been months since I could go outside without a cardigan
Via NCR - Pope Leo XIV more favorable than Trump in new NBC News poll. The only other person viewed favorably overall? Stephen Colbert!
#PopeLeo #Colbert #Trump
www.ncronline.org/news/pope-le...
God can work through anybody: Happy to be on the "Beyond the Habit" podcast with Sister Colleen Gibson and Sister Erin McDonald, talking about "Work in Progress." beyondthehabitpod.com/2026/02/24/g...
oldest home from college briefly before a conference in town on the waterfront 🧪 🧬 🌊
took the afternoon off to go food and clothes shopping
plus a trip to the barber 💈
