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Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…helps designers use a system of digital triggers and reward loops to hook users, keeping them engaged. It’s a guide to making zombies, not to curing them. There has been backlash to Eyal’s book, mostly focused on consumer protection policies. In Aeon, Cubit co-producer Michael Schulson argues for government regulation of addictive technologies. Slate magazine founder Jacob Weisberg, writing in the New York Review of Books, advocates age restricti…

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

…million was diverted from the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote the NFP agenda of the Family of the America Foundation. More recently, Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, voiced support for federal measures that would divert funding from Planned Parenthood to organizations like Obria, “so women can obtain their health care from providers that do not promote abortion.” Of course…

Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…this case, the “Twitness,” has emerged to shape the blogosphere, creating new faith connections. Twitter asks the simple question: “What are you doing?” Some evangelical Christian groups are harnessing these coincident messaging flows to strengthen their religious communication via synchronized prayer. Consider the Calvin Institute of Worship’s setup of an automated Twitter feed to “pray the hours.” Inspired by the Holy Scripture’s injunctions to…

The Problem With Solving The Abortion Problem

By Daniel Schultz

User Ramona at TPMCafe reacts to Wednesday’s health care reform conference call between Pres. Obama and religious leaders: What struck me about this entire event — these thousands of religious leaders conferring with the president about how best to use their community to do good works — is how little we’ve heard from these people, as opposed to those leaders on the Religious Right who use their names and their clout to fight any attempt to rein i…

MIT, Facing Opposition to Extremist Speaker, Might Try Google Next Time

By Murali Balaji

…communities have been particularly targeted by Swamy, and he’s a prolific user of Twitter, underscoring the argument that right-wing septuagenarians and social media don’t mix. While Swamy is a trained economist, and the conference is on the Indian economy, the MIT backlash shows that organizers of such events should probably just use common sense. In the broader scheme of things, Swamy (whose daughter is married to a Muslim) is a fringe politici…

RDBook: A City Too Busy To Hate

By Michael A. Elliott

…see even places where negative things have happened disappear off the landscape, because then we’ve lost something. Then someone 100 years in the future can’t go back to that place and put time and place and story together. Because of questions and economy and utility, we sometimes make decisions that the best thing is to remove these buildings so we can have something else. But we have a lot of space. Biographical notes: Harry Lefever is Professo…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…alright, but like the toilet, I don’t know what made it impossible for the user to at least keep the seat dry!? Maybe this was the result of the overall cleaning method, because it was also clear that the rooms were serviced, and I even saw one of the cleaning ladies. Anyway, I chose the one with the least amount of water on the seat and counted on the heat to dry the rest, as it did in no time at all. Still, it was pretty minimal damage and if no…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…missile’s performance. “The kills are proof that the FN-6 is reliable and user-friendly, because rebel fighters are generally not well trained in operating missile systems,” the newspaper, Global Times, quoted a Chinese aviation analyst as saying. The successful attacks on Syria’s helicopters by Chinese missiles brought “publicity” that “will raise the image of Chinese defense products on the international arms trade market,” the newspaper wrote….

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…“Machines in the Garden.” Automata, according to Riskin, “peopled the landscape of late medieval and early modern Europe,” which was “positively humming with mechanical vitality.” Church-commissioned clockmakers built mechanical angels and demons to decorate altars; “automaton Christs—muttering, grimacing, blinking on the cross—were especially popular.” Some churches even had automatic heretics. A mechanical moor’s head once hung in the cathedral…

History in Real Time: Teaching Obama

By Anthea Butler

…he wounds inflicted on so many people of color by America’s exceptionally racist history. Photo of Obama supporters in Grant park by Flickr user Erica Marshall, under a Creative Commons license….