♬ It’s not a “Cajon Madness” song, but Mother Earth, by Tony Joe White seems appropriate for today. So perhaps put aside your drum and just feel the beauty of this song. (Sometimes being a drummer is understanding when to not play, but listen.)

Are you a webulite? Would you like to be?

How the Code for Hire initiative in Afghanistan is helping young women fight inequality and poor employment opportunities by teaching them to code

Microsoft is alienating regular and long-time users of Skype by refocusing the product for the corporate market, which has made the app more complex

Tesla’s “primary technical contact” with the feds just left for Waymo

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5/12 Saturday

🔊 Wilderness Wealth. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#9/24) The Priestly Legacy: Cult and Sacrifice, Purity and Holiness in Leviticus and Numbers, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ridehome Podcast for Friday, May 11. Are you a webulite? Would you like to be?

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-016

🔊⬇ Dharma Talk - To be here - Gil Fronsdal

🔊⬇ Dharma Talk - The Refuges Class 3 - Gil Fronsdal

Facebook Plans to Create Its Own Cryptocurrency

Verizon stealthily launched a startup offering $40-per-month unlimited data, messaging and minutes

iMessage for Windows Would Be Sick, and possibly the start of something bigger

Turning Defeats Into Great Mythologies

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5/11 Friday

🔊 The choice not to suffer. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#8/24) Exodus: From Egypt to Sinai (Exodus 5-24, 32; Numbers), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ridehome Podcast for Thursday, May 10. Are you a webulite? Would you like to be?

🔊 Judaism Unbound #117: Israel and American Jews Today w/ Peter Beinart

🔊⬇ Dharma Talk - Carol Wilson - 2018-05/06 Simple Awareness: Conditions For Wisdom

♬ In your eyes - Peter Gabriel (The encore song from the 1993 Secret World Live… perhaps my favorite concert of all time) added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist. Here’s a double shot from that concert; Shaking the tree in a “meet the band” moment.

Google Grapples With ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech

In conversation with Richard Gingras, VP of Google News

Why Snapchat’s re-redesign will fail and how to fix it

Researchers show Siri and Alexa can be exploited with ‘silent’ commands hidden in songs

Google is rumored to be working on a Pixel smartwatch

A bipartisan resolution refuses to acknowledge China’s decisions on spiritual leadership

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5/10 Thursday

🔊 Conviction & Truth. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#7/24) # Israel in Egypt: Moses and the Beginning of Yahwism (Genesis 37- Exodus 4), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for May 9

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-015

🔊 Tides of History Podcast - Pea Plants, Salmon Sperm, and a Milestone for Humanity - Interview with Steven Johnson

🔊⬇ Dharma talk - Patience and Forgiveness - Greg Scharf

🔊 The Human Bible, May 8, 2018 - Robert M. Price

♬ Summer Smile - Ronny Jordan added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

Apple Plans to Sell Video Subscriptions Through TV App

Google to Buy Startup Velostrata as It Builds Cloud Computing Business

Smoothness of Google’s AI-based demonstrations at I/O and ‘Make Google Do It’ campaign mask the reality: users will need to give up more information and agency

Disappearing Signal Messages Are Stored Indefinitely on Mac Hard Drives

Google News gets an update, with more AI-driven curation, more labeling, more reader controls (fingers crossed for no AI flops)

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5/9 Wednesday

I’m adding a new icon to the mix today. The ⬇ icon means that if you click on the link that follows the icon, it will download the file to your device. I’m finding that some of the dharma talk audio files when I link to them on a site, play through a flash interface which may not work particularly well with some mobile devices, so I some cases I’ll provide that link as a direct download which you can then listen to directly from your device.

🔊 An Apprenticeship in Integrity. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#6/24) Biblical Narrative: The Stories of the Patriarchs (Genesis 12-36), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Tuesday, May 8

🔊⬇ Dharma talk - Gil Fronsdal - Lowing the flag

🔊⬇ Dharma talk - Oren Jay Sofer - Opening Talk, Refuges & Precepts

🔊⬇ Dharma Talk - Heather Sundberg - Wisdom-Awareness Map (MahaSati)

♬ Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

Android P update includes “Digital Well Being” controls

Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties

Google Maps goes beyond directions

How a Fairy Tale King Became Historical

Doing History: Did Celts Ritually Kill Their Kings?

Letter to Pope Francis - Matthieu Ricard

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5/8 Tuesday

🔊 Self-starting. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#5/24) Critical Approaches to the Bible: Introduction to Genesis 12-50, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home podcast for Monday, May 7

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris: #126 — In Defense of Honor, w/ Tamler Sommers

♬ Love Ballad - George Benson added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

Drupal Sites Fall Victims to Cryptojacking Campaigns

Instagram code reveals upcoming music feature

Twitter has an unlaunched ‘Secret’ encrypted messages feature

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5/7 Monday

🔊 Directing & Not Directing the Mind. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#4/24) Lecture 4. Doublets and Contradictions, Seams and Sources, from the Christianity page

🔊 History of the Papacy Podcast - Sidetrack Episode 61 A Really Old Church

🔊 Wittenberg to Westphalia Podcast - Episode 42: The Class System Part 2, Those Who Prayed Part 1: Popes and Bishops and Priests, Oh My!

🔊 247a Roanoke – England’s First Colony by Joel Kindrick – The History of England

🔊 Episode 97: What Does the Scarab Say? – The History of Egypt Podcast

🔊 Dharma talk - Gil Fronsdal - Desire-Nothing is Enough

🔊 Dharma talk - Jill Shepherd - context of the three universal characteristics, anicca, dukkha, anatta

🔊 Guided meditation - Jill Shepherd - mindfulness of body and breathing

♬ Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

Nestle to pay Starbucks $7.15 billion in global coffee alliance

Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?

Yes, It’s Bad. Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging

Three-quarters Facebook users as active or more since privacy scandal: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Android P will finally restrict apps from monitoring your network activity - But it only affects apps targeting Android P

Fitbit adds menstrual cycle tracking to its smartwatch app

Microsoft needs to prove it’s not another IBM

Doing History: How Do We Know Queen Boadicea/Boudicca Existed?

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5/6 Sunday

🔊 Concentration & insight. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew scriptures (#3/24) The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting: Genesis 1-4 in Context, from the Christianity page

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-014

🔊 History in the Bible: Bonus 19: Samson on Trial

🔊 Dharma Talk - Deborah Ratner Helzer - Insight and Equanimity

🔊 Dharma talk - Mary Grace Orr - Animal Stories

🔊 Dharma talk - John Travis - Swan Song

🔊 Dharma talk - Oren Jay Sofer - The Middle Way

🔊 Dharma talk - Andrea Fella - Wise and mindful speech

🔊 Dharma talk - Donald Rothberg - Transforming the Judgmental Mind

🔊 History in the making - S1E28 - Epilogue with Dr. John Hale

♬ Serpentine Fire - Earth, Wind & Fire added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

Gmail’s ‘Self Destruct’ Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records

Google rolls out new policies for U.S. election ads

WhatsApp BLOW - Huge change coming soon, and fans will NOT be happy

Happy Children’s Day 2018

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5/5 Saturday

🔊 Independence. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Hebrew Scriptures; #2/24. The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting: Biblical Religion in Context, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Rideo Home Podcast for Friday, May 4

🔊 Download .zip collection of evening audio Dharma talks for April 2018 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

🔊 Download .zip collection of morning audio Dharma talks for April 2018 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

🔊 History in the Making Podcast - S1E26 - Legacy

♬ Without Me - Eminem added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

NSA triples metadata collection numbers, sucking up over 500 million call records in 2017

Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities

When a stranger takes your face: Facebook’s failed crackdown on fake accounts

You can now easily buy movie tickets with Google Assistant

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5/4 Friday

🔊 How much concentration is enough? Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Introduction to the Hebrew scriptures #1/24 - The parts of the whole, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Thursday, May 3

🔊 Literature & History Podcast #53 Then Came Hard Iron - Virgil’s Georgics

🔊 Dharma Talk - Gil Fronsdal: The Refuges - Week 2

🔊 Guided “loving kindness” meditation - Happiness Born from Within - Nikki Mirghafori

🔊 Dharma talk - Andrea Fella: The Dukka of Change

🔊 Judaism Unbound #116: Passion - Dan and Lex look back at their recent episodes, featuring guests that are part of Clal’s Glean Incubator for spiritual innovators

🔊 Roshi Joan Halifax: Empathy’s Double-Edge

📓 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Twitter asks all users to change their password

A group of public radio companies acquires podcast app Pocket Casts

Pocket Casts acquired by NPR, other public radio stations, and This American Life

Google’s Advanced Protection program now allows access from Apple’s mobile apps, too

Chrome on desktop now mutes annoying autoplays by learning from your behavior

A Buddhist Guide to Exploring New York - Visitors looking for a more contemplative experience can check out these landmarks, museums, and meditation centers

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5/3 Thursday

🔊 Enjoying the path. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Apostolic Fathers And Proto-orthodoxy (#24/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Wednesday, May 2

🔊 Dharma Talk - Gil Fronsdal: The Refuges - Week 2

Google Pay rolling out on the web through desktop browsers and iOS

Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?

The Gospel of Luke in its Original Context; New Perspectives, part 3

Jewish congregations are incorporating mindfulness into their religious practices

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5/2 Wednesday

🔊 An All-around prespective. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Apostolic Fathers As A Collection (#23/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Tuesday, May 1

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris: #125 — What Is Christianity? (with Bart Ehrman)

🔊 This is suffering - Andrea Fella (introduction to The Four Noble Truths)

🔊 Syrian Tales – The History of Egypt Podcast

Amazon Bends the Knee to Autocrats, Threatens to Cut Off Signal for Using Anti-Censorship Technique

New Oculus Venues app organizes live VR events under one roof

After harsh criticism, Facebook quietly pulls services from developing countries

New Bigscreen update streams your desktop to the Oculus Go

Thanissaro Bhikkhu Explains What Makes Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths So Noble

Doubting that Luke-Acts was written to refute Marcion; New Perspectives, part 2

The myth of the online echo chamber

A meditator describes their thought processes as they learned about the Bill Cosby verdict

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5/1 Tuesday

🔊 People suffer from their thinking. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Apologetics In Early Christianity (#22/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Rome Podcast for Monday, Apr. 30

🔊 The history of ancient Greece podcast #74 - Marriage and Domesticity

WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook

Silicon Valley Can’t Be Trusted With Our History

Declining Majority of Online Americans Who Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society - Pew Research Center

Apple faces a critical strategic decision over the iPhone

New Perspective on the Gospel of Luke

What Mindfulness Is Not

RE Mindfulness Defined by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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4/30 Monday

🔊 Settling in. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Letter To Diognetus - an Apology (#21/24), from the Christianity page

Facebook reduces the labor of networking by helping users create better substitutes for many in-person communication networks, which makes it very hard to quit

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4/29 Sunday

🔊 The hunger of the mind. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Apocalypses In Early Christianity (#20/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 The History of England Podcast #247 - Queen Catherine the Third

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-013

How Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away for free

Facebook’s Internet.org has connected almost 100M to the ‘internet’

The never-ending “brother of the lord” proof for the historical existence of Jesus

This is what biblical studies should look like

The Amazing Colossal Apostle

stephan huller’s observations: Marcion, Irenaeus and the Monarchia

The Curious Silence of the Dog and Paul of Tarsus

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4/28 Saturday

🔊 A sustaining happiness. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Shepherd Of Hermas - An Apocalypse (#19/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TecMeme Ride Home Podcast for Friday, Apr. 27

Facebook drops fundraising fees for personal causes

Why We Connect Moral Judgments to God(s)

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4/27 Friday

🔊 One thing only. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Oral Tradition In Early Christianity (#18/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Thursday, Apr. 26

🔊 History in the Making - S1E27 - Epilogue with Dr. Melissa Lane

🔊 Judaism Unbound Podcast - Episode 115: Beloved - Sara Luria, Isaac Luria

🔊 A Tour to Egypt (Expressions of Interest) – The History of Egypt Podcast

📓 The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Eckhart Tolle

Square to buy Weebly for $365 million

T-Mobile, Sprint make progress in talks, aim for deal next week

Apple ends production of AirPort base stations

Amazon is now selling home security services, including installations and no monthly fees

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4/26 Thursday

🔊 Believe in your actions. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Papias - An early Christian Interpreter, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ridehome Podcast for Wednesday, Apr. 25

♬ I’m Alright - Kenny Loggins added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

📓 The Hero With A Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell

Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $11.97B, up 49% YoY, vs. $11.41B est, and net income of $4.99B, up 63% YoY; MAUs up 13% YoY to 2.20B and DAUs up 13% YoY to 1.45B

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Looks like Google is changing Android’s gun emoji into a water gun

Most Americans believe in a higher power, but not always in the God of the Bible

The above newpaper article is based on - Americans’ beliefs about the nature of God - Pew Research Center which is a much better explaination of what is actually happening.

Crossing the water: Comparing Buddhist and Christian imagery

Coming and Going, or not

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4/25 Wednesday

🔊 Oneness is a water snake. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Use Of Scripture In The Early Church (#16/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Tuesday, Apr. 24

🔊 James Baraz on “Comprehension”

🔊 Gil Fronsdal on “fear”

🔊 Gil Fronsdal - Earth Day: Grand Canyon

Gmail’s biggest redesign is now live

Say hello to the new Gmail with self-destructing messages, email snoozing and more

Amazon just created a version of Alexa for the yutes

Opera Touch is a new Android browser tailored for one-handed use

Facebook closes down a number of APIs

Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism means coming face-to-face with the suffering of all sentient beings. It’s not fun.

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4/24 Tuesday

🔊 The Alternative of Concentration. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 2 Clement - an Early Sermon (#15/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Monday, Apr. 23

Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of Prime customers cars in 37 cities. You can check your eligibility here. They are working with a number of auto companies to use technology to let them get right into your car.

As it prepares to launch a podcasts app, Google adds seamless podcast listening across devices, allowing users to listen on a phone and resume on Google Home

A full experience of calligraphy and ceramics dissolves the distinction between artist, work, and viewer

Buddhism and Individualism - Matthieu Ricard

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4/23 Monday

🔊 Exploring the present. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Rise Of Christian Anti-semitism (#14/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 History in the Bible: 2.20 Herod’s Heirs

🔊 The History of Witchcraft: 030 - The Lynching of John Lambe

🔊 Episode 96: The Colossi of Memnon – The History of Egypt Podcast

🔊 246 A Rough Wooing – The History of England

🔊 History of Pilosophy 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today

In interview Cambridge Analytics’ Kogan admits he broke Facebook’s ToS but his app was within norms, says he worked on 10+ papers with Pete Fleming, now Instagram’s head of research

Amazon is creating a robot for the home

Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google

How spyware was inserted in CCleaner

How Instagram marketers target teens

Secure Gmail accounts appear to be sending spam

Gnostic Interpretation of Exodus and Beginnings of the Joshua/Jesus Cult

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4/22 Sunday

🔊 Monastery Standard Time. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Barnabas And The Opposition To The Jews (#13/24), from the Christianity page

♬ REOL - ちるちる - ChiruChiru added to the “Cajon Madness” playlist.

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4/21 Saturday

🔊 Patterns to Happiness. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Ritual In The Early Church (#12/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-012

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Friday, Apr. 20

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris #124 - In Search of Reality

SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon’s Oath

There’s no way Apple can convince me to pay $1,000 for a new iPhone X this year

• • •

4/20 Friday

🔊 Ending suffering. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 A Church Manual - the Didache Of The Apostles (#11/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme ridehome podcast for Thursday, Apr. 19

🔊 Judaism Unbound #114 Science & Synapses - Geoffrey Mitelman

♬ Dark Necessities - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Google unveils Chat, an RCS-based carrier messaging service to supplant SMS, with typing indicators, full-res pics, video, group texts, no end-to-end encryption

Companies are scaling back and simplifying their ToS to comply with GDPR because users’ consent would be legally invalid if they don’t understand the agreement

German Supreme Court rules ad blockers legal, in defeat for Springer

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4/19 Thursday

🔊 Roast the bean but don’t burn them. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Persecution Of The Christians (#10/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Wednesday, Apr. 18

🔊 Interview: Historian and Author Roger Crowley on the Portuguese Voyages to India

Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law

Palantir Knows Everything About You

Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses

• • •

4/18 Wednesday

🔊 Evaluation. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The First Martyrology - Polycarp (#9/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Tuesday, Apr. 17

♬ Midnight At The Oasis - The Brand New Heavies

Reconstructing Papias and a new look at the Synoptic Problem

A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes

YouTube promises expansion of sponsorships, other monetization tools for creators

Google Chrome now mutes annoying videos that autoplay with sound

Iran bans government bodies from using foreign message apps

• • •

4/17 Tuesday

🔊 True honesty. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Use Of Authorities In The Early Church (#8/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Monday, Apr. 16

Apple to launch a premium news subscription service

New York’s Tibet House hosts a new body of work by master Nepalese artist Karsang Lama that celebrates the wisdom of awakened female buddhas

• • •

4/16 Monday

🔊 Dharma Warrior. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Letter Of Polycarp To The Philippians (#7/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 The History of Witchcraft #29 - By the Sword of the Magistrate

“Privacy is not for sale,” Telegram founder says after being banned in Russia

Facebook ad feature claims to predict user’s future behaviour - The document describes Facebook’s ability to use its vast amount of personal data to identify individual users who are “at risk” of changing to competitors’ products, and then target them with advertising at the moment they would be about to switch.

Android apps improperly track children

• • •

4/15 Sunday

🔊 Sorting out your selves. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Still other doctrinal disputes in early Christianity (#6/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 The History of England #245 The Prebendaries Plot

Metta: The Philosophy and Practice of Universal Love, by Acharya Buddharakkhita

The Skill of Release: teachings of Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo (Phra Suddhidhammaransi Gambhiramedhacariya) compiled and Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Trees talk to each other, and work together as a community

Artificial intelligence & the workplace of the future

Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users

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4/14 Saturday

🔊 W.W.B.R. (What Would the Buddha Recommend?), Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Doctrinal Problems In The Early Church (#5/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Friday, Apr. 13

♬ The heart of rock & roll - Huey Lewis & The News

Harvard researchers study how mindfulness may change the brain in depressed patients

• • •

4/13 Friday

🔊 A blameless well-being. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Letters Of Ignatius (#4/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Thursday, Apr. 12

🔊 Judaism Unbound #113: Embrace the Weird - Miriam Terlinchamp

🔊 The Mindful Way to Kick a Craving - interview with Psychiatrist Judson Brewer

♬ Thank you falettinme be mice elf - Sly & the family Stone

Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content

Google is testing self-destructing emails in new Gmail

Android’s trust problem isn’t getting any better

• • •

4/12 Thursday

🔊 How to be an admirable friend. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Church Structures In Early Christianity (#3/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Wednesday, Apr. 11

🔊 Literature & Historpy #52 - White Flowers Die - Virgil’s Eclogues

🔊 Tides of History #21 - Columbus, Da Gama, and the Age of Discovery

Author discovers Facebook keeps a permanent record of friends that users delete, and many advertisers he had not interacted with had his contact information

Zuckerberg won’t give a straight answer on data downloads

A Well Known Historian Praises Bart Ehrman’s History of Christianity’s Triumph

Beginning Meditation - Matthieu Ricard

• • •

4/11 Wednesday

🔊 Protection. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Letter Of 1 Clement (#2/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2018 - Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington

♬ No Phone - Cake

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs start tonight - here’s the schedule and chart - Feel the power… fire on ice!

Apple loses $500m patent case over iMessage and FaceTime features

New Google Gmail design coming soon

Spotify preparing better mobile version of it’s free service

The First Do No Harm training program aims to make meditation safer, in part by recognizing its pitfalls.

Dogen Zenji’s (1200–1253) nuanced teaching on temporality is revisited in the book Being-Time, by Shinshu Roberts.

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4/10 Tuesday

🔊 Timeless practice. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Introduction To The Apostolic Fathers (#1/24), from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Monday, Apr. 9

🔊 The history of philosophy in India podcast (all 62 episodes)

♬ A Whiter Shade of Pale - Annie Lennox

An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings

Instagram is testing Nametags, a Snapchat-like QR codes feature that lets users create a special image that people can scan to follow them

Facebook has intentionally kept Instagram’s branding independent in consumers’ minds; source says Zuckerberg personally requested Stories functionality

Google launches an improved speech-to-text service for developers

Facebook Science: How Facebook Breaks Effect Stress and Wellbeing

• • •

4/9 Monday

🔊 The source of blessings. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 When Did the Canon Get Finalized? From the Christianity page

🔊 Sam Harris’s Waking Up Podcast #123 w/ Ezra Klein

🔊 The History of Philosopy #299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism

♬ Un Amor - Gipsy Kings

China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest valued AI startup, raises $600M

SenseTime, a Chinese AI startup specializing in object and face recognition, raises $600M from Alibaba and others at $3B+ valuation, up from $1.47B in July 2017

Blockchain’s key promise of no-need-for-trusted-parties tech is largely irrelevant; systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better

The Thana Sutta looks at how to cultivate skillful action that leads us away from suffering.

What does Faith mean in Buddhism?

• • •

4/8 Sunday

🔊 At the checkpoint. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Importance of Interpretation, from the Christianity page

♬ Steely Dan - Bodhisattva

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4/7 Saturday

🔊 Respect for concentration. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Authority in the Early Church, from the Christianity page

🔊 Buddhist Economics - Della Duncan

🔊 Donald Rothberg - Things Are Not What They Appear 4: The Emptiness of Self

🔊 Ayya Anandabodhi - Four Postures For Meditation

Free online books by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo

Twitter postpones platform change that would cut off third-party apps

Skype’s call recording feature is made for podcasters

Facebook plans to let everyone unsend messages, will stop Zuckerberg until then

Google Chrome adds a new emoji right-click shortcut

• • •

4/6 Friday

🔊 Stay right here. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Copyists Who Gave Us Scripture, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Thursday, Apr. 5

🔊 The Flourishing Synagogue - Aaron Bisno, Harlan Stone - Judaism Unbound #112

🔊 Audio Dharma › Nikki Mirghafori - Practice Notes: Is That So (Instructions)

🔊 Audio Dharma › Nikki Mirghafori - Dharmette: Is That So (Discussion)

♬ Stereo Mc’s - Scene of the crime

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes

Malware Attack on Vendor to Blame for Delta and Sears Data Breach Affecting ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Customers

Young Adult Novelist Emily X. R. Pan Didn’t Mean to Write a Buddhist Book

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4/5 Thursday

🔊 Directing the flow. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Apocalypticism and the Apocalypse of John, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Wednesday, Apr. 4

🔊 Medieval Exploration and the Age of Discovery - Tides of History #20

🔊 Mark Nunberg - The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 3 - Talk

🔊 Mark Nunberg - The Five Spiritual Faculties - week 4 - talk

🔊 Mark Nunberg - Addiction to busyness part 2 - talk

🔊 Mark Nunberg - Addiction to busyness part 4 - talk

📓 Sam Harris - Lying

AWS Secrets Manager plugs a major cloud security hole

Sarah Lacy launches Chairman Mom, a social platform for working mothers

Facebook’s new privacy rules just broke Tinder

Exploring Unknown Tibet

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4/4 Wednesday

🔊 Beneficial thinking. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Other Gospels, from the Christianity page

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris: #122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition

🔊 Collection - Evening Dhamma Talks for March 2018 - dhammatalks.org

🔊 Collection - Short (Morning) Dhamma Talks for March 2018 - dhammatalks.org

🔊 Refinement of Abiding - Mark Nunberg

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Tuesday, Apr. 3

Woman wounds three at YouTube headquarters in California, then kills herself

A hacked Twitter account spread fake news during YouTube HQ shooting

An in-depth look at how Twitter is scrambling to combat abuse on its platform, after initially being blinded to safety concerns by its zeal for free speech

MN 10 Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta - The Great Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse

AN 2:35 Samacitta Sutta - Minds in Tune

DN 1 Brahmajāla Sutta - The Brahmā Net

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4/3 Tuesday

🔊 Settling in. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Earliest Gospels, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme podcast for Monday, April 2

🔊 Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are - Tara Brach - and yeah… she’s on Twitter

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-011

Buddhism Demystified - Matthieu Ricard

Spotify’s direct listing is an inflection point in the Wall Street-Silicon Valley relationship

Snapchat introduces group video chat and friend tagging in Stories

Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel

Twitter Changes Form to Include Hate Against People With Disabilities

The Inside Story of Reddit’s Redesign

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4/2 Monday

🔊 Beyond the call of duty. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Beginnings of the Gospel Traditions, from the Christianity page

🔊 Audio Dharma - Matthew Brensilver: Grief

🔊 Episode 95: Hundred-Gated Thebes – The History of Egypt Podcast

The Happiness of Abiding - Mark Nunberg

🔊 Talk
🔊 Guided meditation

Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service

Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum

Zuckerberg fires back at Tim Cook, opens up about fake news

Could Amazon Dominate the Future of Video Games?

Google is making a cheaper Pixel 3 model, but don’t call it a Nexus

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4/1 Sunday

🔊 Remember this. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Problem of Pseudonymity, from the Christianity page

🔊 History in the Bible: 2.19 What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us?

🔊 244 No More Time to Dance – The History of England

U.S. government seeks end to Supreme Court privacy fight with Microsoft

Facebook plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent

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3/31 Saturday

🔊 The Buddha’s 16 steps. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The Pauline Epistles, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Friday March 30

Come for your drugs, leave with more shopping: Walmart’s new growth strategy?

Google’s on-by-default ‘Articles for You’ leverage browser dominance for 2,100 percent growth

The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour

Psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher Gina Biegel explains what practices work best with young adults (and if you should even try to make them put down their smartphone)

Mottos to help you stay committed after Meditation Month ends

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3/30 Friday

🔊 Warrior Knowledge. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 Paul - Our Earliest Christian Author, from the Christianity page

🔊 Audio Dharma - Andrea Fella - Applying Right View

🔊 Unaffilliated Affiliation - Debbie Bravo - Judaism Unbound #111

🔊 TechMeme ridehome podcast for Thursday, March 29

European Commission says it will cancel all UK-held .eu domains when it leaves EU in March 2019; analysis shows these are ~317K, or ~10%, of total .eu domains

FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network

Facebook starts fact checking photos/videos, blocks millions of fake accounts per day

Microsoft Reorganizes to Fuel Cloud and A.I. Businesses

Our ideas about what meditation should feel like are just more thoughts.

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3/29 Thursday

🔊 Breath meditation - the second tetrad. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff), from the Buddhism page

🔊 The New Testament, an overview, from the Christianity page

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Wednesday, March 28

📺 Wonder Woman (2017) directed by Patty Jenkins

Facebook is cutting third-party data providers out of ad targeting to clean up its act

A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder

Ecuadoran Embassy in London cuts off Julian Assange’s Internet

Uber reaches settlement with family of autonomous vehicle victim

Snap Cuts About 100 Employees in Latest Round of Downsizing

Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome

Facebook latest: video issue emerges; firm blocks data brokers; tech workers say they will delete accounts

Tips from Japanese psychology on developing consistent meditation in an inconsistent life

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3/28 Wednesday

🔊 Good meditation. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Audio Dharma - Andrea Fella - Working with Thoughts in Daily Life

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Tuesday March 27

📺 Mean Streets (1973) directed by Martin Scorsese

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3/27 Tuesday

🔊 Basic Meditation. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

♬ Aquarius (Let the Sunshine in) - The 5th Dimension

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Monday, Mar. 26

Intercom’s new funding brings valuation to $1.275 billion

Killing the (Facebook) Messenger

Here are our favorite books on meditation to help you navigate the stacks.

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3/26 Monday

🔊 Establishing priorities. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

📓 The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis

📺 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) directed by Martin Scorsese

Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks We’re Idiots

How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google

Are corporations that use Wikipedia giving back?

More Local News on Facebook, Globally

Apple’s original shows may launch next March

A practice to develop the steady mind necessary for attaining wisdom

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3/25 Sunday

🔊 The middle way. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris: #121 — White Power with Christian Picciolini

🔊 The all around likeable Sophocles – Mythology Translated #80

🔊 The History of Witchcraft: 027 - A Wonderful Discovery

🔊 History of Philisophy #298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch

🔊 243 A Jewel for Womanhood – The History of England

♬ You’ll never forget the girl from ipanema

Uber agrees to sell Southeast Asia business to Grab after costly battle

Apple CEO Tim Cook wants “well-crafted” privacy regulations after latest Facebook scandal

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People’s Fingerprints

Africa’s newest tech hubs are in Senegal, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Uganda

Google Moves to Develop Its Own Blockchain Technology

Gun Culture: What Makes America Different?

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3/24 Saturday

🔊 A gift of stillness. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Human Bible March 21, 2018 - Robert M. Price

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Friday, Mar. 23

♬ Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon

Stillness in meditation refers to the mind, not a rigidly stiff body

Did Paul Think of the Pre-Incarnate Christ as God?

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3/23 Friday

🔊 Creating a world of concentration. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY (1797 - 1851) - LibriVox

🔊 The Odes and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS (HORACE) (65 BC - 8 BC), translated by John CONINGTON (1825 - 1869) - LibriVox

🔊 Judaism Unbound Episode 110: Glean - Elan Babchuck

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Thursday Mar. 22

Reading Garry Shandling’s “Zen Diaries”

Christianity as a counter-cultural myth to delegitimize Rome

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3/22 Thursday

🔊 Refuge for all beings. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 The Printing Press and the Information Revolution - Tides of History #19

🔊 TechMeme podcast for Wed. Mar. 21

The Classics Scholar Redefining What Twitter Can Do

Zuckerberg and other executives are in denial: Facebook is not a force for good, having helped destroy industries and break societies, and should be shuttered

YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate

Slack picked a weird time to make it easier for bosses to download you

Twitter’s chief information security officer is leaving the company

YouTube just became the Top Grossing iPhone app for the first time

Why “What Would Dogen Say About #MeToo?” Is the Wrong Question

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3/21 Wednesday

🔊 A quality of character. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Audio Dharma - Max Erdstein - Path to Wholeness

🔊 Episode 165 – The Eagle and the Frogs - The History of Byzantium

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-010

🔊 TechMeme podcast for Tuesday, Mar. 20

Recommended by Doug Metzger, The Endless Knot podcast (Twitter account). Aven McMaster is a Classicist and a knitter. She edits the scripts, helps produce the videos, and maintains the website. She can be found at @AvenSarah on Twitter. She has a PhD in Classics from the University of Toronto. Mark Sundaram is an interdisciplinarian, medievalist, Anglo-Saxonist, (cognitive) philologist, academic, and philosophical layabout. He is the main force behind the Alliterative YouTube channel and this website; he writes the scripts and creates the videos, including writing and recording the music. He has a PhD in Medieval Literature from the University of Toronto.

I discovered a classical music radio program worth checking out called Here of a Sunday morning that airs Sunday 9-11am (but you can listen to archived shows on demand) on WBAI 99.5 FM Hosted by Chris Whent.

WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Zuck and Sandberg go M.I.A. as Congress summons Facebook leadership by name

The European Commission proposes a 3% tax on EU revenues of companies with global annual revenues of €750M+, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon

Facebook launches ‘joinable links’ and ‘admin approval’ tool for Messenger group chats

A “tamper-proof” currency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old

Netflix unveils its own custom typeface, Netflix Sans, to be used globally; brand design lead says it will save millions of dollars per year in licensing costs

Google is buying Lytro for about $40M

Google brings DDoS protection and other new security features to its cloud

Marketers Aren’t Shifting Ad Budgets Because of Facebook’s Data Crisis

Forbes Posts Article on the Cruelty of White Evangelicalism, Then Pulls It

The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel”

These Are Not “Your” Thoughts

Bouddhism and individualism - Matthieu Ricard

Discovering Why “Even Atheists” Deplore Jesus Mythicism. (Or, Thoughts on “Cult Atheism”)

Nothing to (Im)prove

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3/20 Tuesday

🔊 Wisely Ardent, Alert & Mindful. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Literature & history podcast, #51 Horace and Augustan Poetry

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Monday, Mar. 19, 2018

Five Practices for Your Daily Commute

How Europe’s New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More

Google Play Instant lets you try games without having to install them

Google buys $2.4 billion building in Chelsea NYC

Google unveils its $300M News Initiative, with tools for subscriptions, security and fighting fake news

You Should Really Look At Your Facebook Third-Party App Settings Right Now

Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Google News Initiative announced to fight fake news and support journalism

Telegram Loses Bid to Block Russia From Encryption Keys

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3/19 Monday

🔊 Caring for the mind. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Audio Dharma - Gil Fronsdal - Three Forms Of Faith

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris: #120 — What Is and What Matters with Rebecca Goldstein and Max Tegmark

🔊 Episode 164 – Don’t Believe Your Map - The History of Byzantium

🔊 Episode 94: The Pools of Horus – The History of Egypt Podcast

Apple Is Secretly Developing Its Own Screens for the First Time

Facebook and the endless string of worst-case scenarios

HTC drops Vive to $499, opens preorders for $799 Vive Pro headset

Voice Chat App Zello Turned a Blind Eye to Jihadis for Years

Is Buddhism Useful?

Margaret Froelich on the Death of Aesop and Luke 4:16-30

How Did Christianity Switch to a Historical Jesus? - Richard Carrier

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3/18 Sunday

🔊 There is no happiness other than peace. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 History in the Bible: 2.18 Modern Debates: Scandal of the Dead Sea Scrolls

🔊 Aspiration For Awakening - Audio Dharma by Gil Fronsdal

🔊 242 Anne and Thomas – The History of England

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-009

🔊 The History of Witchcraft: 026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices

When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible?

They’ll squash you like a bug. How Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers

The Perfect Selfishness of Your Mapping App

How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions

Calming the Not Now Mind - Meditation tips for procrastinators and perfectionists

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3/17 Saturday

🔊 Protecting yourself. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

📓 The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson

🔊 Judaism Unbound Episode 106: Cohere - Ari Moffic

🔊 Judaism Unbound Episode 109: Open Doors summary

Buddhist Publication Society - new (to me) Buddhism resource link

🔊 TechMeme podcast for Friday, Mar. 16, 2018

Facebook suspends Trump and Brexit affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica after reports it and affiliated psychologist lied about data retention

Wikipedia survey across 14 languages with 215K+ responses shows about 35% seek a specific fact, 33% want a topic overview, and 32% want to read a topic in-depth

Digg announces that it will shut down Digg Reader, its barebones RSS reader, on March 26

What everyone gets wrong about touchscreen keyboards

How to Choose the Meditation Seat That’s Right for You

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3/16 Friday

🔊 A well that never runs dry. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 TechMeme “ride home” podcast for Thursday, Mar. 15, 2018

BitCoin miners are driving up electricity prices. Plattsburg NY passes mining moratorium.

Chipmaker Qualcomm may attempt to go private

Serverless computing, containers see triple-digit quarterly growth among cloud users

Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezo, and others

Thich Nhat Hanh explains why it’s important to have a sacred space in your home.

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3/15 Thursday

🔊 Comprehending stress. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Audio Dharma - Gil Fronsdal - Noticing

🔊 TechMeme Ride Home Podcast for Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2018

Karma Q & A, compiled by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. Kamma and rebirth are often understood to be teachings of fate and helplessness in the face of unknowable influences from the past. Instead of teaching fate, The Buddha’s teachings on kamma and rebirth are empowering, showing how people can develop skills in the present that will lead to the end of suffering. So, to help show how valuable these teachings are, here’s a set of answers, based on the Pāli Canon, to some questions frequently asked about these topics.

YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia

EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content (including code)

Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go

Latter-day Zen

Meditation Month 2018: Week 3 - Creating Space

Prosthetic Sensory Feedback - NeuroLogica Blog

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3/14 Wednesday

🔊 The Dhamma eye. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Judaism Unbound Episode 107: Because Jewish - Dan Ain

🔊 Max Erdstein: The True Shape of Water

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2018

📺 The Innkeepers (2011) directed by Ti West

📺 11.22.63 (TV Series) - Wikipedia

Liberating Your Thoughts

When Albert Schweitzer Changed His Mind and Nobody Noticed

The Other (Less Bloody) Side of Christian Origins

Like any artistic endeavor, meditation is a matter of practice.

Google banning cryptocurrency-related advertising

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about conspiracies

WhatsApp will not share user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR, ICO closes investigation

Google’s public WiFi hotspots come to Mexico

Security researchers find flaws in AMD chips but raise eyebrows with rushed disclosure

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3/13 Tuesday

🔊 Right speech, inside & out. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 Waking Up with Sam Harris: #119 — Hidden Motives with Robin Hanson

🔊 The Bible Geek Podcast 18-008

🔊 Gil Fronsdal: There Is No Blasphemy in Buddhism

🔊 Judaism Unbound Episode 108: The Jewish Studio Project

🔊 TechMeme, the ride home, for Monday, Mar. 12, 2018

South Dakota urges Supreme Court to click ‘buy’ on internet sales tax

Trump blocks Broadcom-Qualcomm deal, citing national security concerns

Scoop: Facebook aiming to launch News for Watch this summer

Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode

Apple, Google see reputation of corporate brands tumble in survey

Alexa calling and messaging comes to tablet devices

May All Beings Be Happy

📺 Detachment (2011) directed by Tony Kaye

📺 Deadfall (2012) directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky

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3/12 Monday

Talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

🔊 Gil Fronsdal: Four Interpretations of the Second Noble Truth

🔊 Episode 93: The River War – The History of Egypt Podcast

📺 Red Sparrow (2018) directed by Francis Lawrence

📺 Darkest Hour (2017) directed by Joe Wright

Microsoft Teams is now used by 200,000 organizations, up from 125,000 in September

Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture as it doubles down on content from trusted sources

The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation

After Team Owner Charges Field Carrying a Gun, Greek Soccer League Suspends All Matches

NT/History Blog: The Weight of Discourse (Versus Story)

Fundamentals of historical research and the difficulties faced by historical Jesus studies

The Brain and Predictive Coding - NeuroLogica Blog

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3/11 Sunday

🔊 Proactive mindfulness. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

🔊 The History of Witchcraft: 025 - Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

🔊 HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe

🔊 241 The Illness of King Henry – The History of England

🔊 History in the Bible: Bonus 18: Yochi Brandes’ novel ‘The Orchard’- Judaism and Christianity after the fall of the Temple

Five Drinkable Remedies for Each of the Five Hindrances

Twitter Is Trying To Kill “Tweetdecking.” Here’s What You Should Know.

Twitter Just Suspended A Ton Of Accounts Known For Stealing Tweets

Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel

Americans say AI poses greater job threat than immigration

Most major outlets have used Russian tweets as sources for partisan opinion

Inside Facebook’s Bet On An Augmented Reality Future

Essential really wants to solve the screen notch problem

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🔊 Maintenance work. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

♬ Peter Gabriel - Red Rain

♬ The Brand New Heavies - Put the funk back in it

📺 The Departed (2006) directed by Martin Scorsese

🔊 Gil Fronsdal: Not Carrying the Burden

🔊 TechMeme “ride home” podcast for Friday, Mar. 9, 2018

Snapchat and Instagram remove Giphy feature due to racial slur GIF

Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous - The true believers won’t stop until they’ve remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at night.

Behind The Great Slate, a Twitter-driven fundraising campaign by Bay Area tech workers for progressive Congressional candidates in poorer, rural districts

Facebook Signs Exclusive Deal to Stream 25 MLB Games

Why Neuroscientists Are Excited for a Wearable PET Scanner 030918

Sri Lanka Struggles to Contain Its Violent Buddhist Extremists

Study Shows Efficacy of Mindfulness Meditation in Treating Adults With ADHD

Xi Jinping’s latest tag: living Buddhist deity, Chinese official says

The Abomination of Desolation in Mark 13: What Did the Reader Need to Understand?

I’m Bad at Meditating says Buddhist magazine’s web editor

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3/9 Friday

🔊 Beginner’s mind. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

📺 The Path (TV series) - Wikipedia

📺 The Alienist (TV series) - Wikipedia

📺 Bellevue (TV series) - Wikipedia

🔊 Sam Harris, AMA #11

🔊 TechMeme podcast for Thursday, Mar. 8, 2018

Twitter may eventually let anyone become verified

On Twitter, the lure of fake news is stronger than the truth

Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source—And Has a New Business Model

Android beats iOS in smartphone loyalty, study finds

Shambhala Owns Up to Past Abuse. What Comes Next Remains Unclear.

Small Mind, Big Mind

Fiction Spreads Farther than Truth - NeuroLogica Blog

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3/8 Thursday

🔊 Strengthening discernment. Dharma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)

♬ Just be thankful, for what you’ve got is not just a great cover of a classic song, but it’s great advice as important and/or useful as any of the teachings of any of the popular religions of the world.

🔊 Gil Fronsdal: Practice Notes: Glass Half Empty, Glass Half Full

🔊 TechMeme ride home podcast for Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2018

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announces new investment fund focused on job creation

Snap Plans Biggest Round of Layoffs Yet on Cheddar

Three Mythicist Novels

The Hidden Messiah

🔊 #18 Gutenberg and the Printing Press - Tides of History

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