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Some Up North 📷

I see Santa Monica Studios has not been idle.

Some light reading on a Tuesday from Luke Sheahan:

“From [Robert] Nisbet’s perspective, the post-liberal attempt to redirect state power from individualizing the populace to integrating the populace into meaningful community is dubious because the origins and structure of state power renders it an inherent social solvent.” (Sheahan, 2025, p. 178)

Reading scholarly work as I’m trying to define the contours of a “postliberal” education policy landscape. An early question I have is whether or not any resistance to the subordination of institutions to partisan aims requires a pluralistic approach, or if resisting deinstitutionalization requires a ‘your for us or against mentality on both sides.’

Judging from the headline and thumbnail of this endorsement editorial post the @houstonchronicle.com sounds like Southern Baptists in 1998.

Spring Progress 📷 2026.05.28

Final photo to label spring. Summer ascendant.

Here’s the whole progression:

Been sitting with the news that Destiny is going into the gamer vault with no firm plans for a future release. It’s got me reminiscing on The Taken King, and all the evenings I remember fondly running raids or PVP with my friends.

After 2 years, Michigan State University is once again searching for a new president. I suppose I shouldn’t be too shocked. When he arrived Dr. Guskiewicz discussed he expected the Board to refrain from the meddling that plagued his predecessor. It didn’t, and so he’s leaving.

Gee, I wonder why, in the U.S., it feels so particularly difficult to realize change in our current political system:

📷 The Red Cedar used to host a raw sewage discharge point, power plant, and heavy industry along its banks for large portions of its history as Michigan evolved from a frontier territory to Arsenal-of-Democracy. Decades of environmental advocacy and robust regulation have gotten it to a point you can see the riverbed on most days. When I walk its banks I try to remind myself to never take clean water for granted.

Katelyn Jetelina:

Ebola is often called the disease of compassion by experts like Dr. Craig Spencer. It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids, which means it spreads when a family member tends to the sick, when a nurse stays at the bedside, or when a community gathers to bury their dead. In other words, it’s spread through acts of care.

But the phrase has been sitting differently lately because this outbreak is spreading not only through compassion but also through the global withdrawal of it.

Spring Progress 📷 2026.05.19

We might be able to say summer has arrived.

Today marks the death anniversary of Stanislov Petrov a man who disobeyed orders and established protocol to ensure the world didn’t end in nuclear fire. As someone who has spent most of my career working for large bureaucratic institutions I use this anniversary to reflect on his courage and remind myself that building and maintaining esteem within the bureaucracy should never come at the expense of extinguishing my or others humanity.

Not once have I ever been disappointed by a visit to Angela’s Cafe in downtown East Lansing. It’s just so good. 😋😋😋

Dave Karpf:

If the only way to make money in comedy is to feed the algorithm, while the companies that control the algorithm scoop out most of the money, and the people who run those companies keep modifying the algorithm to cater to their own whims, then we will be a society where comedy tends toward sucking.

Same principle applies across all sorts of culture-making endeavors, and increasingly any public good that can be commodified for shareholder profit.

📸 I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tree so brightly flowering and leafing at the same time

Apple just settled a false marketing case involving Apple Intelligence and I don’t think there is a direct correlation, but I find it noteworthy that the two ads apple has recently released featuring a K-12 classroom and college students don’t have a single whiff of Generative AI in them.

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