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Sat, 06/09/2025 - 02:05

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Last week’s webinar brought together three voices helping to shape the Drupal AI Initiative: Paul Johnson, Christoph Breidert, and Kristen Pol. Together, they painted a picture of where Drupal is headed with AI, and what the community is already learning through direct experimentation.

Watch the full webinar recording on The Drupal Association YouTube Channel.

Paul opened with key takeaways from the global AI survey. 79.2% of respondents reported using AI in their everyday work, and over 61% of organisations were already running internal experiments. One message was clear: AI isn’t theoretical anymore. People are trying, testing, and shipping.

The majority of respondents, 79.2%, reported that they were using AI in their everyday work.

— Paul Johnson

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Fri, 05/09/2025 - 23:00


Her guru was strong enough to stop his own heart—but was there a more frightening aspect of his power?

DISCUSSED:

Swami Rama, Living with the Himalayan Masters, Biofeedback, The Menninger Foundation, Exquisite Control, Sanskrit, Guru-hood, Child-Memory, The Smell of Cigarettes and Cologne, Palo Alto, Ayurveda, A Fucked-Up Zen Koan, Yoga Journal, Katharine Webster, Sexual Violence, Shiva, Logical Contortions, Pandits, The Rubric of Desirability.

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Fri, 05/09/2025 - 22:01

You don’t have to take off your shoes anymore, unless you want to. If you’ve realized that the pair you chose is terrible, you can still put them into a bin and slide them into the scanner, because it’s our job to stop bad decisions from making their way onto airplanes.

“We are confiscating these shoes,” we will announce loudly. “Not because their wearer has atrocious taste, but because they are dangerous.”

You can reclaim your shoes at the baggage carousel. Whether you should is between you and your God.

If you’re into crafts, be aware that knitting needles are fine now. Yes, that includes the long, thick ones that look like railroad spikes. We noticed that only “women of a certain age” really use those.

If an eighty-five-year-old woman wants to stab someone with a knitting needle, quite frankly, she’s earned it. Whoever gets it probably had it coming.

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Fri, 05/09/2025 - 21:45

Throughout history, writers have received patronage from richer, more powerful members of their societies. They have also tested the limits of this patronage: Shakespeare, a member of the King’s Men, an acting company that had exclusive control over its productions, wisely set all his plays involving regicide outside England or in the distant past; Jane […]

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Fri, 05/09/2025 - 19:01

On July 28, Awdah Hathaleen was shot and killed in broad daylight by Yinon Levi, a settler extremist with a documented history of violence against Palestinians. While Levi was released to house arrest after just one night in detention, Israeli authorities immediately withheld Hathaleen’s body from his grieving family — exemplifying a calculated strategy of […]

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Fri, 05/09/2025 - 17:22
Until I went back to graduate school 12 years ago, I really had little exposure to post-modern thought. Let’s just say after getting my master’s I’m very familiar with it now. It just wasn’t taught in the 90s when I got my bachelors. But now? I got a rude awakening. Post-modern thought is not a […]