jacob riyeff
@riyeff.bsky.social
translator, teacher, poet, frequenter of nature preserves, lover of very old poetry, non-tenure-track professor, benedictine oblate.
ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?
ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?
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The December issue is here!🎄Inside:
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The December issue is here!🎄Inside:
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
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An excellent collection of resources from the Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education international panel discussion from yesterday: justsustainabilitydesign.org/resistinggen...
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An excellent collection of resources from the Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education international panel discussion from yesterday: justsustainabilitydesign.org/resistinggen...
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"while contemplation is often thought of...as lofty, exceptional things that one supposes monastics do hidden away in their retreats, it is really a very common experience. when the discursive thought of reason, the flights of the imagination,...
"while contemplation is often thought of...as lofty, exceptional things that one supposes monastics do hidden away in their retreats, it is really a very common experience. when the discursive thought of reason, the flights of the imagination,...
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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"while contemplation is often thought of...as lofty, exceptional things that one supposes monastics do hidden away in their retreats, it is really a very common experience. when the discursive thought of reason, the flights of the imagination,...
"while contemplation is often thought of...as lofty, exceptional things that one supposes monastics do hidden away in their retreats, it is really a very common experience. when the discursive thought of reason, the flights of the imagination,...
[contemplation] can also, & i think rightly, be a partner of resistance and refusal, resistance to the designs that the world has upon us and refusal to allow the world to colonize our bodies and souls without clear remainder."
from the new book, _contemplate_ @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social
from the new book, _contemplate_ @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social
Contemplate
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Toward an Expansive Heart (Beyond Our Instincts I)
Jacob Riyeff
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November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
[contemplation] can also, & i think rightly, be a partner of resistance and refusal, resistance to the designs that the world has upon us and refusal to allow the world to colonize our bodies and souls without clear remainder."
from the new book, _contemplate_ @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social
from the new book, _contemplate_ @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social
well said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
well said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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I think you mean management deploying AI in order to free the capital for more speculative AI investment is responsible for job loss.
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs by 2035, research finds
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs by 2035, research finds
Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity
Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity.
The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I think you mean management deploying AI in order to free the capital for more speculative AI investment is responsible for job loss.
i enjoyed it, but feels like augustine really loses the thread in book xii of the confessions.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
i enjoyed it, but feels like augustine really loses the thread in book xii of the confessions.
9th day before the kalends.
2nd moon.
+universorum regis.
iesu flos matris virginis
amor nostrae dulcedinis
laus tibi sine terminis
regnum beatitudinis. amen.
2nd moon.
+universorum regis.
iesu flos matris virginis
amor nostrae dulcedinis
laus tibi sine terminis
regnum beatitudinis. amen.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
9th day before the kalends.
2nd moon.
+universorum regis.
iesu flos matris virginis
amor nostrae dulcedinis
laus tibi sine terminis
regnum beatitudinis. amen.
2nd moon.
+universorum regis.
iesu flos matris virginis
amor nostrae dulcedinis
laus tibi sine terminis
regnum beatitudinis. amen.
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"somewhere b/t the seemingly random moments of heightened awareness & the exceptional glimpses of divine light beyond body awareness, there's the regular practice of gathering in the mind to the present moment... drawing the mind away from the past and the future,...
"somewhere b/t the seemingly random moments of heightened awareness & the exceptional glimpses of divine light beyond body awareness, there's the regular practice of gathering in the mind to the present moment... drawing the mind away from the past and the future,...
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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"somewhere b/t the seemingly random moments of heightened awareness & the exceptional glimpses of divine light beyond body awareness, there's the regular practice of gathering in the mind to the present moment... drawing the mind away from the past and the future,...
"somewhere b/t the seemingly random moments of heightened awareness & the exceptional glimpses of divine light beyond body awareness, there's the regular practice of gathering in the mind to the present moment... drawing the mind away from the past and the future,...
a little worrisome that i've discovered how easy it is to make toffee.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
a little worrisome that i've discovered how easy it is to make toffee.
i missed the offices for the presentation of mary yesterday, and a real sense of loss there.
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i missed the offices for the presentation of mary yesterday, and a real sense of loss there.
hear, hear!
www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th..., and i've got a couple more out with journals right now.
a (catholic) friend of mine's too: hearthandfield.com/humane-learn...
www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th..., and i've got a couple more out with journals right now.
a (catholic) friend of mine's too: hearthandfield.com/humane-learn...
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
hear, hear!
www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th..., and i've got a couple more out with journals right now.
a (catholic) friend of mine's too: hearthandfield.com/humane-learn...
www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th..., and i've got a couple more out with journals right now.
a (catholic) friend of mine's too: hearthandfield.com/humane-learn...
thinking of swamiji as we head toward his mahasamadhi's anniversary.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
thinking of swamiji as we head toward his mahasamadhi's anniversary.
12th day before the kalends.
29th moon.
+st. edmund.
29th moon.
+st. edmund.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
12th day before the kalends.
29th moon.
+st. edmund.
29th moon.
+st. edmund.
on to book xvii of gregory's moralia in job!
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Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregory's experience as prefect of the city o...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
on to book xvii of gregory's moralia in job!
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i greatly appreciate the book-retrieving services of our librarians, but sometimes (like rainy november mornings) even when i feel like i don't have the time b/c of other things to do, i'm going to go get 'em myself b/c of the solace of wandering the stacks.
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
i greatly appreciate the book-retrieving services of our librarians, but sometimes (like rainy november mornings) even when i feel like i don't have the time b/c of other things to do, i'm going to go get 'em myself b/c of the solace of wandering the stacks.
reading about 6th and 7th cent inhumation.
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
reading about 6th and 7th cent inhumation.
evergreen post.
*straightens Hildegard portrait*
“What if instead of having affairs with powerful, but dim, even somewhat deranged men, you wrote them strongly-worded letters from your convent instead?”
“What if instead of having affairs with powerful, but dim, even somewhat deranged men, you wrote them strongly-worded letters from your convent instead?”
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
evergreen post.
honey creek flowing into the #wisconsin.
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
honey creek flowing into the #wisconsin.
st. francis, wisconsin prairie. #plantwatching
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
st. francis, wisconsin prairie. #plantwatching
ferry bluff state natural area, bees on thistle. #wisconsin #plantwatching
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
ferry bluff state natural area, bees on thistle. #wisconsin #plantwatching
more devil's trumpet. #plantwatching #wisconsin
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
more devil's trumpet. #plantwatching #wisconsin
devil's trumpet. #plantwatching #wisconsin
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
devil's trumpet. #plantwatching #wisconsin
lake kegonsa a few weeks back.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
lake kegonsa a few weeks back.