sujato
@sujato.bsky.social
Buddhist mendicant.
Pali translations: https://suttacentral.net
Forum: https://discourse.suttacentral.net
Recorded talks: https://lokanta.live
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io
Writings: https://sujato.me
🚫 AI
Pali translations: https://suttacentral.net
Forum: https://discourse.suttacentral.net
Recorded talks: https://lokanta.live
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io
Writings: https://sujato.me
🚫 AI
There’s a memorial service for victims of the Bondi massacre at 7pm this evening in the forecourt of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. I’ll be there, come along if you can, we could all use some connection and solidarity.
December 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
There’s a memorial service for victims of the Bondi massacre at 7pm this evening in the forecourt of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. I’ll be there, come along if you can, we could all use some connection and solidarity.
I’ve updated the Lokanta website with our teaching schedule for next year. Check it out (and do let me know if I've made any mistakes!)
The Monastery at the End of the World · Lokantavihāra
lokanta.github.io
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I’ve updated the Lokanta website with our teaching schedule for next year. Check it out (and do let me know if I've made any mistakes!)
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I believe that, in no uncertain terms, A.I. as we know it today is a technology designed explicitly to destroy consensus reality, undermine human labor, and estrange its users from other human beings and ultimately themselves.
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I believe that, in no uncertain terms, A.I. as we know it today is a technology designed explicitly to destroy consensus reality, undermine human labor, and estrange its users from other human beings and ultimately themselves.
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."
We are holding a meditation vigil for the victims of the Bondi massacre tonight at 7pm AEDT. You can join us in person @ Parramatta Wharf or online at our usual Jitsi link.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
We are holding a meditation vigil for the victims of the Bondi massacre tonight at 7pm AEDT. You can join us in person @ Parramatta Wharf or online at our usual Jitsi link.
The slaughter of innocents at Bondi beach is a shocking act of evil upon the Jewish community celebrating Hanukkah.
I am on my way to Martin Place to stand alongside all faiths against this act of terror.
I am on my way to Martin Place to stand alongside all faiths against this act of terror.
December 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The slaughter of innocents at Bondi beach is a shocking act of evil upon the Jewish community celebrating Hanukkah.
I am on my way to Martin Place to stand alongside all faiths against this act of terror.
I am on my way to Martin Place to stand alongside all faiths against this act of terror.
This is telling us exactly what they fear most, the only thing that can stop them. It is imperative that medium-sized countries like Australia strongly and immediately regulate AI.
Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI
Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is telling us exactly what they fear most, the only thing that can stop them. It is imperative that medium-sized countries like Australia strongly and immediately regulate AI.
Found a new favorite!
Stay Woke
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Bottom bunk, up late, conversation between cousins. I’m death, in this instance. Stay Woke, knowing the chances of survival—that binaries don’t admit second best. Still s...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Found a new favorite!
We normally translate vipāka, literally “ripening”, as “result” in the context of kamma.
But it occurs to me, should it not be ”comeuppance”?
But it occurs to me, should it not be ”comeuppance”?
December 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We normally translate vipāka, literally “ripening”, as “result” in the context of kamma.
But it occurs to me, should it not be ”comeuppance”?
But it occurs to me, should it not be ”comeuppance”?
David Suzuki says what I’ve been thinking:
“As an environmentalist, we have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems.”
“As an environmentalist, we have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems.”
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
www.ipolitics.ca
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
David Suzuki says what I’ve been thinking:
“As an environmentalist, we have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems.”
“As an environmentalist, we have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems.”
The Hero's Journey has three stages: leaving, overcoming the monster, returning home. It's that last part that's overlooked.
Someone told me, "The Buddha said nothing about washing up!" But he did. And cleaning your room, and doing the laundry, and caring for others. These are signs of a hero.
Someone told me, "The Buddha said nothing about washing up!" But he did. And cleaning your room, and doing the laundry, and caring for others. These are signs of a hero.
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Hero's Journey has three stages: leaving, overcoming the monster, returning home. It's that last part that's overlooked.
Someone told me, "The Buddha said nothing about washing up!" But he did. And cleaning your room, and doing the laundry, and caring for others. These are signs of a hero.
Someone told me, "The Buddha said nothing about washing up!" But he did. And cleaning your room, and doing the laundry, and caring for others. These are signs of a hero.
Shout out to all the scientists, administrators, IT folks, and people in general who care about the truth so we can understand what is going on with our beautiful world.
This is bad for my mental health!
The sick joke called the Trump administration took the @EPA Climate Indicators website offline on October 10, 'World Mental Health Day'...
I backed up the 800,000 year greenhouse gas graphs and data in the link below, please share!
The sick joke called the Trump administration took the @EPA Climate Indicators website offline on October 10, 'World Mental Health Day'...
I backed up the 800,000 year greenhouse gas graphs and data in the link below, please share!
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Shout out to all the scientists, administrators, IT folks, and people in general who care about the truth so we can understand what is going on with our beautiful world.
Those fancy font transformer thingies are incomprehensible to screenreaders. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼, but anyone listening hears ^%$ TYG^%$#.
Just use the normal font and you won’t exclude anybody.
Just use the normal font and you won’t exclude anybody.
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Those fancy font transformer thingies are incomprehensible to screenreaders. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼, but anyone listening hears ^%$ TYG^%$#.
Just use the normal font and you won’t exclude anybody.
Just use the normal font and you won’t exclude anybody.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
no, sorry, not until next year
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
no, sorry, not until next year
I've blocked an account on here, "Just Dharma". They routinely post links for abusers like Chogyam Trunpa and Dzongsar Khyentse.
Don't mess with “teachers” who dress abuse up with high faluting language. It’s not Dhamma, it’s just a con.
Don't mess with “teachers” who dress abuse up with high faluting language. It’s not Dhamma, it’s just a con.
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've blocked an account on here, "Just Dharma". They routinely post links for abusers like Chogyam Trunpa and Dzongsar Khyentse.
Don't mess with “teachers” who dress abuse up with high faluting language. It’s not Dhamma, it’s just a con.
Don't mess with “teachers” who dress abuse up with high faluting language. It’s not Dhamma, it’s just a con.
Writing is easy. It’s simply a matter of putting words in the place right.
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Writing is easy. It’s simply a matter of putting words in the place right.
In principle, a self driving car is cool. In practice, it means handing control of your car to an AI controlled by Elon Musk or some other oligarch. Which is very much not cool.
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In principle, a self driving car is cool. In practice, it means handing control of your car to an AI controlled by Elon Musk or some other oligarch. Which is very much not cool.
AI vs. humanity. A dispatch from the front lines.
In which I rat out my former boss, a clanker who constantly reminded me that I don't deserve to be alive. Please share!
stopgenai.com/am-i-rude-or...
stopgenai.com/am-i-rude-or...
December 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
AI vs. humanity. A dispatch from the front lines.
Of a person’s mind, there is more unconscious than conscious.
Of the conscious, there is more unexpressed than expressed.
Of the expressed, there is more organic than digital. And the digital is rarely the better part.
Yet it is of this that they pretend to construct a superior person.
#banai
Of the conscious, there is more unexpressed than expressed.
Of the expressed, there is more organic than digital. And the digital is rarely the better part.
Yet it is of this that they pretend to construct a superior person.
#banai
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Of a person’s mind, there is more unconscious than conscious.
Of the conscious, there is more unexpressed than expressed.
Of the expressed, there is more organic than digital. And the digital is rarely the better part.
Yet it is of this that they pretend to construct a superior person.
#banai
Of the conscious, there is more unexpressed than expressed.
Of the expressed, there is more organic than digital. And the digital is rarely the better part.
Yet it is of this that they pretend to construct a superior person.
#banai
Calling it the Department of War is better, actually. More accurate, less Orwellian. It was never about defense.
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Calling it the Department of War is better, actually. More accurate, less Orwellian. It was never about defense.
This is an exceptional article, read it to understand the cost of AI in education.
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is an exceptional article, read it to understand the cost of AI in education.
Because you'll rarely see this obvious truth from other news services:
Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal
Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Because you'll rarely see this obvious truth from other news services:
If you think that AI is "just a tool", bear one thing in mind.
You are not the one who holds the hammer. You are the one into whom the nail is driven.
#banai #butlerianjihad
You are not the one who holds the hammer. You are the one into whom the nail is driven.
#banai #butlerianjihad
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
If you think that AI is "just a tool", bear one thing in mind.
You are not the one who holds the hammer. You are the one into whom the nail is driven.
#banai #butlerianjihad
You are not the one who holds the hammer. You are the one into whom the nail is driven.
#banai #butlerianjihad
Just incredible: In Laos, the scam economy in 2023 was $10.9bn, equivalent to 68.5% of GDP. I first learned about these scam centers from Shan monks, who saw it in their own communities. But I had no idea it was so huge. And these figures are two years old!
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just incredible: In Laos, the scam economy in 2023 was $10.9bn, equivalent to 68.5% of GDP. I first learned about these scam centers from Shan monks, who saw it in their own communities. But I had no idea it was so huge. And these figures are two years old!