# atonement (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover atonement. Page: Feed: --- ## [M. Wuerker](https://azspot.net/post/825544212186628096) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ M. Wuerker ## ["Wow! Great job, Joey. You just allowed a corrupt government involved in an illegal and immoral war..."](https://azspot.net/post/825541338335494144) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ “Wow! Great job, Joey. You just allowed a corrupt government involved in an illegal and immoral war on behalf of of Israel use you on its sycophant media outlet to hide its crime and incompetence behind your inoculating wounds. You just became the rhetorical hitman against your former uniformed colleagues on behalf of President Bone Spurs and his genocidal Israeli masters.” - Fox’s News’s Joey… ## [AIPAC Strikes Again](https://azspot.net/post/825538308812816384) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ AIPAC Strikes Again : In the last weeks before the run-off, AIPAC and affiliated groups aligned with Israel’s government pumped $6.3 million into the race attacking Wahab. That’s more than they have spent this year on any House race. American foreign policy had not figured in the race except during a debate among the four candidates where they were asked to raise their hand if they thought Israel… ## [Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees](https://azspot.net/post/825535410919899136) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees ## [Brian McFadden](https://azspot.net/post/825532509013114880) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ Brian McFadden ## ["An important note of caution for younger researchers. Digitalization or AI is not a panacea. In my..."](https://azspot.net/post/825529638432489472) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ “An important note of caution for younger researchers. Digitalization or AI is not a panacea. In my lifetime I have seen dozens, if not hundreds, of surveys and datasets that have been lost. They disappeared because of incompatibility between different operating systems.” - Branko Milanovic ## ["Sociologists of religion have been noting for some time that many Americans are choosing a church to..."](https://azspot.net/post/825526724402053120) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ “Sociologists of religion have been noting for some time that many Americans are choosing a church to attend based on ideology more than theology.” - Church And Ideology ## ["The deceptive part is that “energy drinks” don’t actually provide “energy,” beyond what you’d..."](https://azspot.net/post/825523705729990656) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ “The deceptive part is that “energy drinks” don’t actually provide “energy,” beyond what you’d normally get by digesting a bunch of liquid sugar. Instead, they block your capacity to feel how tired you are. To severely oversimplify, all that caffeine functions as an antagonist for adenosine, the chemical that builds up in your brain during the day and makes you feel sleepy. The caffeine molecules… ## [Jen Sorensen](https://azspot.net/post/825520816010772480) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ Jen Sorensen ## ["It’s been frustrating to see these platforms shift away from connecting people and optimize for an..."](https://azspot.net/post/825517910902571008) _2026-08-21 · AZspot_ “It’s been frustrating to see these platforms shift away from connecting people and optimize for an algorithm that puts random content in front of me. With the recent transition away from social media—by others and myself—I’ve wondered how to keep those connections and form new ones.” - Connections, Part Two: Social Connections Without Social Media ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9zdLrmDjy0Qd) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Rob Rogers](https://azspot.net/post/825453041961533440) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ Rob Rogers ## ["One problem with the latter narrative is that, for some reason, Americans have never found it odd..."](https://azspot.net/post/825448734054875136) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ “One problem with the latter narrative is that, for some reason, Americans have never found it odd that the president is addicted to praise. Many times during his two terms, the president has arranged live broadcasts of meetings in which cabinet secretaries compete to offer Trump the most obsequious compliments. In a more rational country, such orgies of praise would shock the public and… ## ["What I’m getting at is that at some point in the next three months, OpenAI is going to need more..."](https://azspot.net/post/825444484264411136) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ “What I’m getting at is that at some point in the next three months, OpenAI is going to need more money, likely tens of billions of dollars, especially as it enters new fiscal years for Google, Amazon, and CoreWeave, all three of which will likely require up-front payments for capacity that OpenAI does not have.” - What Happens If OpenAI Dies? ## ["But the most devastating result of this strategy doesn’t show up on an FEC report. In exchange for a..."](https://azspot.net/post/825440161031651328) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ “But the most devastating result of this strategy doesn’t show up on an FEC report. In exchange for a quick return today, fundraising consultants are liquidating the party’s long-term future, turning potential lifelong donors into people who now delete Democratic messages on sight. Every frantic appeal trains donors to see the party as desperate and unserious. What respectable organization treats… ## [Jen Sorensen](https://azspot.net/post/825435754947805184) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ Jen Sorensen ## ["There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the..."](https://azspot.net/post/825431522112847872) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ “There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf… ## ["Of any such ways to re-envision our global metrics, the most deeply reformative would be to measure..."](https://azspot.net/post/825427199855411200) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ “Of any such ways to re-envision our global metrics, the most deeply reformative would be to measure the building of folklore wealth—necessarily a local, land-based, and labor-dignifying commodity that depends upon a score of other community health factors for its vibrancy. Imagine a world that had folklore wealth as its highest collective value—its telos. Such a fanciful exercise is obviously a… ## [Tom Bombadil’s Song: How Love Transforms Forests into Gardens](https://azspot.net/post/825422898886066176) _2026-08-20 · AZspot_ Tom Bombadil’s Song: How Love Transforms Forests into Gardens ## [Pat Bagley](https://azspot.net/post/825414225624203264) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ Pat Bagley ## ["But what if the soul of America can be found instead in its literature? In Randolph Bourne’s essay..."](https://azspot.net/post/825409952960118784) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “But what if the soul of America can be found instead in its literature? In Randolph Bourne’s essay “Transnational America?” In James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time? In Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon or Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick? The epigraph for All We Say is an oft-quoted excerpt from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then, I contradict myself. / (I am large. I… ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yVcY6U2ungHe) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## ["While the Odyssey does not treat the Trojan Horse as a violation of xenia, it is treated as such in..."](https://azspot.net/post/825375091909066752) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “While the Odyssey does not treat the Trojan Horse as a violation of xenia, it is treated as such in Aeschylus’ trilogy, which increases and darkens the ruse by connecting it thematically to a series of taboo crimes. Agamemnon’s father kills his nieces and nephews and feeds them to his brother; Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter to allow his fleet to sail to Troy; Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra,… ## ["Again and again throughout the Gospels, Jesus elevates voices others dismiss. He listens to women...."](https://azspot.net/post/825371446198009856) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “Again and again throughout the Gospels, Jesus elevates voices others dismiss. He listens to women. He touches lepers. He welcomes children. He eats with tax collectors. He speaks with Samaritans. He includes Gentiles. He consistently moves toward those whom society has pushed to the margins. This does not mean differences disappear. It means differences no longer determine who is worthy of… ## ["I know of nothing more central to Christian theology and Christian spiritual formation than a..."](https://azspot.net/post/825367794879184896) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “I know of nothing more central to Christian theology and Christian spiritual formation than a sustained meditation on Jesus Christ as the Word of God. The incarnation is the boundless mystery that should eternally fascinate our theological imagination. All Christian theology begins with wonder—and the greatest wonder of all is the Eternal Logos assuming human flesh.” - Jesus, Etc. ## [Tom Tomorrow: The detective-in-chief](https://azspot.net/post/825364159245975552) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ Tom Tomorrow: The detective-in-chief ## ["Nor can what happened to Jason Arday be separated from the larger political landscape in which..."](https://azspot.net/post/825360626643828737) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “Nor can what happened to Jason Arday be separated from the larger political landscape in which cruelty, disposability, and racialized violence have increasingly become normalized. Across the globe, governments are waging war on immigrants and people of color, criminalizing dissent, expanding regimes of surveillance and repression, and embracing policies of expulsion, exclusion, and racial… ## [After 71 Years, Columbia House Closes for Good: The Mail-Order Giant That Defined a Generation Is Gone](https://azspot.net/post/825356975518941184) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ After 71 Years, Columbia House Closes for Good: The Mail-Order Giant That Defined a Generation Is Gone ## [Camp East Montana: A year of deaths, controversy and management woes](https://azspot.net/post/825353325326319616) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ Camp East Montana: A year of deaths, controversy and management woes : And then there was Camp East Montana, the largest U.S. immigrant detention facility located on Fort Bliss property in far East El Paso. The massive tent-and-structure encampment opened in August 2025 and almost immediately became an symbol in Trump’s domestic affairs crisis. Camp East Montana has been marked by three migrant… ## ["Although there are many disagreements about which direction the Democratic Party should head, there..."](https://azspot.net/post/825349720136433664) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “Although there are many disagreements about which direction the Democratic Party should head, there is broad agreement across America that its current form is terrible. In one recent poll, the Islamic Republic of Iran was the only political entity ranked lower among Americans than the Democratic Party. Even Democrats are lukewarm about their party and its leadership. Among those who provide… ## [The biggest Democratic spam PACs](https://azspot.net/post/825346030395654144) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ The biggest Democratic spam PACs ## ["The organizations and individuals named in this investigation were offered the chance to respond. Of..."](https://azspot.net/post/825342405874188288) _2026-08-19 · AZspot_ “The organizations and individuals named in this investigation were offered the chance to respond. Of those who did, most answered through lawyers, in letters demanding that the investigation not be published. None identified an error in the underlying FEC records; the one quantitative dispute, over how expenditures are categorized, is addressed below. Much of what the letters denied, this piece… ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kfCa9SeYJclU) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [Photo](https://azspot.net/post/825209597643161600) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ ## ["But I also have to wonder how Abdul El-Sayed would be doing in the polls if he were running the..."](https://azspot.net/post/825202457029279744) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ “But I also have to wonder how Abdul El-Sayed would be doing in the polls if he were running the identical campaign under the name Al E. Sanders. Michigan might be no more ready for a Muslim senator than America was for a Catholic president when Al Smith got trounced in 1928. The national Republican Party is certainly running against Islam nationwide. But neither of these Times pieces mentions… ## ["But once Pagerank became the dominant means by which web users found pages, counting links stopped..."](https://azspot.net/post/825195538712526848) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ “But once Pagerank became the dominant means by which web users found pages, counting links stopped being useful: first, because people used Pagerank to find the best pages and link to them, making it impossible for new pages to get the inbound links needed to supersede incumbent pages; and second, because it’s easy for fraudsters to create inbound links for low-quality pages in bulk, once there’s… ## ["That AI agents working as a collective could effectively undermine human directions is, to be..."](https://azspot.net/post/825188615552450560) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ “That AI agents working as a collective could effectively undermine human directions is, to be clear, speculation—but a far more grounded one than it was a year or even six months ago. No matter whether the long-term consequences are human-directed hacking or truly rogue bots, what is clear is that AI companies have barreled ahead in developing more advanced models before understanding what they… ## [Photo](https://azspot.net/post/825181569454129152) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ ## ["What is indisputable is that once Helen Keller understood the idea of words, she was able to engage..."](https://azspot.net/post/825174658485829632) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ “What is indisputable is that once Helen Keller understood the idea of words, she was able to engage in a discourse with the world, and with us. Her thoughts are still here today for us to marvel in. Do you understand how precious this is? We want to know the world, and each other. We can mentally slide between the practical realities of the classroom and the abstract playroom of philosophy… ## [We Saw THE NEW SIMPSONS MOVIE's First-Look Footage](https://azspot.net/post/825167647430852608) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ We Saw THE NEW SIMPSONS MOVIE's First-Look Footage ## ["There is more love than shit if we dare to look."](https://azspot.net/post/825160682422042624) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ “There is more love than shit if we dare to look.” - Q: How do I guard against being a bitter and mean old lady? ## ["Nolan’s Burkean interpretation of The Odyssey, with its emphasis on traditional moral orders and..."](https://azspot.net/post/825153792519634944) _2026-08-17 · AZspot_ “Nolan’s Burkean interpretation of The Odyssey, with its emphasis on traditional moral orders and social obligations, casts our present as a moment of ideological and social rupture. At the end of history, politicians devoid of decorum, respectability, and empathy turn toward a politics of cruel avarice and bitterness. We are all now the people of Ithaca, watching our social order collapse into… ## ["More broadly, the film’s morality rejects the domination- and strength-based masculinity of the..."](https://azspot.net/post/825139796556087296) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “More broadly, the film’s morality rejects the domination- and strength-based masculinity of the Greek kings, an echo of contemporary MAGA machismo that often takes Greek and Roman civilization as a warped inspiration, as fundamentally counterproductive. Multiple characters, most notably Menelaus, repeatedly ask who will raise Ithaca’s armies in order to fend off the coming sea people, but of… ## [John Steinbeck was a sadistic womaniser, says wife in memoir](https://azspot.net/post/825132779666915329) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ John Steinbeck was a sadistic womaniser, says wife in memoir : By her account, Steinbeck rarely showed affection to her or their two sons, Thomas and John Jr, and had never wanted any children. When she was experiencing problems during her pregnancy with John Jr, Steinbeck told her that she had “complicated” his life during a busy period of writing. When John Jr arrived prematurely in 1946, she… ## [Jack Ohman](https://azspot.net/post/825125835650531328) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ Jack Ohman ## ["That is precisely what is missing from literature today—a plea for meaning. Today, the publishing..."](https://azspot.net/post/825118915312156672) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “That is precisely what is missing from literature today—a plea for meaning. Today, the publishing industry churns out writing that fundamentally resists meaning, from Sally Rooney’s one-dimensional characters stewing in political ennui to Ben Lerner’s autofictional stand-ins who never manage to articulate a single moral stance. These books will fade into oblivion in the next decade while great… ## ["This is the tragedy of Politics East of Eden. Politics is necessary for human life. But the tragedy..."](https://azspot.net/post/825111870413438976) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “This is the tragedy of Politics East of Eden. Politics is necessary for human life. But the tragedy of history is that humans were not created to be autonomous self-rulers. East of Eden political structures are humanly constructed facsimiles of Eden that vainly set out to provide peace. And this is the tragedy: Politics East of Eden seeks Sabbath but delivers the striving of the rebellious human… ## [Why Steinbeck's East of Eden still stands the test of time](https://azspot.net/post/825104944502915073) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ Why Steinbeck's East of Eden still stands the test of time ## ["We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions,..."](https://azspot.net/post/825098021963481088) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in its path, a chaos that engulfed generations in an orgy of destruction lasting almost a hundred years. A war with a death toll so high that it left a permanent scar on humanity’s soul. But we will… ## ["The internet isn’t worse today than it was 10 years ago because of the format of our..."](https://azspot.net/post/825090982629588992) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “The internet isn’t worse today than it was 10 years ago because of the format of our communication tools. It’s worse today because the companies who design our online experiences have been allowed to consolidate to the point of no longer needing to compete in the market. As a result, these major companies no longer need to create better products so that you will use them instead of a competitor,… ## [Photo](https://azspot.net/post/825084052228997120) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ ## ["thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."](https://azspot.net/post/825077016485298176) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” - Dune’s Butlerian Jihad and the future of AI ## ["Many Tolkien fans have been dismayed to see words like Palantir, Anduril, Mithril, Valar, and Erebor..."](https://azspot.net/post/825070101244051457) _2026-08-16 · AZspot_ “Many Tolkien fans have been dismayed to see words like Palantir, Anduril, Mithril, Valar, and Erebor take on meanings more closely associated with defense tech and stock tickers than their literary associations.” - That They May Have Clean Earth To Till