Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you've ever wanted to know more about Chinese thought, my new book -- Confucius: A New Tradition -- just came out! Part of a series called "Ancient Lives," it uses a Han dynasty biography discovered in 2015, the oldest extant one, as a taking off point to talk to introduce his life and thought. 110
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Tarantino cribbed the fake Bible quote from a 1976 American release of a Japanese martial arts movie titled “Bodyguard Kiba.” It wasn’t part of the original 1973 manga-based movie and appears in the intro: www.schnittberichte.com/pics/SBs/300... 130
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 26/03/2026d2i6rdlz7r9skx.cloudfront.net/original/4X/... 000
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This is from the NEH's call for Funding Opportunities for Individual Fellowships. Only Western Civilization (whatever that means -- west of... Teheran? Constantinople? Vienna?) Because the only thing worth knowing about comes from the cultures of countries that the whitest Americans come from? 171
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 15/11/2025My mother’s family lost everything when they were sent to Dachau, and then slave labor in southern Germany until the end of the war. I think she would still be alive but for the toll of that experience. Today Trump designated European antifascist groups as terrorists. I thought we had learned… 071
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 19/10/2025A deep cut (a WWII poster) from the SF March: 030
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/minnesota-lawmaker-melissa-hortman-remembered-as-funny-savvy-and-a-true-leader Just looking at these two instances of political violence, a chief difference is how the right wing assassin also killed their target’s family. 052
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 22/08/2025In my mail today: a Charles Munger (Berkshire) funded mailing against Gov. Newsom's redistricting tit-for-tat. Sadly, it is not bad -- it takes a idealistic anti-gerrymandering. Texas is not mentioned, and most of the people quoted are high-minded lefty Merricks. Can't take a win for granted. 030
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 14/06/2025California/Minnesota solidarity sign seen at huge San Francisco "No Kings" March. 060
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This reservoir building is on the west side of SF on Sloat, it is called the Merced Manor Reservoir. The inscription is from Deuteronomy 11:11. 120
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Just since that image may leave the reader hanging, here is the next line... 020
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/03/2025New York Museum of Natural History says: “Hold my Bvdweiser.” 020
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 25/03/2025This part really illustrates how inhuman these wraiths are and give a hint at how long our descendants will be paying for their greed and short-sightedness 032
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This CNN headline asks a question any economist can answer. But now expertise and knowledge are being banished from the decision-making process. Money (Trump, Musk) and celebrity (Hegseth!? RFK!?) are being allowed to talk, but scientists and economists and anyone with training are being sidelined. 090
Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Hard for a legal system to defend people being detained by a state that uses chaos to block transparency. 070