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John Carter

@roguebaptist.bsky.social
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Kentuckian. Theologian. Law professor. Posts are my fickle own. Error has rights.

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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The through-line: we are building systems of unprecedented speed and lethality at the very moment the structures of accountability around them are eroding.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just out: I try to gather in one place the algorethics conversation, Palantir's ontology stack, the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute, the drone wars already reshaping Sudan and Ukraine, and make a parallel with John Ford SJ's classic "The Morality of Obliteration Bombing" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Algorethics and Neuro-Symbolic Military AI: Ontologies, "Hellscapes," Just War, and Silicon Valley
<span>Algorethics, as described in the Rome Call for AI Ethics (2020) and related documents, is an overarching field that includes algorithmic accountability, s
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you are a reader of Thomas Merton, some of my stumbling thoughts about him. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
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The Monk in the Marriott
This is an edited version of a speech I gave to the International Thomas Merton Society at Bellarmine University on March 17, 2026.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
that's where I was going
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world
There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia.
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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 05/10/2025
Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:
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Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants
Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
saw it last night (had a busy last week, so it took me a minute), then saw it again tonight on an imax screen. it is an amazing jolt. it's jawdropping--sprawling and yet incredibly coherent. and for leo to be in this just after killers of flower moon(!), but all the performances just left me floored
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
human law binds the conscience for thee but not for me
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2025
Left unchecked, openAI and other infotech providers will destroy any remnants of the American education system that manage to escape the Trump administration. Read the full thread.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
okay, john of patmos
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Lou Reed, "September Song" youtu.be/RQsJK0voNRI?...
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Lou Reed - September Song
From the 1985 compilation disk Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Kurt Weill
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
of Quaker writings, the one I've recommended and gifted the most over the years is Mary Rose O'Reilley's The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology. I think you'd enjoy it, if you haven't read it already.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ezra Klein loves to rag on organic food because it's not healthier. But I don't buy organic because it's healthier, I buy it because it's more sustainably farmed, by (marginally) more equitable businesses. I take the same approach to cotton. It's not a better shirt, but maybe more sustainably grown?
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Brenton Wiernik @bwiernik.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day to all who celebrate!
Screenshot of a tweet by the San Miguel Sheriff department originally posted in Jan 2020 that reads “Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.” with a photograph of the named large/small boulder.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“Every day is all there is.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/realestate/fine-china-memories.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU4.BlDj.tKz86CpthWgv&smid=bs-share
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Yes, It’s OK to Use the Fine China (Gift Article)
Readers fight the decline of fine china by using their “good dishes” for everything from pizza to takeout.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I, for one, welcome our new insect, I mean, *armadillo*, overlords.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
the sin of creating an impersonal world www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
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Opinion | Nurses, Chaplains and Teachers Should Not Be Replaced With Technology (Gift Article)
We’re increasingly becoming a society where very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
"Handel had a reason for making use of whatever was at hand: He was on deadline." wapo.st/4fpx7HS
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Opinion | Unsettled by the future? This is the moment for the ‘Messiah.’
Handel’s beloved oratorio was born out of turmoil. It’s fitting for today.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
You're the best, buddy. Also, you're allowed to hold both things ❤️
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
He is risen indeed
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Pod Bless Nashville @pbn.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Great to have a guest on the show this week who hangs over here in the sunlight… @iamstevenhale.bsky.social explains what it’s like to witness an execution and the remarkable community he discovered in his new book (you should buy!) “Death Row Welcomes You” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
it is so good to see Alma Guillermoprieto's byline... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?
One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Since then, their families have fought for answers.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
@joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social so given your fluency in all things Tolkien, I'd run a hypothesis by you: LOTR is the 20th c. Pilgrim's Progress
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Absolutely one of all-time favorite writers, who recently died after what seems to have been a wonderful life latimes.com/entertainmen... “‘The Bloodied Nightgown’ is a monument to Joan Acocella's savage wit and unsentimental generosity”
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'The Bloodied Nightgown' is a monument to Joan Acocella's savage wit and unsentimental generosity
An eclectic collection of essays on subjects including Dracula, dirty words and Elena Ferrante is a tribute to its writer, who died last month at age 78.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
“I never saw it coming,” Moore said. “It took me months to walk through my own house in the dark.” www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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Stresses of farm life taking toll on farmers' mental health. What's being done to help?
U.S. farmers are more than twice as likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to data compiled by the University of Kentucky.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
"based on cell phone usage data, Louisville’s downtown has had the second worst recovery from the pandemic of all the major cities in the United States. Only St. Louis has been worse" www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
The Potent Pollution Of Noise www.noemamag.com/the-potent-p...
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The Potent Pollution Of Noise | NOEMA
Earth’s acoustic environment has been profoundly altered by noise, but it’s not too late to change course.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
"Having the phone away from me has almost made my brain more open to information." www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/t...
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A Practical Guide to Quitting Your Smartphone
Readers who have taken the plunge said it had improved their lives, marriages and mental health, and offered advice to those going without their smartphones for “Flip Phone February.”
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
How a Mennonite farmer became a drug lord www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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How a Mennonite farmer became a drug lord
Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
"Everyone says trees are good for us. This scientist wants to prove it. Nearly 8,000 trees and shrubs in southern Louisville and health data from about 500 residents fill out the urban science experiment." wapo.st/4bbbzNP
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Everyone says trees are good for us. This scientist wants to prove it.
An ongoing science experiment involves nearly 8,000 trees and shrubs in southern Louisville and health data from nearly 500 residents.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/01/2024
1. A lot of helpful framing in this (depressing) thread on the winnowing the news industry, but I also wonder how it alters the mechanisms of politics. E.g., I noted last week how movies Selma and Gandhi both feature scenes of a NYTimes journalist reporting on a horrific beating of protesters…
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
thank you so much!!!!!
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Very pleased to share my essay “Lot's Daughters and Naomi and Ruth: Of 'Moral Love' and National Myths” in the Journal of Religious Ethics, now available (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Applies the work of @abizadeh.bsky.social and Spivak to 1619 Project. Tries to anyway ;)
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jore.12452
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Not 100% sure on this, but this may be the first image of the #Magi labeled with their traditional names: Balthasar, Melchior, Caspar. S. Apollinare Nuovo, #Ravenna, early 6th century. Restored after damage in the 19th century. 📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/BQtbgx
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The Magi (Ravenna, Italy)
The church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna was built as the palace chapel of the Ostrogoth king Theoderic (454-526). Theoderic was an Arian Christian. Eastern Arianism held that as Son of God, Jes...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2024
i wrote about exactly this last year. one of the long term consequences of trump’s entire scheme is that a once pro forma occasion has become another field of political contestation. or put another way, the norms that governed this process no longer hold
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
They cite Ford's pardon of Nixon, but what they don't mention is that many think that pardon contributed to Ford's defeat wapo.st/3tABoWq
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DeSantis, Haley pledge to pardon Trump if he’s convicted
In separate campaign stops, both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley reinforced that, if elected, they would pardon former president Donald Trump, who is facing 91 felony counts.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
More things from the past working through time to be where they should www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Celebrity chef Chris Bianco’s father painted a masterpiece. Then it vanished. What happened?
Chef Chris Bianco's father in 1970 painted a portrait of a well-to-do Manhattan woman. It vanished under a cloud. What happened to it?
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
‘This is for you,’ Craig Wheeler said. ‘I found it in my parents’ house. My mom saved it.’ wapo.st/48oJd0a
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Perspective | I was eating at a diner when a man handed me my schoolwork from 40 years ago
“This is for you,” Craig Wheeler said. “I found it in my parents’ house. My mom saved it.”
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
literally nothing on my timeline older than your chocolate bomb
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
My bluesky isn't working great either though, timeline only has a handful of posts from people I follow
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
it's certainly a bad photo of a steer
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
“It’s not a single path forward,” Henwood said. “It’s a lot of resourcefulness and creativity.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
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$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people
A study by USC and a San Francisco-based nonprofit has found that a $750 monthly stipend improves the lives of homeless people.
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Congrats!!!!!
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Books for the class I've just been tasked with teaching starting in one month
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/12/2023
The latest in my Christian nationalism series is now live, looking at the ongoing fight over public school chaplains in school boards across Texas. Locals say it taps into a years-long struggle over local education primed to spread beyond Texas in 2024:
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In Texas, debate over school chaplains escalates school board culture wars
HOUSTON (RNS) — Conservative Christian activists are hoping to turn Texas public schools into a ‘mission field.’
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John Carter @roguebaptist.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
in 2001, A.O. Scott wrote a review of Apocalypse Now Redux that remains so astute: www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/m... "it will be worth seeing 22 years from now, when its lucidity and murk will resolve in new ways for new eyes. To paraphrase Che Guevara, there are two, three, many Apocalypses."
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Aching Heart Of Darkness (Published 2001)
A O Scott Critic's Notebook article on Apocalypse Now Redux, expanded three-hour version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film; says movie, split between its immediate historical subject--Vietnam War--a...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Bernie Sanders: "The Netanyahu government’s current military approach is immoral, it is in violation of international law, and the United States must end our complicity in those actions." www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
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NEWS: Sanders Urges President Biden to Withdraw Support for $10.1 Billion in Military Aid to Israel ...
Sanders lays out the devastation in Gaza, now equivalent to that of Dresden after two years of bombing during World War II, and emphasizes it is being carried out with bombs produced and provided by t...
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