{"id":6666,"date":"2021-07-16T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2021-07-16T21:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:11:17","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/07\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-310","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 310"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>     On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is vol\u00adume 310 \u2014 which in base 6 is ren\u00addered as the much cool\u00ader vol\u00adume 1234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/07\/16\/opinion\/ai-ethics-religion.html\">Can Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley Find God?<\/a> (Lin\u00adda Kin\u00adstler, New York Times): \u201cOver the course of my report\u00ading, I often thought back to the expe\u00adri\u00adence of Rob Bar\u00adrett, who worked as a researcher at IBM in the \u201990s. One day, he was out\u00adlin\u00ading the default pri\u00adva\u00adcy set\u00adtings for an ear\u00adly web brows\u00ader fea\u00adture. His boss, he said, gave him only one instruc\u00adtion: \u2018Do the right thing.\u2019 It was up to Mr. Bar\u00adrett to decide what the \u201cright thing\u201d was. That was when it dawned on him: \u2018I don\u2019t know enough the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy to be a good engi\u00adneer,\u2019 he told his boss. He request\u00aded a leave of absence so he could study the Old Tes\u00adta\u00adment, and even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly he left the indus\u00adtry.\u201d One of the inter\u00advie\u00adwees, Sherol Chen, used to serve on our wor\u00adship team. Inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle!<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2021\/07\/06\/capitol-insurrection-trump-christian-nationalism-shaman\/\">A horn-wear\u00ading \u2018shaman.\u2019 A cow\u00adboy evan\u00adge\u00adlist. For some, the Capi\u00adtol attack was a kind of Chris\u00adt\u00adian revolt.<\/a> (Michelle Boorstein, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cFor many, their reli\u00adgious beliefs were not tied to any spe\u00adcif\u00adic church or denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion \u2014 lead\u00aders of major denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions and megachurch\u00ades, and even Pres\u00adi\u00addent Don\u00adald Trump\u2019s faith advis\u00aders, were absent that day. For such peo\u00adple, their faith is indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adis\u00adtic, large\u00adly free of struc\u00adtures, rules or the approval of cler\u00adgy.\u2026 part of the mix, say experts on Amer\u00adi\u00adcan reli\u00adgion, is the fact that the coun\u00adtry is in a peri\u00adod when insti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal reli\u00adgion is break\u00ading apart, becom\u00ading more indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adized and more dis\u00adcon\u00adnect\u00aded from denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions, the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal cre\u00adden\u00adtials and over\u00adsight.\u201d <ul><li>You may have heard me say it before: \u201cIf you think orga\u00adnized reli\u00adgion is bad, wait until you catch a glimpse of dis\u00ador\u00adga\u00adnized reli\u00adgion.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/i-tried-to-report-scientific-misconduct.html\">I tried to report sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic mis\u00adcon\u00adduct. How did it go?<\/a> (Joe Hil\u00adgard, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cI was curi\u00adous to see how the self-cor\u00adrect\u00ading mech\u00ada\u00adnisms of sci\u00adence would respond to what seemed to me a rather obvi\u00adous case of unre\u00adli\u00adable data and pos\u00adsi\u00adble research mis\u00adcon\u00adduct. It turns out Brandolini\u2019s Law still holds: \u2018The amount of ener\u00adgy need\u00aded to refute bull\u00adshit is an order of mag\u00adni\u00adtude larg\u00ader than to pro\u00adduce it.\u2019 How\u00adev\u00ader, I was not pre\u00adpared to be resist\u00aded and hin\u00addered by the self-cor\u00adrect\u00ading insti\u00adtu\u00adtions of sci\u00adence itself.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent. The author is a psych prof at Illi\u00adnois State.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/anti-racism-is-an-inter-white-struggle?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjk2MjIzNCwiaWF0IjoxNjI2MTc5NDM1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjk1OTM3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rVmwOUlCg5CrShMJZAg0SW-ZXDU_bA0KjdAZap2k8cE\">Anti-Racism is an Inter-White Strug\u00adgle<\/a> (Fred\u00addie deBoer, Sub\u00adStack): \u201cAnti-racism has become a kind of high-stakes pok\u00ader game for edu\u00adcat\u00aded white peo\u00adple: you risk los\u00ading your shirt at any time, but those who have the savvy and the guts to bluff their way to the top reap social and pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal rewards.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/book-review-crazy-like-us?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozODYyMjI2MiwiXyI6InJMMkROIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI2MzIzNjg1LCJleHAiOjE2MjYzMjcyODUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.xDdch5_aasDlnL8QgkbOmwhIbIRBhJehiiR8CHZ3WTM\">Book Review: Crazy Like Us<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201c\u2026does nam\u00ading and point\u00ading to a men\u00adtal health prob\u00adlem make it worse? This was clear\u00adest in Hong Kong, where a seem\u00ading\u00adly very low base rate of anorex\u00adia explod\u00aded as soon as peo\u00adple start\u00aded launch\u00ading men\u00adtal health aware\u00adness cam\u00adpaigns say\u00ading that it was a com\u00admon and impor\u00adtant dis\u00adease (as had appar\u00adent\u00adly hap\u00adpened before in Vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan Europe and 70s\/80s Amer\u00adi\u00adca). But it also showed up in the sec\u00adtion on how increas\u00ading aware\u00adness of PTSD seems to be asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with more PTSD, and how debrief\u00ading trau\u00adma vic\u00adtims about how they might get PTSD makes them more like\u00adly to get it.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/14\/magazine\/black-rifle-coffee-company.html\">Can the Black Rifle Cof\u00adfee Com\u00adpa\u00adny Become the Star\u00adbucks of the Right?<\/a> (Jason Zenger\u00adle, New York Times): \u201cSome\u00adtimes it seems as if Hafer and his part\u00adners invent jobs at Black Rifle for vet\u00ader\u00adans to do. A for\u00admer Green Beret medic helps Black Rifle with events and out\u00adreach and was recent\u00adly made the direc\u00adtor of its new\u00adly formed char\u00adi\u00adty orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. Four years ago, Black Rifle received a Face\u00adbook mes\u00adsage from an Afghan Army vet\u00ader\u00adan with whom Hafer once served; he wrote that he was now work\u00ading at a gas sta\u00adtion and liv\u00ading with his fam\u00adi\u00adly in pub\u00adlic hous\u00ading in Char\u00adlottesville. \u2018We hon\u00adest\u00adly assumed he was dead,\u2019 Hafer says. Black Rifle found a home for the man and his fam\u00adi\u00adly in Utah, and he now does build\u00ading and grounds main\u00adte\u00adnance at the company\u2019s Salt Lake City offices. At those offices, I met a qui\u00adet, haunt\u00aded-seem\u00ading man who had been a C.I.A.-contractor col\u00adleague of Hafer\u2019s and who, for a time, lived in a trail\u00ader he parked on the office grounds. Lat\u00ader, I asked Hafer what, exact\u00adly, the man did for Black Rifle. \u2018He just gets bet\u00adter,\u2019 Hafer replied. \u2018He gets bet\u00adter.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<ul><li>This was WAY more inter\u00adest\u00ading than I expect\u00aded.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/07\/the-history-of-canadas-residential-schools\">The His\u00adto\u00adry of Canada\u2019s Res\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Schools<\/a> (Dou\u00adglas Far\u00adrow, First Things): \u201cHow could this be? Who is respon\u00adsi\u00adble? Are the reli\u00adgious orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions who oper\u00adat\u00aded the res\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial schools the real cul\u00adprits, as many sup\u00adpose? A care\u00adful exam\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion shows that sup\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion to be flawed. The tragedy, and the crimes it involved\u2014crimes some are false\u00adly char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adiz\u00ading as genocide\u2014began with gov\u00adern\u00adment-man\u00addat\u00aded vio\u00adla\u00adtion of parental rights, an error gain\u00ading cur\u00adren\u00adcy again today.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and ethics at McGill Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in Mon\u00adtre\u00adal.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/you-just-dont-understand-socialism-like-i-do-says-college-freshman-to-man-escaping-socialism-on-raft\/\">\u2018You Just Don\u2019t Under\u00adstand Social\u00adism Like I Do,\u2019 Says Col\u00adlege Fresh\u00adman To Man Who Escaped Social\u00adism On A Raft<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Lr9Y5CW5DM\">Humans Will Believe Any\u00adthing They Hear<\/a> (Bengt Wash\u00adburn, YouTube): six min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/legislative-executive-and-judicial-branches-welcome-big-tech-as-4th-branch-of-government\/\">Leg\u00adisla\u00adtive, Exec\u00adu\u00adtive, And Judi\u00adcial Branch\u00ades Wel\u00adcome Big Tech As 4th Branch Of Gov\u00adern\u00adment<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SoPHKxscdj8\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SoPHKxscdj8\">Kevin Micoud Per\u00adforms Mind-Bend\u00ading Men\u00adtal\u00adism<\/a> (Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s Got Tal\u00adent, YouTube): sev\u00aden and half min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GnxcEDup-gw\">The Only Black Man In Mon\u00adtana<\/a> (Ty Bar\u00adnett, YouTube): four min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5v3pFWac7U8\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5v3pFWac7U8\">Teenagers Are Not Humans<\/a> (Dustin Nick\u00ader\u00adson, YouTube): three min\u00adutes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2017\/03\/16\/book-review-seeing-like-a-state\/\">Book Review: See\u00ading Like A State<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cPeas\u00adants didn\u2019t like per\u00adma\u00adnent sur\u00adnames. Their own sys\u00adtem was quite rea\u00adson\u00adable for them: John the bak\u00ader was John Bak\u00ader, John the black\u00adsmith was John Smith, John who lived under the hill was John Under\u00adhill, John who was real\u00adly short was John Short. The same per\u00adson might be John Smith and John Under\u00adhill in dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adtexts, where his sta\u00adtus as a black\u00adsmith or place of ori\u00adgin was more impor\u00adtant. But the gov\u00adern\u00adment insist\u00aded on giv\u00ading every\u00adone a sin\u00adgle per\u00adma\u00adnent name, unique for the vil\u00adlage, and track\u00ading who was in the same fam\u00adi\u00adly as whom. Resis\u00adtance was intense.\u201d This is long and amaz\u00ading. (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/04\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-95\">vol\u00adume 95<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>short and sweet this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Happy Friday. 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