{"id":7020,"date":"2022-10-07T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:29:46","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/10\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-371","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 371"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is volume 371, which like its immediate predecessor is one of four three-digit <a href=\"https:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/NarcissisticNumber.html\">narcissistic numbers<\/a>,  meaning that it has three digits and when you raise each digit to the number of digits (in this case, to the third power) they sum to the original number: &nbsp;3<sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;+ 7<sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;+ 1<sup>3<\/sup> =&nbsp;371.<\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2022\/09\/84583\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Harvard Is Really Like<\/a>&nbsp;(Olivia Glunz, The Public Discourse): \u201cPrestige and influence require class distinctions; in a truly equitable world, Harvard does not exist. Thus, Harvard will continue to champion progressivism\u2014but never enough to endanger its own future. Harvard students of all political stripes perceive this hypocrisy; if anything, they graduate not more liberal but more cynical. So much for the formidable brainwashing machine.\u2026 Despite the prevalence of secularism and credentialism at Harvard, faith and friendship were central to my joyful first year. In fact, Christianity, particularly Catholicism, is alive at Harvard.\u201d<ul><li>Short but interesting, and relevant to life at Stanford.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/02\/opinion\/rich-mullins-death-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why the music of Rich Mullins endures, 25 years after his death<\/a>&nbsp;(Tish Harrison Warren, New York Times): \u201cMullins had all his royalties and wages go directly to his accountant, whom he asked to issue him an allowance equal to the average working-class salary at the time. The rest of his earnings were given away, mostly to charity. Smith tells me that Mullins \u2018was scared for his own soul.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t that he wasn\u2019t tempted by money and fame. It\u2019s that he knew he was tempted, so he ran from&nbsp;it.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/app-link\/post?publication_id=800237&amp;post_id=75771314&amp;utm_source=post-email-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo3NTc3MTMxNCwiaWF0IjoxNjY0NzEyMjE1LCJleHAiOjE2NjczMDQyMTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04MDAyMzciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.gADZEXtOKFwdOQDvVgmndmjnwLKQxdEAb4xWhL_QTPE\" target=\"_blank\">Revolutions Occur When a Significant Portion of Elites Defect From the Existing Regime<\/a>&nbsp;(Rob Henderson, Substack): \u201cSocial movements are typically led not by someone from the underclass or the poor, but by second-tier elites. Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, America\u2019s founders, etc. were relatively educated and at least middle-class. They were not nearly the poorest of their societies. Far from it.&nbsp; Which is why their criticisms of the elite within their societies were so astute. They were, figuratively speaking, close cousins\u2014they saw their flaws up&nbsp;close.\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>This one is really good. Related but long: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cspicenter.com\/p\/diverse-and-divided-a-political-demography\" target=\"_blank\">Diverse and Divided: A Political Demography of American Elite Students<\/a>&nbsp;(Eric Kaufmann, Substack): \u201cA quarter of students are LGBT, and there are roughly equal shares of Christian and nonreligious students. LGBT, Nonreligious, and Christians are set to become more important political groups among America\u2019s future leaders.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The data in this latter one is interesting, but it is so long you should definitely skim and not&nbsp;read.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Related to justice:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/10\/04\/a-jury-acquitted-them-of-various-charges-they-served-prison-time-for-them-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Jury Acquitted Them of Various Charges. They Served Prison Time for Them Anyway.<\/a>&nbsp;(Billy Binion, Reason): \u201cCan you do prison time for a criminal charge of which you were never convicted? I\u2019d venture that most would assume the answer is \u2018no.\u2019 They would be wrong. Known as acquitted conduct sentencing, the practice allows judges to bloat a prison term when sentencing a defendant by punishing them for a separate charge or charges on which a jury deemed them not guilty.\u201d Outrageous. I hope the Supreme Court squashes this 9\u20130.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/29\/prison-release-covid-pandemic-incarceration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands were released from prison during covid. The results are shocking<\/a>. (Molly Gill, The Washington Post): \u201cTo protect those most vulnerable to covid-19 during the pandemic, the Cares Act allowed the Justice Department to&nbsp;order the release&nbsp;of people in federal prisons and place them on home confinement. More than 11,000 people were eventually released. Of those, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)&nbsp;reported&nbsp;that only 17 of them committed new crimes. That\u2019s not a typo. Seventeen. That\u2019s a 0.15 percent recidivism rate in a country where it\u2019s normal for 30 to 65 percent of people coming home from prison to reoffend within three years of release.\u2026 These 11,000 releases were not random. People in low- and minimum-security prisons or at high risk of complications from covid were prioritized for consideration for release.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/09\/13\/us\/politics\/congress-stock-trading-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stock Trades Reported by Nearly a Fifth of Congress Show Possible Conflicts<\/a>&nbsp;(Kate Kelly,&nbsp;Adam Playford&nbsp;and&nbsp;Alicia Parlapiano, New York Times): \u201cThe potential for conflicts in stock trading by members of Congress \u2014 and their choice so far not to impose stricter limits on themselves \u2014 has long drawn criticism, especially when particularly blatant cases emerge. But the Times analysis demonstrates the scale of the issue: Over the three-year period, more than 3,700 trades reported by lawmakers from both parties posed potential conflicts between their public responsibilities and private finances.\u2026 The 97 members who were flagged by the Times analysis amounted to more than half of the people who reported trades, and nearly a fifth of Congress. The group was split almost equally between Democrats and Republicans.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/erictopol.substack.com\/p\/the-amazing-power-of-machine-eyes?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=587835&amp;post_id=76477006&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">The amazing power of \u201cmachine eyes\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;(Eric Topol, Substack): \u201cWhile there are far simpler ways to determine gender [than studying retinas], it\u2019s a 50\u201350 toss up for ophthalmologists, which means there are no visible cues to human eyes. But now two models have shown 97% accuracy of gender determination&nbsp;from neural network training. That was just the beginning.\u2026 That work has now extended to detection of kidney disease, control of blood glucose and blood pressure, hepatobiliary disease, a previous study on predicting heart attack, close correlation of the retinal vessels with the heart (coronary) artery calcium score, and, prior to the new report above, the ongoing prospective&nbsp;assessment and tracking of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d Wild&nbsp;stuff.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/policytensor.substack.com\/p\/a-nuclear-zugzwang\" target=\"_blank\">A Nuclear Zugzwang?<\/a>&nbsp;(Anusar Farooqui, Substack): \u201cPrecisely because Russia is so weak relative to Nato, any Russia-Nato war will eventually escalate into strategic nuclear war, the only level on which the Russia enjoys parity with the United States. So, any counter-escalation by the United States would be fraught with escalation risk and nuclear danger.\u201d<ul><li>The author has a PhD in mathematics but writes extensively about foreign policy. I have had multiple smart people recommend this article and finally gave it a&nbsp;read.<\/li><\/ul><\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/booked\" target=\"_blank\">Adult Knowledge<\/a>&nbsp;(SMBC)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2022\/10\/07\" target=\"_blank\">Let\u2019s Catch Up Soon<\/a>&nbsp;(Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li>There is a French basketball player named&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steeve_Ho_You_Fat\" target=\"_blank\">Steeve Ho You Fat<\/a>, and so the back of his jersey just says \u201cHo You Fat.\u201d Kevin Hart goes to town:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesBurnes8\/status\/1577800636598571010\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesBurnes8\/status\/1577800636598571010<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/blind-taste-test-finds-most-people-cant-tell-difference-between-candy-corn-and-orange-crayon-we-found-in-a-junk-drawer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blind Taste Test Finds Most People Can\u2019t Tell Difference Between Candy Corn And Orange Crayon We Found In A Junk Drawer<\/a>&nbsp;(Babylon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/Rockin1000_Official\" target=\"_blank\">The Rockin\u2019 1000 Channel<\/a>&nbsp;(YouTube): a thousand musicians get together to cover popular songs. Their most popular video is&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE\" target=\"_blank\">Learn to Fly by the Foo Fighters<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2682\/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy or Hard<\/a>&nbsp;(xkcd)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/las-vegas-bomber-prison-break\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas police capture at-large bomber who used battery acid and dummy to make movie-like prison escape, correctional officers didn\u2019t know about jailbreak for days<\/a>&nbsp;(Paul Sacca, The Blaze): \u201cWhile serving time at the Southern Desert Correctional Center, Duarte-Herrera reportedly used battery acid to break down the window frame of his prison cell. The inmate purportedly created a dummy \u2013 possibly made out of cardboard \u2013 to fool prison guards.\u2026 The inmate escaped the medium-security correctional center by slipping past the guards and the prison\u2019s perimeter fence.\u201d That last sentence is a whole episode of a TV drama. Casually \u201cslipping past the guards.\u201d Wowzers!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.org\/porn-restriction-for-realists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Porn Restriction for Realists<\/a>&nbsp;(Tanner Greer, personal blog): \u201c\u2026a world where the tube-sites are gone and people must go back to paying for their porn is a significant improvement over the world we live in now. This world is possible: it existed two decades ago. Technological change is part of what happened, but only part. Just as important in the creation of the new, porn-flushed world we live are legal protections given to websites like PornHub and X Hamster which allow them to dodge liability for the theft their business model is based on. It also allows them to dodge liability for much worse sins.\u201d From&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/03\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-242\" target=\"_blank\">volume 242<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way. This is volume 371, which like its immediate predecessor is one of four three-digit narcissistic numbers, meaning that it \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/10\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 371\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Some actually shocking articles related to criminal justice, as well as an abundance of other interesting things.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[219,279,140,240,120,159,312,199,184],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-criminal-justice","tag-culture","tag-elite-colleges","tag-famous-christians","tag-justice","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-prison","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}