{"id":7076,"date":"2022-12-09T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T03:56:39","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/12\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-380","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 380"},"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 380, which one web\u00adsite claims is the num\u00adber of 13-bead neck\u00adlace pat\u00adterns you can cre\u00adate if you have only two col\u00adors of beads. That seems real\u00adly low to me so I must not under\u00adstand the way they define pat\u00adterns and I don\u2019t want to do the math, so that\u2019s my num\u00adber fac\u00adtoid for the week.<\/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\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/03\/opinion\/canada-euthanasia.html\" target=\"_blank\">What Euthana\u00adsia Has Done to Cana\u00adda<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cThe idea that human rights encom\u00adpass a right to self-destruc\u00adtion, the con\u00adceit that peo\u00adple in a state of ter\u00adri\u00adble suf\u00adfer\u00ading and vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty are real\u00adly \u2018free\u2019 to make a choice that ends all choic\u00ades, the idea that a heal\u00ading pro\u00adfes\u00adsion should include death in its bat\u00adtery of treat\u00adments \u2014 these are inher\u00adent\u00adly destruc\u00adtive ideas. Left unchecked, they will forge a cru\u00adel brave new world, a dehu\u00adman\u00adiz\u00ading final chap\u00adter for the lib\u00ader\u00adal sto\u00adry.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/woman-euthanasia-commercial-wanted-to-live\" target=\"_blank\">Woman fea\u00adtured in pro-euthana\u00adsia com\u00admer\u00adcial want\u00aded to live, say friends <\/a>(Tristin Hop\u00adper, Nation\u00adal Post): \u201cIn sev\u00ader\u00adal more egre\u00adgious cas\u00ades, Cana\u00addi\u00adans have even been offered MAID in lieu of prop\u00ader med\u00adical treat\u00adment. Last month, a House of Com\u00admons com\u00admit\u00adtee heard about five sep\u00ada\u00adrate inci\u00addents of Cana\u00addi\u00adan Armed Forces vet\u00ader\u00adans being offered MAID after seek\u00ading assis\u00adtance with issues rang\u00ading from depres\u00adsion to PTSD. Most recent\u00adly, for\u00admer par\u00ada\u00adlympian Chris\u00adtine Gau\u00adthi\u00ader went pub\u00adlic with her sto\u00adry of being offered MAID by a Vet\u00ader\u00adans Affairs case\u00adwork\u00ader after she com\u00adplained about delays in installing an in-home chair\u00adlift.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/03\/opinion\/tim-keller-forgiveness.html\" target=\"_blank\">What Too Lit\u00adtle For\u00adgive\u00adness Does to Us<\/a> (Tim Keller, New York Times): \u201c\u2026there must be the recog\u00adni\u00adtion that for\u00adgive\u00adness does not con\u00adtra\u00addict the pur\u00adsuit of jus\u00adtice. Rather, it is its pre\u00adcon\u00addi\u00adtion. For\u00adgiv\u00ading is not excus\u00ading. To for\u00adgive some\u00adthing, you must name it as the evil it is.\u2026 [But] if you don\u2019t for\u00adgive inter\u00adnal\u00adly, you won\u2019t con\u00adfront the wrong\u00addo\u00aders for justice\u2019s sake or for future vic\u00adtims\u2019 sake or for God\u2019s sake. You will be doing it for your sake, and the project will go awry. \u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2023\/01\/anatomy-of-a-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\">Anato\u00admy of a Can\u00adcel\u00adla\u00adtion<\/a> (Scott Yenor, First Things): \u201cThe Title IX charges marked an esca\u00adla\u00adtion and, strange\u00adly, a path to qua\u00adsi-vic\u00adto\u00adry.\u2026 I had been prepar\u00ading for it for years, know\u00ading that some\u00adone who treads on con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial top\u00adics such as the fam\u00adi\u00adly and fem\u00adi\u00adnism would even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly face the ire of the university\u2019s civ\u00adil rights regime. All my lec\u00adtures for the past five years are record\u00aded and stored. All stu\u00addent com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions and grades are saved. I had kept detailed records on whom I called on dur\u00ading each class.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Remark\u00adable. Will prob\u00ada\u00adbly enter my ros\u00adter of clas\u00adsics I repost at the bot\u00adtom of these emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/newsletter\/frenchpress\/remembering-what-repentance-looks-like\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remem\u00adber\u00ading What Repen\u00adtance Looks Like<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cAny per\u00adson can live a life of great mean\u00ading and hon\u00ador far removed from the spot\u00adlight. And not one of us is capa\u00adble of peer\u00ading into a man\u2019s heart to know when he\u2019s changed. But let me sug\u00adgest a clear warn\u00ading sign that repen\u00adtance isn\u2019t real\u2014when a pow\u00ader\u00adful per\u00adson doesn\u2019t just ask for for\u00adgive\u00adness but also seeks restora\u00adtion to the life they lived before. No one is enti\u00adtled to be a pas\u00adtor or a politi\u00adcian, and there are times when the con\u00adtin\u00adued quest for those posi\u00adtions is itself a sign that a per\u00adson sim\u00adply doesn\u2019t under\u00adstand the price they should pay when they\u2019ve com\u00admit\u00adted a seri\u00adous wrong.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/04\/opinion\/303-creative-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">When Gay Rights Clash With Reli\u00adgious Free\u00addom<\/a> (Tish Har\u00adri\u00adson War\u00adren, New York Times): \u201cMs. Smith serves gay cus\u00adtomers. She would not refuse to build a web\u00adsite for some\u00adone sim\u00adply because the per\u00adson is gay. She specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly does not want her ser\u00advices to be used as part of a cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion of a same-sex wed\u00adding. We make sim\u00adi\u00adlar allowances for oth\u00ader ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal dif\u00adfer\u00adences. A pro-choice artist should not be com\u00adpelled to make a logo for a pro-life ral\u00adly. A pro\u00adgres\u00adsive par\u00adty plan\u00adner should not be required to take on a Trump PAC as a client. A gay web design\u00ader ought not be forced to cre\u00adate a site pro\u00admot\u00ading a con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive church.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/the-respect-for-marriage-act-is-also-a-victory-for-same-sex-marriage-opponents?utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">The Respect for Mar\u00adriage Act Is Also a Vic\u00adto\u00adry for Same-Sex-Mar\u00adriage Oppo\u00adnents<\/a> (Jean\u00adnie Suk Gersen, New York\u00ader): \u201cWhen this bill is signed into law, there will be a fed\u00ader\u00adal statute that makes a res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion of con\u00adflict between reli\u00adgious free\u00addom and gay-rights claims explic\u00adit in a way that it arguably was not before, clear\u00adly favor\u00ading a reli\u00adgious group over a gay couple\u2014even though the con\u00adflict involves open ques\u00adtions on the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between the First Amend\u00adment and antidis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion laws.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gersen is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Har\u00advard Law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More about Chat\u00adG\u00adPT and AI gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/06\/opinion\/chatgpt-ai-skilled-jobs-automation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Does Chat\u00adG\u00adPT Mean Robots Are Com\u00ading For the Skilled Jobs?<\/a> (Paul Krug\u00adman, New York Times): \u201cOK, I didn\u2019t write the para\u00adgraph you just read; Chat\u00adG\u00adPT did, in response to the ques\u00adtion \u2018How will A.I. affect the demand for knowl\u00adedge work\u00aders?\u2019 The give\u00adaway, to me at least, is that I still refuse to use \u2018impact\u2019 as a verb. And it didn\u2019t explic\u00adit\u00adly lay out exact\u00adly why we should, over\u00adall, expect no impact on aggre\u00adgate employ\u00adment. But it was arguably bet\u00adter than what many humans, includ\u00ading some peo\u00adple who imag\u00adine them\u00adselves smart, would have writ\u00adten.\u201d Nobel lau\u00adre\u00adate Paul Krug\u00adman opin\u00ading on the poten\u00adtial impact of tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy like Chat\u00adG\u00adPT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/oneusefulthing.substack.com\/p\/the-mechanical-professor\" target=\"_blank\">The Mechan\u00adi\u00adcal Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor<\/a> (Ethan Mol\u00adlick, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cBut, rather than be scared of AI, we should think about how these sys\u00adtems pro\u00advide us an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to help extend our own capa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties. Think of it like hav\u00ading an intern, but one who just hap\u00adpens to work instan\u00adteous\u00adly, can write both code and sol\u00adid descrip\u00adtive writ\u00ading, and has a large chunk of the world\u2019s knowl\u00adedge in their brain.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of man\u00adage\u00adment at the Whar\u00adton School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.secondbest.ca\/p\/before-the-flood\" target=\"_blank\">Before the flood<\/a> (Samuel Ham\u00admond, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, I sus\u00adpect near-term AI will break a lot of things, start\u00ading with our lega\u00adcy insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. The firmware of the US gov\u00adern\u00adment is 70+ years old. We val\u00adi\u00addate people\u2019s iden\u00adti\u00adty with a nine dig\u00adit num\u00adber\u00ading sys\u00adtem cre\u00adat\u00aded in 1936. The Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtive Pro\u00adce\u00addure Act, which gov\u00aderns all reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adto\u00adry process, came only ten years lat\u00ader. The IRS Mas\u00adter File runs on assem\u00adbly from the 1960s. Our labor laws are from the assem\u00adbly line era. Unem\u00adploy\u00adment Insur\u00adance \u2014 the safe\u00adty-net for help\u00ading peo\u00adple adjust to employ\u00adment shocks from AI or oth\u00ader\u00adwise \u2014 is so bro\u00adken that Con\u00adgress found it eas\u00adi\u00ader to give every\u00adone an extra $600 a week and live with $150 bil\u00adlion worth of fraud than to recruit the retired Cobol engi\u00adneers nec\u00ades\u00adsary to sim\u00adply update the code. There is a great deal of ruin in this nation.\u201d The author is the direc\u00adto\u00adry of social pol\u00adi\u00adcy for the Niska\u00adnen Cen\u00adter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/garymarcus.substack.com\/p\/how-come-gpt-can-seem-so-brilliant\" target=\"_blank\">How come GPT can seem so bril\u00adliant one minute and so breath\u00adtak\u00ading\u00adly dumb the next?<\/a> (Gary Mar\u00adcus, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cGPT doesn\u2019t talk ran\u00addom\u00adly, because it\u2019s pas\u00adtich\u00ading things actu\u00adal peo\u00adple said. (Or, more often, syn\u00adonyms and para\u00adphras\u00ades of those things.) When GPT gets things right, it is often com\u00adbin\u00ading bits that don\u2019t belong togeth\u00ader, but not quite in ran\u00addom ways, but rather <strong>in ways where there is <em>some over\u00adlap in some aspect or anoth\u00ader<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2022\/12\/what-are-the-politics-of-chatgpt.html?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=what-are-the-politics-of-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\">What are the pol\u00adi\u00adtics of Chat\u00adG\u00adPT<\/a>? (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cMost of all, I see Chat\u00adG\u00adPT as \u2018pro-West\u00adern\u2019 in its per\u00adspec\u00adtive, while grant\u00adi\u00adng there are dif\u00adfer\u00adent visions of what this means. I also see Chat\u00adG\u00adPT as \u2018con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy min\u00adi\u00admiz\u00ading,\u2019 for both com\u00admer\u00adcial rea\u00adsons but also for sim\u00adply wish\u00ading to get on with the sub\u00adstan\u00adtive work with a min\u00adi\u00admum of exter\u00adnal fuss. I would not myself have built it <em>so<\/em> dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly, and note that the bias may lie in the train\u00ading data rather than any bias\u00ades of the cre\u00adators.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/airplane-mode-uk-airlines-air-travel-1849846995\" target=\"_blank\">Air\u00adplane Mode to Become Obso\u00adlete in the EU<\/a> (Nik\u00adki Main, Giz\u00admo\u00addo): \u201cIt\u2019s been said that the rea\u00adson for ban\u00adning cell phone use on air\u00adplanes is because it could inter\u00adfere with the pilot\u2019s nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtion sys\u00adtems. How\u00adev\u00ader, Busi\u00adness Insid\u00ader report\u00aded in 2017 that the FCC instat\u00aded the air\u00adplane cell phone ban to \u2018pro\u00adtect against radio inter\u00adfer\u00adence to cell phone net\u00adworks on the ground.\u2019 If all air\u00adlines allowed cell phone access at 40,000 feet in the air, mul\u00adti\u00adple cell tow\u00aders on the ground could pick up on ser\u00advice from active cell phones which could crowd the ground net\u00adworks, dis\u00adrupt\u00ading ser\u00advice, accord\u00ading to the out\u00adlet.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This one intrigues me because it calls into ques\u00adtion a sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion so many of us take for grant\u00aded. I, for one, would not like there to be phone calls on air\u00adplanes (hard to read or watch a movie with that going on next to you). But stay\u00ading touch via text would be nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/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=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/as-part-of-christmas-promotion-holiday-inn-offers-discount-to-women-who-are-9-months-pregnant-riding-on-donkeys\/\" target=\"_blank\">In Christ\u00admas Pro\u00admo\u00adtion, Hol\u00adi\u00adday Inn Offers Dis\u00adcount To Women Who Are 9 Months Preg\u00adnant Rid\u00ading On Don\u00adkeys<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarside.com\/2022\/12\/04\/0\" target=\"_blank\">One Long, Steady Pull<\/a> (The Far Side)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/rookie-angel-forgets-to-shout-fear-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rook\u00adie Angel For\u00adgets To Shout \u2018Fear Not\u2019<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2022\/12\/02\/stacked-up-against-pack-coyotes-herd-dog-kills-8-save-sheep\/?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\">Stacked up against pack of coy\u00adotes, herd dog kills 8 to save sheep<\/a> (Don Ship\u00adman &amp; Emi\u00adly Van de Riet, WMBF News): \u201cCasper, a 2\u2011year-old Great Pyre\u00adnees, was stand\u00ading guard over his flock of sheep one night in ear\u00adly Novem\u00adber at his home in Decatur, just east of Atlanta. That\u2019s when a pack of near\u00adly a dozen coy\u00adotes got too close for com\u00adfort. Casper killed a whop\u00adping eight coy\u00adotes and man\u00adaged to save all the sheep in his care.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2022\/12\/05\/r2-killu\" target=\"_blank\">R2-Kil\u00adlU<\/a> (Pen\u00adny Arcade)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-living-better-than-medieval-king-after-sprinkling-a-little-black-pepper-over-his-kraft-mac-and-cheese\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man Liv\u00ading Bet\u00adter Than Medieval King After Sprin\u00adkling A Lit\u00adtle Black Pep\u00adper Over His Kraft Mac And Cheese<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/what-unites-most-graduates-of-selective-colleges-an-intact-family\" target=\"_blank\">What Unites Most Grad\u00adu\u00adates of Selec\u00adtive Col\u00adleges? An Intact Fam\u00adi\u00adly<\/a> (Nicholas Zill &amp; Brad Wilcox, Insti\u00adtute for Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): \u201c\u2026 even after con\u00adtrol\u00adling for par\u00adent edu\u00adca\u00adtion, fam\u00adi\u00adly income, and stu\u00addent race and eth\u00adnic\u00adi\u00adty, being raised by one\u2019s mar\u00adried birth par\u00adents pro\u00advides an addi\u00adtion\u00adal boost to one\u2019s chances of get\u00adting through Prince\u00adton.\u201d From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/06\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-254\" target=\"_blank\">vol\u00adume 254<\/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:\/\/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>I found a remark\u00adably strong list of arti\u00adcles to choose from this week \u2014 what float\u00aded to the top is worth pon\u00adder\u00ading<\/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":"I found a strong list of articles to choose from this week - what floated to the top is worth looking over.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,219,295,170,167,113,214,162],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-canada","tag-devotional","tag-euthanasia","tag-lgbtq","tag-technology","tag-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Q8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","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=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}