{"id":7429,"date":"2024-04-26T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:00:43","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/04\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-450","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 450"},"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\">450 is a cool num\u00adber because it ends in 50. Which is just cool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also some\u00adthing called an Ara\u00adbi\u00adan Nights fac\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, mean\u00ading that 450! has 1001 dig\u00adits. What a fun con\u00adcept!<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/24\/us\/pro-palestinian-encampments-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pro-Pales\u00adtin\u00adian Encamp\u00adments Spread, Lead\u00ading to Hun\u00addreds of Arrests<\/a> (Anna Betts, New York Times): \u201cIn the week since Colum\u00adbia Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty start\u00aded crack\u00ading down on pro-Pales\u00adtin\u00adian pro\u00adtest\u00aders occu\u00adpy\u00ading a lawn on its cam\u00adpus, protests and encamp\u00adments have sprung up at oth\u00ader col\u00adleges and uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties across the coun\u00adtry. Police inter\u00adven\u00adtions on sev\u00ader\u00adal cam\u00adpus\u00ades have led to more than 400 arrests so far.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/22\/nyregion\/college-campus-protests-photos-yale-columbia.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scenes of Protests Spread at Elite Cam\u00adpus\u00ades<\/a> (Troy Clos\u00adson, New York Times): \u201cNear\u00adly 50 peo\u00adple were arrest\u00aded at Yale Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in New Haven, Conn., on Mon\u00adday morn\u00ading, fol\u00adlow\u00ading the arrests last week of more than 100 pro\u00adtest\u00aders at Colum\u00adbia Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in New York City. The arrests unleashed a wave of activism across oth\u00ader cam\u00adpus\u00ades.\u2026 The flur\u00adry of protests has pre\u00adsent\u00aded a steep chal\u00adlenge for uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty lead\u00aders, as some Jew\u00adish stu\u00addents say they have faced harass\u00adment and anti\u00adse\u00admit\u00adic com\u00adments. Ear\u00adly Mon\u00adday morn\u00ading, Colum\u00adbia announced a same-day shift to online class\u00ades because of the protests. Barnard Col\u00adlege, across the street, fol\u00adlowed suit hours lat\u00ader.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/danieldrezner.substack.com\/p\/the-carnage-is-the-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Car\u00adnage Is the Point<\/a> (Dan Drezn\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cUni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties like Colum\u00adbia have han\u00addled this poor\u00adly, although their response pales in com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson to how some elect\u00aded offi\u00adcials <em>want <\/em>them to respond. An awful lot of politi\u00adcians have been call\u00ading on the use of force against pro\u00adtes\u00adtors. Sen\u00ada\u00adtors Tom Cot\u00adton and Josh Haw\u00adley have called for the Nation\u00adal Guard to be deployed in Colum\u00adbia, as has Speak\u00ader of the House Mike John\u00adson. Ear\u00adli\u00ader this week Texas gov\u00ader\u00adnor Greg Abbott enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly sent Texas state troop\u00aders to con\u00adduct mass arrests, break\u00ading up an unsanc\u00adtioned but non\u00advi\u00ado\u00adlent demon\u00adstra\u00adtion at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Texas at Austin. Cot\u00adton, Haw\u00adley, John\u00adson, and Abbott are a lot of things, but stu\u00adpid they are not. Why would they call for coer\u00adcion when they must be ful\u00adly aware that such an approach would fur\u00adther fan the flames of protest?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An inter\u00adest\u00ading analy\u00adsis. Worth your time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2024\/04\/17\/from-banana-slugs-to-humans-there-are-just-two-sexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No, There Are No \u201cTrans\u201d Ani\u00admals<\/a> (Emma Hilton and Jonathan Kay, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cDo some crea\u00adtures change sex? Absolute\u00adly. But this isn\u2019t new infor\u00adma\u00adtion. It\u2019s a fact that biol\u00ado\u00adgists have known about for a long time. What is also well-known is that none of these sex-chang\u00ading crea\u00adtures are mam\u00admals, much less human. Rather, they\u2019re insects, fish, lizards, and marine inver\u00adte\u00adbrates whose biol\u00ado\u00adgy is dif\u00adfer\u00adent from our own in count\u00adless (fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading) ways. What\u2019s more, in every sin\u00adgle case described above, there are always (at most) just two dis\u00adtinct sex\u00ades at play\u2014no mat\u00adter how those two sex\u00ades may switch or com\u00adbine. One of those sex\u00ades is male, a sex asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with gonads that pro\u00adduce sperm (testes); and the oth\u00ader is female, with gonads that pro\u00adduce eggs (ovaries). There\u2019s noth\u00ading else on the menu. It\u2019s just M and F.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebaltimorebanner.com\/education\/k-12-schools\/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ex-ath\u00adlet\u00adic direc\u00adtor accused of fram\u00ading prin\u00adci\u00adpal with AI arrest\u00aded at air\u00adport with gun<\/a> (Kris\u00adten Grif\u00adfith &amp; Justin Fen\u00adton, The Bal\u00adti\u00admore Ban\u00adner): \u201cEiswert\u2019s voice, which police and AI experts believe was sim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded, made dis\u00adparag\u00ading com\u00adments toward Black stu\u00addents and the sur\u00adround\u00ading Jew\u00adish com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, was wide\u00adly cir\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded on social media.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AI crimes are fix\u00ading to get wild. In case you haven\u2019t been keep\u00ading up, AI-gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded video and audio is shock\u00ading\u00adly good. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reidhoffman\/status\/1783145009153450374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/reidhoffman\/status\/1783145009153450374<\/a> &lt;\u2013 check this wild exam\u00adple. Reid Hoff\u00adman (one of the so-called \u2018Pay\u00adpal Mafia\u2019, founder of LinkedIn) inter\u00adviews an AI avatar of him\u00adself for about 14 min\u00adutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/anthropology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Is a Woman? What Is a Man<\/a>? (Aaron Renn, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe key is to under\u00adstand who men and women are, bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, soci\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, and cul\u00adtur\u00adal\u00adly. What we will see is that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals have very lit\u00adtle to say about this.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2024\/04\/24\/1246586836\/brothers-sisters-close-siblings-caring-latino-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How do you get sib\u00adlings to be nice to each oth\u00ader? Lati\u00adno fam\u00adi\u00adlies have an answer<\/a> (Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR): \u201cI ask Cindy the same ques\u00adtion I posed to sci\u00aden\u00adtists: How do you teach chil\u00addren to find joy in help\u00ading their sib\u00adlings? And she answers exact\u00adly the same as the sci\u00aden\u00adtists answered: \u2018We mod\u00adel it.\u2019 Cindy says. Cindy mod\u00adels not just help\u00ading her sib\u00adlings, but also the joy she receives from the rela\u00adtion\u00adships she has with her broth\u00aders and sis\u00adters.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thezvi.substack.com\/p\/changes-in-college-admissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Changes in Col\u00adlege Admis\u00adsions<\/a> (Zvi Mow\u00adshowitz, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cStart\u00ading in August 2024, LSAT to elim\u00adi\u00adnate the Log\u00adic Games (Ana\u00adlyt\u00adic Rea\u00adson\u00ading) sec\u00adtion, the hard\u00adest, most fun and most objec\u00adtive and intel\u00adli\u00adgence-test\u00ading part of the whole test. Nor\u00admal\u00adly I would be against dumb\u00ading down our test\u00ading, but keep\u00ading smart peo\u00adple from becom\u00ading lawyers is not the worst idea.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The whole thing is inter\u00adest\u00ading. The excerpt is amus\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/astronomers-find-evidence-of-a-massive-object-beyond-the-orbit-of-neptune-73914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Astronomers Find Evi\u00addence Of A Mas\u00adsive Object Beyond The Orbit Of Nep\u00adtune<\/a> (James Fel\u00adton, IFL Sci\u00adence): \u201cCar\u00adry\u00ading out sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions to try and dis\u00adcov\u00ader what best explains the orbits of these objects, the team found that a mod\u00adel that includes a mas\u00adsive plan\u00adet beyond the region of Nep\u00adtune explained the steady state of these objects much bet\u00adter than in sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions where plan\u00adet 9 was not includ\u00aded. In the mod\u00adel, the team includ\u00aded oth\u00ader vari\u00adables, such as the galac\u00adtic tide and the grav\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adal influ\u00adence of pass\u00ading stars.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This entire arti\u00adcle does\u00adn\u2019t even acknowl\u00adedge that Plu\u00adto exists, a fact which I find it amus\u00ading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preprint on arx\u00adiv at <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2404.11594.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2404.11594.pdf<\/a><\/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=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/why-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why?<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>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. 450 is a cool num\u00adber because it ends in 50. Which is just cool. It\u2019s also some\u00adthing called \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/04\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-450\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 450\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_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":"links to inform and entertain","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":[219,251,240,195,148,113],"class_list":["post-7429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-astronomy","tag-elite-colleges","tag-gender","tag-israel","tag-lgbtq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1VP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429","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=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7431,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/7431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}