{"id":7467,"date":"2024-06-21T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:14:24","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/06\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-458","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 458"},"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><br><br>    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 458, a num\u00adber with very few fac\u00adtors. 458 = 229 \u00b7 2.<\/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:\/\/archive.is\/EveJj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America\u2019s Top Export May Be Anx\u00adi\u00adety<\/a> (Derek Thomp\u00adson, The Atlantic): \u201cWe\u2019re see\u00ading the inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal trans\u00admis\u00adsion of a nov\u00adel West\u00adern the\u00ado\u00adry of men\u00adtal health. It\u2019s the glob\u00adal\u00adiza\u00adtion of Western\u2014and, just maybe, <em>Amer\u00adi\u00adcan<\/em>\u2014despair.\u2026 Accord\u00ading to the pod\u00adcast search engine Lis\u00adten Notes, more than 5,500 pod\u00adcasts have the word <em>trau\u00adma<\/em> in their title. In celebri\u00adty media, men\u00adtal-health tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adni\u00adals are so com\u00admon that they\u2019ve spawned a sub\u00adgenre of sum\u00admaries of celebri\u00adty men\u00adtal-health tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adni\u00adals, includ\u00ading \u201939 Celebri\u00adties Who Have Opened Up About Men\u00adtal Health,\u2019 \u2018What 22 Celebri\u00adties Have Said About Hav\u00ading Depres\u00adsion,\u2019 and \u201912 Times Famous Men Got Real About Men\u00adtal Health.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Poly\u00admath Tyler Cowen called this \u201cone of the best and most impor\u00adtant pieces of the year.\u201d Unlocked. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.experimental-history.com\/p\/how-to-get-7th-graders-to-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to get 7th graders to smoke<\/a> (Adam Mas\u00adtroian\u00adni, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cNobody thinks they can whip up an iPhone in their garage over the week\u00adend, but most peo\u00adple think they know how to save the chil\u00addren, fix the schools, reform the pris\u00adons, over\u00adhaul health\u00adcare, repair pol\u00adi\u00adtics, restore civil\u00adi\u00adty, and bring about world peace. Per\u00adhaps that\u2019s why we have iPhones and we don\u2019t have any of those oth\u00ader things.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is a hum\u00adbling essay. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link-springer-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org\/article\/10.1007\/s10676-024-09775-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chat\u00adG\u00adPT is bull\u00adshit<\/a> (Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries &amp; Joe Slater, Ethics and Infor\u00adma\u00adtion Tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy): \u201cThe machines are not try\u00ading to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate some\u00adthing they believe or per\u00adceive. Their inac\u00adcu\u00adra\u00adcy is not due to mis\u00adper\u00adcep\u00adtion or hal\u00adlu\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtion. As we have point\u00aded out, they are not try\u00ading to con\u00advey infor\u00adma\u00adtion at all. They are bull\u00adshit\u00adting.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The authors are at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Glas\u00adgow. Apolo\u00adgies for the lan\u00adguage, but the lan\u00adguage is at the heart of the point the authors are mak\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/no-longer-pitiable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Longer Pitiable<\/a> (Jared Hay\u00adden, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cFor Paul, what makes sin\u00adgle\u00adness \u2018bet\u00adter\u2019 is not the absence of sex as such, for nei\u00adther sex nor mar\u00adriage is a sin, as he is at pains to show. Rather, sin\u00adgle\u00adness is the \u2018hap\u00adpi\u00ader\u2019 state because it pro\u00advides believ\u00aders the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to be \u2018anx\u00adious about the things of the Lord\u2019 rather than \u2018world\u00adly things\u2019 because the \u2018appoint\u00aded time has grown very short.\u2019 For Paul, all sin\u00adgles should live devot\u00aded to the Lord\u2026 one either lever\u00adages sin\u00adgle\u00adness for the Lord, like Paul; or one lever\u00adages it for world\u00adly or sin\u00adful pur\u00adpos\u00ades, like idle wid\u00adows (1 Tim 5:13).\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly rich essay about sin\u00adgle\u00adness. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andreamorris\/2024\/06\/14\/evolution-may-be-purposeful-and-its-freaking-scientists-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Evo\u00adlu\u00adtion May Be Pur\u00adpose\u00adful And It\u2019s Freak\u00ading Sci\u00aden\u00adtists Out<\/a> (Andrea Mor\u00adris, Forbes): \u201cNoble is neu\u00adtral on reli\u00adgious mat\u00adters. Yet he sees com\u00adpelling evi\u00addence that pur\u00adpose may be fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal to life. He\u2019s deter\u00admined to debunk the cur\u00adrent sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic par\u00ada\u00addigm and replace the ele\u00advat\u00aded impor\u00adtance of genes with some\u00adthing much more con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial. His efforts have enraged many of his peers but gained sup\u00adport from the next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of ori\u00adgins-of-life researchers work\u00ading to top\u00adple the reign of gene-cen\u00adtrism.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some arti\u00adcles about the war in Gaza:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/14\/opinion\/ezra-klein-podcast-amit-segal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israelis Are Not Watch\u00ading the Same War You Are<\/a> (Ezra Klein, New York Times): \u201cWe got used to Israel\u2019s calmest decade, in terms of secu\u00adri\u00adty and casu\u00adal\u00adties. And all of a sud\u00adden, peo\u00adple under\u00adstand that this was not fea\u00adsi\u00adble for the long run. That is to say that we will prob\u00ada\u00adbly have to see more sol\u00addiers fight\u00ading in the north and in the south for the com\u00ading years, maybe decades. And there will be a death toll. It\u2019s not going to be a per\u00adma\u00adnent war but maybe a per\u00adma\u00adnent state of ongo\u00ading oper\u00ada\u00adtions.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading (albeit a tad long) inter\u00adview with an Israeli intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/19\/briefing\/getting-aid-into-gaza.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get\u00adting Aid Into Gaza<\/a> (Ger\u00adman Lopez, New York Times): \u201cIsrael has enforced opaque rules that turn back trucks meant for Gaza, cit\u00ading secu\u00adri\u00adty con\u00adcerns. Egypt has blocked aid to protest Israel\u2019s mil\u00adi\u00adtary oper\u00ada\u00adtions. Hamas has stolen, or tried to steal, aid ship\u00adments for its own use.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A rea\u00adson\u00adably fair-mind\u00aded arti\u00adcle. Exam\u00adines mul\u00adti\u00adple per\u00adspec\u00adtives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3xx300D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abused by the badge<\/a> (Jes\u00adsi\u00adca Con\u00adtr\u00adera, Jenn Abel\u00adson, John D. Hard\u00aden, Hay\u00adden God\u00adfrey &amp; Nate Jones, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cA Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion has found that over the past two decades, hun\u00addreds of law enforce\u00adment offi\u00adcers in the Unit\u00aded States have sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly abused chil\u00addren while offi\u00adcials at every lev\u00adel of the crim\u00adi\u00adnal jus\u00adtice sys\u00adtem have failed to pro\u00adtect kids, pun\u00adish abusers and pre\u00advent addi\u00adtion\u00adal crimes\u2026 The Post iden\u00adti\u00adfied at least 1,800 state and local law enforce\u00adment offi\u00adcers who were charged with crimes involv\u00ading child sex\u00adu\u00adal abuse from 2005 through 2022.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have long said that the peo\u00adple throw\u00ading stones at the Roman Catholic Church for their sex\u00adu\u00adal abuse cri\u00adsis would be stunned with the far worse num\u00adbers on child sex\u00adu\u00adal abuse in the pub\u00adlic school sys\u00adtem (and I stand by that). But I did not fore\u00adsee this one and I should have. There is author\u00adi\u00adty, there\u00adfore there is abuse of author\u00adi\u00adty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unlocked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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. This is vol\u00adume 458, a num\u00adber with very few fac\u00adtors. 458 = 229 \u00b7 2. Things Glen Found \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/06\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-458\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 458\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":"","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":[313,124,219,279,237,148,112,296,215],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abuse","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-criminal-justice","tag-humility","tag-israel","tag-marriage","tag-mental-health","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Wr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","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=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}