{"id":7547,"date":"2024-11-15T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:02:45","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-478","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 478"},"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\" 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 width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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>\n\n    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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2024\/11\/artificial-intelligence-college-admissions-essay\/?utm_medium=widgetsocial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When a Stan\u00adford Bible Study Led to an AI Start\u00adup<\/a> (Emi\u00adly Belz, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cHadas\u00adsah Beta\u00adpu\u00addi and Eli\u00adjah Kim met at a Chris\u00adt\u00adian fel\u00adlow\u00adship at Stan\u00adford in 2022 and got to know each oth\u00ader by lead\u00ading a Bible study togeth\u00ader. Soon the duo\u2014with their back\u00adgrounds in data orga\u00adniz\u00ading and com\u00adput\u00ader science\u2014was build\u00ading an arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence start\u00adup.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The arti\u00adcle nev\u00ader names Chi Alpha, but they are both lead\u00aders in our min\u00adistry. Super cool! Their start\u00adup is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esslo.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.esslo.org\/\">Ess\u00adlo<\/a>, which helps stu\u00addents with their col\u00adlege appli\u00adca\u00adtion essays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/14\/opinion\/christianity-spirituality-psychedelics-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Believe in Mir\u00ada\u00adcles. Just Not All of Them.<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cAs the surgery date approached, I got a call from a dear friend, Ruth Okedi\u00adji. Ruth was the leader of my law school Chris\u00adt\u00adian fel\u00adlow\u00adship, and she\u2019s now a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Har\u00advard Law School. I\u2019ll nev\u00ader for\u00adget her first words. \u2018It\u2019s over,\u2019 she said. \u2018The Lord has healed you.\u2019 My ini\u00adtial reac\u00adtion was frus\u00adtra\u00adtion. I was resigned to the surgery, and I want\u00aded encour\u00adage\u00adment, not false hope. As a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, I believe that God is real and works mir\u00ada\u00adcles. But I didn\u2019t con\u00adsid\u00ader that he would work a mir\u00ada\u00adcle on me. My prayers were of the con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal kind that I grew up with \u2014 prayers that doc\u00adtors would have wis\u00addom and that I\u2019d have the courage to face the chal\u00adlenge of the surgery. But Ruth\u2019s prayer was dif\u00adfer\u00adent. She asked God for heal\u00ading, and she said that God had grant\u00aded her prayer. I woke up the next morn\u00ading with\u00adout any pain at all. I had no pain the entire day. The next day was pain-free as well, and so was the next. The doc\u00adtors rein\u00adtro\u00adduced bland, sol\u00adid food to my diet, and I con\u00adsumed it vora\u00adcious\u00adly. By Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading, I\u2019d gained most of my weight back, and a colonoscopy lat\u00ader showed no evi\u00addence of the dis\u00adease at all. My doc\u00adtor was sur\u00adprised. I was sur\u00adprised (and over\u00adjoyed). I knew that ulcer\u00ada\u00adtive col\u00adi\u00adtis could have remis\u00adsion peri\u00adods, but this one stuck. And in the 29 years since, I\u2019ve nev\u00ader had a recur\u00adrence.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thezvi.substack.com\/p\/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Online Sports Gam\u00adbling Exper\u00adi\u00adment Has Failed<\/a> (Zvi Mow\u00adshowitz, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhen sports gam\u00adbling was legal\u00adized in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, I was hope\u00adful it too could prove a net pos\u00adi\u00adtive force, far supe\u00adri\u00ador to the pre\u00advi\u00adous obnox\u00adious wave of dai\u00adly fan\u00adta\u00adsy sports. It brings me no plea\u00adsure to con\u00adclude that this was not the case. The results are in. Legal\u00adized mobile gam\u00adbling on sports, let alone casi\u00adno games, has proven to be a huge mis\u00adtake. The soci\u00adetal impacts are far worse than I expect\u00aded.\u2026 The impacts include a 28% over\u00adall increase in bank\u00adrupt\u00adcies (!).\u2026 When the home team suf\u00adfers an upset loss while sports bet\u00adting is legal, domes\u00adtic vio\u00adlence that day goes up by 9% for the day, with lin\u00adger\u00ading effects.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-and-relationships-1-in-4-young-adults-believe-ai-partners-could-replace-real-life-romance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Intel\u00adli\u00adgence and Rela\u00adtion\u00adships: 1 in 4 Young Adults Believe AI Part\u00adners Could Replace Real-life Romance<\/a> (Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano, Insti\u00adtute for Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): \u201cYoung men are more like\u00adly than young women to believe that AI has the poten\u00adtial to replace real-life roman\u00adtic rela\u00adtion\u00adships (28% vs. 22%). As shown ear\u00adli\u00ader, young men are gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly more open to AI friend\u00adships than young women, which par\u00adal\u00adlels the gen\u00adder dif\u00adfer\u00adence in their views of AI\u2019s poten\u00adtial for romance.\u2026 Among sin\u00adgle young adults, those who watch porn online at least once a day are twice as like\u00adly as those who rarely, if ever watch porn to say they are open to an AI romance.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2024\/10\/the-right-without-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Right With\u00adout Wrong<\/a> (Dustin Guastel\u00adla, Jacobin): \u201cFor sec\u00adu\u00adlar lib\u00ader\u00adals who have made \u2018believ\u00ading sci\u00adence\u2019 their own kind of reli\u00adgion, the pos\u00adsi\u00adble wan\u00ading of Chris\u00adt\u00adian con\u00adser\u00advatism may seem like a bless\u00ading long over\u00addue. What if it isn\u2019t?\u2026 In the Chris\u00adt\u00adian sto\u00adry, we are all equal\u00adly fall\u00aden. Our orig\u00adi\u00adnal sin unites us in a kind of neg\u00ada\u00adtive equi\u00adlib\u00adri\u00adum. By recast\u00ading Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty as a unique per\u00adver\u00adsion, a can\u00adcer\u00adous growth that destroyed the glo\u00adri\u00adous Roman Empire from with\u00adin (or a virus intro\u00adduced by Jews, that ancient ene\u00admy of the Right, from with\u00adout), reac\u00adtionar\u00adies can freely reject our pri\u00admor\u00addial equal\u00adi\u00adty to instead embrace the sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly nat\u00adur\u00adal hier\u00adar\u00adchies evi\u00addent in the out\u00adcome of mar\u00adket com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion, the body-obsessed \u2018vital\u00adism\u2019 that priv\u00adi\u00adleges phys\u00adi\u00adcal strength over the effete ide\u00adal\u00adism of the Enlight\u00aden\u00adment, and also, seem\u00ading\u00adly with\u00adout fail, an aggres\u00adsive, unashamed form of sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic racism.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jacobin is a social\u00adist mag\u00ada\u00adzine \u2014 fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading to see how one of their authors feels about the rise of the post-reli\u00adgious right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/11\/we-need-to-fix-voting-in-america-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We Need to Fix Vot\u00ading in Amer\u00adi\u00adca Now<\/a> (Wil\u00adfred Reil\u00adly, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cSim\u00adply put, there is no way to know the real rate of vot\u00ader fraud in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, <em>so long as the U.S.A. does not require cit\u00adi\u00adzens to vote in per\u00adson or show an ID when they vote<\/em>.\u2026 Recall that a com\u00adpe\u00adtent\u00adly done scan-and-purge of the rolls in Iowa alone turned up almost two orders of mag\u00adni\u00adtude more reg\u00adis\u00adtered nonci\u00adt\u00adi\u00adzens than the num\u00adber that The Experts\u2122 dis\u00adcov\u00adered nation\u00adwide \u2014 ful\u00adly 0.5 percent\u20131 per\u00adcent of the state\u2019s elec\u00adtorate in some off-year races. Say\u00ading that these folks do not exist because they have nev\u00ader been jailed is like say\u00ading that there can\u00adnot real\u00adly be 1 mil\u00adlion-plus dai\u00adly users of The Pirate Bay and sim\u00adi\u00adlar sites, because there are so few annu\u00adal pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtions for inter\u00adnet crimes.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00adence pro\u00adfes\u00adsor. He presents data I\u2019ve nev\u00ader heard before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/musaalgharbi.substack.com\/p\/a-graveyard-of-bad-election-narratives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Grave\u00adyard of Bad Elec\u00adtion Nar\u00adra\u00adtives<\/a> (Musa al-Ghar\u00adbi, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAccord\u00ading to Forbes, more than 50 oth\u00ader bil\u00adlion\u00adaires also threw their weight behind Trump. So far so good for the pre\u00adferred nar\u00adra\u00adtive. But here\u2019s the twist: even more bil\u00adlion\u00adaires \u2014 83 to be pre\u00adcise \u2014 sup\u00adport\u00aded the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic nom\u00adi\u00adnee. Kamala had 60 per\u00adcent more bil\u00adlion\u00adaire back\u00aders than Don\u00adald Trump did. And bil\u00adlion\u00adaires like Oprah and Mark Cuban hit the cam\u00adpaign trail serv\u00ading as sur\u00adro\u00adgates for Har\u00adris in much the same way as Musk sup\u00adport\u00aded Trump. If we want to look at who \u2018big mon\u00adey\u2019 tried to push into office this cycle, the answer is dis\u00adcon\u00adcert\u00ading.\u2026 Over\u00adall, this cycle, Democ\u00adrats raised rough\u00adly twice as much mon\u00adey as their oppo\u00adnents. In the months after Joe Biden dropped out, Democ\u00adrats raised more than $1 bil\u00adlion \u2013 more than three times as much as Repub\u00adli\u00adcans brought in over the same peri\u00adod \u2013 large\u00adly thanks to enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic sup\u00adport for Kamala Har\u00adris with\u00adin Wall Street, Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley and Big Law.\u201d<\/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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Why Do You Send This Email? In the time of King David, the tribe \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-478\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 478\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":[219,243,120,322,117,257],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chi-alpha","tag-famous-christians","tag-gambling","tag-politics","tag-secularism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1XJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","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=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}