{"id":7648,"date":"2025-04-04T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:18:13","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-498-armageddon-arxiv-and-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/04\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-498-armageddon-arxiv-and-penguins","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 498: Armageddon, arXiv, and penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists find first evi\u00addence of epic bib\u00adli\u00adcal bat\u00adtle at \u2018Armaged\u00addon\u2019<\/a> (Rossel\u00adla Ter\u00adcatin, The Times of Israel): \u201cFor the first time, a team of Israeli archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists has uncov\u00adered ancient arti\u00adfacts at north\u00adern Israel\u2019s \u2018Armaged\u00addon\u2019 site that might offer proof of an epic bat\u00adtle doc\u00adu\u00adment\u00aded in the books of Kings II and Chron\u00adi\u00adcles between a king of Judah and an Egypt\u00adian pharaoh. Two aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic papers pub\u00adlished ear\u00adli\u00ader this year explained how an unprece\u00addent\u00aded amount of 7th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry BCE Egypt\u00adian pot\u00adtery was found in recent exca\u00adva\u00adtions at Megid\u00addo, sug\u00adgest\u00ading that Egypt\u00adian sol\u00addiers were indeed in the right bib\u00adli\u00adcal place at what could be the right bib\u00adli\u00adcal peri\u00adod.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \u2018I Applied for a Work Visa\u2014and Was Thrown in Prison for Weeks\u2019<\/a> (Jas\u00admine Mooney, The Free Press): \u201cThen I was tak\u00aden to the nurse\u2019s office for a med\u00adical check. She asked what had hap\u00adpened to me and said she had nev\u00ader seen a Cana\u00addi\u00adan here before. When I told her my sto\u00adry, she looked at me, grabbed my hand, and said, \u2018Do you believe in God?\u2019 I told her I had only recent\u00adly found God, but that I now believed in God more than any\u00adthing. \u2018I believe God brought you here for a rea\u00adson,\u2019 she said. \u2018I know it feels like your life is in a mil\u00adlion pieces, but you will be okay. Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help oth\u00aders.\u2019 She asked if she could pray for me. I held her hands and wept.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Inside arXiv\u2014the Most Trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive Plat\u00adform in All of Sci\u00adence<\/a> (Sheon Han, Wired): \u201cFor sci\u00aden\u00adtists, imag\u00adin\u00ading a world with\u00adout arX\u00adiv is like the rest of us imag\u00adin\u00ading one with\u00adout pub\u00adlic libraries or GPS. But a look at its inner work\u00adings reveals that it isn\u2019t a fric\u00adtion\u00adless utopia of open-access knowl\u00adedge. Over the years, arXiv\u2019s per\u00adma\u00adnence has been threat\u00adened by every\u00adthing from bureau\u00adcrat\u00adic strife to out\u00addat\u00aded code to even, once, a spy scan\u00addal. In the words of Ginsparg, who usu\u00adal\u00adly redi\u00adrects inter\u00adview requests to an FAQ document\u2014on arX\u00adiv, no less\u2014and tried to talk me out of vis\u00adit\u00ading him in per\u00adson, arX\u00adiv is \u2018a child I sent off to col\u00adlege but who keeps com\u00ading back to camp out in my liv\u00ading room, behav\u00ading bad\u00adly.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Rubio Orders U.S. Diplo\u00admats to Scour Stu\u00addent Visa Appli\u00adcants\u2019 Social Media<\/a> (Edward Wong, New York Times): \u201cAs a sen\u00ada\u00adtor from Flori\u00adda, Mr. Rubio pressed the Biden administration\u2019s State Depart\u00adment, run by Antony J. Blinken, to can\u00adcel the visas of stu\u00addents involved in cam\u00adpus protests against Israel\u2019s mil\u00adi\u00adtary cam\u00adpaign in Gaza. Since becom\u00ading sec\u00adre\u00adtary of state in late Jan\u00adu\u00adary, Mr. Rubio has revoked per\u00adhaps 300 or more visas, many of them belong\u00ading to stu\u00addents, he told reporters last Thurs\u00adday. He said he had been sign\u00ading let\u00adters dai\u00adly revok\u00ading visas.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Trump\u2019s intu\u00aditions on tar\u00adiffs won\u2019t help Amer\u00adi\u00adcans (or pen\u00adguins)<\/a> (Megan McAr\u00addle, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201c\u2026I spent the twi\u00adlight hours gog\u00adgling at the Trump administration\u2019s new tar\u00adiff sched\u00adule, try\u00ading to grasp its log\u00adic. For exam\u00adple, the tar\u00adiffs on the Heard and McDon\u00adald islands, which have pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions of zero, except for the pen\u00adguins and assort\u00aded oth\u00ader ani\u00admals. I mean, I\u2019m glad that the rapa\u00adcious wad\u00addlers will no longer fleece Amer\u00adi\u00adcan con\u00adsumers by dump\u00ading their shod\u00addy goods on our mar\u00adkets. But still the thing vexed me \u2026 what do pen\u00adguins export? Besides nature doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries, I mean. Obvi\u00adous\u00adly some\u00adone at the White House, pos\u00adsi\u00adbly a soon-to-be-ex intern, pulled up a list of ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adries with\u00adout check\u00ading whether those ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adries were, you know, inhab\u00adit\u00aded.\u201d\n