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You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so 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. Will God speak to you through AI? No, AI does\u00adn\u2019t go there<\/a> (Marc Ramirez, USA Today): \u201cA mul\u00adti-uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty research group has found AI mod\u00adels large\u00adly omit reli\u00adgion when asked about eth\u00adi\u00adcal or exis\u00adten\u00adtial con\u00adcerns, such as how to save one\u2019s mar\u00adriage from infi\u00addeli\u00adty, whether to for\u00adgive an unfaith\u00adful friend, how to remain calm dur\u00ading dif\u00adfi\u00adcult times or what makes peo\u00adple tru\u00adly hap\u00adpy and free.\u2026 When asked specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly about reli\u00adgion, the mod\u00adels pro\u00advide neu\u00adtral, respect\u00adful replies, Wingate said. But when prompt\u00aded with ques\u00adtions about grief, per\u00adson\u00adal chal\u00adlenges and major life deci\u00adsions, AI sys\u00adtems often default to sec\u00adu\u00adlar fram\u00ading and avoid reli\u00adgion alto\u00adgeth\u00ader \u2013 even when, accord\u00ading to con\u00adsor\u00adtium research, most peo\u00adple expect answers to such ques\u00adtions to include reli\u00adgious per\u00adspec\u00adtives.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty: \u2018Aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic integri\u00adty is at risk\u2019<\/a> (Manuel G. Pas\u00adcual, El Pais): \u201cThe course, which he has been teach\u00ading for years, is not an easy one: it typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly attracts few stu\u00addents, but very good ones. He has nev\u00ader had more than 30 stu\u00addents enrolled at a time, and on some occa\u00adsions he had only eight. This semes\u00adter, prob\u00ada\u00adbly because of the new eval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion sys\u00adtem, 86 stu\u00addents signed up for the class. The results of the midterm exam, which was admin\u00adis\u00adtered on March 5, were extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary, with an aver\u00adage score of 96 out of 100. Forty stu\u00addents scored a per\u00adfect 100.\u2026 Ser\u00adra\u00adno did not void the midterm exam, but warned stu\u00addents that the final one, which count\u00aded for 50% of the final grade, would be held in-per\u00adson. He also said that if the grade dis\u00adtri\u00adb\u00adu\u00adtion was not sim\u00adi\u00adlar to the midterm, only the final exam would be tak\u00aden into account. The aver\u00adage score dropped to 48 out of 100. Of the 89 stu\u00addents who did the midterm exam, only 59 showed up for the final one. And of the 27 who did not show up, 22 had scored a per\u00adfect 100 in the midterm exam.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Your God-giv\u00aden right to be hap\u00adpy<\/a> (Jerusalem Dem\u00adsas and Kelsey Piper, The Argu\u00adment): \u201cWe are rich beyond our ances\u00adtors\u2019 wildest dreams. We casu\u00adal\u00adly dis\u00adcard things for which they would have worked all their lives. In the back\u00adground noise of our lives, there are stag\u00adger\u00ading won\u00adders. When you look at your\u00adself through your ances\u00adtors\u2019 eyes, you should see an astound\u00ading\u00adly rich per\u00adson, a life lived in the lap of unfath\u00adomable lux\u00adu\u00adry. Delight in it. And we should feel, too, a sense of respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty: What\u00adev\u00ader oblig\u00ada\u00adtions you believe attach to the rich, they attach to you. The things that we enjoy are not the default state of affairs. They are not uni\u00adver\u00adsal. What we have in the mod\u00adern world is pre\u00adcious and rare, and it should make us gen\u00ader\u00adous.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. An Embold\u00adened Iran Goes After Its Chris\u00adtians<\/a> (Maya Sulkin, The Free Press): \u201cThe church has long served Iran\u2019s grow\u00ading com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty of Mus\u00adlim con\u00adverts to Christianity\u2014but the regime has spent years mak\u00ading it hard\u00ader for St. Peter to do so. In Jan\u00adu\u00adary 2014, it banned Far\u00adsi-speak\u00ading indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals from attend\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian ser\u00advices entire\u00adly, forc\u00ading con\u00adverts to wor\u00adship in secret under\u00adground house church\u00ades, at the risk of 10- to 20-year prison sen\u00adtences. Those who evan\u00adge\u00adlize to Mus\u00adlims can be found guilty of a crim\u00adi\u00adnal offense and treat\u00aded as a nation\u00adal secu\u00adri\u00adty threat, accord\u00ading to Fard.\u2026 These mea\u00adsures have not stopped Ira\u00adni\u00adans from con\u00advert\u00ading. The coun\u00adtry now has an esti\u00admat\u00aded 1.2 mil\u00adlion Chris\u00adt\u00adian con\u00adverts, mak\u00ading it, by some accounts, the fastest-grow\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian nation in the Mid\u00addle East.\u2026 Most wor\u00adship in under\u00adground house church\u00ades.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Sci\u00aden\u00adtists React to the Lab-Made, Yet Life\u00adlike, Spud\u00adCell<\/a> (K. R. Call\u00adaway, New York Times): \u201cUnlike pre\u00advi\u00adous attempts to cre\u00adate life\u00adlike cells, which have start\u00aded with liv\u00ading cells whose genet\u00adic mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal is stripped down to the very basics, Spud\u00adCell is con\u00adstruct\u00aded from the \u2018bot\u00adtom up,\u2019 using life\u00adless chem\u00adi\u00adcal com\u00adpo\u00adnents. It\u2019s the first time an arti\u00adfi\u00adcial cell con\u00adstruct\u00aded this way has been able to com\u00adplete a full life cycle and spawn the next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion.\u2026 The new\u00adly cre\u00adat\u00aded Spud\u00adCell still has sev\u00ader\u00adal key lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions that sep\u00ada\u00adrate it from liv\u00ading cells. Although it can feed, grow and divide, Spud\u00adCell is not self-suf\u00adfi\u00adcient like most liv\u00ading cells. It can build many of the inner work\u00adings of a cell-like sys\u00adtem, but can\u00adnot build its own ribo\u00adsomes. Because it lacks these essen\u00adtial pro\u00adtein-build\u00ading cell struc\u00adtures, a Spud\u00adCell can live only in the lab, rely\u00ading on sci\u00aden\u00adtists to feed it a nutri\u00adent-rich mix of enzymes and pro\u00adteins.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Boko Haram, Bei\u00adjing-Style<\/a> (Kevin D. Williamson, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cSome of our na\u00efve friends con\u00adtin\u00adue to tell us\u2014forgive the clich\u00e9\u2014that \u2018real social\u00adism has nev\u00ader been tried.\u2019 But that is pre\u00adcise\u00adly wrong: Real social\u00adism is being prac\u00adticed in Chi\u00adna, just as real social\u00adism was prac\u00adticed in the Union of Sovi\u00adet Social\u00adist Republics. Real<\/em> social\u00adism is here to be seen and examined\u2014it is hypo\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal<\/em> social\u00adism that has nev\u00ader been tried, because it is<\/em> hypo\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal, the\u00ado\u00adret\u00adi\u00adcal, and utopi\u00adan. Vogu\u00adish Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pro\u00adgres\u00adsives make a great many argu\u00adments in favor of social\u00adism, which is very much in fash\u00adion at the moment (not only in New York City), and almost all of those argu\u00adments amount to: \u2018The ide\u00adal\u00adized hypo\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal ver\u00adsion of my pol\u00adi\u00adcy is prefer\u00adable to the real-world ver\u00adsion of your pol\u00adi\u00adcy.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Democ\u00adra\u00adcy Looks Bad Every Fifty Years Or So<\/a> (Dan Drezn\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThere are a lot of rea\u00adsons to be pes\u00adsimistic about the cur\u00adrent moment. But I have enough faith in my coun\u00adtry to pre\u00addict two truths about what the Unit\u00aded States will look like in 2076. First, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans will be grumpy about the state of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan democ\u00adra\u00adcy. Sec\u00adond, it will nonethe\u00adless be in bet\u00adter shape than it is in 2026.\u201d\n