This is the thing: on most campuses the divest demand is about owning index funds, just like in your 401k.

Passive investments aren’t the major lever for pressuring Israel, whether through universities or pension funds.

I hate when companies try to “twee” their way out of bad customer service. Part of the broader tyranny of twee we live under now

Good discussion of the Priest Chatbot, the core problem is that we've stupidly defaulted to LLMs fitting into the social role of people and they are very importantly not people. An important part of being a priest and evangelizing is being a person.

'Embryos as Schrödinger's Persons' by Leah Libresco Sargeant is the best I've read on the embryos involved in IVF that the law has conveniently arranged to ignore.
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“…we can look at recent research on winners of International Math Olympiads (IMO), and how much more productive they are in the U.S. For equally talented IMO medalists, those who migrated to the United States were two to three times as productive as medalists who migrated to the…

Giving my answer to “If you have more kids, don’t the kids get less of you?”

Counting down to their little brother! They both like saying hello to him through my belly.

They’ve discussed marriage but have they read Melissa S. Kearney’s book??

Guardini mentioned 🥳

'Someone approaching the Church is always asking a double question—'what does the Church say about this topic?' and 'does Jesus love me?'' Leah Libresco Sargeant takes Catholic Answers to task for their misguided AI priest.
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'Before anyone could stop her, she opened the box and pulled out the copy of Benjamin Bunny and showed it to me—'just like at home.' The security guards at the Morgan were kind enough to let her carry the book around the exhibition until we left.'

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Scorcher from Nellie Bowles on the DiAngelo struggle session industry.

'People are always demanding that women apologize for something and women seem to love doing it. Women will pay for the opportunity. We’ll thank you for it.'

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'The [Cincinnati] priests ordained in 2022 are competing with those ordained in 2023 to see who can bless the most parishioners’ houses during the Easter season.'

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This is the most simple-yet-devastating critique of the disastrous AI chat-bot priest I have seen, and underscores a lot of why AI isn't going to be a good solution in a lot of realms, let alone the spiritual one.

PLOS ONE published an RCT of a program providing free reading glasses to adults needing near-vision correction in Bangladesh (where ~1/3 of adults need such correction but only 3% get it). Quick take: High-quality RCT finds sizable 33% gain in workforce earnings at 8-mo mark. 1/6