A million years ago (circa 1999) I negotiated a $30k software site license for faculty and students. The vendor secretly removed student licensing from the final contract. When I found that out they said, "Yeah. Your purchasing agent didn't catch that. Here's what she signed."

@wartwatch From Julie Roys

Pastor Robert Morris is one of the most influential pastors in the world, leading a church that gathers about 100,000 congregants each week. Today, he resigned after an alleged victim accused him of molesting her when she was aged 12-16. He was a married father and pastor. In

I'm captivated by Butterflies AI - I need to read up on its background. (Given the extra-fingered images I assume they're using an older, cheaper image generator; a fun side-effect is it amps up the whimsy factor.) Too many bots on here? Go check out their new hometown. :)

When we remove God's hatred toward injustice, we don't just remove his anger, we turn his love into something so insultingly benign it's of little use to anyone. It also, conveniently, lets us off the hook of having to address injustices in our world, now.

When I ministered to women, I assumed at least a quarter had been abused, and that was wmn in church. These sheep have been beaten molested and raped and often don’t know how to live through the next week, so they go on Sundays to hear The preacher (who told them to stay with

After an exhausting debate, I just want to know why Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 kept grilling Ed O'Keefe on his sources. (I wanted to hear more of what a reporter like O'Keefe is learning, not watch him get grilled on his skills and integrity.) What a weird post-debate moment.

And when it came time, helped her find safety amidst a dangerous situation. Ministry isn’t done on a high horse or in an ivory tower. It’s done on the ground. In the trenches of life. With love, compassion, empathy, and genuine care. (End)

This is a really interesting thread (and series of comments) on the challenges of medical studies... and the range of opinions out there, from "promising treatment thwarted by Big Pharma" to "incredibly dangerous drug that shouldn't be tested".

I'm processing the fact that a recent book on church transitions says pastors who interfere in others' ministries risk losing their credentials for "discourteous conduct". (This finally explains to me why so many cowardly "leaders" will let sexual exploitation go unchallenged.)

Help me out, friends. I'm on a webinar and just saw a chat comment of "I tell ChatGPT how I want it to behave, and yes, it's extremely leftist, likely programmed that way." Is there any actual evidence of that, or is that just paranoid ranting? How is ChatGPT output "leftist"?!?

Here's a weird one that might turn into a PSA: I reinstalled Telegram Messenger for a thing, plugged in my phone number, and it said it was sending the confirmation code to the Telegram app on "my other device". That'd be my old phone. Long gone. So, don't upgrade your phone, I guess?

Billy Eilish trying to keep her cool while Michael Keaton is zipping up his fly was one for the books ! 😭😭😭😭😂🫠😂🫠 #SNL #SNL50

What a weird close to #SNL with Michael Keaton zipping his fly up (coming out of a sketch that didn’t have any special costumed pants, so… ???)

The big question is whether we're under the #minnebar hashtag or the #minnebar19 hashtag... or has today's social conversation moved to other sites? Regardless, minnestar rocks! What a great tradition here in MSP!

Okay, friends, you know what I'm gonna ask: If you've got a Sora invite code, let me know. :)