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People give Jim Jordan a hard time about his typology. They miss that sometimes he's pretty no-nonsense. Like why the showbread was covered in the temple: "there were birds in the temple, you don't want dookie on the bread you're going to eat later that week."

For all the trumpeted benefits of AI, much of the wider impact of it is pollution of the digital commons, erosion of social trust, diminishment of human skill, empowerment of cheats, spammers, scammers, trolls, etc., and the demoralization and penalization of honest people.

Mercator-Brain will have you looking at facts like this with disbelief for your entire life. It just...doesn't seem possible.

It's crazy to me that we millennials grew up through back-to-back years of Lion King, Toy Story, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Prince of Egypt, and Tarzan and never thought, "This is unusual. This is never happening again."

BREAKING: UPenn will formally apologize for allowing Lia Thomas to compete as a woman. The tide is turning!

A Baptist grandma is running Department of Homeland Security.

Why are conservatives unable to create the physical environment they idolize in areas that they totally control? The conservative visual fantasy is a D + 50 New England College town. It's true, almost like a "cargo cult" thing.

One of the many reasons I hate self-help books is because they encourage this hustle culture where reading is all about scrolling through bullet points on a list. There's none of the imagination, empathy, or sense of immersion that comes from reading fiction. You gain nothing.

One need not believe that AI is actively controlled by demons to believe that many of its tendencies conduce to demonic ends.

Yes. A chief danger of homeschooling has always been that it produces mommas' boys. For me, this was countered by a clear turn toward dad's projects, going to work w/dad, and just him being an involved family man. But I've seen the opposite, and it's something to guard against.

14 years in August. It's not just not getting bored. It's having built something together that is so beautiful, important, and time-tested that you come to love your spouse for a whole new set of reasons that make the original spark seem quaint, albeit fondly remembered.

AI chatbots function as "intellectual pornography." Brilliant summary.

We have a lot of these solar panel fields in Florida. It's a prime example of accepting highly localized and intense environmental degradation for highly diffuse and minor global benefits.

"dramatic fertility declines...If it’s not about income (poor women still have more children than rich women) or childcare costs (OECD countries with the most affordable child care tend to have the lowest fertility), then it must be about values." firstthings.com/feminism-again…

Yes, any Trump fans who insist the DOJ is lying are backing themselves into a position that would imply that Trump himself is permitting a cover-up – which conflicts with their narrative that he alone will at last reveal all secrets. They really have no off-ramp from this farce

What new strata of depravity must we reach before we finally admit that it was a monumental error to treat sexual vices as mere foibles, and that in fact they have a strong tendency to darken the mind, weaken the will, and destroy decent instincts?