earlier today I saw a friend on facebook repost this graph from Institute for Family Studies, coauthored by Brad Wilcox. immediately it felt fishy to me not only because of the source but because something just smelled off about the graph. what would be the mechanism for that kind of plunge?

it’s wrapped up with a bunch of arguable tactical claims, but I think this video captures the problem I have with how people tend to respond to AI in a kneejerk way that reveals they don’t have a theory of technology, just feelings about each individual technology youtu.be/Z75hlhgchQ4?...

I am not joking when I say the primary biblical justification people give for the justice of material inequality is the Parable of the Talents. Since they’re given unequal amounts and the ones who earn more are rewarded, therefore to God, equality is unfair. I am just floored by the illiteracy.

man. Jean Twenge, not even once. this is partly why I think the generations stuff is garbage because its biggest boosters are wrong about almost everything else!

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

on the one hand it’s always crazy to see people like Megan Basham or Joel Webbon get mad at the president for blasphemy but on the other…it’s grounds for reflection on the man’s underlying nature to approximately none of them, ever, even though it’s not anomalous. he blasphemes constantly!

I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/josh...

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There are a lot of people on this website who think they want God's Not Dead But For Leftist Politics and my very simple rejoinder to them is: no you don't

the advent of LLMs newly demonstrates that capitalist institutions have a massive distorting effect on how technology aligns with what people want life to look like: new genuinely good things end up driving the destruction (not merely replacement) of existing genuinely good things

“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.”

i assume dem leadership knows this, but i don’t think they’ll be able to count on fetterman for anything if they take the senate back; he’s becoming more and more juvenile and unable to control himself.

citation matching is a massive headache in my academic writing life and unless you want to use a LaTeX editor which is a bit of a learning curve and aesthetic compromise (at least to me) you had to settle for zotero integrations in word/google which for me have always been…less than speed-of-thought

genuinely do not know why no one else has built this

I think frankly the buried lede here is that academia really needs a digital distribution standard other than PDF, because PDFs make all kinds of things difficult for users too. PDFs are great for making print ready files with guaranteed formatting stability, and that’s about it.

ok so: if you’re a qualitative researcher let me know because I accidentally started building a qualitative data analysis app and i’d love to have some user testers! I plan to have a coding workflow prototype working by the end of the week.

“I am a cynical, protean party operative and I am hitching my wagon to a socialist because he is popular!” “I am a principled leftist and I’m glad a centrist shares one of my principles!” Yes! Like grownups, instead of pretending that cynicism is principled and principles rule out cooperation!

As followers of Jesus Christ it is our responsibility to call for nonviolent and LOUDER THAN HELL resistance to this evil regime. On the last day God in his justice will demand an answer for your silence

constant discourse about how bluesky is good or bad makes me wonder if anyone actually remembers pre-Elon twitter. it was bad in all of the ways people complain bluesky is bad, down to the very discourse about its badness!

I spent a probably dumb amount of time today writing out my dreams for a better qualitative data analysis application than the presently available options. I use MaxQDA and while there’s stuff that’s helpful it’s also just massively clunky and takes longer to code data with than my manual methods.

the right wing obsession with the church interruption really signifies the asymmetry in discourse. nobody vested the church protesters with any power! they’re ordinary citizens that no one else actually has to answer for. ICE agents and the president are literally the government.

I’ll confess to not being as generally bearish on AI as some folks on the left. I think, though, that the criticisms that are most compelling to me don’t get addressed in this post. The first is teaching writing and the second is internet experience degradation.

He was a Communist, Elmo.

going into the game I had serious doubts that either of these teams could beat the seahawks. they and the pats are the only ones that feel like they could take the whole thing

no matter how OT goes, my memory of this game will be the most incredible pass I've ever seen

martin buber eats. I and thou are hungry. is this anything

I think what a lot of folks really want is a party where this kind of commitment is the norm: both seeing that better is possible and tirelessly selling it to the public. This is why I find the organizational hostility to Bernie and Zohran so discouraging.

man, this reminds me of when CT excerpted "the benedict option" years back. at least that title pretended to a level of sophistication that this...lacks. what's amazing to me is that Shenvi has all the evidence in the world that he's doing yesterday's shadowboxing, but he keeps at it!

because I can freely download two different child pornography generating apps on Apple's App Store and the Google Play store, both very popular and highly ranked, I must conclude that Apple and Google endorse that activity

“Are we only fish to be caught and killed? Are we only sea creatures that have no leader? Must we be strung up on their hooks and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?

I continue to be surprised at my own capacity to be shocked. I feel so angry and ill. I dread what horrors would be required to set in motion the uprooting of all of this—not just from the government, but in the millions who eagerly chose and even now cheer this inhumanity.

the rulers of this world

I finally laid out the details for my Christian plan to help billionaires. My offer stands, billionaires! sojo.net/articles/opi...

I am always baffled at the response people have to the home childcare allowance proposal, especially as Bruenig proposes it, because it’s *in conjunction with free public daycare.* It’s straightforwardly about horizontal equality between households that prefer center based or home based care.

we’re missing the coolest stuff the internet could be. streaming services especially have sucked all the creative energy out of music distribution. I’m not gonna like, make money on my music, so I’m not releasing to spotify etc. I wanted to make a music experience like sitting down with a record

we’re missing the coolest stuff the internet could be. streaming services especially have sucked all the creative energy out of music distribution. I’m not gonna like, make money on my music, so I’m not releasing to spotify etc. I wanted to make a music experience like sitting down with a record

it’s still christmastide, so I’m an advocate of continuing to listen to christmas music. I noticed there are too few christmas songs that are huge bummers—but hey, it’s the feast of the holy innocents! so I made one. nomoresea.xyz

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” And yet: “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” I think this is why we can’t go back to status quo ante or be pulled by the winds of public polling. Evil is only truly overcome by sincere goodness.

it really sucks to have a government run by people who, down to their most mundane public displays, luxuriate in depravity

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

we desperately need more infant formula positivity. infant formula is beautiful. babies love it. it saves lives. it’s egalitarian. you can put it in the baby brezza and it just produces perfect temperature bottles. not nearly enough people are saying how great it is!

it’s taken me awhile but I’m finally reading what has arguably done more to confuse evangelicals about poverty than any other work: “When Helping Hurts.” core claims: poverty isn’t primarily material in nature, “handouts” don’t solve it, and the goal is to solve poverty with labor income

I’d more say pie is the most consistently overrated dessert form to my preferences, as someone who’s not really into cooked fruit. and it looks simple but is in fact hard to not screw up on a technical level. ice cream is the only dessert that can improve or even contain basically all others

the thing about this sort of measure is that it gets at real problems. paying for private childcare is extremely expensive and it often puts a massive consumption burden on households with children younger than school age. but it’s very dumb to include it in a core, static consumption bundle

when I was 18 I made an album cover with no songs or band, and subsequently formed a band and wrote and recorded the music. honestly not a terrible way to work

I am an egalitarian: all human life is equal in value, which means society should be structured as a community of social equals and to the greatest extent possible create equal real access to the means to live a flourishing life

“prison abolition” in terms of like, “have something basically unrecognizable compared to american corrections” seems fine to me—the problem is just overdoing the language to sound radical. I think that’s where people started, and then negatively polarized themselves into much dumber positions

this is a common right wing canard: no one is genuinely egalitarian. or perhaps there are some, but they’re all rubes being fooled by sociopathic masterminds. twisted view of the world, that