Month: August 2024

The Christian Persecution Narrative Rings Hollow

We are still trying to figure out how to disentangle church from state (and vice versa).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/opinion/christianity-evangelicals-persecution-faith.html?smid=em-share

Doctors Saved Her Life. She Didn’t Want Them To.

When her “do not resuscitate” order was ignored, Marie Cooper found herself in a painful situation she had hoped to avoid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/well/patients-dnr-orders-ignored.html?smid=em-share

Why Is the Loneliness Epidemic so Hard to Cure?

Maybe because we aren’t thinking about it in the right way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/magazine/loneliness-epidemic-cure.html?smid=em-share

ChatGPT’s release gave AI doomers their big moment. @/andersen checks in with them, now that it seems to have passed:
“They have learned that solemn statements of purpose drafted during a start-up’s founding aren’t worth much.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/helen-toner-interview-doomers/679624/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

“The GOP has jettisoned its pro-life plank … And Trump himself is now saying he’d be great for ‘reproductive rights,’ a position that pro-lifers have long insisted is a moral abomination,” @Peter_Wehner writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/trump-betrays-pro-life-movement/679622/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Philosophize This!  website

https://www.philosophizethis.org/

Episode #183 … Is ChatGPT really intelligent?  Stephen West Philosophize

https://youtu.be/8YNyBD6U_h8?si=7yqgzXkYVcC-MaHS

“Harris should seize the opportunity to fully embrace left-wing populism because—despite all the punditry’s moaning about the need to ‘moderate’—populist policies are actually popular,” @Tyler_A_Harper writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/kamala-harris-populism-economics/679492/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social