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: My cloudflare had 102,377 request last week and it is for a website that no one uses. Bots account for 1/3 of internet usage.
: “The Israeli military developed an AI system called Lavender that used mass surveillance data on 2.3 million Gaza residents to generate kill lists, …
: “Death is the separation of soul from body. Nothing incorporeal is separated from the corporeal, for nothing incorporeal comes into contact with the …
: Turns out there are two ways in English to break words at the end of lines with a hyphen. Brits break words based on morpheme/etymology, while …
: Transfiguration Sunday The transfiguration is tethered to Sinai in ways I hadn’t before appreciated. In Exodus 24, following Israel’s commitment to be faithful to God’s …
: Every night we have rice I have an after dinner sorites: how many grains is an overfull stomach?
: Serendipity and Research My PhD thesis dealt a lot with Hebrews 12:27. I sent my supervisor around six 10,000 word papers on it, trying and trying again to get it right. At …
: AI can take out what are sometimes considered “low-level” jobs: junior dev, call center worker, data entry, and the uninspiring-level illustrator, …
: In 1 Thessalonians, Paul compares him and his colleagues to infants, nursing mothers (or nurses), and fathers (2:7 [textual variant acknowledged], 8, …
: Always nice when you come to the end of a long digression and are struggling to see the connection with the main point when the author spells it out …
: “The real Moon, if you could reach it and survive, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else . . . No man would find an abiding …
: One super interesting thing about Scripture is how sometimes prophecies supply not just the nuts and bolts of what will happen, but the psychological …
: Read Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino It’s kind of like if Nathan Pyle wrote poetry. Lovely example of defamiliarization as a means of appreciation. …
: Read Justin W. Jackson, “Shedding the Robes of Kingship: Samuel’s Subtle Imagery and a Surprising Lesson about Israel’s True King” (BBR 34.1: 20–42). …
: “I was a foreigner (xenos) and you invited me in.” – Matthew 25:35
: 2 AI things coming: Bespoke spam emails based on webscraping your acquaintances/coworkers. Maybe not dupe-worthy, but more likely to take time to …
: Not yet had the pine-tree, felled on its native mountains, descended thence into the watery plain to visit other lands; men knew no shores except …
: The Peters’s elephantnose fish has a nose-like thing called a Schnauzenorgan. It uses electricity to explore its surroundings. What a world.
: Craig Keener, Acts (CUP: 2020), 242.
: I found the missed opportunity pic for when I joined micro.blog.
: “You do yours and the Holy One blessed be He will do His.” Adam’s natalist argument from Bereshit Rabbah 23.4
: Seeing Motes At first it’s skating across a pool of milk crossing rivers of blood slowly divesting then back and forth back and forth oblique and bashful yet …
: ‘Behold, William, in a few words I have described the form of living. If you wish to follow it, without doubt you will attain great perfection. And, …
: Learned that there’s a Gnostic church still going.
: Waltzing Matilda + Overtone Singing by the brilliant Bukhu Ganburged.
: πόλλ᾽ οἶδ᾽ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐχῖνος ἕν μέγα. A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing. – Archilochus, Fragment 201
: Today’s listening: Terry Riley, Simone Libralon, “In C - For 35 Violas”
: Found out from an IT person that I’m still on the roll of the regent house. Very exciting, though I still have yet to vote.
: Bede on Common Parentage “From the first, God created one male and one female, not as with the other animals that in their own species he created not singularly but in …
: I’ve been cutting my hair for my adult life along with my kids' and sometimes my wife’s. For almost a year I’ve been doing the top with a straight …
: An enviable title, Mr. Scott.
: Three background-kinda apps I love and use all the time: shottr - screenshot to OCR. Great for spotty PDFS, quick adjustment to preferred formatting, …
: Bit of Looney Tunes over the holidays with the boys. Kind of whiplash going from Daniel Tiger giving 18 reasons for taking turns to Bugs shooting …
: Matthew 8:16: πάντας τοὺς κακῶς ἔχοντας ἐθεράπευσεν = “He healed all the sick” or isomorphically “He healed all those having badly.” That “having …
: Writerly Humility I’m coming off of four years where I spent most of my time researching. In scholarship (at least in biblical studies), there is super high level …
: I’m fine with gender-neutral Bible translations (though I prefer to feel the distance in idiom between our culture and the texts') but the NRSV’s …
: A Few Ironies in Luke 4:16–30 In Luke 4:18–19, Jesus outlines his ministry in a synagogue sermon in the words of Isaiah 61. The description of the “anointed one” ends by saying he …
: Hedging (1942) www.youtube.com/watch
: Listened twice last week to Philip Glass + Uakti album, Aguas da Amazonia. This was my favorite album for a time in high school and holds up. Love the …
: I’d much rather be a person of habit than a goal setter, but I find sometimes the goal-setting primes me for habituating.
: Terrence Tao—the above average mathematician—notices we have individual friendships and mega corporations and huge groups. Small groups, the kind you …
: The Magi give Jesus their θησαυρούς—treasures. The obvious etymological grandpa of “thesaurus,” but also the etymological forebear of “treasure” as …
: Today I learned from an amusement park worker about Giraffes: no horns, but ossicones which or cone shaped extensions of their skulls. And FIVE of …
: Read Matt 1:5 — I’m wondering if I need to reread the book of Ruth with the question, “How did the fact that Boaz was raised by the Gentile, Rahab, …
: Had an interesting convo with an art history student researching Cambodian art and French colonialism. He said that in Khmer (language spoken in …
: Alas, while I did finish my PhD in 2025, I fell short of my goal of reading 12 books. Total came in at 10. Oh well. I take some consolation in that at …
: From A Classic Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: ia902905.us.archive.org/22/items/…
: Lots of good lines. greensdictofslang.com/entry/dce…
: Loving this opening sentence: “Dear Delegates, I wish to apologize in advance because I am obliged to refer to my lexicon and myself in this …
: Grokipedia and Wikipedia Found my way for the first time onto Grokipedia—an LLM aping Wikipedia with longish organized entries on all sorts of topics. Comparing the entries on …
: Working on an argument that αἰών doesn’t mean “world”—ever. That’s clear enough in classical Greek, Byzantine Greek, and modern Greek. I’m wanting to …