“”Between Scylla and Charybdis – literally. “Antonio Spadaro responds to the plans to build a bridge through the Strait of Messina:” Each place has its own genius locations, and the Strait of Messina is not an absence but a fullness, dense of myth, literature, history and memory. Reducing it to a gap of infrastructure would be like claiming that Odyssey is only the journal of a boat trip. To treat the strait as a problem to be resolved by civil engineering is to imagine that a myth can be resolved by a calculation. The Strait requests to be properly seen and considered in its own right, long before being crossed. (Recommended by Christian Casper.)
“”Wendell Berry’s sorrow and gratitude. “Russell Moore reviews Wendell Berry’s next novel:” Maybe the right answer is to pray for Wendell Berry – not the former Berry Wendell in Henry County right now, but in a way the young Wendell Berry who obtained the Andy Catlett decision.
“”The federal trap of agricultural policy: why some farmers are trapped to raise cultures that no longer prosper. “Molly Parker, Julia rendersman and Lylee Gibbs detail a bureaucratic nightmare that keeps certain farmers planting seeds in sand, they know that crops will not push crops:” While farmers have trouble accessing funds to help them withdraw land from floods, federal programs to keep their crops in the soil. The last three decades, the Illinois has received 35 billion dollars of agricultural support – more than any state, but Texas and Iowa – mainly through insurance grants and prices for corn and soybean cultivation.
“”The question that all colleges should ask the AI. “Tyler Austin Harper has a plan for any college wishing to mark out a distinctive identity:” They should engage in ruthless de-telechance not only classrooms but with all their institution. Get rid of Wi-Fi and return to Ethernet, which would allow schools to control where and when students use digital technologies. Also be prohibited on the campus. wisdom or virtue.
“”A machine to govern them all. “Justin Ariel Bailey reviews Paul Kingsnorth Machine: “The machine could expand our menu of lifestyle options. However, by kissing him, supports Kingsnorth, we disabled our humanity, losing our roots and plunging ourselves into a crisis of meaning. We have looked for autonomy, but its price was the alienation – of the earth, of our own bodies. To play on new technologies to save us from the wreckage. »»
“”I hate my friend. “Boone Ashworth and Kylie Robison spend a few weeks trying a new AI” friend “:” If the idea of a laptop filled with microphone that always listens to your conversations raises confidentiality problems for you, know that you are not alone. If your experience looks like ours, carrying the friend will probably be angry with you. intimidation by the chatbot itself.
“”Fantasy or faith? The biblical content generated by a company of a company arouses controversy. “Geoff Brumfiel asked several people, including me, to weigh on the quest for a company to animate the Bible with the AI:” The medium counts, [Brad] East said. For Christians, the Bible is the Word of God, and transforming this word into a short-circuit viral content deprives him of his power. . . . Ryan Beck of Pray.com said it was not a slal. Care and time are put in every video. The images can be an AI, but the voices are real actors, and the music is composed in particular for each episode. A pastor reads the scripts, which often follow the biblical verses they describe closely. At the same time, he said that the content was conceived as “educating it”. »»
“”Charlie Kirk embodied the conservatism of mass culture. “Ross Douthat responds to the assassination of Kirk and describes what made him so popular:” I was interested in speaking in Kirk of stabilization – if there can be a real conservatism center when we are heading towards the last years of President Trump and everything that is beyond; the question of whether his particular character, and in particular his evolution of the university, the more fundamentally normal future Some of the alternatives of the era of the Trump later.
“”Gifts given, gifts received. “Elizabeth Sice reviews Stephen with Grant’s book on his experience as a rural factor:” In terms of subjects and themes, the book has everything: a white collar forced to a blue necklace; a regular civilian becoming a civil servant and representing the government at a time when people are skeptical of the government; and the emotional quest to feel in her own native city. Spiritual disorientation and how a man reoriented himself while delivering a rural letter.
“”The priesthood of all chatbots? “Zac Koons asks what jobs The Church should not turn to AI:” I am sure that we can find good uses for AI in our churches. What I want to explore is the extent to which our humanity is theologically inextricable from the different tasks and vocations of the Church and individual Christians. What things should we fight to keep ourselves? For the good of the church and our surrected calendars?
