Plough

We have a subscription to Plough magazine. It has Christian scholars writing articles/commentary, but isn't restricted to them. Recent article entitled "Your Friends Are Not In Your Phone" was fantastic: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/your-friends-are-not-…

it is the result of data analysis. the computer program isn't explaining anything, or recommending anything. it's simply presenting the results of querying data analyzed at scale and returning the "most likely" result (as determined by the system prompt and human input from developers and users of the program). "most likely" is still a super-fuzzy grey area. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/computers-cant-do-mat…

From the "about us"[0]: Plough is the publishing house of the Bruderhof, an international movement of Christian communities whose members are called to follow Jesus together in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount and of the first church in Jerusalem, sharing all our talents, income, and possessions (Acts 2 and 4). Bruderhof communities, which include both families and single people from a wide range of backgrounds, are located in the United States, England, Germany, Australia, and Paraguay. [0] https://www.plough.com/en/about-us

On a constructive note, Wilson left not unattested how Homer should be performed in her view, by herself – link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bfDgXqd54CU – and who Americaʼs Homer may be, namely Tracy Chapman – link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913656 about https://www.plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer –, so Nolan now knows whom to ask when he needs a script next time, for an Ilias movie.

Merry X-Mas, all Something to read if you’re bored, https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/christmas-readings/t…

On Good Parties: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/on-good-parties

Hmm yeah.. first one I looked at "The Case for One More Child: Why Large Families Will Save Humanity" seems pretty insane - too many extremely wacky sentences to quote here. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-case-for-one-more-…

Two short stories: - Rashōmon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashōmon_(short_story) - Three Questions http://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/short-stories/the-three-questi…

> Working class shoppers. Sure, it’s elitist, but people like shopping alongside people in their own stratum. The thing about America is that you honestly cannot tell the social status of a person based on appearance alone. The middle class is large and we value frugality and humility. I think of this as a collective tendency: rich or poor, when you go to Wal-Mart you just wear whatever you're wearing. I don't know if you have ever heard of Chris Arnade but he is an ex Wall Streeter who wrote about the "McDonald's Test," which probably lines up with Wal-Mart too. "Eventually I came up with what I call the McDonald’s test. The broad thesis of my book is that our society sorts people into what I call the front row and the back row – the privileged class to which I used to belong, who are financially secure and live in safe neighborhoods with good schools and public services – and everybody else. The test is to ask a person: how do you view McDonald’s? In my experience, the answer usually reveals whether someone belongs to the front or back row." https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justi…