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Leonard Sax, in what may be the saddest set of sentences I’ve read in some time:

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A recent survey of American teens found that 42% of boys aged 13 to 17 are now using A.I.-powered apps to create their own pornography. Thirty-two percent have created “deepfake” porn of girls their own age, then shared those images with others. In my work as a family physician and researcher, I have talked with these boys. One told me it’s almost magical: he speaks his fantasy, and—poof!—20 seconds later, there it is: professional-grade pornography, spun up in an app such as Seedream or Nano Banana. And this boy is 15...

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Read Caldwell on de Gaulle.

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Read Emma Green on the battle for the post-Trump Right.

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Victor Lee Austin writes of angels and AI: “Neither have bodies; both are essentially immaterial.”

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But this is not true. This is part of the AI myth. Why data centers and vast amounts of water and energy if AI is immaterial? This is only an appearance, and a false and misleading one at that.

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Timothy Burke:

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[This] is why the rest of us need to keep struggling through the dense ordeal of the small materialities of everyday life and the everyday routines of labor. The headwaters of thought are in that ordeal, and from them flow human relationships, both real and aspired towards, both the relations we imagine we want and those we hope to overcome. A little help here and there with tasks that are more difficult than they need to be in the infrastructures of the previous world is fine, but the “greater things” we want, the deeper thoughts we crave, will be found only in our bodies, our minds,...

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I really loved Mere O’s new Writer’s Covenant. Well done, Jake.

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“I wonder if this is one reason why there are so many scenes of people swimming in Malick’s films. When you’re swimming, you’re not acting. You’re just swimming.\"

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I really appreciated TGC hosting opposed reactions to Mere Orthodoxy’s The Faith Received project. On the question of LLM-translated texts, Fred Sanders gave a cautious thumbs up, whereas James Eglington gave it a decided thumbs down.

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Ed Feser reviews Paul Kingsnorth and Grayson Quay:

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Both authors emphasize that liberal individualism was the moral and political corollary of the mechanistic world picture. If ends or purposes are not built into the natures of things, the only purposes things can have—including our own lives—are the ones we happen to give them. But our purposes are radically diverse. Hence there can be no common ends or purposes which all the members of a political community can be expected to pursue, except those to which they all happen to consent. The result is a public square from which religion and traditional...

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Andy Crouch clarifies comments attributed to him in that long reported NYT piece by Elisabeth Dias about Anthropic and religious leaders

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Well, I thought we were losing Douthat’s voice on the page for a while, but now I see he’s got a new column at The Free Press and his fantasy novel is being published next summer. Huzzah!

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With some quibbles about Paul and Torah, I enjoyed this Leithart take on Christians as chameleons in politics.

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Two takes on The Social Reckoning: Adam Nayman and Sonny Bunch.

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Update: A third take, by Matt Zoller Seitz.

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“Ronaldo says Jesus broke his word,\" says ESPN headline.

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I for one clicked through.

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Happy Tad Williams pub day!

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The Splintered Sun was originally going to be a standalone adventure set in the before times of Osten Ard. Then it demanded a sequel, which Tad is currently working on, called The Crooked Tower. And now that will have a sequel, tentatively titled The Holly Ring.

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And thus we have a...

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In CT this morning I have a review of James Marriott’s new book on the death of reading.

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William Davies, “What is LinkedIn?\":

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One answer provided is the kind of weird, syncopated prose style seen above: a succession of Pinterest slogans combined into verse, that seems so eager to express its depths of humanity that you instantly question whether it really has any. It’s a style of writing that reaches so hard for meaning, that it ends up as a set of free-floating signifiers, which refuse all interpretation. You can’t misunderstand something that evades understanding altogether. The lack of conflict, the lack of humour, the lack of any tangible referents, creates the feel of a new kind of...

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Oh, and read Dale Coulter on Bonnie, evangelicals, and 9/11.

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On my friend and colleague Richard Beck’s blog he wrote up a series of posts engaging my friend and editor Bonnie Kristian’s new book on evangelicalism. I wish I had time to respond fully, but I encourage readers to go back to one of my posts attempting to define the E-word as best I could.

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In the latest issue of The Lamp in my hands (I know the next one is already online), I enjoyed Nic Rowan on Ray Bradbury and Matthew Walther on the SSPX.

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Kirsten’s review of du Mez’s new book is maybe the finest thing I’ve ever read by her.

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Read Caldwell on Ohio and the state of the parties nationally heading into the midterms.

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Like everyone else in the world of Bible nerdery, I had a blast reading Lyman Stone on OT censuses.

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I wasn’t sure what to expect from Dan Hitchens' profile of Roger Scruton’s youth and intellectual formation, but like everything Dan writes, it’s outstanding. Well worth your time.

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One more argument for simply opting not to use any LLM at all in one’s work, writing, or personal life: their ‘idiom’ won’t infect your own voice.

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AI-style is ugly, boring, and contagious. The easiest way not to catch it is straightforward: stay away.

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