Chief Audit Executive. AI governance & assurance. Diaconate candidate, Des Moines. Views my own.
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Charity > Outrage
Audit long-form on LinkedIn. Catholic musings often found here.
Asked when he might care again, a Nebraska fan declined to set a timeline.
“We’re focused on the next Saturday. You start looking ahead to being excited, that’s when you lose focus on being cautiously available.”
#huskers
As a Catholic, I’ve found it eye-opening—and freeing—to understand original sin as a privation: the absence of the original holiness humanity was meant to inherit. That innocence is entirely compatible with sharing a wounded human nature that needs grace.
Would respond to @JamesRosenTV , but comments are off, so…
Some fair points, but it only takes a click to see that the person behind @25YearsAgoLive is not anonymous. It’s in the bio.
So while historians to his liking may do all of those things, reporters to my liking fact-check before making careless assertions.
The site @25YearsAgoLive may succeed at its stated goal of live-tweeting 9/11, citing news reporting from that horrific day, and that can be valuable for a variety of reasons; but that would not be “achiev[ing] one of the greatest feats of any historian.” Rather than simply repeating old news reports in serial fashion, historians sift through them, and compare them with other evidence, to separate fact and untruths. Historians also provide previously unpublished data, new interviews, trend analysis, and reliable conclusions. This site won’t be doing any of that, it seems. I don’t think its anonymous proprietor (another thing alien to historianship) would even accept the label of historian.
I’m so glad I picked up my first Berry book on the recommendation of @booksoftitans. Rest in peace.
Well said. There is beauty in hearing marvelous voices, of course, and it has its place.
But it is not … cannot be … worship.
This is a good example of why contemporary worship is often very detrimental to congregational worship. Hymns are written to be sung by a congregation, which means you typically only need an octave and a third vocal range (at most) to hit all the notes.
But contemporary music is written to be performed, which means it's typically written with the abilities of professional performers in mind, which means it will often require a vocal range that most people don't even have, let alone feel comfortable employing. So the end result is that people watch the professionals sing instead of actually singing.
And watching other people worship through song is not really worship.
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Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
I know it's not a pending Supreme Court case, but I bet @whignewtons and @DavidAFrench could have a heyday discussing the machinations and potential spillover of this one betting scandal.
Oh, yes, yes and yes.
Give me loud children over boorish adults any day of the week.
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I talked a dad who told me he spent $10k a year on travel baseball between tourneys, travel, and gear for his son. He got a partial scholarship to D-2 school. If he had put the $10k in a mutual fund each year, he would have had about $190,000. The scholarship was $5k a year.
Reading Johannine Literature atm, and thought I'd have @AnthropicAI Claude Code determine, source, compile and present a curated 50-page pdf of relevant public domain philosophy that would complement. Nonstop content filtering on public domain texts. Said it fixed the issue and no amount of cajoling could unlock it. It couldn't determine what specifically triggered the content filter, other than that it was in Aristotle Book IX (discussing noble action even at the cost of one's life.)
Had to switch to @OpenAI Codex which did it like a charm. One shot.
Does Anthropic have content filtering so tight that it refuses Aristotle? Yikes.
This piece on math education is horrifying, particularly the outright fraud that led to the Bay Area school system to stop teaching algebra for a while. The compiler/author (Zvi) is a notoriously long read, so fair warning, although I always enjoy it.
But it’s crucial that we actually teach children things and objectively measure whether or not we’re doing that. There’s a ton of money at stake but — more importantly — let’s not lie to children and tell them they’ve mastered something they haven’t.
Related: I have long struggled with IEPs and 504 plans … in practice. In theory, they make all the sense in the world and to the extent they truly help a child with learning difficulties climb the ladder of mastery to the highest possible rung for them, I’m all for it. But if the plan gives only the illusion of progress, it’s actually a disservice to all involved.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
- Orwell, 1984
The most endumbening pair of sentences that you will read today: "Animal Farm, classically, is a story without a happy ending. But Serkis' interpretation gives viewers closure." usatoday.com/story/entertain…
How is it possible that the @nytimes doesn’t have Ben Folds on the list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters?
Incredible range and depth across genres, topics, and decades.
I’m glad to see he is, in fact, still living.
Bad stats cause my brain to hurt.
Becoming successful is not luck. It’s math.
If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times, you have a 100% chance of success.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Trying 100 times with a 1/100 success probability per independent trial gives a 63% chance of at least one success (1 - 0.99^100), not 100%. math.stackexchange.com/questions/1885…
A beautiful interview.
This week's episode of "Interesting Times" is a conversation with Ben Sasse, who is dying in public:
nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opini…
