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August 2025

August 28, 2025

The Personality Collapse

A study found that over the last ten years, while other age groups were relatively...

August 27, 2025

The 40 Jobs (Supposedly) Most at Risk from AI

A Microsoft research project broke down human jobs into their "work activities" and correlated them...

August 21, 2025

Why Technology Will Never Take Over Completely

Watching videos of the robot Olympics made me realize why technology will never take over...

August 19, 2025

AI Is Sometimes PROGRAMMED to Be Dangerous

When AI chatbots do something bad or dangerous to users, we usually assume this is...

August 18, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/18/25

The 20 jobs that are safest from AI. Why traffic to the big porn sites...

August 15, 2025

DISCUSS: Pessimism About the Future?

A writer says that trying to revive the space program is futile because of our...

August 11, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/11/25

A baby who is 30 years old. No confidentiality with AI. And Christian revival in...

August 06, 2025

Re-enchantment or More Disenchantment?

With the rise of science over religion, "disenchantment" has become a hallmark of modernity. People...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

The Theological Problems with AI Sermons

The main problems with AI-generated sermons are not ethical but theological. AI-chatbots are not called...

July 30, 2025

The Ethical Problems with AI Sermons

Today 12% of Protestant clergy say they are comfortable using AI to write their sermons. ...

July 24, 2025

“Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies”

A number of tech start ups are devoted to the genetic screening and implantation of...

July 23, 2025

All the Lonely People

Americans are becoming so isolated from each other that I worry that the ties that...

July 22, 2025

Making Us Buy AI That We Don’t Want

Have you noticed that Microsoft Word has added an AI feature that will now do...

July 21, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 7/21/25

What the free market is doing for Argentina. Teachers using AI to grade papers written...

July 14, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 7/14/25

"Trump Accounts" give $1000 to babies for when they turn 18. Teen pregnancy is dying out....

July 10, 2025

Revulsion against AI

As companies, apps, agencies, and even schools are proudly announcing that they are going AI, the...

July 07, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 7/7/25

Requiring schools to teach fetal development. Quantum computing and the end of cybersecurity. And Democrats...

July 03, 2025

The Importance of Boredom & Daydreaming

We cannot handle being bored, so we use our cell phones to fill every moment...

June 2025

June 25, 2025

Hoist with Their Own Petard

"Hoist with his own petard" is a metaphor from Shakespeare meaning to get blown up...

June 23, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/23/25

The U.S. attacks Iran. Supremes rule nuns don't have to pay for abortions for employees....

June 19, 2025

What Comes After the Knowledge System Collapse?

if Gioia is right that our existing knowledge system is collapsing, what might we expect...

June 18, 2025

The Collapse of Our Knowledge System

"The biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in...

June 16, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/16/25

Israel's new war with Iran. Unemployment rate for computer engineering grads is double that of...

June 09, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/9/25

Even liberal justices rule against reverse discrimination. A bigger percentage of blacks are "Christian nationalists"...

May 2025

May 26, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/26/25

AI Developer Says We “do not understand how our own AI creations work.” If You...

May 23, 2025

The Pope Takes On AI: A New Church Strategy?

Pope Francis focused on controversies and proposed reforms within the church. Whereas Pope Leo seems...

May 19, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/19/25

War as video game. North Korea's remote worker scam. And the more powerful AI gets,...

May 02, 2025

Tariffs and the Labor Problem

Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" supports Trump's tariffs and his goal of bringing manufacturing back,...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/28/25

Generating "bodyoids": Humans with no minds. Wisconsin trick increases school funding for 402 years. And...

April 22, 2025

My AI Buber-Buddy

While working on my new book on "Technology and Vocation," I had an uncanny, ironic,...