Terrell Stanley Seaton, PhD, MDiv
In ascending (or descending) order, a Retired leadership studies university professor with an AOS in organizational ethics and change management, clergy, pastoral theologian, former US Air Force Chaplain, heldentenor singing canticles, oratorios, and Bel Canto literature, father to brilliant daughters, husband to patient spouse, and as such am a wealthy man.
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Yes, there's no really good replacement for a physical book.
eBooks during the era of #Skeumorphism got close, but now they're more abstract than ever. Not the same feel, by a long shot.
@canticler @analyticus @philosophy
No special references, it's a all corpus. But I would advise to begin by searching with "Bernard Stiegler" and "Technics" in your favorite non-tracking search engine. You can also ask ChatGPT for a raw synthesis. ;)
Is there a reason why theologians write like that? They even do it when they're writing for ordinary people.
If you don't know what I mean, grab a theology book and see how often you read:
- dense nounification of verbs like "the becoming", "being", "othering", "being the Church", etc,
- adjectives that sound like the product of Greek classes like "salvific", "pneumatological",
- Older English terms in the middle of sentences like "the mire", "despond", "thou".
I'm used to academic waffle but theology, which talks about God who deliberately went out of the way to be understood and to talk in words everyone, even the uneducated could understand, should maybe set the example for clarity and concreteness.
Scenario: A refugee enters the UK without papers {he had them, but were lost) and he’s denied asylum from war. His application is denied. He goes to America instead where he is accepted.
This is Sunak’s plan.
This actually happened in 1933. That man was Albert Einstein.
Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.
Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.
Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start
"a Justice and the Justice’s close family members shall refrain from engaging in political or other activity that presents the appearance that the Justice cannot fairly and independently consider the merits of legal questions... or...are exploiting the judicial position."
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RT @pogowatchdog
Did you know the Supreme Court doesn’t have a code of conduct that justices have to abide by?
We don’t think that’s right. So we decided to pr…
https://twitter.com/POGOwatchdog/status/1633846344753336320
Charismatic Batman
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Christophe Rigon / Soto²
Dr Jonathan Downie
John O’Connell
Paris Marx
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Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org