Don’t love it when platforms shut down tools because they don’t like outside research.

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I’m grateful for George’s comments here.

Plagiarism is clearly bad, but its weaponization as part of a culture war could well he worse. I don’t love the idea of its escalation. Gift link.

De quoi s’inspirer pour imaginer de nouveaux avenirs chrétiens.

Welp, here’s something to pay attention to this legislative session.

Happy Public Domain day!

Again, what’s going on isn’t bad because it happens to touch on things significant to Christians, and it’s bad when Christians only care about Palestine and Israel because it fits with their religious worldview. Yet, it would be a missed opportunity to talk about Bethlehem this Christmas season without asking about the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza, and how to make a better world for everyone there.

There are legitimately difficult content moderation decisions, but this is not one of them. Shame on Substack for this approach.

Proud of my colleagues!

As I’ve written before, I’m skeptical when Christians see the Middle East uniquely through the particularities of our beliefs and tradition—there’s so many ways that can (and does) go wrong. Yet, if we’re going to sing and preach about Bethlehem this year, we ought to use modern Bethlehem to get us thinking about a better world for the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza.

I think folks are right to distrust Meta, but Threads with ActivityPub seems to me to be clearly better than Threads without.

Kind of hilarious, actually, but in the depressing way that most Twitter news is these days.

I wasn’t aware of these critiques of ranked-choice voting. The right-wing hand-wringing about it is obviously ridiculous, and I still believe more RCV is the way to go, but I appreciate more nuance in the conversation.

Is this the same feature Elon says will be sufficient for keeping Alex Jones in check?

Trop de vertébrés dans les emojis ? Ça fait rire un peu, mais je comprends aussi la motivation. C’est vrai que ces petits symboles représentent notre compréhension du monde—pourquoi ne pas donc élargir la collection ?

Joli article ! I mostly learned Parisian French from my school classes, and I’ve always been interested in the alternatives out there, though I’ll admit I’ve never fully appreciated African French. Time for that to change.

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This… this is even worse than just giving him an account back. Ugh.

Good observations by Masnick here.

Musk keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper.

I’m an Apple user, but that never stops me from agreeing with Doctorow’s critiques.

The phrase popped into my head before the article could even get to it: We are the product.

Some worrying information here.

The digital could have been used to expand access to content, but we’re using it to actually restrict that access. What a crappy future.

I try not to post too much about this campaign because I find it overwhelming, but this is worrying stuff. Really worrying.

Good joke here—and one I may share with the students in my games and learning class next semester.