David Hamstra

Pastor @ABAdventist, #YEG Central. ThD student @AndrewsUniv. I aim to post thought-provoking content. My views are my own.

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A text for those who participate in online discussions:

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From the Globe and Mail editorial board: https://t.co/OZMTgKs7lt

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"If we see solitude and stillness primarily as a means to more productivity, we will try to get by with just enough to keep us going and no more." https://t.co/dutnHbgkNB

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The Ukrainian decision to double down on drone warfare, from the battlefield, to mid range and long range strike, and not to draft all of its young men to make infantry, will be seen by historians as one of the most important decisions in 19th-21st century warfare.

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Here’s everything I curated online over the last two weeks:

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"Thou who art called the Paraclete,
best gift of God above,
the living spring, the living fire,
sweet anointing and true love." https://t.co/hHzcVBjtbS

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"Christ be with me, Christ within me
Christ behind me and Christ before me
Christ beside me and Christ to win me
Christ to comfort and restore me" https://t.co/LFida4HdNM

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"A clear contributor to the rise in religious importance among young men in the CES is a growing number of folks who like the idea of religion but don’t go to church that much." https://t.co/J4xXu7904S

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"The ones that keep existing, which is to say most of them, will go on doing what they’ve always done, which is to supply the external scaffolding that the vast majority of human beings require in order to learn anything they don’t already want to learn." https://t.co/O6u0ak4bXL

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"The justice department quietly added a provision barring the IRS from auditing Trump’s tax returns on Tuesday, amending a widely criticized agreement that creates a secretive and loosely controlled $1.776bn fund to compensate allies of the president." https://t.co/aaHzFIvOnS

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"Something big is happening, something fascinating: we can talk to machines." https://t.co/2t0H6GpUGq

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

🎓🤖Mentions of AI in commencement speeches are drawing boos this graduation season.

Our research found younger Americans are generally more likely than older Americans to think the increased use of AI will worsen human abilities.

https://t.co/kvjFxsIBxi

[David Hamstra @djhamstra]

"Dismissing the contention that L.L.M.s 'differ profoundly from how humans reason and use language,' Weatherby calls this, in a curious choice of metaphor, 'remainder humanism': 'a humanism without a theory or doctrine of what is human.'" https://t.co/2t0H6GpUGq

[David Hamstra @djhamstra]

"The authors of the new paper wrote that 'trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emissions trends' justify the implausibility of the highest-emissions scenarios such as RCP8.5 and SSP5-8.5." https://t.co/TR9APon9UX

[adam @resurrecti0ns]

look I'm just saying that for all the flak the humanities get, it's only the stem people outraged by the idea that they should be responsible for the contents of a paper with their name on it

[Moshe Hazan @MosheHazan6]

1/The FT chart by @jburnmurdoch on smartphones and fertility made me think Israel is an unusually clean place to look at this hypothesis. Three groups, varying along smartphone exposure × social conservatism, all inside one country. 🧵

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"Life has begun to feel governed by forces beyond our understanding, by knowledge that is unverifiable and by authority that is distant and suspect. It is, in a word, beginning to feel medieval." https://t.co/LMoIlaBHwi

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"The President of the US appears to have pardoned a right-wing authoritarian convicted for his part in a massive cocaine trafficking operation in order reinstate him to power in Honduras and undermine left-wing governments in Mexico and Colombia." https://t.co/XjAyXuyghT

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"'People in mental health crisis should be getting the supports that they need,' said NDP leader Avi Lewis. 'If people are choosing MAID, choosing to die, because they can’t get the supports they need in life, something is broken in our system.'" https://t.co/z3fOAALLsK

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"Trump’s unprecedented detention policy, which is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court, infuriated lower courts in ways no other modern issue has." https://t.co/xv2rfqvnqj