✍🏻openDemocracy | Court ruling should inspire US Left to reclaim meaning of ‘religious freedom’
Chrissy Stroop's latest highlights uses of religious freedom rights in IN
🔗 Linking
Links to interesting stories across the web. Shared as a digest once per week.
✍🏻+ 📱WIRED | "Neal Stephenson Named the Metaverse. Now, He's Building It
I have no idea what to make of this.
✍️RNS | "Jules Woodson and tech exec team up to help abuse survivors get therapy and heal"
Jules Woodson, an advocate for abuse survivors, is launching a new initiative to help survivors obtain therapy access, as reported at RNS:
“The nonprofit will fund six sessions of counseling for abuse survivors through a partnership with Thriveworks, a counseling practice that provides in-person and online therapy. Survivors can get
✍🏻+ 📱 Wired | This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface
There’s a really interesting article at Wired about long-term patients with BCIs (brain computer interfaces). This is a far cry from the neural lace imagined by Adrian Hon in A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, but these are making tangible differences in the lives of people
BREAKING: AP reports SBC is under investigation by DOJ.
The full AP write-up was published by WaPo here.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Southern Baptist Convention says it is under investigation by Department of Justice.
— Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) 9:37 PM ∙ Aug 12, 2022
“ NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’
✍🏻 Garbage Day | "Building a new Titanic on the deck of the old one"
Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day, writing this mic-drop burn about Instagram (emphasis mine):
"You used to be able to say that Instagram was a photo app. Way back in the early 2010s, an Instagram spokesperson told me that it was a “museum for your life” 🙄. But you simply cannot
✍🏻Men Yell At Me | Raising Up an Army for God
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