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From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
https://www.churchleadership.c…

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Sources: 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who has gone by "Big Balls" online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/…

‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.

An Arizona woman was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for helping North Korean workers obtain remote jobs at U.S. companies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/25/north-korean-remote-workers-fraud-christina-chapman/

Arizona woman sentenced over $17 million North Korea worker fraud scheme
Christina Chapman helped North Koreans obtain remote jobs at U.S. companies under false identities, operating a “laptop farm” that funneled money to Pyongyang.

In mineralogy, a #polycrystal
(or polycrystalline material)
refers to a solid composed of multiple small, intergrown crystals (crystallites) of the same or different minerals,
arranged in a random or oriented fashion.
Unlike a single crystal, which has a continuous and unbroken atomic lattice,
a polycrystal consists of many smaller crystalline grains separated by grain bo…

Polycrystals
Mineral Matters #767

Raiders releasing DT Christian Wilkins after one season https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-releasing-dt-christian-wilkins-after-one-season

Twice in the past week, I’ve received an edit notification about a post I’d previously boosted where the edit corrected bad or incomplete information. In both cases, I boosted the correction.
I’ve long wished for social media misinformation policy to be “If you saw the bad info, you see the correction.” Mastodon comes closer to that than anything I’ve previously encountered.
There’s been a lot of theoretical hand-wringing about allowing edits on social media. In practice, this aspect at least seems like a huge success.

Hexotica | Craft A Self-Reliant AF Alternative Lifestyle With Christine Rice
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hexotica-craft-a-self-reliant-af-alternative-lifestyle-with-christine-ri…

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California’s policy of background checks for bullet-buyers violates the 2nd Amendment,
-- effectively killing a 2016 ballot measure meant to strengthen the state’s notoriously stringent gun laws.
The ruling is the latest blow to statewide efforts to regulate guns.

9th Circuit upholds block on checks for California ammunition buyers
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down a background check requirement implemented by California on buyers of ammunition for firearms.

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted