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Sean Boisen
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Jesus follower, husband, information omnivore, making #BibleData, thinking about the future of learning and Christian discipleship.
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A heart-breaking story of the cruelty of current immigration policy. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Too many hours sitting at the Gloo 2025 Hackathon! So i improvised this standing desk ...
#HighTechHigherPurpose #GlooAIHackathon25
Teamed with SMEE (Subject Matter Expert Extraordinaire) Donna Boisen working on Disciple by Design/FaithHabits.
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Worried about job losses? Think it's because of #AI? Think again.
17k job cuts are linked to AI, while 294k come from "DOGE actions".
That's 17 caused by #DOGE for every one caused by AI.
Now you know who to blame.
Source: www.challengergray.com/blog/septemb...
Via @Axios AI+ newsletter
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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We were at last night’s #LawRocks fundraiser in Seattle, supporting our family rocking out with Force Majeure.
I want to be this guy from the Funk Docket (in about 10 years)!
lawrocks.org/news/2025/sea
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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August 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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To honor the passing of the incomparable Tom Lehrer, here's ChatGPT's response when prompted to
> compose satirical song lyrics about the contemporary use of AI in the style of Tom Lehrer
"The Artificially Intelligent Waltz".
Misses here and there ("theoretical"?!?), though not bad. But not Tom.
July 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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These insights into limits on our rationality from Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman are foundational but rarely understood. Via @shaneparish.bsky.social
#cognitivebias #behavior
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Rubio plans to administer "Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests".
www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/p...
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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@washingtonpost.com makes it simple to understand why the Big Baloney Bill is bad for the average American.
$46B for a wall, while abandoning clean energy is crazy.
June 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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WH spokesperson claims President has saved *258 million American lives* by fentanyl seizures. This ridiculous math might be funny if it wasn’t so clearly pandering.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
“Mr. President,” she said, “your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in the country, ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it.” Then it was time for some stats. “Since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl, which saved—are you ready for this, media?—258 million lives.” Yes, she turned to the camera for the aside to the media.
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Astounding that the Admin thinks renaming a file somehow changes its purposes and usage in a complex system of interconnected data.
The article goes on to confirm they didn’t even manage to rename it internally or on their public site. (Gift article)

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“This reporting is false. These illegal aliens were never classified as dead,” White House spokeswoman Liz Huston said in a statement. “The ‘Death Master File’ was renamed the ‘Ineligible Master File’ prior to their names being transferred. Once U.S. Customs and Border Protection terminated their parole, these individuals were no longer eligible for benefits, and Social Security Administration quickly took action to protect the benefits of hardworking American citizens.”
April 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Signs of spring.
#StHughOfAllyn #lent
April 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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And by “zealously advocate for the United States” she means the current administration, even when acting illegally. L’etat c’est moi.
"At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Saturday. "Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences."
April 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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April 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Our new neighbors have completely occupied the pier in Allyn. They bark. All. Night. Long. We’re a few hundred yards away so not terrible, but still omnipresent.
April 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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This is clearly fantasy thinking.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said AI was core to Trump’s plan to reform the U.S. economy because it would help lower the cost of producing goods domestically. “We just had to wait for the AI technology boom to be here now to let us compete with all that cheap labor all around the world,” Lutnick said Thursday on Fox News.
April 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This will not make America healthy.
"The Trump Administration has launched an unprecedented attack on the federal health workforce," said House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-NJ, during remarks he made Tuesday at an oversight and investigations hearing on technology and cybersecurity related to medical devices. "[Sec.] Kennedy claims that health care services will not be harmed by the dramatic downsizing, but he is wrong, and everyone who is paying any attention knows it," he said.
April 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Abrego-Garcia's attorneys said that he "is not a member of or has no affiliation with Tren de Aragua, MS-13, or any other criminal or street gang" and said that the U.S. government "has never produced an iota of evidence to support this unfounded accusation." In response to the error, the government has acknowledged the error but said in a filing that because Abrego-Garcia is no longer in U.S. custody, the court cannot order him to be returned to the U.S. nor can the court order El Salvador to return him.
April 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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How cynical do you have to be to use kids at desks as the backdrop for your photo op on dismantling the Dept of Education?
Image of Trump signing a bill
March 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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On why DOGE thinks it's no big deal to destroy government institutions and lose their experience and expertise: a utopian view that #AGI is going to make all that irrelevant.
This is much crazier (and scarier) than the simple fiscal arguments i'd assumed.
article quote on how AGI-prepping is shaping DOGE's agenda and activities
March 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“Senator Hawley’s accusations against me are false,” Ms. Perkins told The New York Times. “I am not who he says I am. I am a Christian who is both conservative and pro-life and who simply followed my oath as a Department of Justice career attorney. He should be fighting for me, not against me.”
March 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Hoping all the Hispanics who voted for him get this message.
"This new order also revokes a language-access provision contained in an earlier executive order from 2000 that aimed to improve access to services for people with limited English. Federal agencies now seem to have no obligation to provide vital information in other languages."
March 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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> The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records - WaPo

Another blow against experience. Remember this when your benefits get borked.
WaPo quote: trump will protect social security benefits.
February 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Are you surprised that yet another Trump-ed up promise hasn’t come true?
Chart showing the increase in the consumer price index
February 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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@pkrugman.bsky.social on why the MAGA folks are intent on shutting down Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/springtime...
February 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM