Caleb Knapton

If American religion were 100 people: 23 Evangelicals 19 Catholics 11 Mainline Protestants 5 Black Prot. 3 Other Christians 2 LDS 2 Jews 2 Other Religion 1 Buddhist 1 Hindu 1 Muslim 19 Nothing in particular 6 Agnostics 5 Atheists

1. He needs to sue the snot out of them, and he'll win easily. 2. What was he doing at a pride event in the first place? What are these "convictions" they're talking about?

Nearing completion - this was built from scratch. Magnificent. The reconstruction of Archduke Joseph’s Palace in Budapest, Hungary. Damaged in 1945, it was later demolished by the communists in the 1960s.

Angelic beauty. This piece of music was kept a secret for well over 100 years, only to be played inside the Vatican. That is, until a 14-year-old Mozart heard it twice during a trip to Rome in 1770, and later transcribed the entire thing from memory. Now all can hear it.

The Pilate Stone (Found 1961) Before 1961, there was no physical archaeological evidence that Pontius Pilate existed. Critics suggested he was a fictional character. That changed when archaeologists in Caesarea uncovered a limestone block used as a building repair. The Latin inscription clearly named "Pontius Pilatus" as the Prefect of Judea. The recent nature of this discovery is pretty mind blowing

Year 25 and counting of bringing at least one book with me to the beach and reading less than a couple pages. I don't know why I keep doing this.

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

Shipbuilding in the United States has been in shambles due to decades of shortsighted policies and neglect. Today, the U.S. rolls out about three large cargo ships a year while China does around 1,000. The Trump administration has called this a national security crisis. Sunday.

Minnesota Dems forbade a number of actual gun policy experts from testifying...so that they could flood testimony with people who have literally no idea what they're talking about.

I hate hate hate these LED basketball courts. And as a player that's got to mess with your eyes. What a circus.

Just out: California's wealth tax proposal has a NEGATIVE $25B net present value. We project only ~$40B collected (vs. $100B claimed), with ~30% of the tax base already gone and lost income taxes wiping out gains. w/ Ben Jaros, @gregkkearney, John Doran & Matheus Cosso: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Did you know that one man saved more than 90,000 children from slavery by pretending to be their buyer? This is the incredible story of Kailash Satyarthi, who left the comfortable life of an electrical engineer to become one of the world's most courageous child rescuers. For forty years, Kailash posed as a carpet buyer, entering factories where children, some as young as four years old, were working in chains. He received death threats and was the target of assassination attempts by powerful factory owners who made millions from child labor, but nothing stopped him. His most poignant rescue was that of a five-year-old girl tied to a carpet loom. She had not seen sunlight for two years. When Kailash cut her chains, she was so weak that she could not walk. Today, that same girl is a teacher educating other children. Kailash didn't just save children. He built schools, hospitals, and legal support systems. His methods combined dangerous on-the-ground action with international advocacy, helping to create global laws against child slavery. In 2014, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The children he saved are now lawyers, teachers, and activists who continue his mission around the world. One man's courage has changed millions of lives👌 translate Source👇🏻 @SeeOutThere

Dramatic footage from the past half hour shows a massive rocket barrage toward northern Israel. Reports say around 100 rockets or missiles were launched at once. The video shows part of the barrage and Israeli air defense interceptions.

Some societies run smoothly. Others don’t. What makes the difference? As our new video explains, one of the biggest factors is something you can’t buy. Something you can’t pass a law for. And, in fact ... something you can’t even see.

@lymanstoneky Pro-natalist AND completely opposed to sex. 'Twas truly a miraculous victory.

If only we had actual data on e.g. the prevalence of distinctively Christian names, which allowed us to throw out MacCulloch's spuriously low Christian population estimates. Or what if we could use funerary inscriptions and textual records to infer Christian vs. pagan family size. Oh, we can do both of those. Oh, they show MacCulloch is full of crap? Cool story!

The meeting coordinator keeps giving courtesy laughter to the presenter in this remote training. I need one of those guys.

Dude averaging less than 19 a game this year (16!!! for his career) scores 83 points tonight, second most in NBA HISTORY. Something ain't right with that. #nba

You bought a pair of glasses. You wore them around your house, maybe in the bathroom, maybe changing clothes. And strangers in Nairobi were watching. An investigation by Swedish outlet Svenska Dagbladet has revealed that Meta's AI smart glasses are sending video and audio recordings (including footage of naked bodies, bathroom activities, and unblurred bank card numbers) to human data annotators at a Meta subcontractor in Kenya. Workers there, bound by NDAs, described what they see every day. "We see everything — from living rooms to naked bodies." Another said: "You understand that it is someone's private life you are looking at, but at the same time, you are just expected to carry out the work. You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone." Meta says users control their own settings. The terms of service say human review may occur depending on your settings, with no opt-out option for mandatory AI training data. 7 million pairs were sold in 2025 alone. Meta is reportedly pushing to double production to 20 million by end of year. They're also working on adding facial recognition directly into the glasses. Two Harvard students already demonstrated they could identify a stranger on the street and find their home address using the glasses and existing software. A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District of California. It says consumers purchased these glasses in reliance on Meta's privacy assurances and could not reasonably have known their bedrooms, bathrooms, and bodies would be viewed by strangers worldwide. This is the surveillance economy. Your data is worth more than the $799 you paid for the glasses. The must-read full story by @smiddendorp22 : bit.ly/Meta_Glasses_S…