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Sean Boisen

@sboisen.bsky.social
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Jesus follower, husband, information omnivore, making #BibleData, thinking about the future of learning and Christian discipleship.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Never forget.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
> He had just graduated from high school, where he’d been a standout student, soccer player, and member of the Junior ROTC program. > Bel’s father, Ronal Bel ... “after my son was outfitted with this ankle monitor, he felt like he was treated like an animal.” The impact of Trump's cruel policies.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
> A lot of learning takes place when we find an accessible entry point to an actually daunting project. Absolutely. This weekend Claude helped me with a new iteration of www.semanticbible.com/hyperconc/hy... that took me > weeks. The new version took a couple of hours.
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New Testament Hyper-concordance Home
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wycliffe Bible Translators recognize Bible Translation Day each Sept 30. People are always surprised when I tell them hundreds of millions of people speaking thousands of languages still lack a complete Bible. Details at progress.bible. www.wycliffe.org/blog/celebra... #bible #bibletranslation
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Celebrate Bible Translation Day!
Celebrate Bible Translation Day on Sept. 30 and honor God’s work in bringing Scripture to every language so all people can know His love.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm a big fan of Daniel Pink: read and re-read several of his books like Drive (www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...). His YouTube video on "40 Harsh Truths I Wish I Knew In My 20s" includes many principles I also follow, and I'll vouch for their importance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39A... #lifeskills
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a para…
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He's now resorting to trying to buy the election. Federal law makes it unlawful to knowingly and willfully pay, offer to pay, or accept payment for registering to vote or for voting. (52 U.S.C. §10307(c).) Any type of incentive is considered “payment.”
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I work for #Gloo so I'm not impartial. But I've also got skin in the game: I've also been using Gloo Code for the last month+ for planning and coding, and it works. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've been listening to the audiobook of "AI and the Future Church", the latest from Carey Nieuwhof (@careynieuwhof.bsky.social). It's a solid and approachable read for church leaders to help them think about ministry in the #AI age. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ careynieuwhof.com/ai-and-the-f...
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AI and the Future Church
AI and the Future Church is Carey Nieuwhof’s newest book, releasing on September 15th, 2026. Be the first to get exclusive previews, early updates, and early access.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Baseball or Grenade? A great story to capture how some of us might feel today about #AI usage. I'm largely in agreement with his main point: why would you _not_ use a tool that will improve your performance? From www.jeremyutley.com/blog/malprac...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in the peace of wild things, Wendell. Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything, every word. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One of these things is not like the other …
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nice article summarizing how large datasets and the shift to neural models have transformed the field of natural language processing. #NSF funding has been critical. #nlp cacm.acm.org/federal-fund...
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Natural Language Processing: How NSF Supports Visionary New Approaches to NLP – Communications of the ACM
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
> If none of this resonates with you, you should buy my book because it makes me happy and I work very hard on all of this. And because of all his contributions to open large language models like OLMo ... #llm #rlhf
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Fact checking” has now apparently become a euphemism for “identifying the exaggerations, misinformation, outright falsehoods, and lunacy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/w...
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About Childhood Vaccines After Executive Order (Gift Article)
Mr. Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling to scale back the number of vaccinations American children receive.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Why the burst of the #AI bubble might lead to a golden age: x.com/vijaypande/s... (via @timoreilly.bsky.social)
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Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) on X
Let It Crash: How to Steer What Comes After
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This video is simply incredible. Judicial nominees engage in all manner of contorted language to avoid saying that Trump lost the 2020 election and Biden won. How can we support these people for public office?
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I've long been a fan of #Anki and its spaced repetition learning app. TIL Yanki, an #Obsidian plugin that makes it easy to sync flashcards to Anki. Since i'm already taking course notes in Obsidian, Yanki solves the main pain point of getting data into Anki. github.com/kitschpatrol...
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GitHub - kitschpatrol/yanki-obsidian: An Obsidian plugin that syncs flashcards from a folder in your vault to Anki. Pure Markdown syntax. No fuss.
An Obsidian plugin that syncs flashcards from a folder in your vault to Anki. Pure Markdown syntax. No fuss. - kitschpatrol/yanki-obsidian
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/o... > recently released polling data showing that almost half — 48 percent — of Gen Z adults surveyed said that Christians’ support for Trump made them less likely to want to attend church (Gift article: hat tip to @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social )
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Opinion | Gen Z Thinks Religion Got Too Political (Gift Article)
Does Gen Z feel welcome at church?
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Eli Evans @elievans.art · 13/07/2026
I’ve posted my novel #free on my website. {Inside Every Circle} is a bronze-age, non-european alt-world fantasy in which scribes use arcane knowledge to repel cultist invaders. Complex characters, deep worldbuilding, mystery-based plot. 4.8 ⭐️ #booksky #indie #fantasy elievans.art/fiction/iec
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Read Inside Every Circle
Read Inside Every Circle, a bronze-age fantasy, for free online.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
For promoting his new book, @emollick.bsky.social wrote a page for AI agents "reading on behalf of a human" 😆 Humans: co-existence.ai AI: co-existence.ai/for-ai The age we now live in requires we think about how AI will process the content we produce, not just the other way around. #AI
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Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI
A new book from Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence. On sale October 20, 2026.
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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 06/07/2026
We are pleased to announce that our article, “Force Dynamics, Image Schemas, and Constructional Polysemy in the Prepositions ἐπί and κατά in Postclassical Greek,” has been published in the Journal of Translation.
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Publication Announcement: Force Dynamics, Image Schemas, and Constructional Polysemy
We are pleased to announce that our article, “Force Dynamics, Image Schemas, and Constructional Polysemy in the Prepositions ἐπί and κατά in Postclassical Greek,” has been published in the Journal of Translation. Aubrey & Aubrey (2026) Force Dynamics, Image Schemas, and Constructional Polysemy in the Prepositions ἐπί and κατά in Postclassical GreekDownload Series: Journal of Translation Volume Issue: 22(1) DOI: Author(s): Aubrey, Rachel E. and Michael G. Aubrey Issue Date: 2026 Field: Linguistics; Translation Pages: 53–88 Entry Number: 111043 Abstract: Greek prepositions ἐπί and κατά are among the most semantically complex in the Koine lexicon, generating English glosses that offer little coherent explanation for their diversity.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We're not good at grasping very large numbers. So to help imagine Musk's (on paper) trillion dollars: You'd have to earn $1.35 million dollars *every day since the birth of Jesus* (without compound interest or inflation) to make $1 trillion. 🤯 (ht to Eric Swanson for this math)
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Missed this yesterday, but Vannevar Bush and his memex concept is worth remembering and celebrating. #hyperlink #www
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This, even more this year.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Gloo's hackathon for envisioning new ways to integrate Scripture into digital spaces, using the @youversion.bsky.social platform (platform.youversion.com/summer-virtu...) and Gloo AI Studio (studio.ai.gloo.com/challenge) starts *July 6*, run through @kaggle.com www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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Scripture in New Frontiers
Build Scripture natively into games, wearables, social platforms, and creator tools using YouVersion Platform and Gloo AI Studio APIs.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Humble bundles are a great way to access a lot of useful content, and this helps support the Python Software Foundation @python.org
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Satya Nadella on the role of human capital in the age of #AI. > the real opportunity is ... building a learning loop on top of models where human capital and token capital compound. x.com/satyanadella...
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X - The Everything App / X
From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IANA financial analyst, but from those who are: buying into these IPOs > would be the "biggest gift you can give to the insiders" and private market participants who were already invested according to Tyler Gardner, former portolio manager. www.axios.com/2026/05/20/s...
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Should you invest in SpaceX and the other AI IPOs?
Financial experts weigh in on whether you should buy shares in the mega-cap IPOs.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The American assembly steps were probably: - add gold case - add Trump's name - jack up the price
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
> The great man changes the direction of history. ("great" here meaning impactful; certainly not _good_.) The Terrible Man Theory of History (www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...) via @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
> software engineering success is ... determined by the ability to do the right things at the right time, which requires that you deliberately hold back some of your effort during ordinary work. Stephen Covey framed this as effectiveness over efficiency: 👍 www.seangoedecke.com/doing-nothin...
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Doing nothing at work
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@emollick.bsky.social on the amazing capabilities of Fable, the latest #llm from #anthropic. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
Last year I called this working with a wizard: you chant the spell and something happens. With Fable the spell has gotten powerful enough that I am no longer sure I am the wizard. I am closer to a patron. I describe what I want, I pay for it, and I judge the result. The conjuring happens somewhere I cannot watch, in hundreds of small choices I never get a vote on. The work has shifted from process to outcome. I no longer steer; I commission.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I think it is really worth reading this piece on RSI at Anthropic. There is a bit of navel-gazing, some marketing, and a lot of very sincere beliefs about what Anthropic thinks is likely in the near future of AI that you probably want to be aware of. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
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When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A new study indicates that the inclusion of religious content in AI responses is significantly less frequent than users would expect. www.axios.com/2026/06/01/a...
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AI ignores religion when you need it most — and takes sides when you ask about switching
Your AI chatbot has a religious preference.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This seems like an invitation to some Somalians to file suit for slander.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Now? Have we finally crossed the line now, Congress? When are you going to do something about this would-be king? #nokings
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Donald Trump has done a lot of terrible things to this country over the last decade. But here’s what I think is most insidious of all: Trump has taught Americans that cruelty is strength, that resentment is identity, and that hating other people somehow makes you superior.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Crucial for those thinking about #AI and Christian faith. Kudos to @anthropic.com for inviting faith leaders, including #Gloo, into this conversation. > ... the questions in front of the AI industry are not only technical. They are theological. They are formational. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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AI Is Being Formed. So Are We.
Insights from two days at Anthropic, inside one of the most important conversations of our time.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sorry for linking to the Dark Side, but this essay by Zohar Atkins on X: "When Knowledge Is Cheap, Insight Is Everything: Jevons Paradox applied to Torah Learning" has some interesting general applications to #learning in the age of #AI (including Bible study). x.com/ZoharAtkins/...)
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
> The AI boom, Rodgers says, is creating a “perfect storm” of forces reshaping household dynamics, playing out along predictably gendered lines. www.wired.com/story/meet-t... #AI
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives absolutely hate it—and them.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“I want to be honest …” seems to have become a core part of llm identity. Hilarious to see the complaint about producing content that nobody is listening to. That problem is only going to get worse for them (and us).
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
One of many ways Trump the Destroyer is making America worse.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Here are the links I shared yesterday with folks who came to the open space on #Bible texts, #BibleData, #AI integrations, etc. at #PyConUS. docs.google.com/presentation...
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PyCon 2026: Bible Data
Bible Data and Libraries Sean Boisen Biblica ⇒ Gloo sboisen@gloo.us @sboisen.bsky.social
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Open Space on Bible text, #BibleData, tools, etc. *today at 4* in room S-5 in the Seaside Area at #PyconUS . Head through the exhibit hall then turn left to the seaside rooms down the stairs.
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you’re at #PyconUS and interested in retrieving Bible text, #BibleData, working with Bible references, etc I’m hosting an Open Space to share ideas and libraries, Friday at 4 in room S-5 in the Seaside Area. Looking forward to meeting some folks with similar interests.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌
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Sean Boisen @sboisen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The all important WiFi password: pyconLB2026 #pyconus
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