Hello, fellow A/G kid. My church didn’t have shofars – that actually sounds a lot cooler than just announcing that the spirit is moving.

I think you’re right about evangelical support for Israel. They think they’re hastening the End Times.

I’m so glad I got out of that entire scene. The rest of my youth group cohort are still faithful members, decades later.

Did you read the SacBee article? It’s not explicitly an interview with her child, but the reporter obviously quoted them extensively.

Lower-case apocrypha are extra-canonical religious writings, which cover a wide range of ancient texts in Christianity.

“The Apocrypha” is applied to a specific set of books that are accepted in various configurations by the Catholic, Orthodox and Eastern churches but are rejected from the Biblical canon by many Protestant denominations. Those are the ones you can find between the Old and New Testaments in some Bibles.

It’s not at all confusing.

And, ideally, when the City of Fargo has to eat the cost (because the contract with the tech company likely specifies that a facial recognition match is not sufficient grounds for arrest), it and every other municipality using similar tech will change its policing practices.

But probably the city will just quietly take responsibility for the damages after a session of contractually required private mediation, and nobody will learn a lesson.

Even just a couple of commas would help.

Grandmother, jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake, launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective

Because with AI, no bad can happen, it can only good happen.

To clock: to register on a mechanical recording device

Code violations: things about a property that do not meet standards according to local ordinances