{"id":6686,"date":"2019-11-06T05:40:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2019-11-06T05:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:58:48","slug":"a-la-carte-november-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=6686","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (November 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I fixed yesterday&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> for those who were wondering, and added some new ones as well.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimberlywagner.org\/2019\/11\/05\/when-loneliness-is-your-closest-companion\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">When Loneliness is Your Closest Companion<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This one may just bring a tear to your eye. &ldquo;&lsquo;I don&rsquo;t cook much anymore, my husband past away a year ago, and my life is so different now. So very different . . .&rsquo; Her voice trailed off to a past era of joy and companionship. My voice went soft, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m so very sorry.&rsquo; And those four small words invited her to share more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/this-is-not-a-person-but-she-is-a-threat-6d6f2d4083f4\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">This is Not a Person, But She is a Threat<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m pretty sure the world (and the church, for that) isn&rsquo;t ready for the threat posed by what are being called &ldquo;deep fakes.&rdquo; &ldquo;Unsurprisingly, Artificial Intelligence systems that can create convincing fake humans are causing quite a stir, and far beyond the world of Deep Learning. In the media, GANs are a major threat to credibility. They naturally tie into Deep Fakes &mdash; where a neural network impersonates a real person, creating videos or pictures where they appear to be doing or saying something they never actually did or said.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5SrrRJUCqZ8\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Why Are People so Resistant to Reformed Theology? (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Burk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fixed yesterday\u2019s Kindle deals for those who were wondering, and added some new ones as well. When Loneliness is Your Closest Companion This one may just bring a tear to your eye. \u201c\u2018I don\u2019t cook much anymore, my husband past away a year ago, and my life is so different now. So very different . . .\u2019 Her voice trailed off to a past era of joy and companionship. 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