Brent Tantillo

AI and the Future of (Non-existent) Work New perspectives on AI's impact on jobs are emerging. Even as the labor market craters in the U.S. in the Autumn of 2025.

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As I posted earlier, this is a fascinating course providing unique and useful perspectives on understanding why bad things happen to good people and achieving the purpose God placed into your heart. As a Christian, there are new insights about the Old Testament passages on Moses and the Golden Calf.

Madonna reveals unusual new career choice as a Kabbalah teacher Madonna has revealed her unusual new career choice as a Kabbalah teacher as she offered to teach fans about her 'spiritual journey'.

First off, #Madonna is not teaching this course, in fact her and her partner are the students. Second, the course is pay what you can for a minimum of $1. As a newbie to #Kabbalah, it is fascinating and well produced. Definitely worth checking out. www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

"You are not a traveler on this path, you are the path itself, unfolding with every step."
~ Rumi

Amazing sunset on the beach in Neskowin, Oregon last night.

#BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersUnited #pnw #PhotographersOfBluesky #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #TidesOutTuesday #reflection #oregon #neskowin #nature #beach #clouds #seascape #sunset

The World Lost a Great Man (and my friend) But His Legacy Lives On… - RyanHoliday.net When he was born, he was legally considered less than fully human.  Born in segregated Washington in 1937, George Raveling and his family were second-class citizens, denied basic rights and dignities.  And then it got worse from there. When he was nine, his father died at the age of forty-nine. His mother was committed to an asylum when he was thirteen. Effectively orphaned, this could have been another sad story from a long time ago. Instead, the life of George Raveling became something beautiful, inspiring, and almost unbelievably modern—a classic American story, equal parts Alexander Hamilton and Forrest Gump.  It started with a man named Father Jerome Nadine, a Catholic priest in Brooklyn, who loved basketball (one of his other parishioners was the Wilkens family, whose son Lenny would go on to be an NBA Champion and one of the winningest coaches of all time). He got George a spot at St. Michael’s, a boarding school in Pennsylvania for boys from broken homes, and asked the basketball coach if he could make a spot for the tall young man. Soon enough, the head coach from Saint Joseph’s College, Jack Ramsay, came to his games and told George he would be offering him a college scholarship.  George loved to tell the story of what happened when he went to his grandmother, Dear, to tell her the good news. “I thought I raised you better than that,” Dear said when George told her a college was going to pay for his education to play on their basketball team. “What do you mean?” George said. “I think you’ve done a great job.” “Well, I’m disappointed in myself,” Dear replied, “because I can’t believe that you’re naive enough to think that some white people are gonna pay for you to go to college just so you can play basketball. It makes no sense. They’re tricking you.”   At Villanova, where he did end up with a scholarship (and later a degree in Economics), George led the country in rebounds, only the second black player in the school’s history. In the days before televised basketball, it was often a shock when this integrated team showed up to play southern schools. In 1959, they drove down to Morgantown to play West Virginia. Assigned to guard Jerry West—the future NBA logo—George chased West on a fast break late in the game. When West went up for a layup, George jumped in an attempt to block the shot, colliding with West in the air and sending both of them crashing into the stands. “As we lay there tangled together,” George wrote, “the field house fell silent. I could feel the eyes of the crowd on us, could sense the anger and hostility crackling in the air. In that moment, I feared for my life. But then, something extraordinary happened.” West—“the golden boy of West Virginia, the pride of Morgantown”—got up and then reached out his hand to George. As West pulled George to his feet, the all-white silent crowd erupted into applause. After the game, West ran over as George walked off the court and grabbed him by the arm. “Good game,” West said as he shook George’s hand and looked him in the eyes. “It was a pleasure playing against you.” After college, he spent time as a traveling assistant and bagman for Wilt Chamberlain, who was getting tons of requests to make appearances at summer camps around the east coast. “I’ll hire you to be my chauffeur,” Wilt told George one day. For a hundred dollars a day, George jumped at the chance to drive Wilt’s purple Bentley convertible from camp to camp, talking basketball and life. Just these few anecdotes alone would have made George Raveling a living legend. But his rendezvous with history didn’t happen until August 28, 1963. Sent by the father of a friend, 6-foot-four George was recruited to work security for the March on Washington. Standing on the podium a few feet from Dr. King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, George was one of the first people to greet him as he finished the “I Have a Dream” speech that would change the course of American politics. Accepting the congratulations, King handed George the only existing notes/text (which he had largely ignored in favor of improvisation) of one of the most famous speeches of all time. George tucked it into a book at home—a personalized copy of Truman’s autobiography, which the former president had given him his senior year at Villanova when George played in the East-West All-Star game in Kansas City. There it would sit, safely preserved, for the next few decades until journalists got around to figuring out what had happened to it.  It is a shame that George Raveling’s coaching career is not more well known. He was a great and pioneering one. While an assistant at Villanova, he started recruiting players from the South who, up to that point, were only looked at by historically Black colleges and universities. Players like Johnny Jones and Howard Porter became part of what one sportswriter dubbed “the Underground Railroad,” George’s trailblazing pipeline bringing Southern talent to a predominantly white Northern school. He would later become the first African American basketball coach in what’s now the Pac-12 and went on to go 335-293 over his career, leading programs at Washington State, the University of Iowa, and USC. He won 2 Olympic medals, a gold in 1984 and a bronze in 1988. He coached against John Wooden, Dean Smith, and Bob Knight. He earned his Hall of Fame induction as an X and O’s guy, a recruiter and as a leader of young men to victory.  Of course, we remember him most for his contributions to the game slightly off the court. It was George Raveling who, as an assistant coach for the 1984 Olympic Team, steered Michael Jordan to Nike and changed the economics of sports and entertainment and fashion. You might not know this from the movie Air, [...]

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Definitely inspiring. If the Gallagher brothers can come together, we all can.

The Makers of ‘BoJack Horseman’ Take Family Matters by the Reins

Can’t wait. The Makers of ‘BoJack Horseman’ Take Family Matters by the Reins www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

One of Rock’s Greatest Bands Started as Satire. Then It Became Everything It Satirized. A delightful new Netflix documentary tells the story of one of the weirdest, wittiest bands in rock history.

Mutate don’t stagnate. Just finished the brilliant and uplifting #Devo documentary on #Netflix. Watch this if you need a shape shifter. If Devo can exist, we can bring change. slate.com/culture/2025...

Opinion | Finding Beauty in a Bowl of Soup It tethers us to the world, brings us together, asks our bodies to remember a time beyond ourselves.

I will always remember making stew with my grandfather. Its ingredients were never the same as it was a hodgepodge of what vegetables were fresh or meat available. Yet always delicious and delightful. This NY Times article captures the magic of a good soup. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Very rarely. If an agent is testifying at trial and they also testified before the grand jury, then a transcript of the agent’s testimony must be provided to defense counsel. But that is about it.

Grand juries only need a probable cause determination to indict, which is why it is said that a Grand Jury would indict a ham sandwich. Usually it is just an agent who provides a cursory summary of the case making sure to meet all of the elements of the charges and then they are out.

Me too - not an AI hater but it is unbelievable how many people just cut and paste AI responses with all of these emojis and call it a day without reviewing or even editing.

YouTube video by Brent Have to Have You in My Life (Lyric Video) by Steve Hedrick

Here’s a video to a song I wrote called “Have to Have You.” #newmusic youtu.be/m7oEhL124Vo?...

Amen

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‘You think God didn’t make gay men?’ Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famous at 47 She was Saturday Night Live’s oldest hire, then faced a torrent of abuse after her role in the Ghostbusters reboot. She talks about the deaths of her mum, dad and brother – and why she’s given up dati...

Exactly.

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Agreed. At this point, I think PBS and NPR need to decouple from government funding so that it is not corrupted like these other media outlets. I fear PBS and NPR being neutered into safe, state-friendly PR machines.

So true, if you actually record the items you use most in life, you will realize it is very few. Same computer, same phone, favorite wok, favorite mug; I really need to declutter Marie Kondo style. If I haven’t used it in the last 30 days, I need to take a hard look at whether I really need it.

Mr. Dalio, I was thinking how incredible it would be if you had an LLM trained on your Principles and a chatbot we could ask questions that would interpret the Principles based on the questions asked. This could be a way that future business and political leaders could make excellent decisions

Great album. Has the Beach Boy’s magic.

The price of Christianity's "broken bargain" with democracy In "Cross Purposes," journalist Jonathan Rauch argues that American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People,” wrote John Adams. The book argues that the Founders wanted Christianity and secular liberalism to be legally separate but morally and civically aligned. bigthink.com/big-think-bo...

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If there is a heaven, nobody is doubting that Pope Francis is there. We should all strive to be like him.

Amen, beautiful words and tribute.

See some of the most memorable moments from Pope Francis' papacy Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Pope Francis' papacy.

Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Pope Francis' papacy.

Opinion | A Resurrection Faith Needs a Resurrection Church As anger and fear dominate the public square, a church that follows a resurrected savior should be a balm, not a blowtorch.

There is a different version of the Christian faith, one that is far removed from the political headlines.

This faith loves its enemies. It mends the broken heart. And it declares, by word and deed, that no one is too lost to experience the love of God. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...

Beautiful column. Thank you for sharing this Easter.

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