Scott Douglas Jacobsen
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen is the publisher of In-Sight Publishing (ISBN: 978-1-0692343) and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Interviews (ISSN: 2369-6885). He is a member in good standing of numerous media organizations.
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Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Dayvon Love, Nkechi Taifa: California AB 7, Reparations, and Truth and Repair
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is a professor at UCLA holding the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, with appointments in Sociology and African American Studies. He served as the inaugural chair of UCLA's African American Studies department and previously was President of the Association of Black Sociologists. Hunter is a co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, which examines Black urban formation and the geographies of power, and author of Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in History
Kelowna Harvest Fellowship and Harvest Ministries International: Child Sex Abuse Allegations, Civil Suits, and Evangelical Accountability in British Columbia
This article examines recent abuse-related cases in British Columbia’s evangelical landscape. It outlines criminal charges against Pastor Edwin Alvarez of an unnamed Metro Vancouver church for alleged sexual interference and assault against children between 2017 and 2021. It then reviews two active civil lawsuits against Pastor Art Lucier and Kelowna Harvest Fellowship, where plaintiffs allege long-term grooming and sexual abuse beginning in childhood, alongside institutional negligence. The article contrasts these ongoing actions with a separate Kelowna case in which a former youth pastor, anonymized as “CM,” received an 18-month custodial sentence after pleading guilty to child sex offences.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Criminal
Northside Foursquare Church and Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church Abuse Allegation Cases
Langley, with its dense Evangelical presence, has seen serious abuse allegations within local churches. One civil case involves Pastor Barry Buzza of Northside Foursquare Church, accused of grooming and sexually abusing a teenage congregant who sought pastoral guidance, with claims the church ignored warning signs. Another case centers on Pastor Samuel Emerson of Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church, who faced multiple charges related to sexual misconduct involving youth; he was ultimately convicted on one count of sexual assault, with other charges and those against his wife dismissed. These cases highlight patterns of spiritual authority, impunity, and inadequate safeguarding in regional Evangelical institutions.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Criminal
Feminist Afghan Media: Afghanistan Women’s News Agency (AWNA), Nimrokh Media, Rukhshana Media, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times
Afghanistan is facing an extreme human-rights emergency, with Taliban policies shutting girls out of secondary and university education and denying 2.2 million girls schooling beyond the primary level. Women are barred from most work, public life, and basic freedoms, while forced and child marriage has surged. In this crisis, feminist media outlets—AWNA, Nimrokh, Rukhshana, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times—have emerged in Afghanistan and in exile, documenting abuses and defending women’s voices despite escalating repression.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Humans
Fumfer Physics 34: P vs NP, Gödel, Chaitin, and Computational Limits
In this exchange, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore the P vs NP problem and its philosophical echoes. Rosner leans toward the mainstream view that P likely does not equal NP, drawing a parallel to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Jacobsen expands the discussion with Tarski’s meta-language framework and Chaitin’s arguments about irreducible complexity, connecting them to both biological systems and modern AI. The conversation emphasizes that mathematical uncertainty does not endanger reality; instead, it reveals intrinsic limits on what computation can achieve. The pair illustrate this with the traveling salesman problem, an archetype of explosive combinatorial complexity in the real world.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 33: Relational Information and the Leaky Quantum Universe
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore an “informational cosmology” where the universe is a relational information-processing system. Rosner defines information as selecting one outcome from many possible outcomes, which only counts when events leave durable, readable records. They contrast transient and stable traces, from stellar reactions to human memories, and ask whether awareness matters to cosmic information. Questioning simple “universe as computer” models, they propose emergent, fuzzy properties that sharpen with scale, tied to quantum entanglement and probabilistic “leakiness.” The universe continually defines its own frame through changing relations, not absolute size or static digital bits evolving over time.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Education
How the Peace School Is Redefining Education: Dr. Nasser Yousefi and Baran Yousefi on Love, Democracy, and Learning in 2025
Dr. Nasser Yousefi and Baran Yousefi are the creators of the Peace School, a Canadian lab school dedicated to humanistic, child-centred education. Drawing on backgrounds in psychology, pedagogy, and community work, they design environments where children explore relationships, values, and critical thinking rather than merely perform for grades or rankings. Their work challenges behaviourist, test-driven schooling by foregrounding emotional intelligence, democratic participation, and love as core educational principles. Through collaborations with universities, community partners, and international scholars, they aim to build a global network of progressive educators committed to inclusive, peace-oriented learning for children and families worldwide today and tomorrow.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Education
Sudan War 2025: Famine and the Gendered Hunger Crisis
The war in Sudan, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, is among the world's largest conflicts, causing over 150,000 deaths and displacing more than 14 million. Famine was declared in El Fasher and Kadugli in November 2025. Women and girls face gendered harms: UN Women estimates 11 million are food insecure and 73.7% lack minimum dietary diversity. Siege conditions in Darfur and Kordofan intensify malnutrition; women eat last or not at all. Foraging exposes them to abduction and sexual violence. With maternity care collapsing, women-led groups deliver aid. UN Women urges a ceasefire, safe corridors, and funding.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Humans
Fumfer Physics 32: CPUs, GPUs, QPUs & the Smallest Unit
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner probe the future of compute: CPUs for serial work, GPUs for parallelism, and unstable quantum processors, tied together by Jacobsen’s “contextual compute,” which routes tasks to the right engine in real time. They ask about the smallest actionable unit of calculation; Rosner argues it is the electron, with photons a plausible successor. Moore’s Law lingers as an efficiency race, while quantum offers leaps. The pair then flip to physics: photons lose energy to redshift yet experience zero time, suggesting photons are events and information couriers. A playful “reverse Pokémon” tag ends a curious exchange.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Interview
Is This the Rights' Fight? Wrong Turn on Right 4: Charlie Kirk Case, Fuentes, and the Far-Right’s Legacy Struggle
Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security attorney based in New York and Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in National and Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies from Fordham University in 2006, followed by a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 2009. She operates a boutique national security law practice. She serves as President of Scarab Rising, Inc., a media and security strategic advisory firm. Additionally, she is the Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Outsider, which focuses on foreign policy, geopolitics, security, and human rights. She is actively involved in several professional organizations, including the American Bar Association’s Energy, Environment, and Science and Technology Sections, where she serves as Program Vice Chair in the Oil and Gas Committee. She is also a member of the New York City Bar Association. She serves on the Middle East and North Africa Affairs Committee and affiliates with the Foreign and Comparative Law Committee.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 31: Life-Permitting Universes
Scott Douglas Jacobsen contends that subjectivity emerges only in life-permitting universes and is inherently limited: finite minds cannot fully model the larger systems that birth them. Mental maps can improve but need not, as delusion, injury, disease, and aging illustrate. Rick Rosner pushes back on multiverse looseness, arguing that in sufficiently large, natural-order universes, life is likely; only tiny universes preclude it. He asks how knowable any universe is, echoing Feynman on science’s limits. Rosner expects near-term unifying principles but enduring ignorance of particulars given cosmic scale, distances, and timescales. Both land on rigorous curiosity coupled with epistemic humility, ultimately.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 30: Particles as Baked Bread
Scott Douglas Jacobsen likens particles to baked bread, emergent from interacting fields. Rick Rosner stresses Heisenberg uncertainty. Context, decoherence, and speculative topological knots frame a 13.8-billion-year interaction braid.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 months ago in Interview
