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I'm a Bible teacher who is pretty interested these days in the moral dimension of technology. In my feed I'll talk a lot about education, technology and scripture, and a little about other things.

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Luckily, we don't have any examples from history of problems when Catholicss and Protestants have access to the power of the state to enforce their theological views. Everyone just gets along peacefully.

12.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He now has the highest points in a game league-wide this season with 3 min left in the 3rd.

As we all expected.

11.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know if I can bear the thought of a world in which we can't just trust the FSB.

11.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure if I'm pleased at the thought of major news media exploring how different hermeneutics yield different political philosophies, or terrified of it.

09.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The disconnect (I think) is reading the argument as the LLM introducing new problems when it's more (my read) "LLMs are desired because they extend what is happening already and desiredβ€”speed! That can mean it extends bad thingsβ€”errors!"

Especially true when speed is often upstream of errors.

06.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World | NOEMA Agents need us β€” as sensors, as verifiers, as bearers of liability β€” in ways we have barely begun to account for.

Afterwards, I read this tremendous piece. You do a lot at set up, and then you get prompted to clarify for the agent a few times while it works.

I can't deny the efficiency of the process, but its unsettling to feel like you are a query. Would not trust it at all outside a very limited environment.

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tried an agentic project with the new Opus via Github Copilot. Wanted to understand impact on human experience with agentic tools.

1. Agents make everything a coding project.
2. People prompt chatbots. Agents prompt people.
3. Human in the loop is not possible. Too fast & way too much to review.

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hegseth's part to play is making it OK to associate the work the military is doing with advancing God's purposes. As people below feel empowered to do that, they will add their own particular theological flavor.

I'd bet Hegseth couldn't really articulate what he believes about the millennium.

05.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you mean Talarico, he did to Colbert.

If you mean Jesus, I'm not making a theological argument one way or the other. I'm pointing out that the line itself is obviously a deeply unappealing thing to say to the religious right, so we can conclude he didn't say it to try and win them over.

04.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

If his goal was appealing to Christian Republicans, he wouldn't be saying things like "Jesus never talked about abortion and gay marriage"

He makes plenty of religious appeals that are significantly more unappealing to the religious right than being secular would be.

04.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The whole point of precogs is to stop someone before they commit a crime, dumbass. They dont have to commit a crime first to be a criminal."

03.03.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Church Historians: Holy wars, tests of faith

03.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not an expert but I've heard people saying today that it's never been shot down in air-to-air combat but it has been shot down by things on the ground before. People seem to be hearing about the former and interpreting it as never at all.

02.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Partridge's take is extra disappointing because Israel is supposed to do this because they were once the foreigner that was threatening to overpopulate Egypt and their children were killed over it.

27.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In addition, I've found those with big media platforms like Wolfe, Webbon, Wilson have a pretty consistent core of beliefs. More aligned IMO than say the Democratic Party proper on things critics worry about (women voting, immigration, religious tests). The big split is Jews/Israel/Dispensationalism

24.02.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They've already decreased by 200% Matthew. I don't know how much more you can expect

24.02.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think Webbon spent time being jealous that Fuentes could just say it out loud, but he's racing to catch up at this point.

13.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tbf that did him in the first time too

12.02.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not unfamiliar with the level of support Trump has among evangelicals, but I got to be honest.

The number of my former theology professors in the last few months who explicitly excuse his moral failings has hit me harder than I would have expected.

12.02.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Early in the administration I brought up the shocking number of eugenic things being said by high level appointments (including cabinet members).

Lot of focus in the replies on "If you care so much about eugenics, why haven't you said anything about Margaret Sanger?"

She died before I was born boo

11.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno. They have a contract with Grok now right? I bet the math is different.

06.02.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with two spaces is a good guy with one

05.02.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's a whole lot of words but the whole problem is Lev 19 is about the governance of Israel. They are laws and referred to as such within the passage. In the narrative at that time, God's laws for the people *are* the civil laws because God is king.

04.02.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I live in a three stop light kind of town, but felt very comfortable at the mall last spring with my young kids (and by myself on prior trips). Going from mall to the zoo felt a bit more like a big city experience, but l'd take it over all the trips we've made to Chicago. Not even comparable.

03.02.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Common new tech paradox. Emails are faster than writing a letter and posting it, but the ease means way more emails and you are as likely to work harder as you are to save energy. Add that increase across all tech/taks and its death by 1000 paper cuts. We are multi-tasking ourselves to death.

03.02.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't read everything, but some are someone else or Webbon's speaking in 3rd person. Lack of an identified author on anything. Saw JD Hall (Webbon's recent co-author) suggested as the main author. Not sure, but Hall said he had a new full time writing gig at a brand new media company starting 26

28.01.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A pastor having conversations with Fuentes about "World Jewry" & "Understanding Hitler" is on a doomed trip.

That said, I think there's decent reason to believe that the writing side of NXR Studios is someone other than (or at least in addition to) Webbon, though he clearly signs off on it.

28.01.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't "trust" either, but thinking of Grok and Elon I kinda get it in a weird way.

If I were to query Grok for info and ask Elon the same I'd feel more confident in Grok generating correct info. That feeling would lessen or strengthen depending on how much Elon has been fiddling with the dial.

22.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Going to start a study on AI-hallucinated accusations of AI-hallucinated citations. Perhaps we can get some sort of perpetual hallucination loop started.

21.01.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why are you destroying the AI industry Matthew?

20.01.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0