100% there will be a war fought over which Jesus LLM gets to decide who gets to play on a Little League soccer team or what kind of muffins get sold at a PTA fundraiser or something. It will last 30+ years, kill thousands of people, and gestate a new strain of flu.
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
The problem is that we may have "certain inalienable rights" endowed by our Creator, as the Declaration says, but as it goes on to say in the *next sentence* "Governments are created to secure those rights" Because your "natural rights" are no help when, say, men with guns come to take your stuff.
It is happening again, @faineg.bsky.social.
If you are currently writing a pseudo-medieval romantasy and are an agricultural novice, I do expert copyediting for a very reasonable fee that includes checking things like this.
Ugh, the community choir director picked songs for this term that make me feel feelings. How dare.
literacy under steppe nomads, or, prose and khans
I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.
HUMMINGSAUR
For non Catholics- Just war theory was originally posited by Aquinus and St Augustine.
Leo was the Prior General (head) of the Augustinian order. Literally the group of Catholics who center Augustine.
Leo has done the reading.
I do not know why we are talking about someone who gave himself a name that sounds like very expensive horse problems
"We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets."
Accurate.
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
*talking to teenage militant atheist self*
current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church
teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government
current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one
There we go...I just spent 30 min trying to remember who wrote this awesome essay about Farscape. It was @catvalente.bsky.social!
Photo from the inside of the Artemis 2 of the Earth through a window. The text reads: It's window safety week. Luckily, your home windows are easier to keep safe than a space window. Keep furniture away from windows. Open windows from the top, instead of the bottom. Install window guards.
Basking in PSA production value only NASA can provide.
Welcome to the Hidden Almanac, I’m Reverend Mord. Today is November 11th, 2016. My friends, it is a dark time now. And history is very long, but that is little comfort for those living through it. A year can be no time at all, but a minute can be an eternity. But civilization is a great work. And kindness is a great work. And decency is a great work. It is not given to any one of us, no matter how long-lived, to see that work through to the end. But neither may we give up working on it. There is a proverb of a great people that translates…inelegantly. It says that if you are planting seeds and you learn that the world will end tomorrow, keep planting. I promise you that the seeds we plant now matter. If you do not have faith in gods or saints, have faith in each other, and in us. That’s the Hidden Almanac for November 11th, 2016. Be safe. You are not alone. —Ursula Vernon
Some weirdo wrote a thing that I read this morning that still moves me deeply. I can plant the seeds I can plant.
This. It feels like I've tunneled to a past version of me that didn't experience the last decade, and I want to switch places with them
Oh lord yes
#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳
Daycare $200 billion
Medicaid $150 billion
Medicare $800 billion
Wars $3.6 trillion
Ballroom $150 billion
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying
Bluesky post by an account called “rare body oils” (@lowbeetle.bsky.social): TREBEK: Feel free to ask these diminutive spirits for sexual favors, but don't say "guten Tag" - they're not actually German! me: who are the slut gnomes of false berlin TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board
Oh no wait actually it’s
personsonable me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU miaislying Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean? personsonable decay exists as an extant form of life miaislying That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day
Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post
Tweet from @robdunnin MY MAN: (comes home) ME: (nervous) how was the store MY MAN: fine ME: oh thank g — MY MAN: ran into jolene ME: oh no MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail
ok that's pretty funny
What I did with my evening
I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here.
They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.
Tweet from Patricia Lockwood (@TriciaLockwood): me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!