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Logan Smith
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Logan Smith
@logasmi
Husband to @JessicaProl. Christian. Homeschooling dad. VT and SEBTS graduate.
Cumberland, MD 参加日 Mart 2010
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Plugins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, … coming soon
Matthew Dabit@MattDabit
Academics, business leaders, and anyone stuck making PowerPoints: Grok 4.3 just turned a full tDCS/TMS neuroscience paper into this clean 9-slide academic deck in minutes. Cool tones, strong layout, easy to read fonts, exactly what I asked for. Stop doing the boring work. Grok it. What dense document do you want turned into a deck next? @grok @xai
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@elonmusk @TheRabbitHole I honestly forgot the legacy media still existed. I get all my news on X
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@republicanfarm1 @bluewmist Well I guess not as cheap as not having one. But certainly if done intentionally it can be done cheap.
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@logasmi @bluewmist Is that cheap though? I'm sure it would improve your life, and I intend to try, but I expect it to cost everything.
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You asked for it, we did it.
Actually, we had already done it before you asked, but you teed us up to look clairvoyant.
@ConceptualJames joins the show to discuss the war for the soul of the right, his online pugilism, and his own search for meaning and faith.
youtube.com/watch?v=uRlb7G…
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Thanks for the shoutout
Unkonfined@unkonfined
Shoutout to everyone who keeps posting with 0 likes.
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This should be required reading for every American.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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Watched the French-Stuckey debate. My main takeaway: The whole debate centered upon a truth-emotion continuum. I think Allie Beth came out ahead for one main reason that colors every issue debated: She indexes her understanding of emotion and empathy on a biblical axis, whereas French elevates emotion and empathy to a disproportionate degree. The consequence is to unmoor emotion from truth. There's simply a difference in rhetorical strategy: Stuckey focuses more on logos; French on pathos. Along those lines, another reason I think Allie Beth had the stronger hand is that she refuses to play the game of pitting love against truth (1 Cor. 13:6; Eph. 4:15). She's no less interested in kindness or empathy, but properly indexed by Scripture. French's focus on catering to emotional equilibrium (and thus hewing to progressive niceties) requires him to blur biblical categories.
Biblical ethics requires both logos and pathos, but our loves must be ordered and governed with a proper foundation. And notably, French's empathy tends in one direction, toward those to his left.
In short, Allie Beth focused on objectivity, reason, and right and wrong as the grounds of what constitutes love and kindness, whereas French's instinct is to defer to emotion and aesthetics.
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Government doesn't create wealth.
It redistributes it.
Usually badly.
Usually to friends.
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America's strength is in America's ability to create.
Innovation, ingenuity, and genius are in our blood. The only thing preventing greatness is our own fear of it.
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Classic case of how the Christian Left erodes Christian standards. Allie is right. These aren't first policy decisions, they are theological.
William Wolfe 🇺🇸@WilliamWolfe
David French: “I’m not going to say James Talarico is not a Christian.” Translation: David French doesn’t understand what Christianity is. Because if he did, he would know Talarico isn’t one.
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We knew it was happening. Glad to see it has been confirmed. Now, we need accountability.
John Howson@johnh33
Biden DOJ weaponized FACE Act against pro-life Americans, 882-report alleges "Review of 700,000+ internal records found prosecutors coordinated with abortion-rights groups to track activists" foxnews.com/politics/biden… #FoxNews
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What David French doesn’t understand is that “empathy” for the 19-year-old pregnant girl seeking an abortion is actually a lack of empathy for the baby in the womb.
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@megbasham @BenZeisloft @DavidAFrench This really isn’t complicated. The same rules apply inside womb as outside the womb.
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This is a really good point too. Would @DavidAFrench similarly say that we have to empathize with a woman who kills her two-year-old child? Would we have to say, *many mothers of young children get overwhelmed by the demands that such caregiving requires so we have to understand when they sometimes drown their toddlers in the bath?*
And if he would not say that, then what is the moral difference?
Foundation to Abolish Abortion@AbolitionistFAA
Thank you @megbasham. The problem of toxic empathy is only the beginning. Because of our culture of death, we have all absorbed the mindset, at least to some extent, that preborn people are not equally valuable and worthy of protection as born people. Hopefully @DavidAFrench would never try to “empathize” with mothers who willfully murder their toddlers. Hopefully he would never call efforts to protect such children “moral folly” or claim that trying to protect them under our laws is “apples and oranges” compared to older, larger, and more developed people. The only consistent way to dispel both toxic empathy concerning abortion and the broader culture of death is equal protection: affirming through our laws, and not merely our rhetoric, that taking the life of a preborn person is the same as taking the life of a born person.
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@megbasham As Elon would say, he lacks “first principles” thinking.
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“we can’t use someone’s vote as a total as an assessment of their character.”
What? French has not only done that to individuals, he has done it to evangelicals as a class!!! He has continually judged the character of evangelicals and found it wanting because they voted for Trump. In fact, just to say he found it wanting would be generous. He has absolutely reviled evangelicals’ character because they voted for Trump.
It’s gonna be frustrating to watch David French try to rewrite his own history here.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPlrX…
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