George Fitzallen

So even though @elonmusk characterises sources like @Reuters and @AP as “legacy media” that “lies”, the fact is that Grok relies heavily on these sources for its information and fact checking (it also relies heavily on “woke MSM” like @BBCNews, @nytimes, @guardian). So much for all his talk of “legacy news liars”. If they are lying, then so is Grok.

@saylor @BitPaine If the four year cycle is dead, explain what’s happening right now. Thank you.

Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycle is dead. Price is now driven by capital flows. Bank and digital credit will determine Bitcoin’s growth trajectory. The biggest risk is bad ideas driving iatrogenic protocol changes.

@MabonMedrod @DavQuinn Well, it’s okay then. If the kids are being raped everywhere, we shouldn’t be too hard on the priests…

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn

Opening the pubs on #GoodFriday stripped Ireland of another bit of cultural distinctiveness. It was a grubby, materialistic, crass thing to do dressed up in the clothes of 'progress'.

@McgarrySally @DavQuinn That’s not the past to me. The offenders still walk among us, many of whom are unrepentant and have never been held accountable.

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn Mine too but they’re in the past and I still believe in mass and Jesus

@StayRealrd @DavQuinn Jesus provided the beliefs but the Catholic Church itself emerged from the early Christian communities led by the apostles, particularly Peter.

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn Good grief. It was THE ONLY Church He founded. You have to be trolling. No one can be this thick.

@NeilFonda @DavQuinn I can’t forgive the rape of children. I’m willing to live with that moral failing if I must.

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn The very heart of christianity is the ability to forgive,you're being very selective in your definition of christianity.

@MabonMedrod @DavQuinn Say what about Jews?

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn Say that about Jews, go on

@StayRealrd @DavQuinn Jesus didn’t found the Catholic Church.

The only faith founded by Jesus is perfect but people like you bleat about 'the Church' as an excuse. You're too lazy with the faith and thoroughly dishonest in your weak reasons for not practicing it. Our ancestors died to hand down their precious faith to us but their useless descendants throw it away like rubbish.

@FiveAllian88212 @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota The process is everything. It’s what it is to be human.

@GeorgeFitzallen @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota Why shouldn't they? I see no conflict to: "Appreciation of the result, not the process."

“The shift to a world with superhuman intelligence demands something different than reactive jumps to impede AI progress; it calls for a deeper rethinking of how power & authority operate.” —@AndrewSorota noemamag.com/rescuing-democ…

@Ottovonmulhall1 @DavQuinn I agree. But as I said, for me, the bad far outweighs the good. I can try to be a good Christian without belonging to an institution that stood over the systematic abuse of children. That is a line for me.

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn The church did a lot of good as well

It’s not a question of legitimacy; I’m not questioning the legitimacy of the Church, I’m recognising that for me, I can’t square my morality with the things that it has done as an institution. I simply cannot. But people like me can choose not to engage with the Catholic Church as an institution but still retain our spirituality and try to lead good, Christian lives. The same can’t really be done statehood. You can’t really live outside society. I agree: many nation states have committed atrocities, including our own (the worst of which were deeply entwined with the Church), but how does one walk away from the state as an institution? That’s far easier said than done.

@GeorgeFitzallen On that basis every state that has ever existed including our own is delegitimised.

@DearS_o_n If you don’t think your wife cares about you then you married the wrong woman.

CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT, after 37 years of age, I’ve finally come to realize that, as a man, no one cares about you. Not your wife. Not your family. Not your friends. Not your workmates. Nobody. People act like they care, but deep down, they don't. You are on your own. Always on your own.

@elonmusk Just start your porn site man and stop being so self-righteous.

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@FiveAllian88212 @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota Creativity and plagiarism are inherently process-based concepts.

Nope. 100% consistency in my chain of argumentation: appreciate, judge the thing created, not the process of creating or the means of creation. Or try to decipher the "pureness" (however identified) of the creation process before bothering to look at, tast, read, listen to something. Your call.

@McgarrySally @DavQuinn What do you mean by past? These atrocities happened in my lifetime.

@GeorgeFitzallen @DavQuinn Don’t use the past atrocities in the church because you don’t go to church now

@FiveAllian88212 @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota Also, if you’re not going to take the time to actually engage with me, and just have a chatbot develop your content, good luck to you. If you’re not going to take the time to write your own content then I’m not going to take the time to read it.

Well you’ve just proven my point with this slop. “Sono-mama” (and related Zen ideas) is about how you perceive something, encountering it as it is, without overthinking or projecting ego onto it. It has nothing to do with authorship or whether something counts as plagiarism. You’re taking a concept about phenomenology and trying to use it to settle a question about attribution, which are completely different domains.

@FiveAllian88212 @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota You can call them whatever you want it doesn’t change the reality.

@GeorgeFitzallen @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota One could be called fantasy and the other one synthesis...

@FiveAllian88212 @NoemaMag @AndrewSorota I fundamentally disagree. One is creativity, the other is plagiarism.

Wouldn't that be a brilliant twist... And just because it is written by or with AI doesn't mean that it cannot identify and address real issues. We should (a) be aware of "what is human-made" and "AI-made" (b) but not judge the contents differently!

I take your point. Sometimes institutions go good alongside harm. But we all individually need to draw that line; decide where, for us, the harm outweighs the good. Yes, the Church did and does some good in Ireland, but it was and is far outweighed by the systematic rape of children, the abuse of women, and the protection of their abusers. For me, that line is very clear. What the Church has done here and elsewhere can never be forgiven, and anyone who can forgive it is not aligning themselves with Christian theology.

@GeorgeFitzallen You are like one of those one-eyed nationalists who can ever only see the harm Britain did in the world.