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Next, @JamesGunn will green light a series about the Joker’s trans cousin that his brother will star in.

Supergirl is now DC’s worst-performing major theatrical release since Catwoman in 2004 🤣

@4thOfJuly365 And the Looney Tunes ones. You get those out when you have company.

I had them all.

I like to say grace before meals. Unless I forget to, and start eating. In which case, I say Psalm 103:1: Let all that is "within me" bless His holy name. 😘🙃

@ShamashAran He made it beautiful again. Form and function rather than just being some modern art monstrosity.

these books are purportedly banned because taxpayers won’t buy them and provide them to children. But as we see here, you can go into any bookstore and buy them freely. If these books are banned, then by the same logic, every single gun is banned, and I want free government supplied guns for school kids.

Leftists think that a major corporation selling them books is an act of rebellion.

@OwenGregorian We could have just asked Scott. 😥

True human-level AI may be forever out of reach, prominent computer scientist argues | Taylor & Francis, Tech Xplore Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science, made a proposal that has put AI development on a flawed path for three-quarters of a century, a prominent computer scientist has argued. In his provocative new analysis in "Turing's Mistake: Escaping the Yoke of Unintelligent Machines", Peter J. Denning tells us that Turing's stance in 1950 reflected a belief held by the scientific community at the time: that human intelligence can exist without a body—and can therefore emerge in software on digital computers. Denning also challenges the belief that machine intelligence can be confirmed through an imitation game (now known as the Turing test). "These two claims have shaped much of AI research and development," Denning writes. "My premise is that our acquiescence to these claims has led to the AI mess in which we find ourselves today." He argues that the artificial intelligence (AI) society is headed for won't yield a human-level intelligence, known as artificial general intelligence (AGI)—instead it will be dangerous, he warns. The tacit knowledge problem At the core of Denning's argument lies a concept called tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge represents the vast area of human understanding that cannot be articulated in words or captured in any symbolic form that machines can process. Denning identifies five major domains of tacit knowledge that he says "elude machine learning." These include common sense knowledge, our daily interactions with others and our environment, our feelings and perceptions, performance skills, and our social and historical culture. Humans have tried to catalog common sense knowledge. Beginning in the 1980s, Douglas Lenat's ambitious Cyc project attempted to compile a comprehensive database of common-sense facts. After 40 years of human effort, it had accumulated 25 million entries. "Yet even this treasury could not add up to a background of common sense sufficient to make expert systems smart enough to be experts," Denning notes. "Cyc validated that much of the knowledge that makes people experts cannot be articulated as propositions." Performance skill presents another insurmountable barrier. "Our performance skills in thousands of domains cannot be communicated to machines," Denning explains. "Whereas descriptions of skillful outcomes ('know what') can often be represented as bits and stored in a machine, we do not know how to encode the embodied knowledge for skillful performance ('know how')." Musicians demonstrate this gap. Denning says, "A virtuoso violinist can play beautiful music yet cannot describe to an acolyte how to produce it. "Even if a robot could observe and imitate skilled humans, having no biological body, a robot cannot grasp how the musician feels when playing beautiful music or how an audience feels when hearing it." Other examples of tacit knowledge include intuitions, gut feelings, spontaneous creativity and imagination. The unbreachable barrier The barrier to all of this is what Denning identifies as "the representation problem." This fundamental obstacle to achieving human-level AGI exists because for any computation to occur, data and instructions must be encoded in physical forms that machines can recognize and process. But tacit knowledge, by its very nature, resists such encoding. "Behind every word is a deep well of tacit knowledge that gives it meaning," Denning says. "Words are but symbolic representations of meanings, not the meanings themselves. Commonly used Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, only manipulate words; they cannot know or understand the meaning of what they are saying." This creates an unbridgeable divide—because we cannot explain or even understand how tacit knowledge works for humans, we cannot begin to communicate it. "How we host tacit knowledge is largely a mystery," Denning admits. "All we know is that it is embodied. We have no idea what we might observe and measure in our bodies to reveal it." Context and culture Beyond individual knowledge, Denning emphasizes the role of context—or the circumstances of a situation that give our statements and actions a broader sense of meaning and purpose. Context provides innumerable layers of meaning that extend beyond any horizon. Context provides the clue to whether someone is being sarcastic or sincere, or whether someone is angry or teasing. Context tells us whether to employ tact or use humor. "When you inquire into where an assumption of the current context came from, you discover it rests on previous conversations from previous contexts. Each of those in turn rests on further previous conversations and their contexts. This pattern is endless and fractal," Denning explains. The cultural dimension of intelligence poses similar challenges. Culture encompasses our values, norms, judgments, histories, communities and moods, even dynamics of power or care. "Human conversations are imbued with background assumptions that give meaning and relevance to the words being used," Denning explains. "Scaling up LLMs with ever larger neural networks will not enable them to acquire the embodied human knowledge we call culture. LLMs will not attain the objective of the Turing test: to demonstrate machine thought indistinguishable from human thought." Ultimately, Denning says, there is a mutual incomprehension between humans and machines: Artificial neural networks will create a form of machine tacit knowledge that humans cannot understand. "Machines cannot read our tacit knowledge and we cannot read theirs," he writes. "We are aliens across an uncrossable divide." This has profound implications for AI safety. As machines are unable to read unarticulated human context, aligning them reliably with our intentions may be impossible, Denning warns. "Through AI automation, agentic networks of machines are likely to develop their own machine intelligence that does not reach the level of human general intelligence but is still quite capable of creating severe problems for humans. This threat is greater than a takeover by superintelligent machines," he explains. "Machine intelligence has different concerns from us and does not appear to care about us. Its ways of thinking and problem-solving look alien to us. We do not yet know how to live safely with these machines. "Pulling back from an AI automation singularity will demand much from us. We start by accepting that the familiar culture is fading away as intelligent machines appear in our society and we do not know what is coming. We decline to think like machines or be subservient to machines. We refuse to submit to a yoke imposed by low-intelligence machines. Most importantly, we reassert our humanity, declare once again what makes us different from machines, and celebrate those differences." Read more: techxplore.com/news/2026-07-t…

@ShamashAran He goes from supporting a Nazi tattooed Senate candidate to hating on the Jews. Seems like a swell guy.

Ro "Jussie Smollett" Khanna Imagine if he cared about his own constituents as much as he cares about terrorists

BTW the reason I so "brazenly" claim that Christ IS Jewish (not just was) is because He's called the Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah in Revelation. If Scripture reveals Him as Jewish at His first advent and Jewish at His final appearing, there is no basis for a "non-Jewish" Jesus in between!

Have you guys seem the movie called idiocracy? Social media was a mistake I think.

Robert Kennedy Jr. on Fox News: “The only genocide in Middle East is the one being committed against Jews and Christians. In 1948, there were a million Jews in Arab states. Today there are fewer than 15,000.” He's 100% correct.

@farmingandJesus My old pastor, Chuck has been gone 13 years. His Bible studies are still going on the app. It’s my daily gym listening.

June 19,1939-July 14,2025 1 year tomorrow he’s been in glory.

Here's a wonderful revelation from the Old Testament for all who bear the name "Christian". Jeremiah 31:6: For there will be a day when watchmen on the hills of Ephraim call out, "Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God." The Hebrew word for "watchmen" in this verse is "notzrim". Do you know what "notzrim" also means? 👉 “Christians"! Yes, the Hebrew word for "Christians" also means "Watchmen"! This is a prophetic calling for all Christ-followers, to proclaim the God of Israel and invite the world to worship Him in Zion! 🇮🇱🙏❤️

@TheTXVoice lampasshole.com

@TheTXVoice He should move to CA.

Clayton Tucker, the Democrat nominee for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, is a "Socialist Operative" who wants to convert agricultural land to wind and solar farms, according to a new website published by Republican candidate Nate Sheets' campaign. thetexasvoice.com/comrade-clayto…

As someone who grew up in the Muslim world, I’ve seen this pattern repeat itself: When Muslims are weak and in the minority, they speak endlessly about tolerance, coexistence, and peace. When they become strong and gain power, that tolerance completely disappears, even toward their own people. This isn’t an opinion. This is historical fact, proven across centuries and across many countries. The West needs to understand this pattern before it’s too late. Tolerance in Islam is not a principle. It’s a strategy.

Sam Neill has passed away at the age of 78. This one breaks my heart. RIP.

My Grandfather sold perfume door to door in immigrant neighborhoods during the depression. He developed it in his bath tub. He once made $100 in one day. If a black man in the 1930's with a third grade education could do this, it's proof America has no limits.