Sheev McDichael

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

After a month of fasting dawn to dusk - never has a flat white tasted so good. Eid Mubarak! ☕️

Brb I’m making dinner

Ships are crossing the strait: they turn off transponders before, then turn back on once they pass

My aunt goes to elderly university for free in China. It is probably the best thing they have don or elderly. She likes it so much. You can take any subject you like, no exam, no certificate, just earning for fun. She's now learning gardening, music, philosophy, and some geopolitics. There are farmers travelling all the way to the school everyday to learn. This is 1000x better than stupid elderly home which basically kill elderly. quickly rather than care.

One of the easiest, most popular things the admin could do is put a stop to spam callers/SMS. Crown is in the gutter. Brendan Carr sees it glinting in the mud. “Should I pick it up?” he muses to himself as he hits “send tweet”.

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, an Iranian politician, cleric, and eldest son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been elected the next Supreme Leader of Iran under pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to Iran International.

Holy shit… Your anonymous internet identity can now be unmasked for $1 😳 Not by the FBI. By anyone with access to Claude or ChatGPT and a few of your Reddit comments. ETH Zurich and Anthropic just dropped a paper called “Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs” and the results are the most alarming privacy research I’ve read this year. They built an automated pipeline that takes your anonymous posts, extracts identity signals, searches the web, and figures out who you are. No human investigator needed. Fully autonomous. Works on Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, even redacted interview transcripts. Here’s how bad the numbers are. On Hacker News users: 67% identified correctly. When the system made a guess, it was right 90% of the time. On Reddit academics posting under pseudonyms: 52%. On scientists whose interview transcripts were explicitly redacted for privacy: 9 out of 33 still got unmasked. The pipeline works in four steps they call ESRC. Extract identity signals from your posts using LLMs. Search for candidate matches using embeddings across thousands of profiles. Reason over top candidates with models like GPT-5.2. Calibrate confidence so when it does guess, it’s almost never wrong. The classical deanonymization method from the famous Netflix Prize attack? Nearly 0% recall across every test. LLMs didn’t just improve on old techniques. They made old techniques look like toys. When they scaled to temporally split Reddit profiles, matching a user’s old posts to their newer ones across a full year gap, the pipeline hit 67% recall at 90% precision and 38% recall at 99% precision. Meaning even a year of changed interests and different conversations wasn’t enough to hide. More reasoning compute = better deanonymization. High reasoning effort doubled recall at 99% precision in some tests. As frontier models get smarter, this attack strengthens automatically. Every model upgrade is a privacy downgrade. What makes it nearly impossible to defend against: the pipeline splits into subtasks that all look benign. Summarize a profile. Compute embeddings. Rank candidates. No single API call screams “deanonymization.” The researchers themselves say they’re pessimistic that safety guardrails or rate limits can stop it. Their conclusion is blunt: “Users who post under persistent usernames should assume that adversaries can link their accounts to real identities.” And it extrapolates. Log-linear projections suggest roughly 35% recall at 90% precision even at one million candidates. Every throwaway account. Every anonymous forum post. Every “nobody will connect this to me” comment. It’s all searchable micro-data now. And the cost to run the full agent on one target is less than a cup of coffee. Practical anonymity on the internet just died. The paper killed it with math.

AI can unmask you if both your anon & irl accounts talk about your dog named Biscuit. Strategic misdirection is important. For instance, I wasn't even a political scientist, but a psychologist.

Odd story building up on Xbox's new CEO Asha Sharma. Part of an ongoing rabbit-hole of a discovery concerning Microsoft's new Gaming Division CEO Asha Sharma. We have been told that the new CEO of Xbox will be good for the brand the Microsoft's Gaming Division. That we should just ignore or disregard the incompatible skillset of her work history vs the proper demands as the head of Gaming. Ok fine...but well problems start to arise when the new CEO showed her Xbox account to "dispel doubts". People started scrutinising, and odd things started cropping up: 1. the very FIRST achievement she unlocked was dated...16 January 2026, Halo MC Collection. So it is at best a one month old account. 2. achievements for multiple games unlocked on the same date, implying non organic grinding of various distinct games within the span of one day. 3. 100% completion in short "walking sims" type games like Firewatch (Jan 20, 3-4 hours total), Gone Home, A Short Hike, Townscaper, and BALL x PIT (she played for 43 hours in one week?) 4. How does the future CEO of Xbox have this much time to no-life so many different video games at once in such a short span of time? I doubt the future CEO has this much time to just play games if we are led to believe all her playtime is legit. IF its legit, it also raises questions about her procrastinating in her roles, playing games instead of actually doing work. So what does this mean? Welp people are suspecting that New CEO here, got someone from Microsoft to Stage an Xbox account for her, to manufacture legitimacy and trying to get people to stop scrutinising her nonexistent work experience in Video Games and possibly non-passion for it. Well if that is the case, firstly - they're doing an extremely bad job at it, and secondly - lying to Gamers' faces is just going anger them even more. I would have hoped Satya and Asha realised that, if it turned out Asha's entire Xbox account was really just staged.