Charlie Stout

Artificial intelligence poses its greatest threats to natural stupidity.

@sethwieck @LuElla_DAmico 😂

@LuElla_DAmico Texas

In Kansas City for the first time. Where should I go for barbecue?

“Ye Shall Be As Gods”

Woah, people prefer AI to human writing? Who’d have thought that a model reinforced on the human preferences of mostly non-readers would bias to what the majority of the distribution is capable of comprehending?

@xenocosmography @Misfits16490374 Ai, like the tower, will work great until it does.

@Misfits16490374 Nothing that ends up being told in the KJV was unnecessary.

On par with the Tower of Babel. Another unnecessary human endeavor.

@sethwieck @StevenEKnepper 😂😂😂

@StevenEKnepper Excellent! A nice light poem that gets a little darker while reading it on one’s bright little phone. Btw, I’m also by a lake: youtu.be/D_zS_uiPWxs

Here's my second poem from the new issue of Lighten Up Online. (Many thanks to editor Jerome Betts.) It's a strange little dream poem...based on a real dream, for what it's worth.

@troymyatt Wicked.

Two pots of gold in Buffalo Gap, Texas. Incredible ending to this storm system.

@mattlantz Immaculate as always!

A composite image of the 2026 Lunar Eclipse as seen from Palo Pinto County, Tx before the clouds rolled in. 🤩 #LunarEclipse #dfwwx #txwx

@AmericanGwyn At night, said Tobin, when the horses are grazing and the company is asleep, who hears them grazing? Don’t nobody hear them if they’re asleep. Aye. And if they cease their grazing who is it that wakes? Every man. Aye, said the expriest. Every man.

The expriest Tobin from Cormac McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN.

Evidently, Japan is turning footsteps into electricity.

@elonmusk why does this continue under your benevolent reign?

Happy publication day to Call Out Coyote, by @sethwieck! American Book Award winning author Shann Ray writes that “The poems of Seth Wieck’s debut collection declare an immanence of landscape and the infinities of love aligned with hard won wisdom. The stark clarity of the earth and the great beauty of the beloved’s body unify, composing poetry cycles of uncommon fortitude. A mystical conception of God and the daily realities of marriage, friendship, fatherhood. Birds and fences, the touch of a loving hand, the laughter of a friend, death and life in a gaze of generosity, the eyeteeth of animals and the talons of a deep resistance and even deeper hope—all is encompassed in the physical knowing that is Call Out Coyote, a collection that becomes a sanctuary to the reader, a cathedral of light, the golden hour on the great plains, and a notion of sky within the heart that lifts the soul toward what lies beyond us. These poems left me breathless with delight, broken by the sorrows of our collective shadow, and filled with immeasurable joy!” With original cover and interior art from Jack Baumgartner, Call Out Coyote is a testament to artistic friendship and collaboration, to the spirit of trust and faith that helps us helpless humans co-create beauty in a fallen and fragile world, to the mile markers that lead us safely home.

@TimothyAlberino @shaunbrodie1 Pearls before swine…

@shaunbrodie1 I've been doing this for a long time and have never encountered this level of vitriol (from professing Christians no less). It's truly astonishing.

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@chiasmir I’m sorry did you say “facial scan prompt” ???

Dear twitter friends, From tomorrow I'll be taking a Lenten break from twitter. I'll still be on IG, and if I can work out how to bypass the facial scan prompt thing on substack I will also be over there. Be well, and godspeed.

@chiasmir Same could be said about sleep in general.

Going under anaesthesia is a form of time travel.

I guess we should have all bought Mac Mini’s instead of silver, then?

@scottrswain Wait, what???

Every example of misery in the Gospels (being blind, deaf, lame, sick, dead, etc) represents specifically covenant curses pronounced on Israel in Lev 26; Deut 28 due to their covenant infidelity. Correspondingly, every mercy they receive is promised covenant mercy (Deut 30:3).

@The_Kyle_Mann x.com/charliestout/s…

If you quote Tombstone, every man is obligated to stop what he's doing and quote another line of Tombstone. "You called down the thunder, well now you've got it!"

@Breengrub2 Recursion

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." John 21:25

@mattlantz @Grandkathy Man you are NAILING it!

@Grandkathy Thanks! 😊 🙏

Absolutely stunning in our chaotic days. Amazing as always. It's so peaceful to watch.

@DanielMarkham Merry Christmas from The Valley, Daniel

Beautiful sky, though.

The Allsup’s in Slaton ain’t it.