Brother Charlie ❤️🤷‍♂️🫡

To expand: 1/the law is to protect their allies but not bind them; it is to bind their enemies but not protect them 2/every conservative accusation is a confession, either in the past or future 3/bottom line: the felt experience of power, rooted in bad faith

The Matrix wasn't a movie, it was a forecast

This is the real AI psychosis isn't it? Generative AI is already used by a billion people globally and generates tens of billions of dollars of revenue, and all the companies investing in it are flush with cash (well, except OpenAI, lol). But yeah, in what universe is that a 'bubble'?

@Matt_Pinner That's not an island. It's a penisula..

What would you name this island

@TheAliceSmith "Looks like meat. Tastes like meat. Not meat at all! Doubleplusgood!"

The biggest flaw in Orwell’s brilliant 1984 is that the main characters in his socialist totalitarian hellscape have enough food to eat and their technology is functioning.

@ahardtospell Indeed, but I have never been able to decide whether R2D2 bumbling around in the desert before he gets snagged by the Jawas as Kurosawa or Spaghetti Western (maybe it's both).

Here’s the thing about “Star Wars ripped off ____” discourses. They’re all correct. George Lucas ripped off so many different things and put them in a blender to make something that loops all the way around to being original.

Best storytelling of the entire Star Wars franchise and it's not close.

have you guys ever heard of Andor

That one reminded me a bit of "Deathwalker", an episode of Babylon 5, with a similar theme, though B5 was much less optimistic about humanity self-correcting when faced with such an opportunity. "Yᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ꜰᴏʀ ɪᴍᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟɪᴛʏ."

@cpk @bernardtjoy Aye.

Trekkies can correct me, but it must be a very common opinion that one of the main ways Star Trek so cleverly solved the problem of portraying a utopian future, that being the inevitable sense of paralysis and stultification in such a morally excellent society, was by evincing an imperialistic ethos of discovery whereby barbarous worlds as foil could be encountered and placed under the microscope of the Federation's higher moral standards. Whether in Earth's past or in distant zones of the universe, the utopian society acts as universal critic but what interests me is that it is these other, lesser societies that are the only escape such a utopian science fiction can have from stalling under the weight of its own perfection.

@BayBungalow14 @julesgambit if ...b7xR then b7# if any other move then Rxa7#

@julesgambit Why is it a6 and not a5?

Companies should include chess puzzles in their interview process, like imagine you make it to the final round only to get hit with this

@Breen @bernardtjoy And also the third TNG movie (more like a two-part TV episode than a film but...similar theme.)

@bernardtjoy Ah there's several older episodes where they encounter folk who are like oh hi, yeah, no go away you weird primitives, we're happy without you

When Death came for Chuck Norris, Chuck nodded, understanding it was finally his time. But he paused and said, "wait, there's something oddly familiar about you." Death pulled back his hood and revealed the visage of Bruce Lee. "Yᴇs. I ɢʀᴇᴡ ʀᴇsᴛʟᴇss, sᴏ I ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ᴜᴘ ᴛʜɪs ᴀs ᴀ ᴘᴀʀᴛ-ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴊᴏʙ. I ꜰɪʟʟ ɪɴ ꜰᴏʀ Dᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʜᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅs ᴀ sᴀʙʙᴀᴛɪᴄᴀʟ." Chuck sighed. "Fuck! Not again!"

If you're afraid of dying, you can take some comfort in this: Chuck Norris has gone on ahead to beat the shit out of anything that might trouble you. He's got your back.

Dune is more redpill. Blackpill is Destination: Void.

@BowTiedPhys Blackest of black pills

this is art

If you really want to know how he felt about AI, Dune ain't it. What you want is Destination: Void and its sequel The Jesus Incident. (There are two other sequels but they kinda suck.)

apparently in the dune books the butlerian jihad kicks off because of a program of ai-powered and ai-implemented eugenics, did frank herbert have like one of those bioshock infinite gates to the future to talk to 2030s silicon valley

@tytrib @ChristLifeInc1 @RandomLDS If this is supposed to be chronological you have it in the wrong order. The synoptics are after Hebrews (Mark may have been contemporary with Hebrews, but Matthew is clearly a response to Mark + Hebrews)

SOMEBODY FAVORS PAUL OVER THE OTHER NT AUTHORS 1. Synoptics – Jesus’ proclamation Emphasis: Repentance, kingdom of God, forgiveness of sins, baptism, responding to Jesus’ authority •Mark: 1:4, 1:14–15, 2:5–10, 6:12, 10:52, 16:16 •Matthew: 3:2, 4:17, 9:2–6, 26:28, 28:18–20 •Luke: 3:3, 5:31–32, 7:47–50, 10:13, 13:3–5, 15:7, 24:46–47 2. Paul – Gospel in letters Emphasis: Christ’s death, burial, resurrection, salvation by faith •1 Corinthians: 15:1–4 •Romans: 1:1–4, 3:21–26 •Galatians: 1:6–9, 2:16 •Philippians: 2:5–11 3. Pastorals (Timothy & Titus) Emphasis: Sound doctrine, ethical instruction, church order; gospel applied to life •1 Timothy: 1:11, 2:3–7, 3:16 •2 Timothy: 2:8, 3:14–17 •Titus: 1:3–4, 2:11–14 4. Hebrews Emphasis: Christ as high priest, fulfillment of covenant, salvation as perfection through obedience •2:3–4, 4:14–16, 5:9–10, 10:19–23 5. John – Johannine gospel Emphasis: Eternal life, belief in Jesus as Son of God, “born again,” light vs. darkness •1:12–13, 3:3–5, 3:16–17, 20:30–31

If Galatians 1:8 bans new revelation, Paul broke his own rule every time he wrote another epistle.

@barstoollaw @HistoryBoomer used to be the poker rooms would cut the cops in on a piece of the table charge and shy but IDK how it works these days

@HistoryBoomer Don't you live in NYC? Do cops bust poker games there? My local sheriff and the elected prosecutor play in my game.

Years ago, I'm in an illegal poker club with some old-time players. After a few hours, one guy turns to me and says in a gravely voice: "If the cops bust this place for gambling, they ain't gonna arrest you, because you ain't gambling." (I'm a cautious, conservative player.)

@_BrettRyanMusic @JayMallow3 Literally how you say “thank you” in Greek (pronounced: efharistó)

@JayMallow3 What is a Eucharist sounds like an animal in the ocean or something

You mean like Jefferson who said Jesus was just a man while he was raping his slave? Washington who never took the Eucharist? John Adam’s who founded a Unitarian Church and rejected the Trinity and Jesus’s divinity? Madison who wrote the 1st Amendment?

@pvthappyfeet @senseicliff @Matt_Pinner The original name is "association football", with "soccer" being Oxford "-er" slang, with "rugger" being used to describe "Rugby football", which has since been shortened to "rugby", even though it is also football.

@senseicliff @Matt_Pinner The original name is FOOTBALL

This is hard

@EthanAllenMathr @PAHoyeck Wasn’t there an episode of Star Trek about this?

@PAHoyeck Wowza. I got Grok to crash out when I had it evaluate your tweet. (It eventually got it right: x.com/i/grok/share/f… )

P1. If my post contained a logical fallacy, then I'd be very upset. P2. I am very upset. C. Therefore, my post contains a logical fallacy.

@PAHoyeck Affirmation of consequent fallacy. But now your post contains a logical fallacy so the inference holds. Funny. There has to be a name for this.

@cremieuxrecueil an entirely foreseeable outcome

This was neat: Researchers traced a tariff on $5 European wines into the U.S. to see who paid it. The tariff itself was $1.19, producers paid $0.26 and importers took a $0.44 cut, but retailers used the tariff as an excuse to add a $1.10 margin. The price went up $1.59 (~32%):

The Epistle to the Hebrews covers this, chiefly in chapters 9 & 10, but also throughout. The flesh was sufficient for the sacrifice, but Christ's divine nature (covered elsewhere) is why it was sufficient. "Hebrews" is a complex work, though--probably the most complex of the NT. It's a very difficult work to unpack and apply. If you can get past the idea that the NT was handed down as a singular work (difficult for Mormons and "creedalist" Evangelicals alike), "Hebrews" is very likely the reason we have the Gospels in the first place.

Question for the Creedalists…. In what way can a human create an infinite/eternal sacrifice… since the hypostatic union promotes that only the flesh of Christ was the thing that felt the pain and what died for our sins… where does it say in the bible the flesh is sufficient?