Joanna May

I have spent the last 3 days hyper focusing goblin-mode in a cave with Claude developing a gamified family orchestration web app / website & notification platform with freemium enterprise-caliber tech stack and robust data architecture and me explaining it to my family like…

@WallStreetApes This is so ridiculous. But also, the most ridiculously memorable: In 20 years, these memories will still be in there, going strong. Truly unforgettable. Congratulations graduates!

Centennial High School graduation in Franklin, Tennessee was held outdoors despite heavy rain and lightning Weather is known in advance so the caroming could have been moved indoors but school officials had a “Rain or Shine” Policy so the Pre-Set Plans had to move ahead They knew the rain was coming but thought they could get the ceremony done before the rain and didn’t want to move the ceremony into the gym. From what I could find they didn’t know if everyone would fit They even had a backup plan incase it rained Staff indicated that if it rained on Thursday, they’d try again Friday and go indoors if needed then. They stuck with the original Thursday plan rather than moving it to Friday Many parents and attendees were extremely frustrated, calling it unsafe due to the lightning strikes. They were disappointing because it was such a milestone

@josh_bobby Oh gosh, I just reread this that it was something I posted?! 😭 Love that.

@jburn Came across Heiser through something you posted many years ago and it changed my whole understanding of the Bible and opened up so much depth of Scripture

I am so loving all the Heiser defense in my feed. After a few years of feeling like we’re in the darkest timeline with compromised church leadership, it’s nice to know y’all are out there. 🫶🏻

@rbohlender Check it out. Seems like something you may like. Obsidian for mind-mapping knowledge base in md and (my preference) MCP integration with Claude.

@jburn To misquote Acts 19, "I did not even know there was an Obsidian."

I really like my AI. I am absolutely jazzed about my latest project and waiting for my tokens to reset to keep working on it. I am so much more efficient and get to spend my time doing more of what I like and automate grunt work. I guess I don’t quite understand the gloom.

@rbohlender Do you use Obsidian?

@jburn I use it to challenge my own ideas. "Take this argument and poke holes in it". Or "what's the downside of _______".

@dieworkwear I remember reading the Sartorialist and having a Google Reader list that scrolled and scrolled. I feel like now I can’t even find non-AI pictures on Pinterest. Where are the blogs?! Where are the creators for the art of it?! Everything is so monetized, and poorly at that.

terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info

@conservmillen As a technologist, I find this perspective to be a bit strange. They’re just LLM’s - it’s probabilistic output. I use multiple agents as personal assistants for menial tasks, preparing research, orchestrating defined workflows, writing code against my requirements etc.

I have firm parameters around how I use tools like Grok because of a big concern I have about what we’re giving up when we outsource our creativity and critical thinking to AI. I think we’re surrendering part of what it means to be made in God’s image when we trade our reason for convenience. AI isn’t always evil, but I think we have to be very careful about the power we give it. These are my 5 reasons for why Christians should be restrictive about our reliance on AI, both for ourselves and our kids:

@alisa_childers @DunningAwen He’s really leaning in to a new aesthetic isn’t he. Far cry from early Mars Hill sit on the stool vibes.

Has anyone else noticed that often, the people who shout for repentance the most at "revival" events are themselves people who have been confronted over and over about their sin and yet refuse to repent?

@MikeWingerii @SpencerDalton I may have to make a tee that’s like “Egalitarian but still support Mike Winger.” 👏🏻

@SpencerDalton I’ve been told my name is particularly triggering for people at Bethel Music. I mean, this is a quote.

Life hack: go to your church leaders, name drop @MikeWingerii in a positive context, watch their faces… you’ll instantly know where they stand on cover-up culture, clergy abuse and “shepard” worship. You’re welcome 🫡

@jdahlxn I think the bottom line here as many have said is that English is inadequate.

Most of Heiser's novelty—and controversy—comes down to his insistence on using the term 'gods' to refer to a category most everyone else would subsume under the term 'angels.' If you simply say "the 'gods' referenced in Scripture are higher level angels (supernatural beings) who God delegated some measure of authority to" you'll be close enough to Heiser's thesis in this book that the rest is semantics and parsing out the exact nature of that delegated authority.

@danielsilliman @brmorris Welp.

Interesting to see how James Robison skated through a scandal—sex with a woman reported to be in her late teens who worked for him and lived with him—when other televangelists of the era saw empires implode.

@anonymuzzzzzz @MikeWingerii Whatever it is, it’s bad.

@MikeWingerii Am I the only one who doesn't know what "the movement" is. Somebody help, please.

I only want to expose the BAD guys in the movement. But, me trying to do this is being interpreted as trying to destroy the entire movement. This is one of the most disturbing things that has come out of this. If removing the frauds destroys the movement what does that mean?

@MalcangiSarah But I love that all these wonderfully sensible people from all sorts of streams are showing up on X on his behalf! Helps me know who to follow.

The amount of hate coming from Christians regarding the late Dr. Michael Heiser is disturbing. Most of these people haven’t even read his books. They just repeat misrepresentations of him. Dr. Heiser definitely challenged the way I thought about the spiritual world and the word Elohim. Elohim doesn’t always refer to God (Yahweh). In some verses it clearly refers to Elohim as other spiritual beings. The church doesn’t teach us this because so few want to correct church tradition. Dr. Heiser inspired me to dig into scripture and history and I wrote this article a while ago about the Sons of God in Genesis 6. I will forever be grateful to Dr. Heiser. Who Are The Sons of God In Genesis 6? discoveringtruth.org/?p=171

@KaeleyT Co-sign

So many, many strangers have come to my page in the last three days to strongly declare that Julie Roys is bad news. They accuse her of gossip, of slander, of division, of witch hunts. I am not going to say she does her job perfectly. None of us do. What I will say is that she is METICULOUS with receipts. If she makes a claim, she's going to make darn sure to back it up with evidence, which is a helluva lot more than the people coming here to condemn her are able to do when asked why they dislike her so much. You know what else she does that these guys NEVER do? She repents when she gets things wrong. She owns her mistakes. She apologizes for them. She names her sin, and not in the slimy damage-control way we see in so many churches where the pastor only issues a half-ass vague apology so he can retain power. Women who rock the boat in the church are held to a much higher standard in the public eye than many of our pastors are. John MacArthur publicly excommunicated Eileen Gray in front of thousands of people and encouraged his congregation to treat her like an enemy when she refused to return to her criminally abusive sexual predator of a husband. He never apologized. Mark Driscoll can call women "penis homes" and use church funds to advance his book to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and be credibly accused by literally dozens of church members of pastoral abuse, and yet he's invited to be a keynote speaker at major Christian conferences. Doug Wilson can call women cunts and harpies and lumberjack dykes. He can say that American slavery wasn't bad. He can preach that women shouldn't vote. He can write softcore porn about sex robots. He can harbor numerous pedophiles in his church and shame their victims into silence and still be invited to lead prayer sessions at nationally important events. Greg Locke can abandon his marriage and marry his secretary. He can abuse his congregation and make bogus accusations about having proof that Joel Osteen is an actual pedophile, and he's still on the main circuit. Ravi Zacharias, Bill Hybels, Robert Morris, Tullian Tchividjian, Paige Patterson, Mile Bickle, and on and on and on ad nauseam. How long did it take for any of the truths about these guys to be known? And how would anyone know if people like Julie weren't tirelessly doing the work most of us neglect? It wouldn't. But if you'd rather pretend like the real problem is Julie Roys instead of a culture of whitewashing abuse, then at least have the courtesy to apply the same standard of care in reporting that she does: Bring the receipts. Show me where she reported something untrue about someone. And then tell me why you're more upset about her talking than you are about these leaders abusing their power. Apparently "nobody is perfect" applies to pastors who spiritually terrorize people, protect predators, exploit congregants, lie, bully, manipulate, and destroy lives. But let a woman raise her voice too loudly while exposing it, and suddenly precision, holiness, gentleness, and biblical ethics become urgent concerns. I'm sorry, but no. I don't buy it anymore. If your greatest outrage is reserved for the people exposing rot instead of the people creating it, you are not protecting the church. You are protecting the machine.

@Joannathelee @ChandiHeenan I’m sorry, I deleted my posts because I got enough info from Chandi and I can’t even. 🤣🤣🤣 Like not even worth the time.

@jburn @ChandiHeenan You just called my best friend an idiot for confronting your bullying and used your supposed superior intelligence and false sense of moral high-ground as a valid reason for abusing an innocent family in public. When you grow up and get over yourself, we can have a coffee.

@AbidingInLove_ Lou does not believe that remotely to my knowledge. He would absolutely talk about Jesus and the need for the Gospel. I doubt he realized just how Old Covenant immersed he sounds to be.

@jburn That makes a lot of sense. Doug Wilson of Canon Press who is also involved in this is a Calvinist Preterist believes we are now in the Millennium, now longer needing to preach the Gospel, but are to go back to the Law of Moses, death for adulterers, those who break the Sabbath.

I heard someone say “I’m a New Covenant guy, A Jesus guy. I’m not into Old Testamentism.” Lou’s construct is OTism. It doesn’t work in the NT, doesn’t make sense with Jesus, doesn’t match early church ecclesiology, doesn’t align with a global timeless Christian expression.

@emzanotti I made one in 2020 and haven’t made one since 🤣 it’s a lot of work when you’re a little OCD about page layout arrangements. The AI isn’t good enough yet for that!

Does anyone know what company does this because I’m 8 years behind on kid albums