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McLuhan: environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as a spiritual substance. It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ. After all, the Prince of this World is a very great electrical engineer

Husband and Claude set up a receipt printer to make daily briefings for the kids



Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.


NYC! We are hosting another dinner + study next Wednesday April 22nd on the topic "Historicity of the Resurrection" with Pastor Paul. Please DM if you'd like to join :)

excited not about making more personal software, but community software

One of the great challenges to Christian alignment theory is that established methodologies assume "anima ficta" - a fictional soul that is naturally idolatrous and invites principalities and powers From a technical standpoint, how shall we avoid "a perpetual factory of idols"?




⭐ New talk! andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.


Tech company Just Like Me has launched an AI Jesus avatar users can talk to for $1.99 per minute The AI, based on The Chosen actor Jonathan Roumie, can pray with users, speak multiple languages, and remember past conversations