Please, I beg of everyone — stop using “aesthetic” as an adjective.
Tatya Bichoo@enough_yt
Apple Music after the latest update or Spotify? Apple Music looks more aesthetic imo.
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Michael A. Skaggs
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Michael A. Skaggs
@maskaggs
#Catholic, husband, father, #Hoosier. Historic Preservation Commission @cityofsouthbend @sjcindiana. D. Progs @ChaplainLab. *All views my own.*
South Bend, Indiana Katılım Ocak 2008
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Trust me bro(s) we know it’s 100% AI.
The Dor Brothers@thedorbrothers
We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day. Yes, this is 100% AI.
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@jdskyles What is with these long-ass posts recently that end with someone else’s attribution?
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In many establishments, servers are required to back tip 2% of the cover to the washers and busters. By being an asshole, you just cost your server money.
Mr PitBull@MrPitbull07
Ran up a $1500 dinner tab and when the receipt came back they had those cute little “suggested tips” printed like I’m supposed to casually drop another $300 just because someone carried plates from kitchen to table. I left $25 which honestly felt generous considering I already paid restaurant-level prices for the food itself. Server immediately got weird about it, attitude switched, barely a thank you, just that tight smile people do when they think you violated some unspoken rule. I told her straight up tipping isn’t a percentage subscription service and I’m not funding someone’s rent just because the bill happened to be high. Manager wandered over trying to smooth it out, hinting about “industry standards” like that magically obligates me. That only made me dig in harder because nowhere else do you get charged more for the exact same task just because the total went up. So I signed it exactly how it was, stood up, and walked out while they all stared like I committed financial treason, and if they think I’m coming back there to play along with that system again they’re seriously confused. Credit: Annie Perkins
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@MegaTheMaster @WalkingHymnal @RochDiocese Point of clarification: canonization doesn’t “make” someone a saint — so if he’s a saint, he is whether or not the Church acknowledges him as such.
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@WalkingHymnal @RochDiocese Imo, he's already a saint in my eyes. But I do understand the hesitancy there given the fact that he was apparently not that good of a diocesan bishop.
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It has now been a week, & the @RochDiocese still has yet to release a statement on the announcement of the beatification of their late Bishop Emeritus Fulton Sheen. You'd think they'd celebrate it, but the Sheen hate still runs deep there it seems.
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@SohrabAhmari @JillFilipovic Some of the social media posts from news outlets here in South Bend are horrifically bad as far as writing goes.
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@JillFilipovic If you’ve read local papers, you’ll know that many of their writers are semi-literate* — itself a product of earlier social failures and breakdowns.
It’s all so depressing.
* PS — there are also extraordinarily talented writers and editors at some of these outlets. But…
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I'm not sure even most journalists have clocked just how quickly this is happening. Already, many major news outlets are having AI write articles; a human simply skims at the end and okays it. They use sneaky language like "AI assists; humans decide" but... AI is doing it.
Megan Menchaca@meganmmenchaca
Editor of a major Ohio news organization says they have removed “writing” from certain reporters’ workloads. Reporters collect facts and an “AI rewrite specialist” writes the article. That article is then reviewed by editors + reporters before publication.
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Ah, yes, 4.6 Opus can definitely travel to archives and examine non-digitized original documents and draft a dissertation that puts them in conversation with existing scholarship.
Give me a break.
Kevin Cannon@kmcannon
There are PhDs being handed out each day to people living in the past: the students, their advisors, their universities. Dissertations that took 5 years of work, and which 4.6 Opus could re-produce then improve on in an afternoon.
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@BackwardsFeet @jdflynn The word you’re looking for is “grift.”
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Among the reasons I left the biz school at IU — even among mostly other Indiana-raised students in my cohort, I was the poor kid. And it showed.
wes@wesj_42
Growing up, going to Longhorn or Olive Garden was a treat like a birthday dinner, put on a collared shirt occasion. Then I got to college and my friends were talking about how they went to Bones, Chops, Capital Grille, etc. for family outings. Two different ways of growing up.
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Outstandingly beautiful and inspiring Tridentine Masses are celebrated in Rome every Sunday in more than one church. Pope Leo is well aware of this, and doesn’t have a problem with it.
Damian Thompson@holysmoke
The celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass has proven controversial in some US dioceses, and among some bishops, but, apparently, not in the Diocese of Rome or for its bishop.
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Great we’re doing “food is hard” discourse again.
Just a pick a different restaurant.
tater tot@parakeetnebula
I hate “small plates” restaurants. The waiter always starts their pitch with “how hungry are you?” And it’s like...what do you think? I’m an American at a restaurant. The answer is “offensively hungry.” I came here to eat until I’m ashamed of myself.
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@carleolson I know little of Feser, but Lewis’s “shock” that someone opposed to Catholic teaching speaking in a seminary is laughable on its face. Where has he been for the past 50 years?
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As a public service, I am listing all of Mike Lewis's doctorates, professorships, peer-reviewed articles, academic publications (both articles and books), academic lectures, books reviewed in academic journals, academic awards, and people who give a crap about his knowledge of Catholic academia (or anything else):
There you go. Meanwhile, those who care about facts and reality can see what academics and academic journals have to say about @FeserEdward's many publications: edwardfeser.com/books.html
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@AnthonyEsolen Anything on your reading list set in Rome? Going on pilgrimage in the spring and would love to take some reading that’s set where I’ll be.
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I've read everything I could get my hands on from these Catholic writers in the early to mid-20th century, though I don't agree with what every one of them says on every thing -- nor, politically, would they always agree with each other:
Sigrid Undset, Francois Mauriac, Heinrich Boell, Graham Greene, Malcolm Muggeridge (even before his late-life conversion), Evelyn Waugh, Jacques and Raissa Maritain, Etienne Gilson, Charles Peguy, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Riccardo Bachelli ...
Undset, Mauriac, and Boell were Nobel laureates, and Bachelli damned well should have been (he was nominated 8 times). I've read much of Boell and Bachelli in the original German and Italian, and I should read Mauriac in French too, but I have only Le Noeud des Viperes in a paperback falling apart. I've translated Bachelli's Lo Sguardo di Gesu (The Gaze of Jesus) for Ignatius Press, and I really would like to translate I Tre Schiavi di Giulio Cesare (The Three Slaves of Julius Caesar) also, which I don't think has been rendered into English.
Jolt yourself out of the current howling madness ... Don't be like some political train careening out of control ...
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@4HLsartorialist I adore Marseille, but when they replaced my ancient one last year at NO COST to me, I was only too happy to accept the gray they offered.
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I don't care about your politics
I do care about your choice of Le Creuset color.
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@alancornett Meh.
On price, of course, bourbon punches above its weight. But in many ways they just aren’t the same spirit.
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Look I don’t like RFK Jr any more than the next person but if you’re scandalized by toilet coke you haven’t been paying attention to politicians.
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@LeahLibresco I’m reminded of the Committee of Public “Safety” during the French Revolution.
I’ve no idea why that comes to mind.
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When people tell you about themselves, they want to be heard and acknowledge for their own experiences, not told how your thing is the same. Hope this helps ❤️
chase@cfree94
hey so this is called a conversation! hope this helps ❤️
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@jstewartIndy Agree entirely. Local governance is a bi (or non-?) partisan issue.
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@maskaggs And historically conservative norms. Modern Republicans & Democrats both exhibit very liberal attitudes when it comes to centralizing governance rather than letting it develop organically from the bottom up.
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