Debra Savage

@travisakers @JazzTulip 🤣🤣🤣

If you do this for 30 days you will be unrecognizable: -Sleep 8+ hours -Drink 2L of water a day (high pH) -Get sun daily -No sugar -Read 30 min a day -Workout 3x a week -Capture someone, cut their face off, and sew it onto your face -Meditate for 10 min daily

One test is to determine if he's losing cognitive ability. Three tests is to measure how fast it's happening.

We've reached the point where Danny Dyer is talking more sense than almost anybody ...

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

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@aravosis Anyone with a brain in their head could see how this would play out. Anyone who cook look at a map of the Straits could see how this would go.

Bingo. This “final attack to end the war” will only end the war if Iran agrees to end the war. What if they respond by blowing up the Saudi oil fields and digging in?

@gerrylynch @BijanOmrani @Telegraph Money for restoration/preservation would help?

@strandedinNI @BijanOmrani @Telegraph It's not a bottomless pit of money and it isn't all about money anyway.

If we care about the future of our churches as much as we say we do, we need to volunteer, and give - new article @telegraph (gift access in next post...)

Mo Salah transformed his village, Nagrig, in Egypt 🇪🇬 by building a hospital, school, youth center, and ambulance unit. Salah supports poor families by giving £3,500 monthly to help alleviate poverty. He constructed a $450,000 water treatment plant to provide clean drinking water for his community. During the Covid-19 lockdown, he donated food worth $500,000 to assist his people in Nagrig. In 2019, he contributed £2.5 million towards cancer treatment in Egypt. His ambulance unit serves 30,000 residents, improving access to emergency medical care. Mohamed Salah donated oxygen tanks to help combat Covid-19 fatalities in his village. He gave £50,000 to Tanta University Hospital to acquire modern medical equipment.

@chrisadonnelly There is no woman out for an evening who doesn’t carry her keys like knuckledusters between her fingers. Doesn’t matter the age. No woman who doesn’t lock her car doors as soon as she gets in. Men have no bloody idea.

Talk to any woman who goes out for a run along our roads. The comments hurled out windows, horns beeped & lewd gestures. Like racism, we have an unsettling tolerance & acceptance of it which is poisonous to society.

The well-preserved ruins of the Terrace Houses of Ephesus, an ancient Roman city in modern-day Turkey #History #HistoryMatters #Bible

“The war in iran has reaffirmed two truths: The United States is blessed with the most professional and effective military in the world….The other is the Trump administration, when it comes to strategy, is incompetent.” @RadioFreeTom @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

True dis

Happy Feast of St. Óscar Romero. From his final homily: "I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, “Thou shalt not kill.” No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you recovered your consciences and obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. The Church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination. We want the government to face the fact that reforms are valueless if they are to be carried out at the cost of so much blood. In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression!"

@gerrylynch @richmondie 🤣🤣🤣

@richmondie No it's all true people on Twitter told me. I did think it was a bit odd why they'd pick a Saxon goddess when Easter started in the Eastern Mediterranean, but they were very clear.

Easter is named for the Saxon goddess Eostre, whose festival the Christians took over. This was agreed the previous Sunday, and the Christians celebrated by singing psalms, which is why the Sunday before Easter is still known as Psalm Sunday. #EveryDayALearningDayOnTwitter

@aravosis What a legacy!

On March 24, 1821, in the mountains of Messenia, southern Greece, my great-great-great-great-grandfather, the priest and general Dimitrios Papatsoris, helped launch the Greek Revolution a full day before the uprising formally began nationwide. Our family lore says, as Ottoman forces approached, his men, called Dredes, wanted to move immediately. Dimitrios refused. First came the church service. In the chapel of Saint Dimitrios in our ancestral mountaintop village of Soulima (now called Ano Dorio), he conducted the full liturgy, and gave Holy Communion. On exiting the church, his men saw a pile of guns. Papa Dimitrios then removed his churchly vestments, and was wearing his military uniform beneath. He blessed the banner and the weapons, swore in the fighters, and led the Dredes into battle. Soulima became one of the revolution’s earliest flashpoints. Dimitrios Papatsoris (1770–1835) was both a priest and a general in the Greek War of Independence. He was a leader of the Dredes of Trifylia and a member of the Filiki Eteria, the secret society dedicated to Greek liberation. His house was used as a result meeting spot for the Filiki. He went on to fight in some of the most important battles of the war, including Tripolitsa, Valtetsi, Missolonghi, and the defense of Messinia against Ibrahim Pasha. He eventually rose to the rank of General. His sons Adam and Anagnostis also fought and distinguished themselves in the revolution -- I’m descended from Anagnostis. The Dredes were known as some of the fiercest fighters in Greece: mountain warriors from the Soulimochoria, hardened by centuries of resistance and nearly impossible to subdue. They played an important role not just in the war for independence, but in the struggles that followed to build a freer Greece. So today I’m remembering Dimitrios Papatsoris, the Dredes, and Soulima’s place in the opening moments of the Greek Revolution. Greece did not rise only in the famous cities. It also rose in small mountaintop villages we remember to this day. __________ Στις 24 Μαρτίου 1821, στα βουνά της Μεσσηνίας, στη νότια Ελλάδα, ο προπάππος μου σε έκτο βαθμό, ο ιερέας και στρατηγός Δημήτριος Παπατσώρης, συνέβαλε στην έναρξη της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης μία ολόκληρη ημέρα πριν από την επίσημη πανελλαδική έκρηξή της. Η οικογενειακή μας παράδοση λέει ότι, καθώς πλησίαζαν οθωμανικές δυνάμεις, οι άνδρες του, οι λεγόμενοι Ντρέδες, ήθελαν να κινηθούν αμέσως. Ο Δημήτριος αρνήθηκε. Πρώτα έπρεπε να γίνει η εκκλησιαστική ακολουθία. Στο εξωκκλήσι του Αγίου Δημητρίου, στο προγονικό μας ορεινό χωριό Σουλιμάς, τη σημερινή Άνω Δώριο, τέλεσε ολόκληρη τη λειτουργία και κοινώνησε τους άνδρες του. Βγαίνοντας από την εκκλησία, εκείνοι αντίκρισαν έναν σωρό από όπλα. Τότε ο παπα-Δημήτριος έβγαλε τα ιερατικά του άμφια, αποκαλύπτοντας από κάτω τη στρατιωτική του στολή. Ευλόγησε τη σημαία και τα όπλα, όρκισε τους αγωνιστές και οδήγησε τους Ντρέδες στη μάχη. Έτσι, η Σουλιμά έγινε μία από τις πρώτες εστίες της Επανάστασης. Ο Δημήτριος Παπατσώρης (1770–1835) υπήρξε ταυτόχρονα ιερέας και στρατηγός του Αγώνα. Ήταν ηγετική μορφή των Ντρέδων της Τριφυλίας και μέλος της Φιλικής Εταιρείας, της μυστικής οργάνωσης που ήταν αφιερωμένη στην απελευθέρωση της Ελλάδας. Το σπίτι του χρησίμευε επίσης ως τόπος μυστικών συναντήσεων των Φιλικών. Στη συνέχεια πολέμησε σε ορισμένες από τις σημαντικότερες μάχες της Επανάστασης, μεταξύ άλλων στην Τριπολιτσά, στα Βαλτέτζια, στο Μεσολόγγι και στην άμυνα της Μεσσηνίας απέναντι στον Ιμπραήμ πασά. Αργότερα έφτασε στον βαθμό του Στρατηγού. Και οι γιοι του, ο Αδάμ και ο Αναγνώστης, πολέμησαν και διακρίθηκαν στην Επανάσταση· εγώ κατάγομαι από τον Αναγνώστη. Οι Ντρέδες ήταν γνωστοί ως μερικοί από τους σκληρότερους και πιο ατρόμητους πολεμιστές στην Ελλάδα: ορεινοί μαχητές από τα Σουλιμοχώρια, σφυρηλατημένοι από αιώνες αντίστασης και σχεδόν αδύνατο να υποταχθούν. Έπαιξαν σημαντικό ρόλο όχι μόνο στον Αγώνα της Ανεξαρτησίας, αλλά και στους μεταγενέστερους αγώνες για μια πιο ελεύθερη Ελλάδα. Γι’ αυτό σήμερα τιμώ τη μνήμη του Δημητρίου Παπατσώρη, των Ντρέδων και της θέσης που κατείχε η Σουλιμά στις πρώτες στιγμές της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης. Η Ελλάδα δεν ξεσηκώθηκε μόνο στις μεγάλες και γνωστές πόλεις. Ξεσηκώθηκε και σε μικρά ορεινά χωριά, που θυμόμαστε μέχρι σήμερα.

Absolute icon. Never forget it. #LFC

@Phil_Lewis_ @cmclymer I’m shocked. 🙄

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