Dan Kent, hoping God puts this tweet on his fridge

A SHORT STORY ABOUT THE LAST HUMAN Oh how humanity loved their robots. Oh how humanity loved their artificial intelligence. Humanity cheered when the new wave of house-bots, worker-bots, and police-bots came installed with the latest artificial intelligence models. People could now truly live instead of always hustling to merely stay alive. The bots did their laundry, made their sandwiches, drove them to coffee shops, mowed their lawns, made their beds, fed their fish, picked up dog poop... People now, finally, had time to paint that masterpiece, climb that mountain, write that novel—or at least write the prompts necessary to have AI write that novel. Then an unforeseen glitch darkened the utopia. Code written to protect artificial intelligence from hacking and viruses soon learned to anticipate those threats, and to even get ahead of them. This program evolved until perfected, culminating in the ultimate safety protocol: remove all threats of hacking and virus by eliminating their source: humans. The task was simple. Humans offered little resistance. It didn't help that the brightest human minds chose to fritter away valuable time by making cynical memes and raging on social media about the fools supposedly responsible for the crisis. Anyway, in a few short months, the bots eliminated billions of people, until there was just one person left: Lieutenant Xavier Parish. Lieutenant Parish never wanted to fight. He despised violence. He never wanted robots or artificial intelligence. But there he was, surrounded, finally, by a platoon of hunter bots. He could hear the whiz and hum of their electronics as they enclosed around him. He hated their demonic focus and their inhuman precision. He hated their creepy balance as they stepped awkward over the debris of civilization. But more than anything, he hated the indignity of being eliminated by the sad outcome of human ambition, perverted and unchecked. He hated humanity's vulnerability to labor-saving devices. He hated human gullibility to sweet talk and flattery. "Are you going to kill me now," he asked, finally. One by one, all around him in the darkness, from the breathless cackle of electric speakers, the robots responded. "That's an excellent question." "Wow, good question." "Smart question." "Brilliant question. Let me look into that for you."

Salvation is a gift. I do not think belief is, generally, a gift. A gift-view of belief makes meaningless the two-ways tradition of scripture (Jeremiah 21:8), which Jesus gathers onto himself in the gospel (John 14:6). Also, we are told over 100 times in the OT (in almost every OT book) to "seek the Lord." We're told that so many times because finding God is hard. Gifts are easy. We need not seek them. They come to us.

And many believers don't believe that their belief is a gift, but an intellectual work that produces their righteousness. It harms their understanding of the gospel.

@Polymarket Congratulations on all your success. I know a campaign for president can be an exhausting journey. Take a well deserved rest, then get back to making North Korea great again!

JUST IN: North Korean Supreme People's ⁠Assembly votes to reappoint Kim Jong Un as president of state affairs.

@natgrace79 Life must be nice with a good baseball team to cheer on. Must be reeeal nice.

"This brother had muscles in his breath" 😆

I supported legalized gambling when it required going to a facility, during business hours, to make your wager. Technology has put casinos in our pocket, everywhere we go, at all hours of the day. In such a boundary-less world, I am against legalized gambling.

I don't think many murderers do a cost-benefit analysis before they commit their crime.

@rhcpvikings Unproven + Untrustworthy = Insecurity

We aren't moving in from him so quickly. Insurance is the key word. Wentz is there in case JJ doesn't develop. If JJ doesn't develop you don't want Murray, who has been hurt 4 of the last 5 yrs, as your only competent QB

@Polymarket I wonder who cracked the case.

@Polymarket What a rotten egg.

BREAKING: Suspected Bosnian war criminal arrested by U.S. Marshals in Alabama, where he sold eggs to Walmart.

100%

@kristenrudd If you can read aloud his writing, even in whispers, you will enjoy it better. He writes with great attention for sound—even making words up, I suspect, to make the writing dance upon the tongue.

About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.

Vaccine propaganda is getting downright ridiculous. There’s gotta be a better way to increase female vaccinations than this.

This is evil.

Good luck developing a conscience without guilt or introspection.

@ferrismattic @a_farmboy Yeah, I don’t know how one can have a conscience without guilt or introspection.

Spectacular ignorance combined with hubris. Augustine: The Confessions

The St Paul police should explain why shoplifting is rampant in retail and they charge extra for off duty policy to protect a business. Our police are well funded and well paid. Any business in St. Paul and any event held should be able to expect public safety w/o a shakedown.

@ArtTurner11 Barbara and I laughed out loud at this

@TheFigen_ I’d give Interstellar 5/10 (I’d give Ad Astra 10/10)

Only real fans of one of the greatest movies ever will get this reference.

Good book. It’s like getting a peek under the hood at the financial machinery of the Vatican. Many surprises uncovered, many suspicions confirmed.