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@SusanK1717 @FrMatthewLC People are giving you a hard time with this but it actually exists in Catholicism as well and isn't some outrageous innovation. My diocesan TLM, due to many large families etc, has a nursery within the church which broadcasts the Mass and parents can use it optionally as needed.

@FrMatthewLC We used to have a nursery for babies and Sunday School during a portion of the service for older kids.

Do you think this is a good policy or not?

@AllanRicharz @Citycolt If I'm told Austria and Hungary are playing tonight, I will just ask against whom

Seeing some debate as to whether using a VPN to reply to a geo-locked thread is a TOS violation. Interesting. The current TOS have a narrow ban-focused scope, so I think not. But back when ban evasion was a catch-all policy against any circumvention, yeah it might have arguably.

It's almost as if much "internal research" was in fact essentially a form of concern-trolling - of no real commercial purpose, existing only to be used and abused at a later date by external actors through subpoenas or whistleblowers. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

As I suspected as soon as I saw the headline, internal research was apparently instrumental in returning these verdicts.

@StatisticUrban Worst case scenario is untranslateable in a single word. If someone can't convey an idea in a few words or fewer from language B to language A, chsnces are they don't speak language A well enough (which can be hard to admit because language A is typically one's native tongue).

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but despite looking, I've still never found a true example of a word/idea that cannot be translated into English. The English version may take multiple words, or even a sentence. It may lose its poetry. But it can be translated all the same.

@eugyppius1 An estimated 40% or more of X revenue is derived from outside the United States, consistent with historical Old Twitter patterns. Making this app essentially US-only would create a billion dollar shortfall for X, which I guess is why it isn't going to happen.

come on, this is such an asinine debate. American content creators also profit from the fact that Europeans know English and consume boatloads of monetised American social media content.

@JadeAtrophis In my experience Catholic dating is far from immune from the flaws of modern dating but remains the best avail. option to find a values-aligned spouse. Also, many of the challenges encountered there are unrelated to the "past promiscuity" discourse - not all comes down to this.

I am both sympathetic to this attitude and not Because yes, modernism is the framework most women are formed by and very few either aren't or break from it But also, Catholic women are, by default, better than most in this regard. You have significantly MORE of a shot.

@sc_cath In business comms I'm seeing more and more situations where the message is AI-encoded by the sender and then AI-decoded by the recipient. Logic would have it to cut the fluff and just send each other the contents of the prompts instead, something tells me that won't be happening.

AI slop is going to be very expensive because many subtle parts of economic and social systems are organized around small frictions that allow people to convey meaningful signals by overcoming them. You read letters because someone thought them worth the time to write. AI removes these frictions. It will render many social norms totally ineffective and will saturate many important channels of communication.

@TrevorSheatz Trevor, will you and your wife commit to donating any proceeds derived, directly or indirectly, from your recent content creation activity on these topics?

Virginity should not be the #1 factor Christians look for when considering who to marry. Godliness and being attracted to them is. Virginity matters, and it's a blessing from God. It's not wrong to desire someone who is a virgin. And past sexual sin regularly carries present-day consequences. But I fear we've placed virginity on such a high pedestal that it's become an idol for many. The Bible doesn't say that someone "is free to be married to anyone [they want] ​— ​only if they're a virgin." It says that someone "is free to be married to anyone [they want] ​— ​only in the Lord (aka, only if they're a Christian)" (1 Cor. 7:39). In other words, what matters above all else is that your spouse is a believer, virgin or not. Again, while desiring to marry a virgin isn't a bad thing, it becomes a bad thing if it causes you to miss out on marrying the person who truly matters: the man or woman who's born-again, passionate about Jesus, excellent in the God-given characteristics of a godly wife or husband, and physically attractive to you. And a mature Christian should desire those things in a potential spouse above all else, regardless of the past sins the person may have gone through (though they should certainly weigh out that aspect as well in this decision, since it does matter).

@DolphinMossad Divisive

Chuds call stuff degenerate. Commies call stuff bourgeois. Is there a liberal word for “thing I don’t like”?

@Polydamas J'en entendais beaucoup parler il y'a quelques années comme d'un tsunami imminent qui allait redéfinir notre rapport à la vérité-même. Au final, en politique les vieilles techniques (vidéos tronquées, propos vrais mais sortis de leur contexte etc) restent les plus efficaces.

On disait que les deepfakes politiques allaient envahir les réseaux, que ce serait impossible à gérer, mais dans les faits, vu qu'il est facile de contacter le politique en question pour vérification du dit propos, il y en a somme toute assez peu, hors publication humoristique.

@QuintuplePote Ce n'est pas mon expérience en corporate tech. Un VP big tech est au dessus d'un "senior director" et juste en dessous de la haute direction, le titre est mieux gardé qu'en finance

Dans la tech c’est encore plus drôle, tu parles à un amerloque de ta boite, son grade c’est VP Senior Regional lead of core tools, Director of global financial operations, tu te dis mmmh j’ai ptetre tapé trop haut Et en fait il est juste CDP sur le logiciel de trésorerie US

@Blacknatwatch @OrwellNGoode "One small silver coin a day" might be a helpful baseline for a hired laborer's wage

Realistically, a medieval peasant would be able to come up with more than 6 copper. They didn't hoard cash, but they did have side businesses that could generate a lot more than that. A single pig might get you 2-3 shillings and pig ownership was extraordinarily common. Not enough to get you a horse, but enough for basic arms.

@allgarbled Chatgpt 5.2 told me once that essentially it starts disengaging (going into a lower quality safe mode of sorts) if you voice too much frustration at the output and it can't easily fix it. Pluribus virus behavior.

I think you get worse results from LLMs if your messages are full of typos and grammatical mistakes. I’m sure this would not show up in benchmarks, but I still believe it. The models respect you less and become lazier as a result.

@Scipio32428639 @gregoirehoudan Il y'a un pipeline Twitter -> Cnews/Figaro où bcp d'informations importantes ou images marquantes ruissellent en quelques jours

@gregoirehoudan Le problème : Twitter est une bulle. Même pas 1% des francais voit ces images. La plupart se décomposent devant la meilleure boulangerie de France et des mêmes de chats qu’envoient les copines. C’est juste ça les Français de 2020. Et ça mérite peut-être un peu son remplacement.

Les Français doivent impérativement voir ces images pour mesurer ce qui les attend.

@GreasySinkWater @TheSaintofSimon @kenzietuff If he asks the same group of people, the outcome will be the same in person as it was online. You can get dates at the church, but asking as a young man the approval of the middle-aged crew to do so is as unnecessary as it is fruitless.

@TheSaintofSimon @kenzietuff Depends. I can see people wary of non-believers coming in and trying to use it as a dating app and then leaving the church. The guy is kind of an idiot. He needs to go to the church, show he's devoted to it, and let people know he's single and interested in starting a family.

Man posts in local Facebook group, moving to area. Asks which Catholic parishes have thriving community, would be best for single man to attend- “is successful + seeking wife soon” + same faith is priority. Entire comment section berating him. “Church isn’t for dating!”

@micahsb @mjackson I worked at Twitter in the late 2010s and through the worst of the COVID era in a moderation-adjacent capacity. He's essentially right, at least to the extent this had turned into a political censorship machine.

I worked at Twitter during the 2010s. The place was a censorship machine, all in the name of “trust and safety”. Elon buying the company and rebasing it on absolute freedom of speech was a massive win for everyone, on both sides of the political debate.

@Zetta55Byte @yacineMTB Yes and no. Corporate jargon including in content moderation exists partly for obfuscation and plausible deniability. An example of this is "shadowbanning": platforms denied it based on semantics, while separately admitting to "visibility filtering" (essentially the same thing).

@yacineMTB Moderation vocab is not a secret cabal It’s just the internal shorthand every trust‑and‑safety team uses to make inconsistent humans behave like a consistent system. The dramatic framing doesn’t survive contact with how platforms actually work

As someone who read Twitter's code base all the way through, including commits and random team design docs. Elon buying twitter actually saved the western world. You guys have no idea the kinds of shit that extreme ideologues were cooking up

@emeriticus Let's not pretend that censorship concerns would have been something for you to scoff at back then.

This app was objectively better before Musk, before it was flooded with garbage and constantly swarming with bots and influencers who have been encouraged to lie due to the monetization of those lies. The elimination of “censorship,” which still exists, was more akin to letting the inmates of an insane asylum run the place.