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@MattWalshBlog let's look around. There must be a big pile of Chesterson's fences stacked up somewhere. They can be put back where they were.

The "social conservatives" were right about everything. We have been right about everything for decades. Literally everything. We told you that if you tolerate euthanasia even for the terminally ill, even for the "extreme cases," very soon it will be used to put down anyone the state deems inconvenient or burdensome. And that is exactly what has happened, just as we said it would.

@UnderSneege @edwest Or if you do consider the effects, you have to "pretend not to understand things", since admitting it would lead you to have the Bad Person opinion

@edwest After a decade in the public sector I still find this one of the most replicable observations ever made.

Genuine question, but do these second-order effects not occur to anyone when they come up with these ideas? x.com/J_D_89/status/…

This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.

So it is like Jira but for targeting assets, ie, closing kill chains. Cool cool

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about

@orthodoxmason @JimmyRis It looks fun but I must be dense but I don't understand how to get the right size stones for the base course. I keep getting a selection of 5 tiny or wrong stones. I hit X a few times to get a new selection but then the option disappears.

Here's Waller, a game I made to help teach some of the fundamentals of drystone walling. Many thanks to @JimmyRis for helping me bring this all together. It's been quite fun! orthodoxmasonry.com/waller

@Protestia sorry that is actually adorable

Orthodox Xtians with a super wet blessing, especially that third woman.

Some thoughts for us prodigals, those who have wandered and gotten lost.

Every man who reads too many books before he has lived goes mad in a specific way. first he is gentle because books are gentle. then he is arrogant because books make him feel superior to the unlettered. then he is desperate because he knows everything and can do nothing. then he is finally dangerous because he takes his first real beating from life and realizes all his knowledge did not protect him and now he must rebuild everything from the ground

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@YourPrimePath cool so I have achieved the highest form of existence and didn't even break a sweat

The highest form of existence is to have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or known.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

An Anglo-Saxon description of Ash Wednesday, written in the 990s. The word 'Lent' comes from the Old English word for spring, 'lencten' - the season when the days are lengthening, when 'all trees quicken again which were deadened by the winter's chill'. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/03/u-eart…

whenever people downplay AI capabilities by saying "actually it's just a next token predictor" all i can think of is

Then comes the real shock.

🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk announces he “agrees with the teachings of Jesus Christ” Elon recently said on @KatieMiller’s podcast that he believed in “God the Creator,” and during Charlie Kirk’s memorial, Elon posted part of the Lord’s Prayer. Elon is SO CLOSE to accepting Christ as our Lord and Savior 🙏🏻

Larry Haun is the best Carpenter/framer you will ever meet in your entire life. RIP brother You taught me things kids without dads couldn't learn 🙏

Wake up babe there’s a Portuguese Catholic priest who mixes Gregorian chants with industrial techno house music

every relationship needs one of each, i think

“10 million dogs go missing every year, help us find 365 of them by soft launching the total surveillance state”