Eric the Red 🌹✝️
@eric13red.bsky.social
Autistic Episcopalian Marxist Mystic Geek. Member of DSA 🖖 (He/Him/His)
Pinned
Eric the Red 🌹✝️
@eric13red.bsky.social
· Mar 25
“In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall.”
Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...
Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...
THE EARTHLY CITY ON A HILL — Earth and Altar
In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall. All great nations go through the entropy of history. We are not immune to th...
earthandaltarmag.com
My latest on reflecting like Augustine on our current Imperial collapse, discussing Christian nationalism, bad theology, and our Lenten journey towards making and building a better world on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
I’m gonna disagree with this one.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I’m gonna disagree with this one.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Trump immediately banning AI tomorrow
I hate to inform you that tiktok is doing mash-up videos of Bill Clinton and Trumps "secret love affair" and theres, allegedly, already Trump-Clinton fan fiction. I refuse to load up wattage or ao3 to confirm.
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Trump immediately banning AI tomorrow
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Just when you think they can't get any more slimy, they do shit like this.
Everyone will now have to reapply for SNAP.
Don't think for a second that the USDA is going to be able to process 42 million applications in a timely fashion.
That's the whole point.
Everyone will now have to reapply for SNAP.
Don't think for a second that the USDA is going to be able to process 42 million applications in a timely fashion.
That's the whole point.
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just when you think they can't get any more slimy, they do shit like this.
Everyone will now have to reapply for SNAP.
Don't think for a second that the USDA is going to be able to process 42 million applications in a timely fashion.
That's the whole point.
Everyone will now have to reapply for SNAP.
Don't think for a second that the USDA is going to be able to process 42 million applications in a timely fashion.
That's the whole point.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Got a case now where they refused to give a pretrial detainee his insulin until he fell into diabetic ketoacidosis and died.
Every few months some agitated weirdo gets upset at me over the Atlantic post I did about how the prison system ROUTINELY engages in unimaginable abuse and lets people kill themselves, because they read it as “THERE’S NO WAY EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED”
/1
/1
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Got a case now where they refused to give a pretrial detainee his insulin until he fell into diabetic ketoacidosis and died.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
3/ But as Paul wrote to the Ephesians (6:12)
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
He didn’t mean “people you hate”.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
He didn’t mean “people you hate”.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
3/ But as Paul wrote to the Ephesians (6:12)
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
He didn’t mean “people you hate”.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
He didn’t mean “people you hate”.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
LLMs are a probabilistic word generator, nothing more.
Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
LLMs are a probabilistic word generator, nothing more.
Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Sickening
What are the churches doing about it?
What are the churches doing about it?
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sickening
What are the churches doing about it?
What are the churches doing about it?
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Just kidding, I know we don't have laws anymore, and are just governed personally by a senile old pervert and his circle of mobster and grifter pals.
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Just kidding, I know we don't have laws anymore, and are just governed personally by a senile old pervert and his circle of mobster and grifter pals.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Our country is run by a pedophile in the throes of decline. we watch him melt as they plunder the treasury like Scrooge McDuck swimming in his vault of coins
oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
Trump on healthcare: "I've had personal talks with some Democrats about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. This was my idea ... why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?"
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Our country is run by a pedophile in the throes of decline. we watch him melt as they plunder the treasury like Scrooge McDuck swimming in his vault of coins
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
Genuinely curious as to why Wu and others who argue along these lines are surprised that pro-Israel politics are on the back-foot in the United States.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
wow, some pig!
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
wow, some pig!
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
23 STATES NOW IN RECESSION AND 11 MORE NEAR IT LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS 2008 WHEN UNEMPLOYMENT HIT 10% AND FORECLOSURES DOUBLED
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
23 STATES NOW IN RECESSION AND 11 MORE NEAR IT LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS 2008 WHEN UNEMPLOYMENT HIT 10% AND FORECLOSURES DOUBLED
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
So you opened an investigation into fake news?
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So you opened an investigation into fake news?
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
just a fucking farm full of chickens coming home to roost right now in the worst way
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
just a fucking farm full of chickens coming home to roost right now in the worst way
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts
Never rub another man's rhubarb
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Never rub another man's rhubarb
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
For months I've noted that that "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein" was a first for him, the first time we've seen him lose control of the narrative.
“This has totally gotten out of their control.” Kaitlan Collins says Trump and his White House are reeling out of control over the new Jeffrey Epstein revelations.
November 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
For months I've noted that that "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein" was a first for him, the first time we've seen him lose control of the narrative.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
this is what every conservative has wanted to replicate in the us since the new deal and what might have occurred had the business plot against roosevelt succeeded, probably enlisting the klan and silvershirts as death squads
New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is what every conservative has wanted to replicate in the us since the new deal and what might have occurred had the business plot against roosevelt succeeded, probably enlisting the klan and silvershirts as death squads
Can you have Tea, Earl Grey, Hot without a functioning saucer?
saucer section not charging
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Can you have Tea, Earl Grey, Hot without a functioning saucer?
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
I’m starting to think it is the time to shine for people who really understand the Roman Empire’s politics around hierarchy and how that related to household and community injustices.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I’m starting to think it is the time to shine for people who really understand the Roman Empire’s politics around hierarchy and how that related to household and community injustices.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Republicans have for years liked to pretend that there was some "war on Christianity," but they are the ones unleashing state terror on churches and congregations.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Federal immigration officers begin sweep in Charlotte, North Carolina
Local reports say targets include church parishioners doing yard work and workers hanging Christmas lights
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Republicans have for years liked to pretend that there was some "war on Christianity," but they are the ones unleashing state terror on churches and congregations.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...