"To get a man’s soul and give him nothing in return – that’s what really gladdens Our Father [the Devil]’s heart" - Screwtape Letters #9

Early efforts at ideological manipulation of LLMs were hamhanded and bizarre ("white genocide in South Africa") but clearly the Grok engineers have been hard at work!

A Baptist minister, rather than a (Catholic or Episcopal) priest. Pedantic, I know, but the decidedly non-Southern Baptists of ABCUSA deserve credit when they earn it.

chicagowelcomingchurches.org/partners/lak...

So... like Infrastructure Week. Eventually a Democrat will take over and do it.

Norms, common sense, and expectation of good faith aren't going to do in the future. Everything, everything is going to have to be carefully airtight law with painfully specific definitions. That's going to a pain but I don't see any alternatives.

I guess they decided it must be a Kirk reference because his is the first death they've ever cared about.

Suppose the defense sends a Subway sandwich platter to the jury deliberation room with a note saying "FOOD FIGHT!"

"I really don't follow the news. It's too depressing, you know."

Principle, but also wise self-protection. One "I'm a white man and PyCon rejected my talk" or "their Code of Conduct is woke" tweet, boosted by an influencer, could bring a catastrophic clawback of past NSF awards.

I'm a fanatic blood donor, but "give your forever chemicals to somebody else" feels a little less altruistic than I'd like! I guess it's "when it's the least of their concerns"...

(My wife got 2 badly-needed units in Jan - thank you donors!)

I would order that on a shirt - on multiple shirts - if the PSF benefits. (Also sending plain vanilla cash.)

Snek is *all* spine!

He sure spent a lot of time talking about how hard the dementia screening was.

Hmm, a denominational double-dipper!

Chronicle got it wrong; Rev. Batista is PCUSA, not UCC: www.presbyteryofsf.org/jorge-bautis...

Rev. Black in Chicago is PCUSA, too. They're skunking the rest of the progressive denominations here.

Let us know when you receive Rep. Issa's apology, which will surely arrive soon... right?

issa.house.gov/media/press-...