Rachel Maxson
@rachelmaxson.bsky.social
Weird Christian Librarian. Gatherer of fragments. DFTBA
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Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
February 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
Apropos of nothing in particular, there is a 5 1/2 month waiting list on the digital audiobook of 1984 at my public library.
February 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, there is a 5 1/2 month waiting list on the digital audiobook of 1984 at my public library.
Church events are cancelled tonight for inclement weather, so I guess I'm going to my Congressional Representative's well-kept-secret virtual Town Hall so that even in his bright red district there's witness that not everyone is OK with this coup.
February 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Church events are cancelled tonight for inclement weather, so I guess I'm going to my Congressional Representative's well-kept-secret virtual Town Hall so that even in his bright red district there's witness that not everyone is OK with this coup.
It says something about the information environment when you see THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO [YOUR STATE] in a headline and after a momentary fleeting thought of "Wait; what devil, and what is he up to here?", your overwhelming response is "Oh, this will be a welcome distraction from the current chaos!"
From the creators of the hit podcast “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” comes a new show, “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” an exploration of the Satanic Panic that gripped America in the 1980s and ’90s.
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The Devil Went Down to Arkansas - Christianity Today
On the face of it, TLC’s The Duggar Family and Damien Echols, one of the infamous West Memphis Three, seem to have little in common. But what if we told you that both stories, which begin and end in A...
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January 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It says something about the information environment when you see THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO [YOUR STATE] in a headline and after a momentary fleeting thought of "Wait; what devil, and what is he up to here?", your overwhelming response is "Oh, this will be a welcome distraction from the current chaos!"
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Remember, they play the long game. Their goal now is to bombard us daily so that we get exhausted and feel hopeless before we even begin.
January 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Remember, they play the long game. Their goal now is to bombard us daily so that we get exhausted and feel hopeless before we even begin.
New here (hi!) & delighted by the follow-backs, but creeped out by the random follows by strangers with literally no reason to follow me (no posts, no description, no mutuals). Is it rude to pre-emptively block at least those that look like bots? Should I just ignore them? What's the culture here?
January 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New here (hi!) & delighted by the follow-backs, but creeped out by the random follows by strangers with literally no reason to follow me (no posts, no description, no mutuals). Is it rude to pre-emptively block at least those that look like bots? Should I just ignore them? What's the culture here?