Two dishes I reminisce about regularly: Double Spicy Chicken from The Red Pearl in Birmingham, AL. And the Pastrami at The Beast and the Barrel in Chattanooga, TN.
This is a pretty cool interactive map of the power grid(s): opengridworks.com
On rule-breaking in the Milgrom “obedience” experiments:
“On average, eventual quitters violated the experimental protocol in 30.6 percent of their active sequences. Unlike the fully compliant group, several of the disobedient individuals followed the procedure flawlessly right up until the point they refused to continue. The statistical difference highlights that the people who eventually quit were actually better at following the scientific protocol than those who went to the end.
“The most frequent violation in obedient sessions involved reading the memory test questions over the simulated screams of the learner. Doing this effectively guaranteed that the learner would fail the test and receive another shock. By talking over the protests, the obedient subjects abandoned the goal of testing memory and simply facilitated continuous shocks.”
Source: www.psypost.org/audio-tap…
“Letting an LLM write for you is like paying somebody to work out for you.” alexhwoods.com/dont-let-…
I’ve got family and friends who have come out of particularly toxic, cult-like church cultures. What are some of the best books/resources out there for laypeople–for the people in the pews who have been harmed by toxic Christian leaders?
We lost my cousin Robin to a drunk driver this past week. I wish we’d had more time. joshuapsteele.com/i-wish-we…
I know that Logos Bible Software has built-in AI features (for a subscription) now, but is there any way to use, say, Claude and give it programmatic access to your Logos library?
If you’re trying to connect your Mac to multiple external monitors…in what world is merely being able to MIRROR the external monitors, so they’re exact replicas, useful?!?! Trying to find an affordable solution for my MacBook Pro (work) and Mac Mini (personal).
Judging by the weather, Ohio is…incredibly drunk. Go home, Ohio.
In your opinion, what are the key errors of USA evangelicalism in the past 50 years? Like, if you were summarizing your frustrations with evangelicalism in a letter to, say, your childhood pastor. How would you describe things?
📢 PSA: Eugenics is bad, actually. People who want to stop being called Nazis and fascists should stop saying and doing Nazi and fascist things.
Absolutely loving the show “Shrinking.” Such a great mixture of humor and poignancy!
All 3 of my kids are sick with fevers. The youngest 2 threw up all over the place at the same time this morning. Tell me something to cheer me up?
Turns out, all it takes is greed and a well-funded right-wing propaganda media vortex to bring a republic to its knees.
Daylight Saving Time SUCKS.
Anyone on here use any online data privacy services, like DeleteMe? If so, have you found it worth the cost?
I think that the same people who are excited to somehow usher in Christ’s return through war and bloodshed will be woefully surprised when the Day of the Lord does arrive and judgment falls on them.
Do you ever get anxious about what to read next because you don’t know what would be the best use of your time? Is this an affliction from grad school that’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life?
I feel old saying this but I really wish my Britannica “Great Books” set had a slightly larger font size. Was trying to dip into some Montaigne the other night and my eyes were getting tired. 👴🏻
I don’t think we’re adequately concerned about the Anthropic, OpenAI, and Pentagon drama. Get ready for AI mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, folks. What a time to be alive!