Andrey Sushch

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from”

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

I was already sold on the importance of fairy-tales for shaping the cultural imagination, but this book just floored me. It’s the third in the series, and it may be the best yet. @PageauJonathan and Heather Pollington have accomplished something really special.

This story is so deep. It helps the reader see parenting, romance, appetite, temptation, immaturity, aging, responsibility, and many other themes in their proper light. I’m struck at how much is accomplished in less than 50 pages—half of which is breathtaking art.

We need good stories—ones that can make our eyes grow wide with wonder and our hearts crack with contrition.

The Tale of Rapunzel and the Evil Witch is exactly that.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@PaulAnleitner An approach without an agenda? 🤦🏼‍♂️

“Every action aims at some good” - some old dead guy 2,300 years ago.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

No matter how you feel about Nolan’s take on THE ODYSSEY, I hope you can see everything I’ve been talking about for years is real.

Movies aren’t just “entertainment” akin to roller coasters or playing checkers.

No one is having heated arguments about roller coasters.

We are “storied creatures” and movies have become our culture’s “guiding stories.”

No matter how “non-religious” we’ve become, our guiding stories are still haunted by Christ.

Nolan makes Odysseus a penitent sinner in search of absolution.

Marvel movies make Iron Man a sacrificial savior.

Project Hail Mary gives us a Grace that conquers death.

Literally, the most important decision we have in front of us at this moment is what story we will believe is true about reality.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

In fairness, making the Odyssey "christian" can be woke (Chesterton Christian-virtues-gone-mad sort of thing).

I think it makes sense to wish for a depiction of a harsh, pagan culture to be depicted as is. In fact, it is that contrast that highlights for us what a difference Christianity makes.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@SpencerKlavan 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

The first two books were such fun books to read and reread. Can’t wait for this.

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

Pretty overjoyed at the cover for my new book, A Way With Words: Why Language Makes Humans Irreplaceable.

It’s an ancient idea that man is the animal with logos—not just spoken sentences but a whole inner universe of understanding. Not just outer words, but the inner word.

With the explosion of AI, this foundational idea faces a new challenge—suddenly there are machines that look like they can talk, raising the possibility that one more fundamental aspect of our humanity is being usurped by code.

But this is a book about the beauty of human language, our universal but endlessly varied power, and what it still tells us about why our species is unique.

Presale link is live below. Book comes out February second. Join me on a romp through ancient history, Japanese internet slang, deep learning models, and much more. Can’t wait to share this with you all.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

Yes. Works of art are not less than their intent. But they are often more.

See Weir’s commentary on how he intended no symbolism for Project Hail Mary.

Socrates discovered this long ago:

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” (Apology)

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@Andrewnsnyder I was reading Orthodoxy a couple weeks ago—glad I’m not the only thinking of the Candace parallels.

[seraphim (richard) rohlin @richardrohlin]

It used to be called tweeting, but now it's X-communication.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

I haven’t watched this yet, but getting major THS vibes.

“You are offended by the masculine itself…The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it. You had better agree with your adversary quickly."

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

Malik TWO-NILman. Amirite?

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

USA 2-0!!! 🇺🇸

MALIK TILLMAN LASERS A FREE KICK GOAL 🔥🔥🔥

(via @FOXSports)

[Annie Crawford @annielcrawford]

"The rise of AI will test whether or not we have truly formed our students, our teachers, ourselves in a Biblical worldview. It will reveal what God we truly serve.

St. John tells us that "In the beginning was the Logos, the Word, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God... and through him all things were made." Christ the Divine Word of God spoke the world into being, which means the cosmos is in a very real sense made out of language.

The first technology Man ever used was language , when God called Adam to name the animals. Made in the Image of the Logos, made to be sub-creators within God's world, we to create things through words and shape the world through the tool of language. With mere words companies are incorporated, nations are founded, marriages are consecrated.

And now we have made machines that imitate language - that seem to speak with the creative voice of Man. Here at the apex of the technological age, we have returned to the orgin, the the power of the Logos.

There is a profound danger in this: Language is the primordial medium through which we consciously connect with God. To think, to speak, to write truthfully - this is a kind of deep listening to the Logos, to Christ who is the Word, the Truth, and the Light of the world that illuminates every mind.

Therefore, the language arts, and the humanities more broadly, are a participation in the Logos, a kind of communion with the Divine Word.

But LLM's contracept that communion with the Logos. These Large Language Models insert a digital, statistical, commercialized layer between our mind and the Logos. And to so contracept the relationship between the Divine Word and the mind of a child during its formation is to risk rendering it utterly sterile.

LLMs mimic language but they possess no internal nous; they cannot participate in the divine communion that is the fire or true and living language.

Our job as classical Christian educators is to form students who can, like Jesus, listen to the Voice of the Father and speak what he gives them to speak. The intellectual formation of children made in the Image of the Logos made for communion with the Logos is sacred work and profane tools have no place in it." @A_C_C_S

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@SpencerKlavan Is it a tool?

or

Are you the tool?

[Wasson Watch Co. @WassonWatch]

Problems with our society in a nutshell.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@annielcrawford @PaulVanderKlay @YouTube 2 minutes in: “Purchase intelligence” 😐

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@PageauJonathan @Sophiologist_ That’s the secret.

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

@JoshEberley Hmm. https://t.co/V3UaHvQwl7

[Andrey Sushch @AndreySushch]

We live through story.