@MoiraDonegan It seems silly to quote a fantasy book but there’s a Terry Pratchett quote where they have captured the main villain and are about to kill him, “it doesn’t matter what he is. It matters what we are.” It’s stuck with me whenever the death penalty comes up.
Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch
Crazy thing is this doesn’t make me hopeless. This is a meaningful moment. We have the privilege of being born into this world and with it we have the chance to be the ones who change history.
@IoannesSilentio@Make_it_Raines Hot take: baptism these days is way too difficult to achieve. Anyone wishing to be baptized should be able to get the sacrament ASAP, provided they are willing to recite the creed and respond affirmatively to the baptismal liturgy
Creating a separate opening and shape of the baptismal liturgy in BCP1979 and derivatives was a mistake, as it precludes spontaneous use of the baptismal liturgy in the course of the communion liturgy. Offers to baptize should go out at time of explaining how to come to the rail.
If you're interested in this history, Monica Miller's Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity is a great read.
Will try to do a thread at some point about zoot suits.
One thing about VTS is we get "read, mark, and inwardly digest" emails from our Defensive Coordinator / Acting Dean of Chapel re: football plays 🏋️♀️🏈
One fun quirk about small residential grad school is going to tell your professor you're out with a cold only to discover an email saying they're out too
Ecologist speaking calmly: if you pump groundwater from a drinking water aquifer for cooling data center shit and it evaporates, becomes a cloud, drifts away, and rains into the sea, you have in effect USED UP WATER. Begging everyone to learn the water cycle taught in 7th grade.
Part of the problem with the "kids don't read books" discourse is that the concerned professors are self-selected to be nerds who genuinely enjoy reading academic material and have to use imagination to understand reading as a burden