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Live like today's your last, be inclusive but principled, deepen your perceptive powers. I share all things #lovable, #chaste & #data-driven. I control me.

[Sunno @EsuSpec]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Gilbert Strang, an MIT professor, taught the same linear algebra course for 62 years. When he delivered his final lecture in May 2023, students from around the world tuned in online to watch.

The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Millions of machine learning engineers, data scientists, quants, and self-taught programmers learned the essential math behind AI from his clear, free video lectures, even though most never stepped foot on the MIT campus.

Strang joined the MIT faculty in 1962 and retired in 2023. When MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2001–2002, he was one of the first to embrace it fully. While many professors hesitated, Strang saw it as an opportunity to share mathematics with everyone. He filmed his lectures and made them freely available.

He completely changed how linear algebra is taught. Instead of starting with abstract vector spaces and proofs, Strang began with something simple and visual: matrix multiplication. He built intuition first using concrete examples, then introduced more advanced ideas like eigenvectors and singular value decomposition. He insisted that students should be able to explain every concept with a small, tangible matrix before moving to theory.

Beyond the content, his teaching style stood out. He spoke to students with genuine respect, patience, and kindness, never using words like “obviously” or “trivially.” He regularly paused to check if anyone was lost and treated beginners as thoughtfully as he would his colleagues.

As a result, Strang became the default linear algebra teacher for much of the planet. Universities in many countries began recommending his lectures to their own students. Some even replaced their in-person courses with his videos because they could not match their clarity.

His final lecture ended with a long standing ovation. Strang seemed surprised by the applause, smiled humbly, and simply thanked everyone.

In his short comment under the YouTube video, he expressed gratitude for a wonderful life of teaching and hoped others would continue teaching the subject well. No self-promotion, no grand farewell—just quiet sincerity.

When you add up every version, every upload, help sessions, and all the different recordings MIT has shared over the years, the total has surpassed 20 million views.

Today, the full course, including all lectures, problem sets, and solutions, remains freely available on MIT OpenCourseWare. One of the most important mathematical foundations of modern AI is still just one click away.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never understood why the Bible spent so many chapters on a tent in the desert. The tabernacle. Endless boring detail.

Then someone walked me through it, and I couldn’t unsee it.

There was only ONE door into the whole structure. One way in. Jesus said, “I am the door.” John 10:9.

The first thing you hit inside was an altar where something died. You couldn’t get to God without passing the place of sacrifice. The cross stands between you and the Father.

Then a basin of water for washing. “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit…” John 3:5.

Then light, bread, and finally God’s presence behind the veil.

Every single piece was Jesus. The door, the sacrifice, the washing, the light, the bread, the presence.

You know what shook me?

God gave Israel a 3D blueprint of His Son 1,500 years early and had them carry it through the desert.

They were camping around a picture of Jesus and didn’t know it.

Islam told me it was old ritual.

It was a portrait, stitched in fabric and gold, waiting for the face to arrive.

That face? CHRIST JESUS.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Six reasons I can't go back to Islam.

1. The Quran repeatedly affirms the Torah that existed in the 7th century. Today, thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, we know that Torah is substantially the same Torah we have now.

2. The Quran retells stories of the prophets, but many of those details resemble Jewish oral traditions and Midrash rather than the Torah itself.

3. The claim that Abraham and Ishmael built the Kaaba has no clear historical or archaeological evidence behind it.

4. The Kaaba was never God's first sanctuary. Long before Islam, Scripture describes God's tabernacle, His presence, His covenant, and His instructions for worship.

5. Islam removes the biblical system of atonement. No mercy seat. No sacrifice. No Ark of the Covenant. Which leaves me asking: how is sin ultimately dealt with?

6. Jesus. Not as a theological concept. As a living Savior. I encountered Him. He pulled me out of performance-based religion and gave me peace I never found through striving.

You can debate doctrine all day.

But I can't unsee what I've seen.

I can't unknow what I've learned.

And I can't walk away from the One who changed my life.

No turning back.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

My friend in London opened a free website last week.

He typed my full name.

14 seconds later, it showed my old address, my old email, and a password I used in 2019.

I haven't lived at that address in 4 years.

He said one sentence I'll never forget:

"Everyone you know is on this site. Most don't know it."

Here's exactly how to find what's exposed and start erasing it 👇

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what wrecked me when I was newly Christian?

Genesis 22. For years as a Muslim, I was told the story was about Ishmael.

Then I actually read it and honestly, I think the bigger question isn't Isaac or Ishmael.

It's this: Why would God ask Abraham to sacrifice his son in the first place? What kind of God does that?

The answer hit me like a freight train.

God wasn't being cruel. He was painting a picture.

Because Abraham never goes through with it. God stops him.

And then God provides a ram in his place. That's not just a test.

That's prophecy. That's a blueprint.

A father.

A son.

A sacrifice.

A substitute.

Genesis 22 is the heartbeat of the Gospel. God was foreshadowing the day when He Himself would provide the sacrifice. Not for one man. Not for one family.

But for the whole world. Salvation wasn't earned by Abraham's performance.
It came through God's provision. Not your deeds.
Not your striving or your religious record.
A substitute. A gift.

And here's what made me stop and think: The Quran retells the story but removes the name of the son. Why?

Because once you start following the thread through Genesis, the prophets, and the covenant promises, you eventually have to wrestle with the Lamb that comes later.

You have to wrestle with Jesus. The perfect sacrifice that every previous sacrifice pointed toward.

And that's when I realized: The story was never ultimately about Abraham. It was always about what God was going to do for us.

And there's nothing we can do to earn His approval. We can only receive the sacrifice He already provided.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.

His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.

The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.

The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.

The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.

The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.

The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.

The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.

The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.

Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.

In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.

The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.

Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.

The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.

Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.

The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.

This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.

A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.

Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.

Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.

A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.

Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.

The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.

But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.

Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. I prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs every single day. They save lives. That science is settled and I will never tell you otherwise.
But I'm going to say something that will make a lot of my colleagues uncomfortable — because someone needs to say it, and your doctor probably won't.
Too many physicians make you feel crazy when you bring up statin side effects.
You walk into your appointment and say "my muscles ache constantly" — and you're told it's in your head. You say "I'm exhausted all the time" — and you're told it's your age. You say "my sex drive disappeared" — and you get an awkward silence followed by a subject change. You say "I don't feel like myself anymore" — and you're told the benefits outweigh the risks, take the pill, stop reading the internet.
I've watched it happen in my own field for twenty years. The conversation gets shut down. The patient gets dismissed. And then they do the one thing we should be most afraid of — they stop the medication entirely, without telling us, and lose the cardiovascular protection that's keeping them alive.
That is the real cost of not being honest. Not the side effects themselves — the silence that drives patients away from treatment.
In my practice, I see statin-related complications in at least 25% of my patients. Muscle pain. Fatigue that doesn't resolve with sleep. Reduced sexual drive. Brain fog. Cramping. Joint stiffness. Weakness that makes exercise — the very thing we tell them to do — feel impossible.
Some of these improve with CoQ10 supplementation and optimizing vitamin D. Many do not.
I wrote about the diabetes risk of statins in a New York Times op-ed in 2012. The backlash from the cardiology establishment was immediate. I was told I was undermining trust in a life-saving drug class. Fourteen years later, every major guideline acknowledges the risk I warned about. It's in the prescribing information. The physicians who attacked me for saying it now teach it to their residents.
The truth doesn't care about professional comfort. It never has.
Now a paper published this week in Science Advances has finally explained the mechanism behind statin myopathy — and the finding validates what millions of patients have been telling their doctors for years.
Researchers discovered that statins activate the NLRP3 inflammasome in muscle cells — triggering an inflammatory cascade that causes muscle cell death, activates atrophy pathways, and disrupts muscle metabolism. This is entirely independent of the drug's cholesterol-lowering effect.
The muscle damage isn't caused by lowering cholesterol. It's caused by a completely separate pharmacological action through a different pathway.
The critical implication: the side effect can potentially be separated from the benefit.
Blocking NLRP3 or restoring isoprenoids prevented muscle cell death without interfering with cholesterol reduction. Future therapies could preserve the cardiovascular protection while eliminating the muscle toxicity.
Even more striking — the researchers found that background systemic inflammation significantly lowered the statin dose needed to trigger muscle damage. Patients with chronic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, or metabolic syndrome may be experiencing myopathy at doses their doctors consider "too low to cause problems." They're not imagining it. Their inflammatory state is priming the pathway.
The muscle pain was never in their heads. It was in their NLRP3 inflammasome. And we finally have the molecular proof.
Here's what I actually do in my practice — because I refuse to choose between protecting the heart and respecting the patient.
Whenever possible, I avoid statins as my first-line approach for eligible patients by using alternatives that lower LDL through entirely different mechanisms with no muscle toxicity:
PCSK9 inhibitors — Repatha and Praluent. Injections every 2-4 weeks that dramatically lower LDL without touching muscle tissue. No myopathy. No fatigue. No brain fog. For patients who can access them, these are transformative.
Inclisiran — Leqvio. An siRNA injection I administer twice a year in my office. It silences the PCSK9 gene in the liver. Two shots a year. LDL drops roughly 50%. No muscle side effects. No daily pills. Now approved as first-line monotherapy. This is the future of lipid management and I use it aggressively.
When statins ARE clinically necessary — and sometimes they are, especially post-heart attack or in combination therapy — I choose hydrophilic statins like rosuvastatin or pravastatin. These do not easily cross the blood-brain barrier. The cognitive complaints — the fog, the memory issues, the feeling of "not being yourself" — are substantially less common with these formulations because the drug stays out of the central nervous system.
I never prescribe a statin without CoQ10. 100-300mg daily. Statins deplete the cellular energy molecule your muscles and heart depend on. Replenishing it reduces muscle symptoms in many patients. It should be standard practice. The fact that it isn't is a failure of our field.
I check vitamin D and optimize it aggressively. Low vitamin D — which is epidemic — worsens muscle symptoms independently and compounds whatever the statin is doing. Target 50-80 ng/mL, not the bare minimum of 30.
Bempedoic acid — Nexletol — for patients who can't tolerate any statin. Works upstream in the cholesterol pathway and is not active in muscle tissue. Specifically designed to avoid myopathy.
Ezetimibe added to a lower statin dose. Cut the statin intensity, add ezetimibe to maintain the LDL reduction, and halve the muscle exposure.
There is no excuse in 2026 for telling a patient "just deal with the muscle pain." The toolbox is deep. The alternatives exist. The only barrier is a physician's willingness to listen and adapt.
I want to speak directly to every patient who has been dismissed.
Your muscle pain is real. Your fatigue is real. Your cognitive changes are real. Your loss of drive — in every sense of the word — is real. A paper in Science Advances just proved the mechanism. You were never crazy. You were experiencing a documented inflammatory response in your muscle tissue that your doctor didn't have the science to explain — until this week.
And I want to speak directly to my colleagues.
We have to be honest. Not just about the benefits — which are enormous and undeniable — but about the side effects, the mechanism, and the alternatives. Patients who feel heard stay on treatment. Patients who feel dismissed stop their medications in silence — and die from the heart attacks we could have prevented if we'd simply been willing to have an honest conversation and switch the approach.
The cardiologist who tells you statins are flawless is not protecting you. The wellness influencer who tells you statins are poison is not protecting you either. The truth lives in the middle — where it always has.
Statins save lives. The side effects are real. The mechanism is now proven. The alternatives exist. And you deserve a doctor who holds all four of those truths at the same time.
Both things can be true. They always could.
Now we have the science to prove it.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Absolutely appalling.

No one should face violence on our streets. The suspect appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred. I will not tolerate this - he will face the full force of the law.

My thoughts are with those who are injured and I thank the police and the emergency services for their response.

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[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-6

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Let me be honest. The story of Moses and the rock used to mean nothing to me as a Muslim.

The people are dying of thirst in the desert.

God tells Moses to strike a rock, and water pours out to save them. Exodus 17.

Cool miracle. Moving on. That’s how I read it.

Then I read what Paul wrote about it.

“They drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” 1 Corinthians 10:4.

The rock was struck once, and life poured out for everyone dying.

But here’s the part that wrecked me.

Later, the people are thirsty AGAIN. And this time God says don’t strike it — just speak to it. Numbers 20:8.

Moses strikes it anyway. And God is furious. It costs Moses the Promised Land.

Why such a harsh punishment over hitting a rock twice?

Because the Rock is only ever struck ONCE.

Christ was struck one time for sin. After that, you don’t strike Him again. You just speak to Him.

Moses broke the picture before anyone understood it.

Islam handed me a water miracle.

The Bible handed me the Rock that was struck so I’d never thirst again.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry - what happens next.

I intend to use my parliamentary privilege to name perpetrators and their enablers in the chamber.

This will be done incredibly carefully with our legal team involved every step of the way to ensure that no future prosecutions are jeopardised.

We are cooperating with the authorities in order to help cases be opened and reopened, but my faith in the system to independently deliver justice is not high...

That is why we are pursuing private prosecutions and civil litigation.

A target list has been identified, and it continues to grow.

This all has to be handled very carefully, for obvious reasons, but I am determined to act. We have had enough talk, now we need to act.

Our aim is straightforward.

Put people in prison. Deliver justice. Finally.

We will act. Not talk.

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

1/ 🧵
“All white girls are slags. They don’t obey Allah, so they deserve to be punished. They should be raped as punishment for not obeying Allah.”
That was said to a Rotherham girl – now a doctor – by the men who raped her.
I read all 219 pages of the Rape Gang Inquiry report. A thread.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[ty tribbs @tytrib]

🤔 Apostles’ Creed (ca. 150–250 AD)

Conflict Level: 🟢 Minimal

Nicene Creed (325 AD)

Conflict Level: 🔴 Major
Core Conflicts:
•“Of one substance [homoousios] with the Father.”
→ Teaches that the Father and the Son are consubstantial, sharing a single divine essence.
→ LDS theology: The Father and Son are distinct beings, perfectly united in mind, will, and glory—not in substance.
•Creation ex nihilo is assumed.
•Co-eternity of the Son with the Father → Latter-day Saints affirm the Son’s pre-mortal divinity, but not that He is ontologically identical with the Father.
•Establishes the basis for Trinitarian metaphysics, which Joseph Smith called “a straitjacket to revelation.”

Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381 AD)

Conflict Level: 🔴 Major
Core Conflicts:
•Adds detailed pneumatology: the Holy Ghost as “worshiped and glorified with the Father and the Son.”
→ LDS: The Holy Ghost is a distinct personage of spirit, not a co-equal essence in a triune substance.
•Affirms one holy catholic and apostolic Church → LDS: priesthood authority and keys were lost and later restored, not continuously preserved.
•Deepens commitment to philosophical monotheism derived from Greek metaphysics (immutability, simplicity, impassibility).

Chalcedonian Definition (451 AD)

Conflict Level: 🟠 Moderate to Major
Core Conflicts:
•Christ defined as one person in two natures (divine and human) “without confusion, change, division, or separation.”
→ LDS agree Jesus is both divine and human, but tend to see His divinity as ontological continuity with the Father and potentially shareable by humanity (theosis), not as an unbridgeable ontological divide.
•The definition’s metaphysical rigidity (against Nestorian and Eutychian heresies) conflicts with LDS views of divine embodiment and eternal materiality.

Athanasian Creed (ca. 400–500 AD)

Conflict Level: 🔴 Very Major
Core Conflicts:
•Fully systematized Trinitarian metaphysics:
“The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three Gods but one God.”
→ In LDS theology, this formulation collapses distinct divine beings into a metaphysical unity foreign to scripture’s plain sense.
•Claims eternal coequality, no subordination, and no composition of parts—contradicting LDS views of divine embodiment and relational unity.
•Ends with anathemas: “He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.”
→ Joseph Smith explicitly rejected this exclusivism: “They set up stakes and say hitherto shalt thou come and no further.”

Augsburg Confession (1530)

Conflict Level: 🟠 Moderate
Key Conflicts:
•Reaffirms Nicene Trinitarianism.
•Maintains sola fide (justification by faith alone) and sola scriptura (Bible as the only authority).
→ LDS theology rejects both as incomplete: salvation involves ordinances, covenants, and continuing revelation.
•Denies the necessity of priesthood restoration; assumes apostolic continuity.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

Conflict Level: 🔴 Very Major
Core Conflicts:
•Classical theism in full: God is “without body, parts, or passions” — directly opposite Joseph Smith’s doctrine of the embodied God.
•Double predestination, absolute sovereignty, and fixed divine decrees → incompatible with LDS teachings on agency and progression.
•Asserts the Bible alone as the rule of faith and practice → rejects ongoing revelation and living prophets.
•Strict view of eternal hell vs. LDS graded afterlife (degrees of glory).

Belgic, Heidelberg, Helvetic, and Formula of Concord (1560s–1570s)

Conflict Level: 🟠–🔴 Moderate to Major
Core Conflicts:
•All reaffirm Nicene and Chalcedonian orthodoxy (Trinity, creation ex nihilo).
•Confessional authority replaces prophetic authority.
•Embrace sola scriptura and reject continuing revelation.
•Salvation by grace alone and total depravity contradict LDS anthropology of divine potential and eternal intelligences.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Bestselling novelist David Baldacci on how AI companies deliberately stole every book and academic paper published in the last 70 years:

Baldacci is a named plaintiff in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alongside John Grisham, Scott Turow, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen.
They're also representing roughly 60,000 unnamed plaintiffs.

He explains how AI companies arrived at novels as the key ingredient for building superintelligence:

"The AI community searched the world. How do you create superintelligence? They tried everything to try to figure out, how do you do this? They fed dictionaries into it. They did lots of stuff. They finally found the only way to create super intelligence that they needed was to feed novels into the large language models. Novels worked, finished products of storytelling with characters and dialogue and research and events and interactions. That was their Holy Grail moment."

Baldacci points out the obvious path the AI companies could have taken —negotiating with the five major publishers, each of whom represents around 100,000 writers.

Instead, they chose theft. @davidbaldacci continues:

"They decided we're just going to steal them. I'm not saying anything out of school. They've admitted this. They got most of the books from a Russian pirate website where they would go and download the books from there. And they didn't even want their software programs to know they were stealing the books. So they had the software program that would scrape off the copyright page, scrape off the ISBN number on the back, and just download the book itself."

The scale is staggering.

Over the last eight or nine years, every book and every academic paper published in the last 70 years worldwide has been ingested into the large language models at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta.

Baldacci testified about this on Capitol Hill in July.

He describes the personal toll of being a named plaintiff:

"I've had to give them all of my materials, all of my financial information I've had to give them, let them come in and do a complete scrape on all of my emails, all of my communications. I sat through a nine hour deposition like I've done something wrong. They said, yeah, we've taken your books, we haven't paid you a dime and we didn't ask your permission, but we should be entitled to do it because AI is so cool. That's basically their legal argument."

The parallel case against Anthropic in California has already settled for $1.5 billion, to be paid out over two years to 50,000 writers. The OpenAI and Microsoft case is now past discovery and heading toward a settlement conference.

[Matty Dread @MattyDread]

RIP Freddie, they really did you over.

[Asher @Asher_am6]

So much grace, kindness and truth given by that beautiful lady whose life was saved from abortion. Such a beautiful example in every way. 😭👏

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

I used to be a secularist. Not any more. I believe Christians in the West should militantly assert the primacy of their religion over Islam. They should treat Islam as Islam treats other religions, and they should seek to change the law so that Islam is actively discriminated against and made unwelcome.
Secularism is impossible with Islam, as it requires instincts that Muslims simply don’t possess.
Islam rejects coexistence. It aggressively seeks to dominate. It imposes itself wherever it can. Every secularist knows this. It is not a secret.
When Muslims start getting into positions of political power in a country, as they have in Britain, there is zero chance that we will ever have secularism.
At this point, anyone who calls themselves secularist while still not opposing Muslim immigration is a fantasist who is just playing word games.

[Spina Kicks🥇 @Spinaaaaa17]

This 2 years old singer shocked everyone 🥹❤️

I was playing piano in los angeles when Leona asked me if I could play "let it go" from frozen💠🎹

As long as I started playing she noticed and microphone above her head and the rest was history ❤️❤️🥹🥹