Fr. Josh Miller

Priest. Mostly retired from social media, but I'll still post stupid things here from time to time, because why not.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@kpmbyr45 Nothing ever happens.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

Sometimes you gotta throw hands, you know.

[Fr Joseph Hudson @acloudofsaints]

A man crashed a stolen car outside St. Joseph Shrine. Then he bolted.

The Rector heard the crash and someone yelled "stop him."

So Rev. Jean-Baptiste Commins — in full cassock — tackled him, and held him until the police came.

Never underestimate a priest in a cassock.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

Articles like this are very important, because they show you how this game is being played. Meanwhile, prep for complete turmoil after the OpenAI/Anthropic IPOs.

https://t.co/XThNStEwoo

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

(AI skepticism isn't developing from a place of ignorance or a new form of luddism, friends. It's a natural development from AI industry hype to understanding with regard to the limitations of AI.)

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

My ultimate hope as we enter a mainstream period of AI skepticism is that people will see this as impetus to create on their own. Arts and letters. Photography. Whatever. Just make something. Reactionary skepticism isn't enough on its own.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@AlohaEd1 I have. A good place to start for anyone interested:

https://t.co/2e9ZiTQP79

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@Warby_bo_bandY0 Because that's what a counterculture does; it provokes actual movement in a certain direction.

AI isn't going away. It's just interesting to see people reckon with what it is and is not.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@MScarince Wellp, that solves the distinction for me!

I deleted the original post, because I no longer agree with my own criticism as it is. So thanks!

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@MScarince Right, but at least it's exegesis to think about in another direction, lending some credence to the fact that the committee didn't just make all of this stuff up on their own like I figured they did. 😂 Encyclicals have been... lazy... lately.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@MScarince Might be a valid exegesis I'd have to think about it -- but this is a novel reading. The text, as far as I know, does not hint at a subjugation of any kind: only a uniformity.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@MScarince 100% -- the preface material for why they must be punished.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

Yes. In establishing the metaphor, we see:

"It was a project conceived without reference to God..." Yep! 100%, starting out strong. And this is what motivates God to punish them. But then we continue, and things go south quick:

"...supported by a uniformity that eliminated diversity and that chose homogenization over communion." Eliminated diversity? I mean, communal unity -- "uniformity" here -- was the original blessing. Even the historical-critical people understand that the purpose of this story is to explain why languages and cultures are different, difference not being the preferred state by the context of the story. Diversity was the punishment for misusing the original blessing.

Unity is the objective. Christ restores us to it, both in God, in the created order, and with each other, through the Church. To paint uniformity itself as the bad undesirable (the deficiency, rather than the blessing), in order to contrast it to the collaborative efforts of rebuilding the Temple is... not good theology.

But hey. It makes for a snappy metaphor, and it looks pretty cool on the infographic.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@canonlawyered They are one of the reasons I have to wear yellow-tinted sunglasses to drive. Ban them, then sink all cars with them in quicksand.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

I am tired of new young Bond. Let’s do old Bond. Like, real old. 87. Can’t find his spy watch. Accidentally hits the eject button on his car seat. Puts 6 rounds through his front door when the mailman comes. Absolutely unpredictable and thereby unstoppable.

[Fr. Josh Miller @FrJoshMiller]

@BeardedBlevins Sorry, man. I was pulling for 'em.