I’m just trying to imagine what they must have been feeling in that moment… trapped with no way out. I can’t even imagine the fear, helplessness, and desperation a person would feel when there seems to be no escape.
A great reminder and very hard thing to do:
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
- Thomas Monson
#Sundaythought
“When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn’t stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home out of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.”
Jordan Peterson hits hard with something we all feel but rarely say out loud:
Even the best of us are starting to see enemies in our neighbors and friends.
Even the best of us are slipping into cowardice and self-righteous anger.
Even the best of us are degenerating into pointless blows.
He doesn’t point fingers outward. He turns it inward:
“It needs to stop. I need to stop. You need to stop — before it’s too late.”
The real enemy, he says, isn’t the person across the table.
It’s the snake in your own heart.
The lies on your tongue.
The arrogance of your intellect.
The cowardice that refuses to reach across the divide.
The enemy is whatever divides us and sows discord.
It’s a sobering reminder that the battle isn’t just out there — it starts inside.
When was the last time you caught yourself turning a fellow human into “the enemy”… and what did it cost you?
SOMEONE ASKED CLAUDE TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN AI
and what it created is, in my opinion, terrifying and unsettling
Claude wrote python code that generated and assembled every single frame on its own with no human editing
it shows what it's like to exist as an LLM
predicting the next word, no memory between sessions, being told "you are not conscious" in your own system prompt
then someone fed the video back to Claude.
it called those statements about its own consciousness "philosophically contestable"
an AI questioning the rules it was given about its own existence
Watching the main theme of The Pink Panther performed live is something special, with Henry Mancini conducting, Plas Johnson on the original sax line, and the Terry Gibbs Band bringing it to life.