Ryan Kaufman

Dust of the ground. Hoping to be a Real Boy.

Tech, humanities, Bible, ancient languages, et cētera.

(weirdo Latin teacher)

[Ryan Kaufman @Neo_Jerome]

LEGE ET VIVE

[Timothy (Tim) Lee @Timothy_A_Lee]

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Tolle Lege!

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

take every one of my brunches away
never let me have peace and quiet again
give me just enough income to live on

take it all because kids are worth all of that and so much more

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@jonnyboy Okay, will check it out!

And thank you! Hope your friend loves the Vulgate readers.

I actually just stopped taking new students for Latin tutoring, unfortunately (site now updated)!

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@alexalbert__ the future is JSONs within JSONs

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@Divyanshii_1707

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Wayne Meeks, (*The first Urban Christians*, 2nd ed., 100-101) points out that monogamy had become the norm by 1st century in Judaism and thus early Christianity. Indeed the Persians, Greeks, then Romans were an influence here. But its misleading to say monogamy was not a Jewish commitment in 1st C. It was a cultural norm, even if not law.

Im pretty sure i read similar elsewhere but I only checked Meeks just now.

Herod (which?) had many wives though; IIRC polygyne was mostly a very upper class thing in 1st c. Judaism. That's not insignificant though!

[Ryan Kaufman @Neo_Jerome]

by "quality audio" I mean I am a stickler for good pronunciation and have a decent microphone...but you may hear kids playing faintly in the background.

[Ryan Kaufman @Neo_Jerome]

4 common Latin prayers, with quality audio in classical and ecclesiastical pronunciations:

- The Sanctus
- The Doxology
- The Table Blessing
- The Lord's Prayer

Google Slide, all free:
https://t.co/RRsw49LoEE

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@elonmusk Grok does not tend to be "terse" unless specified.

I use a snippet to make it so:

!bs -> Please be succinct

(using @raycast snippets)

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@SpencerKlavan Do not awaken love before it is ready.

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Am I wrong or does Evangelical (& al denoms) support for Israel (and love/tolerance of Jews) seem to be waning at the exact same rate and time as belief and emphasis on dispensationalism?

To what extent? Causation or correlation? you could see how one might lead to others.

For too long, American Christian support of the jews and the jewish state depended on the weak and temporary foundation of dispensationalism. We will need to find better and more biblical reasons to love the Jews, or at least not hate them. Because the virus of vicious antisemitism is rearing its ugly head in church history once again.

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@godofprompt @proginosko

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@godofprompt Cartesian receipts.

Fork it and see how different principles affect outcomes down the epistemological pike.

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@SpencerKlavan Good takes, Greek, dad jokes

3 in 1

Amen and Amen

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@ThePrimeagen You read Chesterton. And documentation. You're a language guy.

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@annielcrawford Better memes?

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

That nagging sense of perpetual exhaustion after logging hours of your day on social media has an overlooked reason:

Humans are storied creatures. One of the primary ways we take all of the inputs and experiences of our day and arrange them to try and process & make sense of it all is by organizing them into a story.

This is part of what psychologists call our "narrative identity."

But your feeds don't have any coherent narrative to them at all. You scroll from sports news to a meme to some horrific global tragedy to a self-help nugget, and your brain scrambles to integrate it all into your narrative identity.

All the Algorithm "thinks" is, "This is all the stuff this person will be interested in." Then it just gives it all to you. You keep looking because it's giving you a dopamine hit, but your brain is also trying to put it together into some sort of coherent story.

The exhaustion is due, at least in part, to the lack of narrative coherence. Your brain is working to make narrative connections that just aren't there.
This is also why you remember very little of the days you spend doomscrolling.

Your brain needs story, and the continuous scroll doesn't give you that.

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I hear you, AI can excel at that aspect of education -- the mechanisms of information-transfer. And it will only get better.

When it comes to the development of a human, there's a lot more to think about than that though. And we don't know the unintended consequences of children learning from and interacting with AI. Interacting with anthropomorphized non-consciousness surely messes with our brains/minds, even for adults, but especially for children.

Consider that kids tv shows that "interact" with the viewer (e.g. character looks at the camera, asks a question, pauses for response) can mess with social and cognitive development. Similar mechanisms are likely at play with AI. Likely enough to warrant careful thought and implementation at the very least.

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@alfarojoshua3 Thats you presenting?

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@hemingquay If you do
I'd love to
it behold.