Rusty Baker

I tweet whatever the heck I want to for 11 loyal followers. Not sure who the rest of you are. Tweet for @PA_Museums. Personal Account.

[Rusty Baker @RustyBaker647]

It is too bad no one uses the word Yeet anymore.

[insane facebook marketplace items @insanemrktplace]

Vintage Baby Yeet Machine ($25)

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It would appear I'm going to Utah. Happy to hear tips, cautionary tales, etc. for Salt Lake City.

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A Directory of U.S. Museum Associations and Organizations https://t.co/KdTj2121tX

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Great idea to roll back prices to 1976 https://t.co/5WhSxT5pz9

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@lissopoliss @ScottPaterno I don't have any key to the place, but they should be glad to have you.

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@lissopoliss My 22 yr old son is hopeless. I think I should find a way to get him trapped in a cave with nothing but 1,000 of these Coke bottles. Or would that only work once?

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Just another drummer playing songs over and over on guitar and trying to establish memory triggers for verses and singing them until I can't do it wrong.

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This seems like exactly the thing I would read very carefully.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

the pope and anthropic's co-founder just stood together at the vatican to release "magnifica humanitas," the first ever catholic teaching on AI

yes, you read that right. the full ceremony was 2 hours.

here's the most interesting things for you to know:

1. this is the biggest religious response to AI in history. popes only put out a handful of these huge official letters in their entire time as pope. the fact that one of them is about AI tells you how seriously the church is taking what's coming.

2. small detail with massive meaning: this pope picked the name "leo XIV" on purpose. the last pope named leo was leo XIII back in 1891, and his most famous act was writing the church's response to the industrial revolution. picking the same name is a deliberate signal. this pope sees AI as the new industrial revolution.

3. the catholic church does this every time a major technology reshapes humanity. they wrote "rerum novarum" in 1891 to respond to the industrial revolution. when nuclear weapons threatened the world in the 1960s, they wrote "pacem in terris." climate change and runaway tech got "laudato si" in 2015. now AI gets "magnifica humanitas." they don't issue these often.

4. the pope's main line: "AI needs to be disarmed." he literally compared AI to nuclear weapons. he said the church spent decades pushing for nuclear disarmament because the technology was too dangerous to leave in the hands of a few. he says AI is now in that same category.

5. anthropic co-founder christopher olah told the pope, on stage at the vatican, that anthropic's own research team keeps finding things inside their AI models that "mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."

6. olah's reframe of what AI actually is: these things are grown. they're trained on a structure roughly modeled after the human brain and fed everything humans have ever written. in his own words: "they are made from us, from our words." he said even the people building them don't fully understand what's happening inside.

7. olah publicly admitted that every AI lab, including his own, faces pressure that can conflict with doing the right thing. commercial pressure to keep shipping, competitive pressure from other labs, plus the older pressures of pride and ambition. his solution: we desperately need outside critics with no skin in the game who will tell the labs when they're failing.

8. olah says there are 3 giant questions the AI labs cannot answer alone and the world needs religion and philosophy to step in on:

> how do we make sure poor countries actually benefit from AI?
> what does human flourishing even look like in this new world?
> and what are these things we're actually building?

9. one of the sharpest lines in the whole encyclical: "the promise of automatic general prosperity often proves illusory." translation: the idea that AI will just make everyone rich on its own is a fantasy. someone has to actually design the system so the benefits get shared.

10. the pope also pulled out a 100-year-old quote: "contemporary man has not been trained to use power well." said by a theologian back in the 1920s. the whole encyclical is basically a long argument that we need to learn how to use this kind of power before it uses us.

11. the pope kept stressing that he doesn't have the technical answers. but he says the church has thousands of years of wisdom on what it means to be human, and that wisdom is exactly what's missing from how we're building AI right now. his closing line: this technology should serve "human flourishing and human dignity, not control consciences."

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There's a new State Librarian https://t.co/hycE35SwXZ

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House rejects Smithsonian women's museum bill https://t.co/ntVIi796SE

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Heinz Endowments is changing up its arts and culture funding https://t.co/5AmFOg31e4

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I'm so glad Guatemalan Shorts went out of style. I looked like absolute garbage in those.

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Just think, if I weren't putting mulch down today, I never would have seen that snake.

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@David_LaTorre That's got to be the worst museum horse. Hands down.

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Without listening to a note of the music, I still enjoyed this. https://t.co/5vGUEZizUw via @SpotlightPA

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Maybe look up tonight. Supposed to be some rocket launch.

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Remember #FollowFriday? I'd suggest @pgh_scanner because the NFL Draft is keeping them busy. You may not like this.

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Got my inbox down to 34, and fact is I don't want to do anything about any of them. At least not today.

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Hard to get away with this. As they say, "There will be signs."

[The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial]

BREAKING: Armed men make off with $1.8 MILLION after robbing Brinks truck in Philly in broad daylight: police

https://t.co/l8TwUcEzgH

[Rusty Baker @RustyBaker647]

Real journalism is about follow up stories. I guess I'm into Confectionary News now. https://t.co/6IivziZVxY