John

Husband, father of 3. English & French. Member of the apologia crew. Sanctification still in progress.

[John @apologiajohn]

Wow, until birth... Nothing more to be said

[Fox News @FoxNews]

A blue state just legalized abortion up until birth.

Surrounded by applauding women, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping abortion bill Monday that removes the state’s gestational age limit, giving health care providers greater discretion to perform abortions later in pregnancy.

The law replaces the state’s previous general restriction on abortions after 24 weeks, with limited exceptions, and is set to take effect in 90 days.

Massachusetts becomes the 10th state to remove gestational age limits on abortion, according to the report.

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[John @apologiajohn]

Incredible

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Greek linguistic fact: The New Testament uses a single Greek term—brephos—to refer to both an unborn child and a newborn infant. Scripture does not treat life in the womb as a different category of humanity than life outside it. When Mary greets Elizabeth, “the brephos leaped in her womb” (Luke 1:41), and when Christ is born, the shepherds are told they will find “the brephos wrapped in swaddling cloths” (Luke 2:12). The same word covers both moments.

In God’s eyes, ontologlically, the child hidden in the womb and the child held in a mother’s arms bear the same dignity. Biologically, the unborn child is alive and genetically distinct, yet simply in a less developed state than the born child. Theologically, both are His creation, made in His image. Ethically, human life is worthy of safeguarding because of these truths. Scripture and nature speak with one voice.

The biblical witness does not fragment human worth by stage of development; it affirms one continuous, God-given life that is in a constant state of development.

[John @apologiajohn]

NOUS NE NOUS TAIRONS PAS. https://t.co/1ur6G4i7fR via @ChangeFrance

[John @apologiajohn]

Never realised there was a link between these two

[John @apologiajohn]

@JulietteBriens lol un rassemblement nazi qui encourage à l’amour et le pardon de ses ennemis… très facho tout ça !

[John @apologiajohn]

@philippejeanpr1 @Economie_Gouv @justice_gouv Bien d’accord avec vous…

[John @apologiajohn]

Saying @charliekirk11 deserved to die for his ideas is like saying a girl deserved to be raped for her skirt.
If you want to say he was a far right, Nazi, fascist or other, please provide exact quotes so we can discuss...

[Beatrice Rosen @Beatrice_Rosen]

BFM encore en flagrant délit de fake news.
Ce n'est pas après avoir "critiqué l'influenceur" mais après s'être PUBLIQUEMENT REJOUI de son meurtre, et/ou d'avoir publiquement appelé à en commettre d'autres sur d'autres personnalités.

Nous avons un gros problème de déformation des faits et de propagande de la part des médias français.
Il va falloir regarder ça en face si nous voulons un pays libre et des choix éclairés.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Mrs. Erika Kirk Addresses The Nation After Her Husband’s Assassination

@TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk

[John @apologiajohn]

How I would love french or english politicians to be able to be this open, honest & raw. #WeAreCharlie

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[John @apologiajohn]

I couldn’t agree more

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I hope I'm wrong.

But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.

Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.

I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.

But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.

Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight.

But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.

I hope I'm wrong.

[Pastor Mark Driscoll @PastorMark]

Every pastor retweet this post and let his biggest post be what he cared about most.

[John @apologiajohn]

Such horror, heart broken 💔

[John @apologiajohn]

@elonmusk Such horror

[John @apologiajohn]

@JoshuaBarzon Can you "win" your salvation?

[John @apologiajohn]

@KTOTV N’hésitez pas à visiter le collectif apologia ;) https://t.co/lQefI6PNYB

[John @apologiajohn]

@NIHDirector_Jay @NIH As someone working with bsl4 labs and in particular the suits, suit testing is supposed to be done prior to entering the lab and the positive pressure in the suit would also give protection in the case of accidental perforation… it’s more for the decon shower that holes are a pb

[John @apologiajohn]

@DefiantLs No question. Wife first.