Mark Persiko

Disciple. Developer. Declarer.

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

@IAmSteveHarvey People spend too much time worrying what others will think of them if they really were themselves.

[flatironschurch @flatironschurch]

Your career, your craft, your calling: all of it can become worship. Surrender changes everything.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

In a world that destroys children with Down syndrome, listen to this brave girl:

“You can try to kill off everyone with Down syndrome by using abortion, but you won’t be any closer to a perfect society. You will just be closer to a cruel, heartless one."  

Charlotte Helene Fien speaks before the United Nations

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

@hbf_alex Is this why he wasn’t picked to be the next James Bond? He should have used an iPhone! 🤣

[COACH PRIME @DeionSanders]

Let's chase GOD for the provision of Peace & Joy! We're chasing the wrong things trying to find & secure Peace & Joy. Power, Money & Sex ain't it baby. Please understand & let me be clear on that, it ain't it! Chase GOD! #CoachPrime

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

31 May 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Marianne Nunes Vas, was born in Amsterdam.

In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Philip write "A huge machine that works only if all its countless components interlock in precisely coordinated ways is far too fragile"

I reject this assertion, and thus reject his conclusion that follows.

Complex systems - for which complex machinery is a small subset - never "interlock in precisely coordinated ways". Indeed, any complex system that endures must have a degree of wiggle: too tightly couple its parts and it will fail, for such designs are rigid and unyielding. A tree bends in the wind. The body of an SR-71 leaks in alarming ways on the ground, intentional by design, for such a plane was designed for the sky, not the earth.

Go read @stewartbrand's How Buildings Learn; go read Simon and Newell's The Sciences of the Artificial.

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

@JennMGreenberg Just repaint and thin no more.

[Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ @JennMGreenberg]

This is why true Christianity will never die, no matter how violent or hateful the world around us becomes. It is founded on Love, for God is Love ♥️

[Jonathan McDaniel @Jasyson657866]

@DeionSanders Too bad Shedeur threw all of those interceptions in practice. LOL.

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

@MrT Happy Birthday, Mr. T!

[Kelly Morrison @Morrison4MN]

Corruption in plain sight.

[GitHub @github]

1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.

Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.

[GitHub @github]

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

[Michael Friedrich 🌈 @dnsmichi]

lol

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

Fire. https://t.co/HVwHcngT5A

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Most who interact with an LLM such as @OpenAI or @claudeai treat their interaction as a conversation with an intelligent and friendly pseudo-human.

I do not.

Rather, I frame it as my guiding the exploration of a latent space.

Imagine that you stand at the door of a library. It's not only filled with books, it has waldos - remote manipulators - that you can use to command devices to go to and fro at command, even building things as so directed.

But I steadfastly know that while the lobby may be filled with the latest bright and shiny things, if I want to do anything but the most common and mundane, I must wander through the rooms and stacks of books. If I look closely, I'll will see many books out of place. Some will even have meaningless content as if written by a madman (and some of them probably were). There will also be huge gaps, for where I'd hoped to find information, I'd instead see cobwebs and the occasional dusty, torn scrap of paper.

Sometimes, there are hints as to where I should turn, but best knowing my context and needs, I'm the only one in place to know if those hints will lead me to something of value. If I'm not paying attention or am just plain lazy, they will lead me down paths that in the end are a complete waste of my time. The library does not care: it gets paid no matter what I do as long as I remain within its walls.

Mind you, I enjoy visiting that library: I often learn things and build things of value.

But I don't outsource my life there, for were I to do so, I know I'd become even more cognitively lazy.

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

@JennMGreenberg If her name weren’t Luna, I’d name her Cuke Skywalker.

[Mark Persiko @argenteum]

@sd_architect It will take Time to get that Money!

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

He’s on a mission from God to get the band back together