Dillon Burns

Pastor (United Methodist) | he/him/his

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

This is legitimately fascinating! Something that seems so small is, in fact, a modern marvel and an incredible feat of engineering.

[Nauseam (in sf!) @ChadNauseam]

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."

Not true.

A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds.

What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Ray Bradbury in 1953 (!) described his dystopian future world thus: “School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”

[United Methodist News @UMNS]

United Methodists are among the Christian and Jewish bodies suing to prevent ICE agents from intruding on their ministry with immigrants and their worship.
https://t.co/iOxIBrLmxY #UMC

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

Tbh, the shark would probably look much happier if St. Anthony's sermon started with the part where Jesus took fishers of fish and made them fishers of people. That's good news for the people and for the fish!

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

@bacchusrights Unnerved? Looks like contrition to me! Must have been an effective sermon 😉

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

A counterpoint, from Lloyd Alexander's The Black Cauldron:

"I have marched in many a battle host, but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood."

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

[Steve Bezner @Bezner]

The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.—Proberbs 29:7

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted

[Matt Tebbe @matttebbe]

Saturday reminders:

empathy is not a sin
mercy is not satanic
the least of these are not your enemy
christianity is not a weapon
billionaire-run media isn't free press
to be wrong is human
refusing to be wrong is dehumanizing
perfect love casts out fear

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

—Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

“God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”

-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral clarity! We honor your legacy.

Happy Birthday

[thucksgiving @TylerHuckabee]

“Every night without fail, a mobile phone rings in the Holy Family church in Gaza, and a parish priest answers. The voice at the end of the line is that of Pope Francis." https://t.co/nAwvivbctU

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

NEWS: President Biden has commuted death sentences for 37 of the 40 men on federal death row. They will now serve life sentences and cannot be executed. This is a milestone in the fight to shut down the death penalty — thank you! https://t.co/zonRvQmNDr

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

I don't care how good large language models get, if I ever get to the point where I think ministry can be done by an AI regurgitating a soulless approximation of humanity, please put me out to pasture by any means necessary.

[Protestia @Protestia]

Megachurch pastor creates an app with an A.I. version of himself, so congregants can have ‘personalized, 1-on-1 interactions’ with "him" 24/7 for the low fee of just $49

Check out this horror show below. https://t.co/hhlNYwYAsD

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

Picasso, trying to remember Santa's defining features: A red suit, white beard, and we definitely can't forget his huge honking nose...

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Santa Claus by Pablo Picasso, 1959

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

When we Christians are more known for our support of presidents than we are for our support of the poor, the immigrant, the marginalized, and the oppressed, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus and we have a lot of repenting to do.

[Her Tall Boots @fuzzlime]

you've heard of elf on a shelf have you ever heard of turning on your blinker BEFORE you turn

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.

[Dillon Burns @dillburns]

@oceansjonas One more to add! The Illusionist and The Prestige, both released in 2006.