Don’t be creepy

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

He is risen!

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

Not a criticism, but an important awareness: reproduction has always been part of the landscape for technology and art.

[La China @ChinaNipona]

Disney nos vendió la misma animación durante años...

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

@ibmmiller @Gormogons Also, you know they can handle this at Claire’s Boutique. They can handle anything.

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

The snake stares at my closet, “Hey man, why u own so many onesies? You’re fucking 40!” I try to explain they’re socks but the other snakes are laughing too hard to hear. I wake up in a cold sweat. I shake my wife awake. “I need our label mak—” She cuts me off, “It won’t help. Snakes can’t read.”

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

@erfon Love and prayer for you, my friend.

[Éros Brousson @erosbrousson]

AMERICANS ROMANTICIZE ITALY TOO MUCH …. 🇮🇹🍕

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

@jm_meunier Absolutely a Guardian in disguise.

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@BMcGrewvy I keep thinking about this, and I wish all pastors could have a real sense of how much we, their flocks, need to see Jesus and build healthy relationships with our brethren.

I’ve needed my pastor to weigh in about Tim Keller on social media exactly zero times.

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

@BMcGrewvy Stuff like the OP is just so hard for me to place in a charitable context. How is the post not dependent on and stoking division?

“People who don’t agree with me are just hooked on the culture war.” Brother, you’re doing a culture war right now. Go pastor.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Katherine Argent wrote a masterpiece of a tweet. We turned it into a dramatic one-take short film.

This is “Everything is Fine.”

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

A lot of my temporal hope stems from knowing most people don’t pay any attention to online discourse.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

Having spent the last two days at a homeschooling conference, I can confirm that actual evangelicals are kind, humble, gracious normies who would be horrified by most Very Online discourse, if they ever had the misfortune of encountering it.

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

Virtual channels repeat their cycles often enough to lend real credence to the suggestion that they’re simulations.

[James R. Wood @jamesrwoodtheo]

every few months we have to have a discourse about discourse about Keller

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

@jamesrwoodtheo Virtual channels repeat their cycles often enough to lend real credence to the suggestion that they’re simulations.

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

Have we learned literally nothing from the smartphone? It took twenty years of “hooray internet” and one year of shutting kids indoors while we beamed zoom school into their eyeballs before people were like huh, I never listened to those weirdos fretting that this firehose of information might also be gushing torrents of porn and junk into my preteen’s brain stem, but now that nice Jonathan Haidt says it maybe I *should* consider unplugging the Ethernet jack from the base of my child’s skull. If this teaches us anything at all it’s that technologies which developed brains can learn to master might be poisonous for developing brains. Since that’s *obviously* true of AI, maybe we can bypass the part where we scoop out several generations’ worth of frontal cortexes with a digital melon baller and skip straight to the part where we get our act together? Maybe this time we can not do the thing where we soak every American classroom up to the ceiling in cognitive acid? We’ve been over this *in living memory,* people.

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@davidpdeavel @BMcGrewvy

[Timothy J. Martin 🦆 @foxes_on_fire]

In light of the most recent wave of Christian celebrity sex scandals, I’d like to encourage everyone that it’s perfectly okay to just be a guy who is a church member.

You may be intelligent, well-spoken, well-read; this is not a sign you must be a pastor or theologian.

[Don’t be creepy @grooms]

@teachrobotslove @RoyalBlueRapto1 It was wild to skim the OPs timeline: it’s basically posts like this all the way down. I smell a (problematic) rat. 👃🐀

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Astronaut Victor Glover shares the gospel to a crowd who welcomed him back home to Houston, Texas.

People were seen lining the streets to welcome Glover back home.

“Some of us have never met before. And you know whose fault that is? Ours. So let's choose to do this. Let's be this more. Let's be neighbors.”

“I don't know if you heard me say it, but God told us to love Him with all that we are and love our neighbors as ourselves.”

What a remarkable person.

Video: sp00kycut1e / tt.

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@JoanneMason11