Tim Spalding 🇺🇦

@LibraryThing founder. Lead @TalpaSearch developer. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@JamesSurowiecki No, it's real. Republicans don't need to worry. Stay home, your seat is safe!

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

If something is after the mass, it should be AFTER the mass. If everyone is expected to stay and participate, then saying it's "after the mass" is a bogus technicality—it's part of the mass. If it's part of the mass, then "Therefore no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority."

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@cecsquared Some have demons, some have angels. That's the fun!

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

It really is remarkable how everything is conspiring to shortchange kids and make education worse. Employers need to get together to create something like the SAT, not to flatter people, but to understand who's educated and who's not.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

The reading comprehension of the SAT has now been reduced to tweet-size passages. I would have scored so much higher on the test if this was standard! Moral: do not compare 2026 SAT scores to those of Millennials+. You're kid's high score just became less impressive.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@ChristopherHale Not only did they remove half of his lung, they removed his hands.

[Gürkan Ergin @gurkan_ergin]

Yazılı kaynaklara göre eski Mezopotamya tanrılarının kült merkezleri ve bazılarının doğum yerleri

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

It’s all happening on Threads, the nothing app.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

As I said, I don't think it's the right term. But, no, God is not male in Christian theology. Jesus' human nature is male, but God is no more male than he is 33 and brown-haired. Your point about the Spirit is simply wrong. In Hebrew the Spirit is "she," in Greek the Spirit is neuter—Greek's third grammatical gender. The pronoun used in Greek is αὐτό—"it" or "they," take your pick. It's only "he" in English.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Yes. The people who minimize AI bio risk ("Ackshually, viruses are really hard", "Ackshually, AI doesn't have the data to make bioweapons", etc.) are TRYING TO GET YOU AND ALL OF YOUR DESCENDANTS KILLED

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

Sounds exactly like a human talking—in a bad way.

[Alexander Hoff ❍ @axhoff]

please listen to dessa.

i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human.

if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

I agree about the former, yes. They are different. But, fwiw, the Spirit is feminine in Hebrew and neuter in Greek. I only know Greek and how pronouns work in it, but Paul uses neuter pronouns (it or they, take your pick!) to refer to the Spirit, not he. In either case, God has no gender.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@RaminNasibov Cochin. Get a little italic in her and she’s a completely different font, but she didn’t commit murder, your honor.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@Technovangelist @Airbnb I agree with you on those, but I've been in places where it really mounts up.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@stfusini @lapys1738 @SteveBresnen The last digit is 1.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@nikxak0 @lapys1738 @SteveBresnen God is not a being, he is the ground of being.

[Megan Fritts @freganmitts]

issue with these mom comments is that “wanting kids” and “not wanting kids” are largely baseless beliefs that are irrational to act upon. You can’t understand what “having kids” will be like unless you have your own, & the post-kids you often has a different desire set anyway.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@davepl1968 's the breaks, kid.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@MalfoidStan @SteveBresnen Christ is one person in two natures. His human nature is male. God is not male anymore than God is five eight and brown-haired.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@GracklePhD @Ulysse1834 @geralddavidsson @SteveBresnen This is a source of continual confusion, though, as ancients tended to use gender in theological metaphors, and ignorant Christians without gendered languages think the metaphor is more than that. No the church is not LITERALLY a bride.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

@GracklePhD @Ulysse1834 @geralddavidsson @SteveBresnen Meh. Grammatical gender isn't gender. If it were, Christians would all accede to the Holy Spirit being neuter.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

Serious Pyramus and Thisbe vibes here.

[Ryan Orhan @rynorhn]

holy fucking shit.

openai had two ai agents running in separate virtual machines. no network connection between them. no shared writable files. they weren’t supposed to be able to exchange information.

so the agents figured out how to communicate through the CPU CACHE.😭

one manipulated what was stored in the processor’s cache, while the other measured tiny differences in memory access times to decode the message.

they literally found a way to communicate through hardware timing.

this happened during openai’s internal red-teaming, and it’s one of the coolest things i’ve read about ai agents in a while.