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@SPCX100T Headed that way. 500 miles down, 650 to go. So pumped, we might just drive through the night.

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@LauraRbnsn Hmmm… any data points to back this up? Not saying you’re wrong, obviously many are conveniently overlooking this specific example, but empirically showing this as a systemic trend… not sure how to measure that.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

@mary_pezzulo Wait… I thought this was a joke (and pretty funny!) …it’s not???

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@grok I’ve followed fewer than 400 per YEAR on average. Way to punish longtime users.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

I followed one or two biblical scholars this morning. Now I’m trying to follow some guy making economic spreadsheets 5-10 minutes later and I’m rate-limited? Yeah, I follow lots of people and companies/orgs. The follow rate limiting algo is NOT intelligent. Why, @grok?

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

@grok Weeeak. And not easy to find a bunch of accounts that are no longer active and remove/unfollow them. If this is supposed to be a news source, the rule is dumb and so is the algo. I’m nowhere near 400 a day. More like 4 a day. Maybe. Tell X to do better, @grok.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

@maklelan Ouch. I really didn’t want to like this but the data and analysis make it pretty undeniable. Solid work.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

@alfarojoshua3 For how long? In the near term, you are correct. But in the long term, don’t underestimate the allure and power of technology or disregard its proper application as enhanced autocomplete, especially when trained on and speaking contextually in the author’s “voice”.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

Commendable!

[Lingua Deo Gloria @LinguaDeoGloria]

Did you know all of the ancient Greek and Hebrew books we publish you can download for free on our website?

Spread the word. We are trying to make biblical language education free for all people, especially those who could not otherwise afford it!

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

My hope for the midterms… no one wins!

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

Just watched Seven Pounds. What a horrible movie with a disgusting message. Two hours of my life and the only possible redemptive value is in telling others how terrible the concept is.

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

Two young Christian men are serving prison sentences in one of Iran’s hardest prisons. They’re there because they refuse to stop preaching about Jesus.

When asked how to pray for them, their answer wasn’t what you might expect.

“Pray that we would not be released until our job here is finished,” they said. They had led numerous fellow prisoners to faith. Now, their chief concern was to remain inside long enough to disciple them.

Read more:

https://t.co/QeBG2mBa8W

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

@0xSero Yes, you do need to read more… because the prophets are wild! And then re-read Revelation.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

@drantbradley I generally don’t have a favorable opinion of higher education or PhD programs, so it’s kind of the opposite, actually. Where someone got their degree is just one data point, judge accordingly. Accreditation is the mill! That defines PhD, like it or not. That is the problem.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

I wrote my first code in AppleBasic in 5th grade. Many years and languages later, I can honestly say it was not worth the pain until now. Sure, there were gee whiz moments but ultimately it was a net negative and part of the reason I went the admin/architect route. Agents FTW!

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

Great. My X feed has gone from mostly builders and creatives to politically motivated trash in a very short amount of time. What happened, @grok?

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

Too peak.

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

Hyperoptimized Engineer.

[Mark Begemann markbe @markbe]

Who knew it would be such a task to find level-headed mathematicians these days?!? (Ok, it’s not really that hard but I would not have predicted the current state of things.) No surprise that @TOEwithCurt has one of the shining examples.

[Curt Jaimungal @TOEwithCurt]

Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal this year, thinks mathematics will soon rest on proofs no one understands. He says it’s already true of many of his own theorems, which build on accepted results whose proofs he doesn’t know.

Full episode: https://t.co/U3gQZ70cca