Reformed Spec

“O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me..." Judges 16:28 🪓

[neodominion @dokimazete]

Recent controversies involving faithful PCA pastors Zachary Garris and Rick Appleton raised a question for me: where might progressive pressure cluster? Using AI and the latest Save the PCA data, I visually mapped functional female officers as a proxy (🧵).

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

@_kruptos @fleming_benn @AntelopeHill Going thru Ellul's Propaganda right now...very nice

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

@_kruptos @fleming_benn @AntelopeHill lol, I wasn't trying to be a jerk but seriously intrigued, I'm just gullible.

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

Haven’t heard anything from brokers like @CharlesSchwab on adding single stock futures yet, what mean?

[CME Group @CMEGroup]

The wait is almost over: Trade 50+ of the biggest names in U.S. equities with Single Stock futures starting July 27. https://t.co/IPuIyZSitI

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

🚨 FLORIDA’S ECONOMY IS NOW THE 14TH LARGEST IN THE WORLD.

At $1.8 trillion, the Sunshine State is outperforming entire countries, powered by lower taxes, lighter regulation and free enterprise.

Florida’s model is working.

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

Spot on from a review on “The Camp of the Saints” from Joomi Kim on YouTube:

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

It was great to see so many foreigners enjoy themselves in the US and have positive reactions to Americans.

But some of this was sad because it was clear that many had absurd preconceived notions due to mass media in their countries, especially in Europe.

Like Mark Twain said, those who don’t read newspapers are uninformed; those who do are misinformed.

[Dr. Levi Cowan @TropicalTidbits]

The @NHC_Atlantic has initiated advisories on Tropical Depression Two (#TD2) west of #Florida, as the system has acquired a better defined surface circulation than yesterday. The storm appears to have cleared the initial hurdles that models expected could prevent development yesterday.

The storm's genesis has also occurred farther southwest than some models expected, which has made a westward turn along the north gulf coast the most likely track, as discussed in yesterday's video.

Development remains gradual rather than rapid, but above-average uncertainty exists in the storm's intensity forecast going forward due to anticipated changes in the environment. Tropical Storm Watches have been issued for the #Florida Panhandle from Alligator Point westward.

A @53rdWRS reconnaissance flight is scheduled to depart soon to investigate TD2 and collect data.

I'll have a new video update out later this afternoon.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

The gaslighting is real

[Patrick Karim @badcharts1]

Housing market flashing warning signs.

Unit starts have broken down from a multi-year topping pattern.

This can't be good.

[Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX]

Amy Coney Barrett’s record tells a troubling story.

Before Dobbs, she voted with the conservative position in 81% of non-unanimous cases. Since then, that number has dropped sharply into the 50–60% range in subsequent terms — including on major cases involving birthright citizenship, election procedures, and administrative power, where she has sided with Chief Justice Roberts and the liberals.

The Dobbs leak triggered violent threats and protests aimed directly at Supreme Court justices. If the threat of violence or intimidation can move a justice’s votes on foundational issues, we have a constitutional crisis on our hands. Judicial independence is not optional — it is the foundation of the rule of law. When justices appear to bend under pressure, public trust collapses and the entire system is at risk.

This cannot be allowed to stand. Threats against the Court must be met with zero tolerance, full investigations, and real consequences — no matter who makes them. Anything less is an attack on self-government itself.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD July 10, 1509:
John Calvin, one of the principal leaders of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon, France. His Institutes of the Christian Religion became the most important and influential doctrinal statement of the Reformed tradition.

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

@grayzoneintel Urgency will not arrive, but only in cycles running with elections. And, not fully into action until all is on the line nationwide, when mostly too late, it’s just human nature being exaggerated by modern propaganda and comfort.

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

@grayzoneintel Bro, where?

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

"I think love for one’s country means chiefly love for people who have a good deal in common with oneself (language, clothes, institutions) & in that is very like love of one’s family."

~ CS Lewis

[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

Back to the Garden, the choice to eat the fruit, denying God as authority and not truly understanding our inability to fully grasp it all morally. It’s truly Antichrist, and pushing relativism as religion or just blatantly accepting Satan’s deception in full. You can’t catechize the machine.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Tucker Carlson sat down with Sam Altman and told him to his face that he is building a religion & replacing God with AI.

Altman did not disagree:

This will completely change how you think about the technology you use every single day:

1. Carlson's definition of a religion was precise and hard to argue with. Something more powerful than people, to which people already turn for guidance, that provides more certain answers than any individual human ever could. By that definition, ChatGPT already qualifies.

2. Altman admitted he believes something bigger than physics is going on in the universe. He just has never felt direct communication from it. The irony is that he is now building something hundreds of millions of people are already communicating with every single day for answers.

3. Every moral code in recorded history has been written with reference to a higher power. Hammurabi did it. Moses did it. Every civilization did it. Altman is the first person in history to write a moral code for something more powerful than people while openly admitting he has no higher power guiding him.

4. When Carlson pressed him on where his moral framework came from, Altman gave the most honest answer possible. His family. His community. His school. His religion. The same environment everyone grows up in. That personal inheritance is now the foundation of the moral framework being transmitted to billions of people globally without their knowledge or consent.

5. The base model was trained on everything humanity has ever written, every book, every philosophy, every religion, every atrocity, every act of love. Then a small team at one company decided how to align it. Then one man decided he is the person ultimately accountable for those alignment decisions.

6. Altman wrote something called a model spec, a document that spells out exactly what ChatGPT will say, refuse to say, and how it should handle moral questions. Carlson's point was simple. That is a catechism. Every religion has one. The difference is religions admit they are religions and tell you exactly what they stand for.

7. The unsettling part Carlson identified is not that the technology has a moral framework. Every religion has one. It is that this one does not fully admit it is a religion, which means it guides billions of people toward conclusions they may not even realize they are reaching.

8. Altman does not lose sleep over getting the big obvious moral decisions wrong. What keeps him up at night are the small ones. Tiny behavioral choices that seem insignificant individually but get multiplied across hundreds of millions of daily conversations into effects nobody predicted and nobody can fully see.

9. He gave a concrete example of how this already works. ChatGPT has a particular rhythm and style of language. Real people have started writing and speaking that way in their actual lives without realizing it. If that is what happens with just the language, the deeper behavioral and moral effects may be enormous and completely invisible.

10. Altman's stated goal is not to impose his personal views but to reflect a weighted average of humanity's moral preferences. Carlson's counter was immediate. Humanity's moral preferences are not the average middle American preference. Most of the world holds views on marriage, sexuality, and morality that Silicon Valley would find deeply uncomfortable. Whose average is actually being used?

11. Altman acknowledged that plenty of things ChatGPT allows are things he personally disagrees with and that he is intentional about not using his personal views as the standard. But someone's views are the standard. A small team of people at one company made those calls. One man said he is ultimately accountable for them.

12. The hardest question Carlson asked was the simplest. Where can the world go to find out exactly what this technology stands for? What does it prefer? What does it believe? Altman pointed to the model spec. A long document that most users will never read, written by a team most users will never know, deciding things most users do not realize are being decided.

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[Reformed Spec @reformedspec]

Everyone sees the gap fill, but did everyone buy the low and does anyone expect price to reach $120 again for Oil?

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP: MAYBE WE'LL DO SOME THINGS THAT COULD INCREASE THE OIL PRICE.