Watching them all chip away at each other lately gives me hope that this particular jenga tower might actually collapse sooner rather than later. 🤞Though that won’t fix the rot at the core, so we must keep pushing back on that (and pushing our lines forward).

While I admit that deep inside me there is still this fixed kernel that says "but, but they can't do that!" I've also been paying attention long enough to know that some of them damn well want to and will try it if/when given any chance. So, I'll be keeping my eyes on this & thank you for the tip.

So I appreciate this deep dive by a Catholic who can clock all the things that culturally Episcopalian me might miss.

WUDM is also an example of Hollywood using one of its go to “others” to tell a religion story. Movies with important religion bits are almost never about boring white Protestants. Meanwhile the “other” is also almost entirely filtered through a Protestant gaze.

At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.