“At some point, then, it may become nearly impossible for pastors who are not fully on board with MAGA to look away, to stall for more time, to let others do the heavy lifting, or to tell themselves that things aren’t so bad, that silence is golden. A healthy church culture, like a healthy family culture, brings things into the open. It doesn’t avoid or close off conversations.”

Excerpt From “The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue” Peter Wehner The Atlantic apple.news/An31uMzIy… This material may be protected by copyright.

Here’s a direct link to the Atlantic article:
The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue

This piece is a good thing, in that the conversations initiated require coming to specifics on many points that folks lately seem to want to keep swishy. Often very basic stuff, “Do you believe that some things are true irrespective of human knowledge or opinion about those things? Is having knowledge different than having opinions? Is it possible for humans to make these kinds of distinctions?”

Where’s the Klout for retail AI? I mean, shouldn’t someone be doing meta-, aggregator, “all your AI is belong to us”, type stuff. Or is everyone pretty sure it would just churn out supraslop?

So an iPad glued to a HomePod?

“Nail two things together that have never been nailed together before and somebody will buy it from you man.”
– George Carlin 

Happy to report that I can actually find a great deal more time to fiddle and primp and fuss with my punky street glider than I had previously supposed.

The end of the world, or just another killer sunset? Yes.

The great thing about AI? Never needs ironing.

What is my response when asked what I do for a living? 👉
Hint: I’m a technical writer.
Extra hint: The pointer is the answer.

You know those kind of questions that are just so interesting to ponder that it is a bit disappointing when you learn the actual answer? Thursdays are an example of this.

Frank: “Hey—what in the…name of—hey! (knocks out guy) Whaddya doin' kissin' this guy?”

Sarah: “Well, I didn’t want to kill him…”

Frank: ”Well, what kind of stupid logic is that!?”

Main characters discussing tactics, RED 2, 2013