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| Jesus is Lord | pastor | unassimilated mennonite christian | tech blogger @matthewlandis | philosophy of tech
Joined July 2015
This is once again relevant...
Christians use "God's sovereignty in setting up rulers" as a reason to honor & obey government leaders, even those they dont like. When used to infer divine support for someone's preferred political choice, it's not being put to a Christian use, but political use
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Wow
Terrifying footage shows UPS Flight 2976 erupting in flames after crashing in Louisville. Four confirmed dead, more feared missing.
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Whew...dodged that bullet...
Researchers have mathematically proven that the universe cannot be a computer simulation. Their paper in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics shows that reality operates on principles beyond computation. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, they argue that no
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In the first century the term Christian was a political term, not a religious one. Followers of Jesus weren’t branded Christian to differentiate them from Zeusians or Jupiterians. The term Christian was coined by pagans based on Latin political terminology. Christian was
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Interesting
Despite all the rhetoric, political campaigns, and Supreme Court cases - views of abortion have changed very little in the last decade. There's not a single religious group that has seen their support for abortion drop in a statistically significant way.
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There’s been thoughtful conversation lately concerning “third-wayism” in Christian political theology. The chart below lays out some categories that might help clarify what a healthy versus unhealthy expression of “third-wayism” looks like.
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Oxford researchers just confirmed what we feared: The internet as we knew it is dying. AI content went from ~5% in 2020 to 48% by May 2025. Projections say 90%+ by next year. Why? AI articles cost <$0.01. Human writers cost $10-100. But the real crisis is model collapse. When
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"Heaven" is more likely "the church" than Airforce One. ..fwiw
Unpopular opinion: President Trump's self-effacing joke about personal unworthiness is more in line with the traditional Christian understanding of salvation than the popular modern belief in "once saved, always saved." https://t.co/1Kl4Vw1SX8
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The deeper you go into the semiconductor supply chain, the less believable it becomes. > TSMC, a company on a small island, produces over 90% of the world’s most advanced chips > TSMC relies on dutch company ASML for EUV lithography machines > ASML depends on German Company
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So... Greta thunberg is the Antichrist? https://t.co/lMSv9eWnrR
theguardian.com
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
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Does dispensationalism have a way to help with this question?
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Should Christians be thankful that a) peace may stop some killing? or b) worried that the Antichrist has arrived? Or c) something else?
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In other words, they start acting like humans..?
We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. 💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up 🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain
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Political advocates for both the Right and the Left devote great energy to criticizing ”moderates” and “centrists” as people who are “selling out” to the culture and refusing to take brave stands. Let me tell you a story! 1/9
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When you really get that Jesus calls Christians to not take life...this makes sense
One really interesting data nugget: Among Catholics who attend Mass at least once a month, support for the death penalty has dropped significantly since 1990. It was ~75% Today, it's ~50%.
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Apparently, AI LLM 's need a nonresistant (self sacrificial) bias... ! https://t.co/tcNjTCvL05
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Yesterday was the last day an AOL modem picked up the line for a dialup customer to log in to the Internet. It is an end of an era and frankly a few hundred still used the service knowingly. I still have a BBS running for dialup AI and Bitcoin access. https://t.co/mcc8PdZRvm
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"No compartmentalization" means there is no area of a christian's life where "do love your enemy" and "do not commit adultery" etc does not apply...
@aprilajoyr Christian Nationalism is in the eye of the beholder. It is difficult to pray “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” and believe Christianity is merely privatized reality. This is not unique to evangelicals. The Black Church has been deeply engaged politically for decades
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Interesting
ERICKA KIRK ON DEATH PENALTY: “I do not want that man's blood on my ledger…when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: 'Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?' & that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?” https://t.co/gCec7IY8oA
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