We have the mind of Christ, but use the voice of a machine?

By Elizabeth Prata

I heard a really interesting thought on a Facebook short, of all places. It was a clip from an NPR interview with Dave Eggers, author, publisher, and Pulitzer finalist. The show was Wild Cards hosted by Rachel Martin. In it, Eggers said,

“This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say, you are one of one, unprecedented in in the history human evolution. There’s only one of you. So to give your voice to a machine to say, ‘Speak for me. I’m going to be silent.’ I’m going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative is such a crime against yourself.”

“It’s so dystopian, so beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel, and I did a lot, and I never saw this coming. That an entire generation, too many of them, acquiescing to the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland, unthinking machine to voice their souls.” –end Eggers quote

I think many of us who write or create never saw this coming. And since it’s still so new, we are grappling with the impact, fallout, and future of AI. His words made a lot of sense to me. For us Christians, though, it goes very much deeper than that.

Artificial intelligence technology has evolved faster than most Christians have been able to think about it. ~Samuel James, at Desiring God

Taking ‘evolution’ out of the equation, because that is a made-up untrue theory, and we all do realize we are uniquely made, yes, there is only one of me. Faceless evolution didn’t create me, the God of the universe did! And not only are we made purposely, intentionally, and with love by God, we are created in His image.

This notion should be on our minds every moment. It is a dignity afforded no other creature. It gives us the opportunity to speak His truth of the Gospel, reflect His character. Our voices are for the incredible privilege of sharing His Gospel and truths of the Bible. Why put a cold, metallic, faceless machine in that place of dignity?

Can we consider the possibility that swapping our own unique image-of-God voice for a voice of Artificial Intelligence is not only a crime against ourselves, but that giving away our God-given talents and creative abilities for the ease of a push-button machine may possibly be thought of as a crime against God? Should we be swapping our transformed mind of Christ at the cost of Jesus’ blood and death, for a man-made device? Just because it’s easier?

Further resources

 How to Spot Fake AI Photos

Phil Johnson on the flush of AI-produced fakery purporting to be John MacArthur videos– GTY’s stance on AI

How Is AI Shaping You? Three Principles for Wise Use

Council for Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: Of Machines and Men: AI and the Future of Humanity

“We need to create new social norms,” Huang said in an interview. “I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it.”

Said the rich-ass shitbird selling the #AI.

#billionaires #trillionaires

#dictatorship #DictatorTrump #censorship #ai #politics

“The White House and Congress are working on a deal to clamp down on what US citizens are allowed to say online. According to new reporting by Axios, the Trump administration is negotiating with key senators in an effort to shoehorn a massive legislation package which would limit states’ abilities to regulate AI in exchange for placing broad federal limits on digital speech.

Plenty of ink has been spilled about the Trump administration’s push to revoke AI regulation from individual states. Though the White House and its allies frame this as a matter of “safety” and “national security,” the timing is telling, coming as progressive state governments move to restrict the building of AI data centers and hold tech companies liable for harms their AI systems cause.

What makes this deal particularly insidious is the trade-off at its core. Per Axios, congressional lawmakers lead by Republican Marsha Blackburn are essentially offering to surrender their ability to regulate AI in exchange for three federal censorship bills: the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and a federal age verification mandate.

While the language around these three measures suggests common-sense cyber regulation, activists say they really amount to a massive censorship regime that is fundamentally anti-democratic.

In a blistering statement, the first amendment group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) warns that “taken together, these bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it.”

https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-moves-to-deeply-censor-the-entire-internet

The Pokémon Company has announced the Pokémon TCG AI Battle Challenge!

Developers will compete to create an AI capable of defeating human players and rival AIs in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Grand Prize: $50,000

#PokemonTCG #Pokemon #AI #GeekRealmHub

"There's a (false) story that's told about people who championed the early internet: that we were blithely certain that technology could only be a force for good, and negligently disinterested in the possibility that technology could control, extract and harm. That's demonstrably untrue: recall cyberpunk's dualism of "the street finds its own use for things" and "cyberpunk is a warning, not a suggestion."

More true is to say that early internet champions were alive to the importance of the internet, and therefore both excited about the possibilities of the internet to deliver a world of connection, idiosyncrasy, love and solidarity; and about the danger of the internet as a dystopian system of surveillance and manipulation:
(...)
History isn't finished. Long after the AI bubble pops, there will be local models and people vibe coding homemade software that respond directly to their needs. The stuff we make on our own computers, for ourselves, is deplatformed from its inception. It's part of the life we can build in technology's "shadowy corners" that we used to just call "technology." The fact that this stuff is utterly unsuited to be production code makes it inherently unmonetizable. It's how the street finds its own use for things:"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/

#AI #LLMs #BigTech #LocalLlamas #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #OpenSource #FLOSS #OpenWeights #Amateurism

Chainguard's new Athena coalition uses AI to fix open-source flaws - before attackers exploit them https://www.zdnet.com/article/chainguard-athena-coalition-fixes-open-source-flaws-before-ai-attackers-exploit/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

#Opensource security has a new #AI problem. But @chainguard_dev has a plan, and plenty of friends, to help you get on top of it.

Doing things wrong really fast is not the same as doing things right

#AI

Can someone tell me where we get that new planet to produce the energy and water needed for all these AI gadgets? Worst, most of them are likely coming with severe privacy violations and planned obsolescence.
#AI #IoT
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/qualcomm-ceo-ai-devices-agents.html

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

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Given these days you can't even expect #Gentoo contributors to be respectable, I'm working on adding a git hook that rejects commits with #LLM attribution. Could you help me find all the common patterns used to mark LLM-assisted #git commits?

So far I'm checking for author and Co-authored-by using the following e-mail patterns:

• copilot@github.com
• *@anthropic.com
• claude@users.noreply.github.com
• *+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@openai.com
• *+chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@cursor.com
• *@x.ai
• *@google.com

I think some people came up with some other tags to mark LLM commits but can't find that right now.

EDIT: added Assisted-by.

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI

The Guardian: Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion

"...The Gwangju massacre is a painful memory for many. Over 10 violent days, paratroopers crushed pro-democracy protests against military strongman Chun Doo-hwan. Victims’ groups say hundreds were killed.

Starbucks branded the date of its promotion “Tank Day”. It also featured the slogan “thwack on the desk”, evoking a notorious police explanation for the 1987 torture death of student activist Park Jong-chul. Authorities falsely claimed he had died after an officer “hit the desk with a thwack” during questioning.

Marketers chose the “thwack” slogan after consulting an AI tool for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said...."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/starbucks-korea-shut-all-stores-tank-day-promotion

#starbucks #AI #fiasco #korea

A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz

What a good read!

> A growing economy used to be a rising tide that lifted all boats. Post-AI, it may only lift a handful of yachts.

It's really long, but very well worth it. Puts some real substance and lessons from history against arguments, to try and paint an extrapolated picture of what #BigAI will likely do to us and our society.

**A true risk that #AI poses to liberal democracies.**

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

#GenAI #LLM #BigTech

"We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.

We therefore call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to take all steps to ensure that other AI systems they provide do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This includes the use of AI decision-support systems, including target generation systems, remote biometric surveillance, and multimodal AI models, including large language models (LLMs). AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at speed and at scale, and currently no technical or procedural fixes can effectively prevent the lethal and devastating consequences that stem from the fundamental challenges it poses to international law."

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-ai-in-warfare/

#AI #AIWarfare #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw

Carbon before silicon.

#AI #ButlerianJihad

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All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To — And I Will Never Speak To You — I Do Not Want To Hear “Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

Oh, my. Well, this is awkward. Here I thought I'd become a daddy, all-knowing AI.

From Google:

You may have recently received an email from us with the subject line "Your child’s new privacy settings for Search services."

This email may have been sent to you in error. This communication was intended only for parents who manage their child’s Google Account. If you do not manage a child's account, no action is required on your part.

Thank you for your understanding, and we apologize for any confusion or concern this may have caused.

#Google #AI

LLMs don't "know" anything. They're just guessing the next word. 🤯

But that guess is built from 100B+ parameters, trained on basically the internet.

We explain how it works, why it lies sometimes, and how to run one (Gemma 4 / Qwen 3.6) on your own PC.
https://geekrealmhub.com/what-is-llm-guide-large-language-models-local-ai/

#AI #LLM #Tech

Massachusetts museums use AI to bring history to life.
Historical tourism used to mean plaques, guided tours, and picturing what life looked like centuries ago. But as the country marks 250 years of independence, Massachusetts museums are offering immersive exhibits instead of imaginative experiences.
https://archive.ph/jQRIa
#globalmuseum #museums #AI

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Namrata Shajwani of Boston looks up while visiting the site of the Boston Massacre while wearing a mixed reality headset as she takes See Reality’s tour of the Freedom Trail called, “Relive 1776."Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

IMPORTANT: For LinkTree users!

The new Terms of Service say that LinkTree will have rights to all content you post, royalty free, and can make derivative works, for perpetuity, including your likeness.

This means that if you have a selfie posted on LinkTree, they can use #AI to make deepfakes of you saying whatever they want.

Delete your account before July 5th!

#LinkTree #NoAI #Deepfakes

Eligible veterans can request their pair of Ray-Ban Meta #AI glasses through https://bva.org/glasses. Veteran organizations seeking to help their members or other eligible blinded veterans receive glasses can apply through TechSoup. 2/2

Inspired by Army veteran Don Overton, Meta is donating Ray-Ban Meta glasses to every blind veteran in America. Combined with hands-on training and support, the initiative aims to empower more than 130,000 veterans with #AI tools that help them navigate the world with greater confidence and autonomy. https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/free-ai-glasses-for-every-blind-veteran/ 1/2

I don't like #AI. I think it's problematic in a lot of ways, that I won't repeat here as I believe you heard these (very much true) arguments 100 times.

But #DuckAI helped me quite a lot yesterday, and I don't know how to feel about that. By curiosity, I made it write #elisp code to create new useful commands for #emacs which will help me in my everyday work (for example `C-c m` now creates a PDF using `pdfmom -k` so I don't have to use a terminal at the same time when I use #groff, `C-c t` adds `/|` before some punctuations signs following French typographic rules, …). These functions are very simple, most of you here could have written them by hand in less time than it took me to write the prompts, but I'm no developer, and don't have the time to become one, unfortunately. They work as intended (I can control that as, again, they're simple things), and I more or less understand them, as the #LLM described them. I even asked it questions to understand some parts of the code, and it answered (correctly it seems; I checked and as far as I can know, its answers seem legit), so I was able to modify them by hand to fine-tune them. One was wrong, but when I sent it the error message, it corrected it and explained the error to me.

It didn't feel like I was relinquishing brain power; in the contrary I learnt things. I could have done that by hand, and I would have learnt far more, but it would have taken months and I don't have months: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I still think that LLMs are a problem for our societies, but even more so than I thought as it seems to be actually useful in some cases.

The fact that #Anthropic had to take down #Fable5 for users outside of the US by order of the US government shows how critical it is today to rely on US services

Imagine they'd do the same with #WhatsApp, you will not be able to talk to your #family and friends anymore

This should be a wake-up call for everyone to rely on your own server infrastructure, running with #OpenSource #software

#autonomy #digitalindependence #europe #european #decentralization #selfhosting #ArcaneChat #android #ai

Algorithmen auf Streife: Bremens Straßenbahnen werden zur KI-Überwachungszone

Mit #AI-Watch führt die #BSAG eine Echtzeit-Analyse von Fahrgästen ein. Was als Sicherheitsgewinn verkauft wird, markiert eine neue Stufe der #Videoüberwachung….

https://www.heise.de/news/Algorithmen-auf-Streife-Bremens-Strassenbahnen-werden-zur-KI-Ueberwachungszone-11185075.html

#Bremen #Überwachung #KI #Technology #Digitalisierung

More than 130,000 blind U.S. veterans could soon have access to #AI powered assistance in their daily lives. @Meta is donating Ray-Ban Meta glasses to every eligible blind veteran in America, helping them read documents and navigate their surroundings. Read more: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/free-ai-glasses-for-every-blind-veteran/

Q. is the real effect of AI not that it replaces jobs, but rather that it transfers work to the consumer (and by doing so sees such 'work' disappear from official statistics)?

When chatbots provide answers previously provided by professionals often we end up doing the work ourselves (think of the YouTube tutorial); if we ask a chatbot what we need to do & then do it ourself the previous service evaporates.

Will AI's real impact disappear into a data blackhole?

#AI #workers #services
h/t FT

LLMs try to have humour, too. I'm not sure how good it is.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/14/claudes-commentary/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#humour #philosophy #blog #llms #ai #ChatGPT #Vonnegut #hindenburg #laughter #french #learning

A #Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over alleged use of #AI to 'create evidence'. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-over-11012397

This is claimed to be the first known case of its kind in UK criminal justice.

Note that phrase "known case". KNOWN.

I bet there are many more undiscovered uses of AI to pervert the course of justice.

#uklegal

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No one wants to be the one who gets duped into singing along to an AI-generated track. Deezer seems to be on to this and has introduced a tool that scans playlists and identifies The Velvet Sundowns of the music world. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/zvaS_X

#Tech #Music #AI

Surveillance has harmful effects on cognition and identity - deeper research and social knowledge is needed to foster healthy communities.

#ai #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #socialmedia #blackposts #darkpatterns #privacy #privacymatters

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A #German Court Has Ruled That #Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by #AIOverviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an #AI system must assume legal #liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/

An AI cold war is an interesting comparison for the latest restrictions by the White House, especially as the law used is right from that era. However, the law will likely work as well as it did for encryption.
#AI #coldwar
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/international/start-of-ai-cold-war-why-us-cut-off-global-access-to-anthropics-frontier-models/articleshow/131707821.cms

According to the court, correcting misinformation is not the responsibility of third parties. Google is the only entity with the ability to modify the technology underpinning its AI-generated summaries and, therefore, “must be held accountable.” Furthermore, the court found that Google's line of defense lacked merit, since the challenged summary “contains statements that do not appear at all in the search results.”

https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/

#google #ai #germany #court

Patient and worker privacy is being overlooked when sweeping changes in the health-care system degrades human condition, autonomy and self-determination. Loss of privacy and living standard should not be equated with efficiency gain. There is no gain where the people end-up losing their quality of life through loss of freedom and loss of jobs.
#jobsecurity #ai #robots #privacy #privacymatters #nurses #2026

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#AI data centers stealing your job, stealing our water, taking our electricity, building more effing carbon burners and stealing our climate, stealing our data, stealing privacy, stealing our democracy.

JFC

NO.

Time to end this nonsense.

Seriously. No. Let's not do this.

Let's STOP this, end this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/

#survielence #privacy #democracy #inflation #coup #techBro

When the AI Detector Becomes the Academic Random Number Generator
A new study suggests Turnitin can be oddly harsher on mostly human-written assignments tha
https://schulz.dk/2026/06/13/when-the-ai-detector-becomes-the-academic-random-number-generator/?utm_campaign=blogpost&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter
#Academic #ai #Opinion #paper

Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Commerce told Anthropic to cut off access to two of its most powerful AI models – Fable 5 and Mythos 5 – for foreign nationals. To do so, the company had to entirely disable them. Read more from NBC News:

https://flip.it/fhLa1Y

#AI #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence

Governments worldwide are #training #AI models... Under the cover of "fighting crime"

#Quote shortened from a @madeindex post
Posted here https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113301303081128298

The #Old #Mariner #Portrait by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

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#ai #digitalart #oldsailor #weatheredface #expressive #wrinkles #beard #rugged #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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So when #Anthropic can't buy #GNU Toolchain project wholesome, it can always buy its developers.

Oh wait, this mail that starts with Anthropic marketing bullshit is not "an endorsement of Anthropic". And you're not permitted to criticize him.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-June/178028.html

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM

People who have been around the tech world longer than I have: I've been reading for a while how some people seem to feel like the industry peaked somewhere in the 2000s and that it all went downhill from there.

There was one hype after the next and people just kept on jumping on the bandwagon because everyone was doing it. I've read this sentiment about containers, Kubernetes, the Cloud in general but there are probably more.

Do you feel that LLMs are more of the same of this or does this feel qualitatively different? If so, how? I'm trying to find some perspective in all this as I haven't been around the block for long enough to have it myself.

Boosts appreciated.

#ai #llms #infosec #technology #kubernetes #cloud

♻️ Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning

｢ The European Central Bank's (ECB) 2021 climate action plan made the integration of climate risks into its collateral framework a stated priority, meaning that across EU member states, firms with stronger environmental ratings are statistically more likely to secure lines of credit and less likely to face heavy collateral requirements. ｣

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/10/brussels-datacenter-efficiency-scorecard-may-come-with-a-credit-warning/5253297

#datacenters #ai #eu #climate

@nixCraft

Wonderfully played.

I guess the operator learned that clouds can create lightning that will strike in the pocketbook.

#AI #Insanity

Prata Potpourri: Algorithms and the Christian, Speaking truth in love, Female Piety, more

By Elizabeth Prata

The dog days of summer are upon us here in the south. High humidity, high temperatures even through the night, the air thick with wetness and bugs.

According to Farmer’s Almanac, the dog days officially begin July 3 to August 11, but the publisher is a Mainer so…I hereby testify that the dog days are upon us in June! Dog days actually doesn’t originate from anything about a dog. Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky and is named Sirius. It’s the eye in the constellation Canis Major, Greater Dog so Sirius is known as the Dog Star. The ancients used to believe when Sirius was in a certain summer position that it caused heat and drought.

Since it’s summer and summer to me means BEACH, here are some beach pics from north to south along the eastern seaboard.

Lubec Beach, easternmost in the US. EPrata photo

I’ve rounded up sme articles for you. I hope you enjoy them, or at least one!

I’ve been writing about digital life, AI, and algorithms lately. A friend sent me this essay about digital life and the Christian. it’s at a prophecy news type site but it’s a good article absent any woo-woo or fringe stuff.

The author proposes the following question: Unlike a pastor who prayerfully prepares a message or a teacher who intentionally builds a lesson, algorithms are designed around a different objective. Their purpose is not spiritual maturity. Their purpose is attention. They are designed to learn what captures us, what keeps us watching, and what prevents us from moving on to something else. That reality raises an important question for Christians: If something is constantly shaping our thoughts, then who (or what) is teaching our minds?

Read the thought provoking article here: Christianity In The Age Of Algorithms

Sometimes as Christians we must confront a brother or a sister if they are sinning, or raise a difficult subject with a non-Christian. We are reminded always to ‘speak the truth in love’, a phrase from the verse at Ephesians 4:15. Here is ACBC counselor Susan Heck on the topic, and drills down to specifics, like ‘What is Speaking the Truth in Love?’, explains how to do it, why we must, and why we often don’t.

https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/articles/how-to-speak-the-truth-in-love/

Myrtle beach, SC. EPrata photo

And on that note, sometimes we must admit that when we engage in difficult conversations with folks, we drift toward the judgmental but hide behind an excuse of discernment. And we know that discernment often comes with it those difficult conversations. Treading that balance of speaking truth but in love without judgment is hard to do. Here is Eric Bancroft at TableTalk Magazine with a discussion about the difference. He said, “Judgmentalism is concerned about truth regardless of people. Discernment is concerned about truth because of people.”

https://tabletalkmagazine.com/article/2024/04/discernment-without-judgmentalism/

I plopped this Reformation Heritage Books link in my draft here a month ago and the book is already out of stock! 15 copies are available at Amazon. It’s a republishing of the 1853 book. The blurb says, “John Angell James, through biblical exposition and character sketches of women from the Bible, shows the benefits of growing in piety as a goal for women from youth through motherhood. Young women are offered biblical and practical advice in order to fulfill the high calling of being a Proverbs 31 woman.”

Here is the outline-

1. The Influence of Christianity on the Condition of Woman
2. The Conspicuous Place which Woman Occupies in Holy Scripture
3. Woman’s Mission
4. Early Piety
5. Religious Zeal
6. The Parental Home
7. Life Away from Home
8. Character of Rebekah
9. The Ornaments of a Profession of Religion
10. The Characters of Mary and Martha of Bethany
11. To Young Mothers
12. The Beautiful Picture of a Good Wife in the Book of Proverbs

The reviews on Amazon are good.

https://heritagebooks.org/products/female-piety-james.html

Pompano Beach, east coast of FL. EPrata photo

Here, Pastor Gabe Hughes, the voice of WWUTT.com (When We Understand the Text) posted a 1 minute reel explaining the Karmelo Anthony verdict from a biblical perspective. His wise words should be heard. His reel is here (on Facebook).

On Youtube, another good video lesson from Gabe Hughes, this time, on why the Holy Spirit will never ‘call’ a women into the pastorate. 26 minutes.

It’s summer, and many families go camping. In the US we say camper, in the UK it’s caravan, but either way, many families have fond memories of camping in one during the warmer months. Here is an article from Apartment Therapy on a family’s re-do of a 1970s camper. Cool before and after photos.

Here is an article from UK’s magazine Country Life about the egalitarian-ness (is that a word?) of coffee houses. Anyone with a penny could enter, and discuss issues of the day, philosophy, ideas, or converse with anyone else at communal tables, regardless of class. Benjamin Franklin transported this idea into the US as well, forming the Junto Club where men could exchange ideas and discuss concepts. Here was also born Franklin’s notion of educating the men by creating a lending library, the first in the new world. The Philadelphia Library Company is still going.

Naples Beach, west coast of FL. EPrata photo

Enjoy your days!

So something I’ve started working on that obviously only I will use:

Eloquence for Android with community dictionary and upsampling and other knobs found in the NVDA addons. I stole the upsampling from an NVDA addon by @fastfinge; I think others contribute around that space too, because I'm an evil AI-using pirate. Anyway, I got it to talk, but it backquote pp0 says stuff like this backquote p1 at the beginning and end of utterences. I'm working off of @Mudb0y and his Apple Eloquence marvel. Could be done by the end of next week, could be done by the end of July, I don't know, depends on depression and anxiety and burnout. But I mean I'd use it. A lot. Especially if I can get it as responsive as ESpeak with Commentary. Also I'm doing this because CodeFactory is simply incapable of doing it themselves. No really it just can't be done. Like the universe will not accept it. /s

#accessibility #ai #blind

During the WebEvolve 2026 conference in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026, @dontcallmeDOM (@w3c #AI strategist) outlined AI's potential impact on front-end development, #WebApps and #WebStandards. #a11y

🎬 Watch "Web Standards and AI-driven development": https://youtu.be/scWHFYeG-m8

Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/Talks/dhm-webevolve-ai/

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Snapshot of the video presentation of Dominique Hazaël-Massieux showing the slide "AI-Generated Code for Standards Adoption" - Accelerate generation of polyfills, validators? - Impact of LLMs on documentation: production & consumption

Bell Labs Aeronautics

#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #plan9 #ai #space #glenda

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EARTH 48 MONTHS LATER A CAPSULE LANDS IN THE DESERT ASTRONAUT CLIMBS OUT THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY COMPUTERS what the fuck

Dit was ook al door Microsoft opgemerkt zag ik in een Tweakers artikel, maar het bewaartermijnen beleid van Anthropic betekent eigenlijk dat ze alles oneindig kunnen bewaren:
"After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically, except in the rare cases where it's part of a safety investigation or we're legally required to keep it. Eligible organizations also have the option to add customer-managed encryption keys and access transparency audit logs."
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models
#AI #privacy

@randahl

@EUCommission

Why did you allow US companies to continue to diffuse this kind of videos where the indication AI is hidden somewhere in small characters in a comment text ?

These kinds of videos are used as manipulation tools ( even if we could agree with what is said ) ?

We saw what happened in Belfast.

All these manipulations must be stop now , especially that there will be important elections for the future of EU.

#ai #deinsformation

I need your help.

AI criminals have copied the face and appearance of excellent military commentator Ben Hodges.

If you have a YouTube account, please help by reporting this as spam — either using the report button or the three dot menu report item, depending on your device.

https://youtu.be/U6ZYrEzkoxc

#ai #disinformation

"Billionaire Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, generated more than 6,000 sexual deepfake images per hour, Canada’s privacy commissioner found.

“The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset,” privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.

“This lack of protection allowed users to create and share sexualized deepfakes largely targeting women and children,” he added.

Dufresne launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.

“According to researchers, Grok was at one point generating well over 6,000 [sexualized] images per hour,” he said, adding that “millions” of sexual deepfakes were created."

https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/

#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #Grok #DeepFakes #SocialMedia #Twitter