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@tariq@absolutelyhar.am Tariq I need a hug room again.

Ok how cute is the National Park of American Samoa quarter???

The trick or treaters came early this year

@Beeks@hachyderm.io ok FINE :)

I need to cultivate a better feed here tho. What I have now isn't bringing me back.

@tutwilly@better.boston @mzedp@mas.to @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win yes hi we do. Like you know not everyone working on self-driving is literally Elon Musk, right?

@tutwilly@better.boston @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win I agree with a lot of the self-driving skepticism, but fwiw my husband has worked in this field for decades and they do in fact work on bicycle recognition. It's an objectively harder problem to solve than car recognition and it's not solved yet, but that doesn't mean no one's trying.

I just started writing "Fuck" and my keyboard wants the next word to be "Ea-Nasir."

@patrickgillam@mastodon.online @stargazerrob@mastodon.online right?! I wouldn't have even noticed Io and Ganymede.

Extremely old (3800-2500 BCE) fabrics preserved in bogs. At the Irish National Museum, Archaeology wing.

cc @lea@mastodon.social

@Beeks@mstdn.party after half an hour I think I'd be questioning whether the captcha knew something I didn't.

https://youtu.be/g3dnOMF0Cw8

@mia@void.rehab Your bio asks for cat pics but your recent toot says no unsolicited messages, so I am unsure what to do. :)

@johnettesnuggs@mas.to @MBNashTN@mstdn.social @BlippyTheWonderSlug@social.cologne @purplepadma@beige.party

According to the Hebrew Bible, God murdered some people.

According to the Christian Bible, God will send almost everyone to infinite eternal torment.

Which of those is more morally repugnant?

Repeating the "OT god is smitey, NT god is loving" trope doesn't mean you hate Jewish people. But you were taught those examples by people who saw Christianity as good and Judaism as bad, and who cherry picked examples to impose a pattern on the Bible that isn't there.

They COULD have taught you that "Love your neighbor as yourself" is a quote from Leviticus, while the New Testament promises that God will put people in a wine press until their blood pours out in a river, and then an angel will call birds down to eat their bodies. I wonder why they didn't teach us that?

@MBNashTN@mstdn.social @johnettesnuggs@mas.to @BlippyTheWonderSlug@social.cologne @purplepadma@beige.party

fwiw: this idea of a stern Old Testament God vs a loving New Testament God isn't well supported in scripture; there's plenty of grace in the Hebrew Bible and tons of judgment in the Gospels and Revelation.

But more importantly it's lowkey antisemitic to say Jews worship a meaner God than Christians. I know it's not intended that way, but that's effectively what's being said.

I kinda wish this trope would die.

I asked Google's AI to write me a limerick about itself. I think this really says everything there is to say about the current state of "AI."

There once was a lab at Google
Where they worked on AI and code.
They made it so smart
It could write a limerick,
And now it's answering your email.

@Dragoniff Appropriately enough, it's the fur color of the back of the hand that gave away the specific species. :)