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The Corpse of NPR Pats Itself on the Back (Washington Free/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/media/the-corpse-of-npr-pats-itself-on-the-back/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p29#a250729p29

Amazing sentence:
"There is of course always the God of the uncriticizable self, who behaves with the same irritable intolerance as the monotheistic God in the face of even the faintest suggestion that one might consider behaving or thinking differently."
https://itself.blog/2025/07/27/chatgpt-is-going-to-kill-god/

I fear that AI is the 12th circle of Dante's inferno: treachery against the soul itself.

"So if ChatGPT destroys literacy and law, then ChatGPT is going to kill God. By this I don’t mean that the bearded guy in the sky is going to be found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest, but that monotheistic religion as we have traditionally understood it will not be able to function in a post-literacy regime."
(Original title: ChatGPT is going to kill God)

ChatGPT is going to kill God
I hate generative AI. I hate how it’s destroying writing pedagogy and giving students even more excuses not to read (because they can just read a “summary”). I hate how whiny and …

Realizing that “artificial intelligence” is a vague, broad, shifting, and relative term for potentially •any• activity cuts through a lot of our instinctive bad reasoning about it — and thus cuts through a lot of hype. As Brown says, it doesn’t mean •anything• about a technology itself, only about how a technology is situated relative to the world.
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anything that you "better figure out now to be ahead of everyone else" is something that will eventually collapse in on itself once everyone does figure it out.

My home server started acting up (just restarts itself randomly). I'm not terribly sure the reason why, but i'm glad that I have the personal rule of never running anything mission critical on it.

Damn, using the UK's visa app to read a passport chip via NFC is a pretty extreme exercise in frustration. Got locked out twice (on the backend by UK servers, not the app itself!) in my attempts, each with an hour wait to be unlocked.

Realizing that “artificial intelligence” is a vague, broad, shifting, and relative term for potentially •any• activity cuts through a lot of our instinctive bad reasoning about it — and thus cuts through a lot of hype. As Brown says, it doesn’t mean •anything• about a technology itself, only about how a technology is situated relative to the world.
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Damn, using the UK's visa app to read a passport chip via NFC is a pretty extreme exercise in frustration. Got locked out twice (on the backend by UK servers, not the app itself!) in my attempts, each with an hour wait to be unlocked.