Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-delays-grok-5-rele…
In Pittsburgh, pro-immigrant interfaith efforts emerge amid concerns about ICE
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/13/in-pittsburgh-interfaith-efforts-have-blossomed-amid-concerns-about-ice/
In the neighborhood where Renee Good was killed, a pastor keeps patrolling for ICE (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/14/in-the-neighborhood-where-renee-good-was-killed-a-pastor-keeps-patrolling-for-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p50#a260115p50
Another person who I look up to falling for AI, sigh.
I think it has an allure like organized religion. Promising to free you of that pesky “having to think” part of your life and absolving you from having to make decisions or taking responsibility for your actions.
(Exactly as Weizenbaum wrote in the 1970s, read his book.)
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/12/religion-theatre-focus-group-–-emerging-scholars-panel
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Electric Light Orchestra (ELO):
🎵 Mr. Blue Sky
#NowPlaying #ElectricLightOrchestraELO
https://8-bitslushy.bandcamp.com/track/electric-light-orchestra-mr-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RlgNHKcydI9sayD2Df2xp
dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 87 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…
AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/843883/ai-image-generators-better-worse
Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
https://ift.tt/q8bmM9Z
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20