I’m very proud of this. Three pounds until a normal BMI. No dieting. Just walking and lifting. Hard consistent work is paying off! 💪

"“If you are going to provide me with a robot servant, I have a very clear bar: It’s gotta be at least as much bang for my buck as my dishwasher.”" Silicon Valley Has Forgotten What Normal People Want by Elizabeth Lopatto https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos

"“Within recent memory, people who made software and hardware understood their job was to serve their customer. It was to identify a need, and then fill it. But at some point following the financial crisis, would-be entrepreneurs got it into their heads that their job was to invent the future, and consumers’ job was to go along with that invented future.”" Silicon Valley Has Forgotten What Normal People Want by Elizabeth Lopatto https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos

"“It may feel unfair to have to negotiate an ancient theological theory designed to make war harder. But subjecting efficiency, lethality, and even victory to higher principles is precisely its purpose. It reminds us that even—especially—in wartime, God and God alone is our judge.”" Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/just-war-theory-is-supposed-to-be-frustrating-iran-war-trump/?utm_medium=widgetsocial

"“The truth is simple: our economic and social moment is in the hands of people who do not understand the power they wield.”" The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’ ⇢ by ⌘ Permalink https://512pixels.net/2026/04/patel-decoder-ai-software-brain/

"“Utilitarian calculations promise an end run around what we owe to God and neighbor, but this is a temptation we must resist. Just ends cannot excuse unjust means.”" Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/just-war-theory-is-supposed-to-be-frustrating-iran-war-trump/?utm_medium=widgetsocial

"“just war theory is meant to make war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient.”" Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating by Brad East https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/just-war-theory-is-supposed-to-be-frustrating-iran-war-trump/?utm_medium=widgetsocial

The hagiographies of Tim Cook are troubling.

"‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?” Then they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil upon them’ ”" (2 Chronicles 7:21–22, RSV)

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