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Anglican (TEC) but not Reformed. Software developer. MSIS student, Drexel University. BA, Colgate University (English, Phil & Religion). Probably far too enamored of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. I don't believe in personality types but am so INTP it hurts.
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Considering that math was supposed to be the one thing computers were very good at, it strikes me as ironic just how bad generative AI is at simple arithmetic. I understand why (it doesn't actually understand that it needs to do math) but it still amuses me.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Internal monologue as I walk by Christmas trees dumped on the curb on December 27: (Picard voice): There. Are. TWELVE. Days.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks for highlighting this, Christopher. Reposted, now with alt text.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Lord, hear our prayer.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like everyone either overinflates the value of soi-disant "job creators" or else denies their value entirely (I'm not saying the quoted post is doing this). The truth most likely is somewhere in between.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

The first point--that image generators are being trained on copyrighted images that the owner of the generator doesn't own--strikes me as valid.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

My sermon for the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, preached in 2022: cjbanning.dreamwidth.org/36992.html

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

OPINION: The purpose of Trump’s policies and rhetoric is not to solve problems; it is to create unity among his supporters. This was what I thought of as I watched “Wicked,” a remarkable parable of how scapegoating works.

submitted 84 days ago • 8 comments

Let's make this clear: if you claim to be leftist, pro-LGBT, pro other minorities etc, then you MUST stand up for freedom of artistic expression, which means defending the right for legal but icky art to exist. Not doing so directly empowers the worst kind of actors wishing to eradicate minorities 🧵

submitted 89 days ago • 16 comments

I admittedly haven't seen everything that Marvel had produced post-Endgame, but Winter Soldier is still the best Marvel movie I've ever seen. The fact that so many people put Thor: Ragnarok above it is just embarrassing.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments