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SteveThompson, 2 months ago to religion

This article just crossed my screen...

"My calling as a Christian minister: Stand up against evangelical hypocrisy"

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/17/my-calling-as-a-christian-minister-stand-up-against-evangelical-hypocrisy/

"Right-wing evangelicals have perverted the Christian faith. As a follower of Jesus, I can't stay silent"

...kinda interesting cuz, while I don't know this author, I wrote this blog article yesterday after seeing a Joyce Meyer episode:

"The Christian Lifestyle Paradox"

https://steve.ws/the-christian-lifestyle-paradox/

#evangelicals #faith #hypocrisy #religion #politics #Jesus

golgaloth, 2 months ago to worldbuilding

What's the main philosophy of your world's religions? Not what they do, who they worship, but the underlying concept behind it all.

#WorldBuilding #writing #ttrpg #AmWriting #dnd #WritingCommunity

ivan_herman, 2 months ago to ai

The exponential enshittification of science

"…there is no way reviewers and journals are going to be able to keep up. Reviewers are typically unpaid academics who are already stretched to their limits; tripling their workload would not be feasible. […] the total number of articles may radically spike, many of them dubious and a waste of reviewers’ time. Lots of bad stuff is going to sneak in."

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-exponential-enshittification

#ai #science #publishing

AslynnRoe, 2 months ago to Travel

What was the purpose of Stonehenge? https://medium.com/hotspot-travellers/what-was-the-purpose-of-stonehenge-aa9c9c95f42d?sk=daee539d9692202868760a1798f4f10a #England #travel #stonehenge #hotspot #writers

TEG, 2 months ago to random

Michael Jamin has these great little videos on Facebook, about screenwriting but they're also pretty much life advice. He just gave a response to a "do work for me" type of question that included the phrase "do you also have a bird cage I could clean" which I feel I could have benefited mightily from in my old career.

TEG, 2 months ago to random

Just read chapter 1 of Salman Rushdie's Victory City and it's great. I don't know what it is but some of his books convince me there's such a thing as literature that's "elevated" somehow. It's Rushdie, Murakami, and Ishiguro for me.

But man, just that horrible cave-sage, instant classic archetype in its hypocritical awfulness. If I had the language skills to remember the name I'd be using it all the time.

#SalmanRushdie #VictoryCity

franciscawrites, 2 months ago to Horror

Rereading this classic 'cause I'm in the mood for some good horror.

"They won’t accept reasonable things with their minds but the fantastic things they’ll swallow whole when their emotions are brought into play. Because the emotions have no limits on belief."
―R. Matheson, A Stir of Echoes

What are you reading today?

#writingcommunity @bookstodon #readinghorror #horror #HorrorBooks

TEG, 2 months ago to random

Live scientific debate, fight fight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS1233skYYo

About "Representations in Neuroscience".

TEG, 2 months ago to random

Positive AI use news:

AI Just Cleared A Big Hurdle On The Road To Nuclear Fusion Energy

https://www.iflscience.com/ai-just-cleared-a-big-hurdle-on-the-road-to-nuclear-fusion-energy-73107

"“Previous studies have generally focused on either suppressing or mitigating the effects of these tearing instabilities after they occur in the plasma [...] But our approach allows us to predict and avoid those instabilities before they ever appear.”

Their answer: an artificial intelligence (AI) trained on previous experiments at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego."

thetransmitter, 2 months ago to random

The award-winning researcher’s discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that’s exactly what her critics dislike.

By @emilysohn

https://www.thetransmitter.org/glymphatic-system/maiken-nedergaards-power-of-disruption/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=2024226-maiken-nedergaards

StephenBHeard, 3 months ago to random

The shutdown of peer-review.io and the dynamics of volunteerism

Last week, Daniel Bingham announced that peer-review.io, the system he built for crowdsourcing peer review of academic manuscripts, will be shutting down (it seems to be already offline). It was an interesting experiment, and I’m disappointed, but I am also completely, utterly, 157% unsurprised. Here’s why. Peer review is a form of academic service. For some folks it’s strictly a volunteer activity;

https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/the-shutdown-of-peer-review-io-and-the-dynamics-of-volunteerism/

TEG, 3 months ago to random

Interesting science-related defamation case - "Passion is not misconduct", https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado6275.

"University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann was awarded more than $1 million in a lawsuit against bloggers who accused him of scientific misconduct in inflammatory terms, likening his treatment of data to what a noted child molester did to children. The verdict suggests that there are limits to which scientists working on politically sensitive topics can be falsely attacked."

TEG, 3 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished the Temeraire series, recommended by @fictionable - loved it. Much more of the historical in the fantasy than I'd expected. Each of the nine books, more or less, visits an early 19th century culture somewhere in the world, while human and dragon personality foibles get explored.

It doesn't have the entertaining Freudianism of the Pern novels but - not having read McCaffrey in decades admittedly - I think I prefer this less mindmelded version of dragons.

@bookstodon

TEG, 3 months ago to python

My hosting provider is discontinuing Passenger on my current plan. Does anyone know of what options are good currently, especially for people like me who don't really know what they're doing and just want Python/Flask apps to go brrrr?

#python #passenger #flask

TEG, 3 months ago to random

A Philosopher’s Case Against Death

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-philosopher-s-case-against-death

"Immortality should be sought in transcendence, in passing the flame of life on through our children, by contributing to the achievements of man, and through the religious and philosophical appreciation of the fundamental oneness of all being."

versus

"We are beginning to allow ourselves to openly admit what our actions already say: namely, that we want youth and life and that we hate aging and death."

#life #death

LRRRonEarth, 3 months ago to random

WHY DOES NOT JON, THE LARGER OF THE TWO LIFEFORMS, NOT SIMPLY KILL AND EAT GARFIELD?

TEG, 3 months ago to blender

I recently got a question about some nice 3D humanoid stimuli we used in an old study, which came from the university technical department at the time. But they're really easy to make yourself independently if you don't have such a department!

A nice intro-tutoral on posing 3D models in Blender here: https://rhkibria.medium.com/how-to-pose-human-figures-with-blender-without-prior-experience-a421f72047ab.

And there are places shop for pre-made, posable models, e.g., https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/character/man/modular-military

#Blender #stimuli #3D