Native Texan, long-time Atlantan. Anglican, liberty lover, Army vet, bass player, Neutral Good. Football, Braves, VGK, theology, music, memes.

Joined November 2013
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Say what you will about Roman Catholics, they sure do know how to build beautiful churches.
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I've lost count of how many phone numbers I've blocked/reported as spam for political text messages this year, and it's only June.
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Hawaii to Seattle to Manhattan in two days is one heck of a culture shock.
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In nature if monkeys refused to hunt or gather food for themselves the other monkeys would just let them starve to death.
in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas
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Jeff ⚓️ retweeted
Happy 251st Birthday to the U.S. Army.
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Part of the American Dream is that one can build something from scratch, succeed, and reap the benefits of success, whether a thousand dollars or a trillion. That's why it's OK to be happy for Elon - he's accomplished what we all tell ourselves can be accomplished in America.
I will fight until my last breath, to stop these people from winning. Not because I'm a sychophant for Elon. But because I want to live in a world where Elon Musk is possible. I want to live in a world that builds things, & hard work is valued & rewarded Reject this,at all costs
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Jeff ⚓️ retweeted
Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed
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Bad: waking up at 5AM on vacation Good: watching the world wake up at dawn
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Nothing says Classy Tropical Vacation like the teenagers in the hotel room next door smoking MJ on the balcony. 🙄
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If you ever watched Multiplicity with Michael Keaton, you know what's happening to ChatGPT.
You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.
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You forget how pretty rainbows really are until you unexpectedly see one.
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Good morning!
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Frank Rubio is part of the Artemis III crew! #DutyWillNotWait!!!
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Replying to @NASA
Introducing your Artemis III crew: NASA astronauts @AstroKomrade, @Astro_AndreD, and Frank Rubio and @ESA astronaut @Astro_Luca.
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When in Hawaii, drink as the Hawaiians do, I always say. Waikiki Brewing Blonde Ale:
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Mormons will answer "yes" to all of these questions. Christians will not only answer "no" to all 10, but will say that affirming 1, 3, 4, 5, or 9 put you outside of the Christian faith. Therefore, the Mormon faith is not the same as the Christian faith.
Come on, Mormons. These ten yes-or-no questions should be easy for you. Step forward. Tell us what you believe: 1) Was God the Father once a human? 2) Was God the Son created? 3) Are Jesus & Satan spirit brothers? 4) Was Jesus not God at any point in His life? 5) Are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit three separate and distinct gods? 6) Was Jesus first conceived a spirit child by the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, and then "begotten in flesh" when the Heavenly Father had sex with the Virgin Mary? 7) When Jesus returns, will He set up a 1000 year global theocracy based in Jackson County, Missouri? 8) Can humans become gods with all the same attributes as God the Father? 9) Are there other gods just like the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit? 10) Does the leader of your organization receive "revelations from God" that have as much authority as the Bible?
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Jeff ⚓️ retweeted
It's not "baseless" to suggest that California elections are untrustworthy It's baseless to suggest they have any integrity whatsoever
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Does anybody actually like Starbucks Pike Place coffee? Or do people just order it because Starbucks keeps pushing it?
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Christians don't believe... whatever this is.
"There is a Mother in heaven who is with [God]. They're married & they have this perfect marriage, and we know that because... men can become Gods and women can become Goddesses." From Saints Unscripted, one of the biggest Mormon channels on YouTube.
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