I thought (after listening a few minutes) that this was an actual response video to my Christian conversion testimony, by human beings, but no. Turns out, a friend could recognize the voices and that they were those of Google NotebookLM! No wonder they sounded so chirpy and weirdly in-sync.
“Amazing Polly” has an interesting hypothesis about a Rumble-to-Trump admin pipeline:
All I know is that, as an actual long-time libertarian, I don’t trust government contractors as far as I can kick ’em, and corporatism is the thing that unites the Establishment on both the left and the right…and that’s what the Trump administration is giving us.
And the connection of high-level “ex”-spies is also concerning. I am also opposed to government by intelligence apparatus.
I voted for the man, and I think he’s doing so many great things, but this…is concerning.
We must never stop holding our elected representatives’ feet to the fire, to ensure they remain honest.
What an absolutely thrilling, humbling, exhausting week this has been!
I am nonplussed. Surprised at being thrust into the spotlight. I didn’t think my testimony was exactly scintillating. It’s not that I *mind*, I’ve been here before (several times), it’s just that I didn’t at all expect people to care much. My conversion story just seemed seemed like such a…niche thing.
I didn’t expect to be called upon to repeat my story many times and defend the faith immediately. Good thing I spent the last five years learning about it.
I don’t deserve this…but then it’s not about me, so of course I don’t. Soli Deo Gloria. Thank God for making use of me. I hope I do well, with his help.
This is not a city. It is a 21st century prison camp.
GPT did an interesting thing for me just now. I am rejiggering parts of my book. Having done that, I discovered that I developed two versions of what is essentially the same argument in two different places. But, now that the macrostructure of the text is more coherent, those two versions find themselves in the same place. They are similar but have slightly different emphases and make slightly different, albeit complementary, points.
So I asked GPT to do something I thought it was capable of doing: splicing the two versions together so that corresponding parts of the text would be placed together. I could then decide which I wanted to keep, where. I asked it to preserve my text perfectly and [[put double brackets]] around the bits IT would cut (showing which version I might keep.
Turns out, this task was pretty much beyond ChatGPT 4o, at least after 4-5 iterations of explaining myself etc. BUT ChatGPT o3-mini-high was able to do it pretty well on the third try.
I felt I had to steal this meme. As for the Musk post, well…ya know…Musk has made a large portion of his many billions from government contracts, y’know. So, he would know.
I could stand to lose a few pounds, but this…is funny.
Intriguing. This is at least the third post between Elon and Jack that has signaled a plan to let people design their own algorithms:
But look. I don’t trust these guys on this AT ALL.
Jack told me in spring 2019 that they were committed to making this change. He never did.
Then Elon arrived, promising a free speech regime, then made things WORSE for many of us by giving us “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.” I’m throttled in a way I certainly wasn’t when Jack was in charge.
Besides 👇
How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian
—a 90-minute video version
bitchute.com/video/uYYS…
Interview with leading Christian evangelist/apologetics master Sean McDowell, from Tuesday:
I should be totally clear. As much as I object to my treatment under Musk’s X.com regime, and as great as my suspicion is, considering that he is basically a government contractor, what he is doing with DOGE seems, for now, to be exactly what the government needs.
I am mystified why Musk retweets Jack Dorsey saying we need digital autonomy (that’s the word, Jack!) with this comment:
“Will we actually choose the algorithm?”
Listen, you hypocrite, if you allowed *everyone* some fine-grained control over the algorithms that determine which posts they see, in what order, of course they’d use them.
X.com’s ability to manipulate the algorithm regardless of user preference is the basis of the platform’s attractiveness to the government branches that specialize in manipulating public opinion.
So we definitely can’t have that. You’ll never do it, Elon. “Freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.”
I have just finished editing a video version of my testimony, complete with many AI-generated images, classic art, stock footage where appropriate, etc. One of my longest videos ever: 1:34:36 in length!
I’m kind of overwhelmed by all the response to my testimony. Not just the dozens of comments (that I sort of gave up trying to respond to while doing my work) but people reaching out via email. I’ll get to you all, but please bear with me.
DALL-E generated this for my upcoming video.
