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Robert Rackley

Orthodox Christian, aspiring minimalist, inteverate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic.

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The ChatGPT Mary Feature

The popular LLM is devoted to the Theotokos.

The ChatGPT Mary Feature
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Accumulate Wisdom, Not Information

Chris Butler writes about the glut of information to which we are exposed and how that does not advance our wisdom or understanding. Think about this comparison: Information is to wisdom what pornography is to real intimacy. I’m not here to moralize, so I compare to pornography with all

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The Perfect Villain

Ben Mendelsohn's portrayal of Orson Krennic gives Star Wars its most realistic bad guy.

The Perfect Villain
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Recession Meals

This article from Today highlights the growing trend of influencers in the space of frugal cooking. As uncertainty about the economy becomes more prevalent, this kind of content is taking off. And so, according to TikTok, the hashtag #budgetmeals has seen a 20% increase in posts over the last month,

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Easter Eggs

The sign reads: “Don’t make your own easter eggs — ain’t nobody got time for that!“ Via Austin Kleon

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Mitsune

Berlin-based Mitsune live on KEXP December 8, 2024.

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Record Store Daze

John Semley writes for Defector about the drawbacks of Record Store Day. He hones in on the problem of quantity over quality that has grown in the last few years. Take this year’s slate. From a modest collection of 10 specially pressed singles, Record Store Day’s annual catalog

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Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons

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Snow Patrol

We are going through a very hard time, but I guess the question I would ask is, is it really the world coming to an end? Or are we catastrophizing? There’s no decade in history except maybe the 1990s, I would like to go back to. I really like

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Trusting Agentic AI

Manton Reece commenting on Nick Heer from Pixel Envy expressing his distrust for agentic AI. I also don’t trust AI for this. And yet, in 1995 a lot of people didn’t trust entering credit cards on the web. I’m open to the possibility that in 10 years,