Matthew McCleary

YouTube video by Pennyworth The Patriot (2000) Ending scene / New home

You know, using The Patriot to exclude new Americans is interesting when the not so subtle ending to the film was an open society that would not be based on blood and soil, or slavery.

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Today, the smart home died a little...

The second Tribune link works. Maybe something went wonky with my phone this morning. Thanks!

I do not have a subscription, but I whole agree from the preview to the post here.

I also think that many are not understanding (or perhaps valuing), that vulnerability needs a human response, and a peer response. Outsourcing mental health services to a bot is not the humanity we jdeserve and need.

Sam, just say you wanted nudies. We didn't need two paragraphs about mental health struggles.

Yesterday I received three(!) emails from Pearson trying to sell me AI ed tech that they marketed as explicitly "safe for students." They know this stuff is dangerous and are desperate to head off the criticisms.

Maybe you’re like me: you like the feel of a physical book, but other times you just want the comfort of your ebook reader. Then other times still, you want to hear the book.

These are books that are inexpensive, available in multiple formats, and are good reads. Buy multiple copies!

Christian philanthropy and mission work is well-known. And yet there is still such a disconnect in the laity doing this in their daily lives.

I love when religious leaders really hone in on tangible ways to help their fellow man.

Dear God, they really are trying to shove this stuff down our throats.

At first I was heartened to see that the number of youth suicides decreased in North Dakota from a recent high in 2023.

Then I saw it was 2025 (still going on), and the number increased by 3 since the data was last pulled.

a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod ALT: a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod

Robert Redford was known for many roles, but my Dad and I bonded over his love of Jeremiah Johnson.

YouTube video by IGN Cast n Chill: Autumnwood Lake - Official Launch Trailer

I just saw this ad and thought of this post. It’s giving David M Perry: The Video Game vibes.

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Jaffa kind of liked to arrange people in his interpretation of a Straussian morality play, didn't he.

Thin isn’t that important!

Watched a guy try to get into the wrong white truck that was next to his. I then proceeded to move toward the wrong black truck that was nearest the black truck I was traveling in.

Jonathon Haidt’s The Anxious Generation is causing actual harm to kids with disabilities in the classroom.

For all the whining about "luddites" rejecting A.I. there's still tech that makes sense. Even if this doesn't work perfectly, it's an obviously good idea that takes a GOOD sci-fi premise (the universal translator/babelfish) and tries to make it a reality.

Why? If you want crap, you should get that smelly turd.

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Thanks to an old rec from @sonnybunch.bsky.social I’m finally taking the plunge.

Sony BDP-S6700 blu-ray player with region free modifications from 220 electronics. Can upscale to 4k.

Already have the Oppo UDP-203, so not concerned about the lack of UHD.
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"He added that “the tech bull cycle will be well intact at least for another 2-3 years given the trillions being spent on AI.”

They must will their revolution on the rest of us.

"The masses are too stupid to appreciate this thing that doesn't work but makes rich so I need to promote breeding a superior race of people who appreciate me."

...this might be peak eugenics. Galton, Davenport, and Günther are laughing uproariously in Hell because they know now that they won.

The problem is that baby CEOs learn what to do by modelling and copying the behaviour of older CEOs.

Elon Musk has been making outlandish and overhyped statements about space that don’t materialise for a decade plus, and now he’s the world’s richest man, so that’s what his younger peers do now…

They have created a technology that isn't capable of doing what they want it to do (to functionally destroy humanity), and then have gone to the tired, hubristic folly of trying to play god with humanity and eliminate the "undesirables" to prevent AI from doing what it can't

Dunning-Kruger effect.

Not only is such conduct desirable in its own right, it appears now to be necessary if large improvements are to be made in those matters we consider problems: schooling welfare, crime, and public finance."-James Q Wilson, "The Rediscovery of Character: Private Virtue and Public Policy"
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"The essential first step is to acknowledge that at root, in almost every area of important public concern, we are seeking to induce persons to act virtuously, whether as schoolchildren, applicants for public assistance, would-be lawbreakers, or voters and public officials. /2

While some people in power are referencing Broken Windows to justify current activities, maybe it would do some amount of good for public officials to actually read some of the words of one of its chief formulators, James Q Wilson. /1

Want to see billboards in every major city that just say

'Power Bill Too High? Thank "Generative AI"' and then a link to a website all about "AI" and data center energy and water use

Sam Altman @sama someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want. this is a very remarkable thing.

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

Everybody knows Mary Shelley invented modern science fiction with FRANKENSTEIN.

But did you know that, exactly 200 years ago, she was writing one of the first dystopian novels, THE LAST MAN, about a plague outbreak in the 21st century?

Now you do!

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