Andrew Wearring

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

I promise I'm not getting back on the Religital bandwagon, but couldn't not share this

Australia and NZ absolutely have that data in the census

Had to click in here to work out you weren't talking about the capital of the UK

A Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - Aftermath Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar...

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

Diagram of John of the Cross' ascent of Mt Carmel from (I think) his autograph manuscript

The original looks to be marginally less phallic: schoolofmary.org/the-drawing-...

That's your support support sandwich then

It's always been like this for the rest of us

When you see someone living your life 😭

Why would they crop that thumbnail THERE

SLIGHTLY

Magic Grange Hill

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group

1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

#MIFF2025
Shocking level of CO2 in Hoyts 6 as we await the start of ICE TOWER (good is 600-800 ppm)

Helpful MIFF staff have gone to see if Hoyts can do anything about the ventilation

So much rebreathed air in here!
#MaskOn #CleanIndoorAir

Queensland’s 'anti-social' housing policy is a disgraceful attack on homeless people

This policy will allow the government to purge waitlists, decrease “reported” homelessness figures, and allow them to spin the narrative that Queensland is managing the public housing crisis. The opposite is true.

Is God in the machine? - ABC listen Can we know God through machines?  Can machines know God?  And could machines, one day, become godlike themselves?  While AI is still in its infancy, it is evolving at lightning speed, and ingraini...

I had such an great conversation with three remarkable thinkers. Thank you to Sami Shah for asking some blisteringly difficult questions about the nature of God, whether AI can replace religious leaders, and if this technology signals the biblical end times. #AI
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Another thing to consider is sensitivity to sulphites, which are in lots of Vitamin C tablets (at least in Australia)

I know a *lot* of researchers who use Otter for transcription services. Hmmm...

A playable species book for d&d featuring NZ Aotearoa inspirations! So fun!

The Lord of the Rings Merry Brandybuck Deluxe Action Figure Complete the Fellowship! The final two members of the Fellowship of the Ring, formed in the first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, are Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck and Peregrin "Pippin" Took, and...

While you wait

I studied Buddhism intensely for a decade, and nothing immediately clears my mind of all grasping to thoughts or perceptions like someone trying to tell me the rules to a board game.

Picture of Marge Simpson holding a potato and saying 'I just think they're neat', except she's holding a cantaloupe

I can do this all day

Picture of Marge Simpson holding a potato and saying 'I just think they're neat', except she's holding a sphere

It is becoming easier to create AI avatars of the deceased − here is why Buddhism would caution against it A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.

Buddhist teachings caution against creating AI avatars of deceased loved ones.

The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.

theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...

Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers

"The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity." www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo... Hurray for "A.I."

Futurama (1937)

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models.

It's a major privacy violation.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

For STEM Professionals - Letters to a Pre-Scientist Pen Pal Program Overview We encourage STEM Professionals of all kinds to get involved with Letters to a Pre-Scientist! STEM professionals send and receive letters throughout a school year from ...

Do you work in STEM? Want to engage with the next generation of scientists? Become a pen-pal! Our office just shared this around, and I've signed up. Maybe you'd like to too.