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Pete Phillips

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I teach, research & write #DigitalTheology @ Spurgeons College, London (and NT & Gk…), supervise PG research & am a Methodist Minister West of London... Love tech & Bible, walking, reading/watching sci-fi, talking tech & theology...and my wonderful family

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Take note.

22.06.2025 10:47 — 👍 40687    🔁 13417    💬 911    📌 525

Selling Gaza to Kushner to develop into Dubai on the Med for billionaires to enjoy is absolute evil. It is Palestinian land.

05.02.2025 12:13 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Trump has no idea of international law, does he? It’s like we’re living in the era of empires! Nations stealing land from the poor, the other. No way.

05.02.2025 08:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sums it up nicely. #startrek

04.02.2025 21:54 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Special guest in the garden this morning.

04.02.2025 22:19 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You should read DeepSeek terms and conditions before you download the app:
-DeepSeek retains user data even after account is deleted
-The app has the right to monitor and process user inputs and outputs, including the collection of sensitive or strategic information.1/

29.01.2025 15:23 — 👍 1089    🔁 491    💬 157    📌 94

I get that DeepSeek is efficient. But there are lots of savings on accuracy in there. They add up. The Apple App version doesn’t know the day or that the US Presidential Election has happened. And it censors most stuff re Chinese government and 2017 information act which is the problem with TikTok

28.01.2025 11:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just an amazing front page!

28.01.2025 08:29 — 👍 55    🔁 15    💬 10    📌 3

Thus saving the planet…or killing it more slowly…

27.01.2025 23:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, DeepSeek will give us unreliable and biased answers even faster and with less energy consumption!

27.01.2025 23:11 — 👍 308    🔁 29    💬 13    📌 5
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Grocery prices will rise due to Republican policies.

“75% of immigrant farm workers didn’t show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new presidency.”

22.01.2025 17:19 — 👍 1129    🔁 466    💬 62    📌 40
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There is still humor in this world yet.

27.01.2025 22:55 — 👍 85    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 1

And finally DeepSeek doesn’t know that the Nov US Election has happened yet!!!

27.01.2025 23:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Deep seek promises it’s not spyware…almost…but note it works in China under the same rules as ByteDance. Therefore it prob is a form of spyware. Follow its guidance and don’t give it your data.

27.01.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can you get me a copy of the article on DeepSeek please?

27.01.2025 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What’s your take on DeepSeek?

27.01.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was it The Times or The Financial Times or The Indian Times

27.01.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I noticed that.

27.01.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t read the Times

27.01.2025 22:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Here look

27.01.2025 20:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DeepSeek is rather good. It can stimulate its reasoning. It knows that it doesn’t understand its own answers. I still fear it sends data to the Chinese government.

27.01.2025 20:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

27.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 6234    🔁 2397    💬 223    📌 736
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Holocaust Day Memorial

27.01.2025 20:02 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Indeed…a first century prophet wouldn’t get much of a look in - would need a few billion to get near a mike! But a 21st century incarnation of divinity…mmm…

27.01.2025 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What do you think? I think he would just for the potential to disrupt?

27.01.2025 08:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Picture of Jesus and caption what would Jesus Tweet

Picture of Jesus and caption what would Jesus Tweet

Early morning Radio interview on Premier Christian Radio exploring the shift to community notes from fact checking. Focused on love and care for those without voices. Our voices moderated by fruit of the Spirit not belligerence.

27.01.2025 08:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Prince Harry settles legal claim against Sun publisher NGN apologises to royal ‘for phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators’

The Sun and NGN have now admitted to doing abhorrent and illegal action.

They were out of control and ruined lives.

This is not acceptable...how can these people be allowed to get away with it?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

22.01.2025 11:21 — 👍 69    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 2
Let me assure those who might be concerned by my lack of hospitality that the president is always welcome to pray at St. John’s. In fact, we would have loved for him to address from the church our nation’s collective grief, anger and frustration. We would have stood by him had he called for swift justice for the killing of George Floyd. We would have added our voices had he asked for calm and the need to stop opportunistic looting and senseless destruction.
Instead, Mr. Trump used sacred symbols to cloak himself in the mantle of spiritual authority, while espousing positions antithetical to the Bible that he held in his hands. That’s why I drew the line, as did my colleague Archbishop Wilton Gregory when the very next day Mr. and Mrs. Trump made an unannounced visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine.
Had the president opened the Bible he was holding, he could have read passages calling on us to love God and our neighbor, to seek God in the face of strangers and even to love our enemies. He could have read exhortations calling us all to the highest standard of love, which is justice. He could have even recited texts that warn faith leaders like me about the sin of hypocrisy. Scripture is clear that God is not impressed by prayers unaccompanied by sustained efforts to create a more loving world. “Let justice roll down like waters,” God says through the prophet Amos, “and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

Let me assure those who might be concerned by my lack of hospitality that the president is always welcome to pray at St. John’s. In fact, we would have loved for him to address from the church our nation’s collective grief, anger and frustration. We would have stood by him had he called for swift justice for the killing of George Floyd. We would have added our voices had he asked for calm and the need to stop opportunistic looting and senseless destruction. Instead, Mr. Trump used sacred symbols to cloak himself in the mantle of spiritual authority, while espousing positions antithetical to the Bible that he held in his hands. That’s why I drew the line, as did my colleague Archbishop Wilton Gregory when the very next day Mr. and Mrs. Trump made an unannounced visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine. Had the president opened the Bible he was holding, he could have read passages calling on us to love God and our neighbor, to seek God in the face of strangers and even to love our enemies. He could have read exhortations calling us all to the highest standard of love, which is justice. He could have even recited texts that warn faith leaders like me about the sin of hypocrisy. Scripture is clear that God is not impressed by prayers unaccompanied by sustained efforts to create a more loving world. “Let justice roll down like waters,” God says through the prophet Amos, “and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

Worth revisiting: Bishop Budde on Trump‘s misuse of religion, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/trump-st-johns-church-protests.html

22.01.2025 11:22 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

22.01.2025 01:54 — 👍 118598    🔁 15606    💬 2631    📌 1171

Amazing sermon from the Bishop of Washington - but rather unhinged response from Trump’s supporters. She followed Jesus’ call for compassion and care for all people. In what way is that not God’s word?

22.01.2025 08:34 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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