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The vibe shift really is hard to wrap your head around. LLM chatbots existed for YEARS before ChatGPT. Companies didn’t want to release them publicly because they were worried that someone somewhere could coax them into saying something offensive.

Best form of lectio divina: reading the gospel with people who have memory loss. The woman I took Communion today GASPED when she heard what the robbers did in the story of the Good Samaritan, & sighed with relief at the end. She helps keep the scriptures fresh and surprising.

the best cure for writer’s block is to read something that makes you really mad

Louis Riel enters the chat.

It's kind of predictable that it would get defined down, but it's still wild that "AI Agent" went from meaning "AI that can act autonomously to achieve a goal by planning, executing and self-correcting when it makes mistakes" to "a wrapper that calls an LLM a bunch of times"

On this day in 1976, Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Old North Church in celebration of the Bicentennial. In a speech at the Old State House during her visit to Boston, the Queen said:

“If Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and other patriots could've known that one day a British monarch would stand behind the balcony of the Old State House from which the Declaration of Independence was first read to the people of Boston, and be greeted by the mayor and others...

...in such kind and generous words, well I think they would be extremely surprised. But perhaps they would have been pleased. Pleased to know that eventually we came together again as free peoples and friends and defended together the very ideals for which the...

...American Revolution was fought. At Old North Church last year, your President lit a third lantern dedicated to America’s third century of freedom and to renew faith in the American ideals. May its light never be dimmed.”

For those who may not be used to open and public church synods: it is expected that, for a named and counted vote like this, the bishops who voted No will be known and have to answer for it in their locales.

New for The Living Church: The trial of Bp. Stewart Ruch III begins Monday. He is the second ACNA bishop to be tried and will face charges involving alleged mishandling of sexual abuse disclosures & habitual promotion of abusive ministers in his diocese. livingchurch.org/news/news-epis…

Here's an informative article on Bishop Stewart Ruch's trial, and the Wall of Silence podcast also gets a mention. Thanks Arlie Coles!

This article provides helpful context and history.