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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥
@shalhebetyah.bsky.social
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And I, shall I not have pity for Nineveh the great city, in which there are many more than one hundred twenty thousand human beings who do not know between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · Apr 23
I have a bunch of religious special interests, so if I followed you, that's probably why : )
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 2h
I have not mistaken your claim and I am not really trying to rebut it. I am discussing the topic you raised.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 2h
I profoundly dislike being deceived by webpages, posts, and videos that do everything in their power to convince me that a human wrote them when in fact there is no author. I have loved chatbots since I first wrote a Markov chain as a kid but I do not like being lied to over and over again.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 2h
An increasingly compsci-centric future is not going to work for all the autistics who yearn for the Dominican monastery any more than a monasticism-centric future would work for all the autistics in Silicon Valley or posting on LessWrong.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 2h
It's sorta like how for some autistic people, the best thing for their intellectual well-being and practical daily life is to go become a Dominican monk, for understandable reasons (highly systematic thinking, highly structured life). But for most autistic people that would absolutely suck.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 2h
Compsci has been very good, and I think will continue to get better, for some autistics. It's just autism can mean being allergic to many different things, including tools other autistics benefit from. The same thing that accommodates disability for one person may do the opposite for another.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3h
Autism (with level one support needs) can really go both ways. There's plenty of compsci and otherwise socially remunerated autism, but there are also plenty of non-remunerated variants, and even within compsci-focused autism, sometimes you end up with "I am allergic to anything but cLisp and BSD."
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 15h
Should not be surprising that I have a high Eucharistology.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 15h
Thinkpad my beloved *gnaws on the corner of the screen* *gnaws on the corner of the base* *gnaws on the charger brick* *gnaws on the CD drive* *puts the tip of the charger in my mouth like an IDIOT*
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 15h
I am not a toddler, but I find them very sympathetic. I also live my life with a constant preoccupation with what inanimate objects and/or arms of willing loved ones I can gnaw on to soothe the unending craving-to-bite.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you for saying this. This is a pleasant expression of appreciation and will make me think more about that term. Good posting.
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thebes @vgel.me · 1d
"claude, you're spiraling. use the skillful means skill."

You're absolutely right—I have been spiraling. Let me use Skillful Means.

> view(/mnt/skills/user/skillful_means/SKILL.md)
[file is empty]
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 1d
The American government, in an official capacity, appears to be invested in taunting Bluesky users. I do not think this is how a functional government acts.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 1d
I hate it when I close my eyes and am greeted to images scarcely distinguishable from AI. No more dreamslop.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 1d
How is this possible?
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 2d
Śakyamuni Buddha, as depicted in an illustration of the Lotus Sutra. He sits on a lotus cross-legged, all gold except for his dark hair, with pursed lips, one hand in his lap, and one palm extended.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d
This picture is kinda famous to me for being on the cover of Christine M. Korsgaard's book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to Other Animals."
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d
Sometimes I hear people who are not Buddhists claim that Buddhism is obviously true on several important points, and I assume what they mean is that elephants really do like seeking refuge in the Buddha.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d
You can make Christian theology work fine so long as you throw out the principle of non-contradiction and also the idea that Scripture intrinsically means anything. The only consequence is that you get hit with rocks until you die.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d
The rivers have lifted up, O Lord,
the rivers have lifted up their voice,
the rivers have lifted up in purity.
Even mightier than the roar of many waters
are the surgings of the sea.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d
It's weird how, if I get sad enough, it turns into mourning my friend who died tragically a few years ago, even if the cause of my sadness bears no resemblance to her.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d
Oh I watched that in order to bond with a friend (the other options were all several times longer). It is enjoyable! It being extremely 90's is mostly to its benefit, except for one episode with an extremely cursed transphobic moment in it.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d
The crazy thing is that God has absolutely unlimited attributes and God commits absolutely all of them in the service of loving my new friend, Spider Saved from Kitchen Sink.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 6d
You gotta be working seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, zero minutes an hour.
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 6d
BTW being magnanimous and kind and not envious or blustering or boastful and seeking not things of your own but tolerating and having faith in and hoping in and enduring all things is soooooooo cool maybe you should try it...
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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d
I really love this story and find it very moving on the relation of love and truth! And on American evangelicalism and on homophobia. If you have a moment you'd like to spend well, you should give it a read!
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