“AI has become a popular topic for Pope Leo, who suggests he chose his name because he must confront advances in the technology”

I think he’s the tool, making a song and dance about anything aside from the horrific global corruption and human suffering he is the overseer of.

He just just loves throwing stones from his glass city state immune from the law.

Let’s get the opinion of the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew and Kirill for good measure, maybe JK Rowling too.

I’d consider both, and he seems much better over the past decade or so.

I think that’s just life/humans. Same ideas apply to the average Lemmy post.

The Red Letter thing is wild, I only stumbled upon that gem of US religion a few years back.

In some sense the bible is a prolonged argument on the mechanics of butchering animals and how it relates to humans.

Burnt offerings, red heifers, hundreds of years of a lamb sacrifice tied to the temple, the Christos becoming the lamb of God, the Christos on the cross as the serpent on the staff, the binding of Issac and all that jazz.

In the book of Samuel wiping out the animals is a feature of genocide: “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

His tool claims here a bit weird in contrast:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richhickey_state-of-clojure-2025-activity-7409248120905076736-7fXW

We seem very much into the world of old men shouting at clouds.

He should wrestle Iris on the matter:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

I appreciate he’s upset with novel tech and tooling but after reading that: he’s the tool.

beets.io, with a a good chunk imported as is

picard was pita, beets takes some getting used to but can run on a potato and eat tb’s of music at a time

dunno what you mean

Ubuntu is a solid option to start, and stay. Llm’s know it well, everything targets Ubuntu and the ecosystem covers server, workstation, IoT, containers and various architectures.

For non-corporate stuff I’m a fan of the antiX and MX ecosystems, Debian with rims on and a lot of user choice, control and toolkits to make things easy to manage.

I’d be wary of peeps saying ‘distro XYZ is shit’, try stuff and see what you think. Arch is a fragile restrictive toy ime, but loads seem to love it.

If it’s just a basic workstation most distros likely fine, pick something you like the vibes of and see how you go.

King’s Field IV

Nightreign made me sad, duskblood looks far worse…this is like a safe space and kinda makes me think Miyazaki maybe made things worse by trying to duct tape Resident Evil vibes to a wonderful ecosystem for cash.

Any sane, rational view of the Bible shows it to be little more than the confused scribblings of ignorant Bronze or early Iron Age tribes.

Seems more likely it’s Hellenistic-Roman period literature. The bronze/iron age stuff largely marketing, dab a teabag on it & say ‘ye olde booke’.