Taking a play out of Reddit's recent book: hoard all the valuable insights, commentary, and data that your users provided you free of charge, to sell to the highest bidder for AI training, while blocking the most free and open way of following the topics/interests that those users love.

Forget the Terminator style deathbots, the biggest harm of AI has been all these sites walling up and locking people in/out.

Well, in a sense, there is one section where he does sort of hate figs:

12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it. -- Mark 11:12-14

Of course hating a fig tree for not having figs, espeically out of season, is a very superficial reading. Later it is explained as an illustrative spiritual lesson. What is the purpose/telos of a fig tree? To produce good fruit, which feeds the people. This is why fig trees are cultivated. At any moment, at any time, the "master" (God, fate, opportunity) may arrive, expecting to harvest what you have produced. If you have produced no "good fruit" in your life, you may wind up never getting the chance to flower ever again.

I suppose this lesson is a sort of reality check along the lines of the "to those who have much, more will be given; to those who have little, even that will be taken away" lessons. One who does good, produces lots of goodness by the workings of their life, will flower and blossom long and well. Those who produce rotten works, no good works, or a minuscule amount of "fruit" will only wither further. This tree, when called on, failed the test, and was thus cursed. We can read into this a lot about our own lives. Someday "Jesus" (death, judgement, the end, history, or Jesus himself if you believe it) will come for all of us. How will we account for what we've done? What will our legacy be once we have no more power to change, alter, or affect it? Will we be remembered as a tree that produced shade and fruit for the people in our lives, or as a scraggly old stump that sat there and did nothing but get in the way?

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Meanwhile, a prominent Danish Catholic told OSV News the country’s Church was also observing new signs of interest, but was also seeking to ensure converts properly understood Catholic teaching and were not merely making a “conservative, counter-cultural statement.”

It's understandably exciting that especially many young people are searching for meaning and re-discovering the religious heritage that built so much of their world and played a part in their nations' histories, but he brings up a good point: we've seen a number of people use this as a cover for re-inventing themselves with questionable true intentions. Milo Yiannopoulos comes to mind. It's good they are looking in the right places, but I wonder if it comes from a place of sincere interest. I hope they can take interest and find real answers and communities that can support them to become not just products of statements and slogans but real life change.

Fuck all those rules, just be kind”.

I'm not sure that's quite an accurate take:

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

-- Matthew 5:17-20

Do you keep all the lights and ornaments on it inside the bag?

Ringo is my new theme choice.

And that’s why I’m here on Lemmy

Does anyone else wonder if this might have been a genetically evolved skill for tribal societies? As in, an “outgoing” subset of the tribe hunted all day, returning to camp exhausted and ready for a full night’s sleep, while another subset found themselves activated and ready to keep vigil overnight (or some 1st watch staying up, others waking super early for last watch)? Like maybe having different mindsets like this kept the tribe healthy and protected. Safe from overnight surprise raids by rival tribes thanks to these night watchers and those traits continued being passed on among a subset of descendants as a successful adaptation.

I installed a third-party app to do just this. Great to see I can use this built-in method. Thanks!

I’d bet a lot of the valuable content that users freely gave to Reddit were from users who kept up with it all via RSS. Knocking them out of the picture, plus pissing off the old guard with the constant old Reddit removals, is going to shoot themselves in the foot. I’ve noticed a distinct lowering of quality and standards over there since the whole API mess when a lot of classic mods jumped ship over that choice. Seems like they’re well on their way to ruining what they had.

I just joined for that specific reason. I hope a decent mass of quality users jump ship too.