Computational Psychonarratologist (I like stories), digital humanities, software engineer & researcher at BYU. Personal account. @CNarratology @Endless_Webdev
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It is amazing how much better (worlds apart, really) is the writing and emotional connection between CW's #SupermanAndLois and season 8 of #Flash. S3E1 of SaL showed several scenes of spousal connection, and people (teenage, divorce, grandparent/grandchild) dealing seeking
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"In facing the unexpected in my life, I have learned that being bound to the Savior Jesus Christ is life saving." - Brooke Robertson
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Advice to a daughter from pioneering philosopher and feminism founding mother Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley), born on this day in 1759 themarginalian.org/2019/08/2…
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Thoughts from me when I was in Grad School about Gaboon vipers and respecting spiritual danger orys.us/uM
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All this talk about #AI, making more present discussion of consciousness uploading and questions of redefining posterity and contribution to the world, this thought of AI as the next life form we deal with poses some interesting questions for #religion #salvation (1/2)
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
So true here on the #Fediverse. Solid advice for those starting out here. (1/2)
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A classic missionary scripture. In what sense are the proclaimers (Missionaries? Prophets? Teachers?) responsible for the blood of others? #Scripture #PersonalStudies #responsibility #BookOfMormon
ALT Jacob 1:19 And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking upon us the responsibility, answering the sins of the people upon our own heads if we did not teach them the word of God with all diligence; wherefore, by laboring with our might their blood might not come upon our garments; otherwise their blood would come upon our garments, and we would not be found spotless at the last day.
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I'm generally a believer in the ethics and moral virtue of #OpenSource #Information. But conversation on #AI has illuminated that while Heaven may have open information, Humanity has enough evil in it that open source might not be universally (1/2)
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The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get (1/3)
paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one (2/3)
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#NPR should run their own #Mastodon instance as should every other serious news outfit. This bullshit where supposedly serious news organizations should have to capitulate to the whims of some narcissistic billionaire or corrupt government is (1/2)
exactly why the reputation of #journalism everywhere has been dragged through the mud. You are all simply puppets if you cannot create, support and / or foster a framework that supports journalistic freedom and integrity.
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For a while now I have held the #OpenSource ideal to be an almost universal good. Recently I've encountered several respectable tech thinkers for whom open source is almost a second thought, and not desirable. Most recently the topic was on (1/2)
#OpenAI stuff. In general the worry seems to be that open sourcing is too much a tool for Bad Actors. Maybe they have a point? Is open sourcing only universally good in a universally good society?
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