[Warning: AI] [audio mp3="https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/files/2023/09/jesus-playing-electric-bass-at-the-sermon-on-the-mount-with-drums-by-john-bonham_092323.mp3"][/audio] And Jesus said, "upon this rock I shall roll." Prompt for both: Jesus playing electric bass…
From: Stderr
[Warning: AI] An apostle friend of mine made a fun suggestion: to use AI to illustrate a bible. A carefully…
From: Stderr
I was in high school when my sweetheart, Rachel, discovered Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roy [King Ubu] and started reading big…
From: Stderr
I feel kind of stupid. I didn't even think to ask for anything but music. Suddenly, this is interesting/huge. So…
From: Stderr
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From: Stderr
Yoram Bauman translates the basic principles of economics. I am skeptical of economics - if the science had any…
From: Stderr
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From: Great American Satan
I feel like I should probably talk about media monopolies more. The way corporations have managed to gain control of…
From: Oceanoxia
If you get the crawlies from microbiota, you may not want to look at this posting. Here's the prompt: /imagine…
From: Stderr
How do you go from viewing someone as malicious to seeing them as a person in pain? How do you…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[Warning: AI] [audio mp3="https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/files/2023/09/jesus-playing-electric-bass-at-the-sermon-on-the-mount-with-drums-by-john-bonham_092323.mp3"][/audio] And Jesus said, "upon this rock I shall roll." Prompt for both: Jesus playing electric bass…
From: Stderr
[Warning: AI] An apostle friend of mine made a fun suggestion: to use AI to illustrate a bible. A carefully…
From: Stderr
[Warning: This is not advocating violence.] [I can just say that, right?] "I call it a 'bloop gun'," said Phil,…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_71230" align="alignright" width="150"] But look at the craftsmanship, the beauty, the awesome skill in the work![/caption] Unbelievable. I can't…
From: Pharyngula
Oh god. Avi Loeb waxes philosophical, and he sounds like a crackpot theologian rather than a crackpot scientist. He wants…
From: Pharyngula
You know, all those tubes and oozing liquids, it's hard to know where my cerebrospinal fluid ends up. [caption id="attachment_71222"…
From: Pharyngula
Potholer54 has announced the first nominees for his annual Golden Crocoduck award. I don't think any of them deserve any…
From: Pharyngula
Have you heard about this latest loony claim that you don't need eyeglasses? It's all a scam by Big Opthalmology,…
From: Pharyngula
A basic observation about the internet is that there are differing accuracy standards in different contexts. For example, the accuracy…
From: A Trivial Knot
The USA has been one-upped. Our congress listened soberly as crackpots told them all about UFOs whizzing about through our…
From: Pharyngula
When the US Supreme Court in their Dobbs ruling in 2021 overturned its Roe v. Wade precedent and declared that…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Pharyngula
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From: Pharyngula
In all senses of the word. This has been a disease raging through certain people since at least the Gamergate…
From: Pharyngula
Yeah, it's hard to think of anything to add, so I'm just leaving the floor to Nebraska State Senator Hunt:…
From: Pervert Justice
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From: Mano Singham
Over the next few days, there will be little or no blog posts as I will be a little busy…
From: Mano Singham
I wonder if NSF regrets making their logo so prominent in these photos of the McMurdo research station in Antarctica.…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Great American Satan
I have been watching with astonishment the dogged efforts by Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain's football federation (RFEF), to…
From: Mano Singham
I am not a fan of American football but one nice tradition they have is that, at least at the…
From: Mano Singham
It is really starting to piss me off in no uncertain terms. I keep getting the same ad that I…
From: Affinity
In rugby, there is a style of game that is attractive to watch and that is where a team advances…
From: Mano Singham
Had a dream where a young lady janitor was trying to flirt with me because she was deformed and too…
From: Great American Satan
My trial policy of taking care of grading the instant everything is turned in is biting back today: the first…
From: Pharyngula
It's rather discouraging to wake up every morning to the news that old white men are pieces of shit, since…
From: Pharyngula
I feel kind of stupid. I didn't even think to ask for anything but music. Suddenly, this is interesting/huge. So…
From: Stderr
A Russian hacker group tried to obliterate Bolingbrook by filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint. The complaint falsely claimed…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Fiji caused a major upset at the World Cup being played in France when they defeated Australia 22-15 in their…
From: Mano Singham
Russell Brand's frantic fast-talking comedy never really appealed to me, but he seems to have found a new audience in…
From: Pharyngula
[Warning: AI] An apostle friend of mine made a fun suggestion: to use AI to illustrate a bible. A carefully…
From: Stderr
Tonight I went to the store with my husband and daughter, and while my husband was waiting for his allergy…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I never heard of him before, but suddenly my email is flooded with crap from him -- some troll probably…
From: Pharyngula
A new survey finds that nearly 70% of Americans believe in the existence of angels, more than believe in the…
From: Mano Singham
Over in Sweden, a storm has been brewing over the public burnings of the Koran and the Torah. Sweden is…
From: Mano Singham
Some Hindu groups in India are up in arms about a scene in the new film Oppenheimer, a biopic about…
From: Mano Singham
Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri. His art has a frisson of body horror that I appreciate, while wanting…
From: Stderr
The ubiquity of mobile phones has led to all manner of novel uses. The fact that each phone transmits data…
From: Mano Singham
When I was a young teenager, I would go to church with a friend who happened to be the pastor's…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Can you define love? It’s not tangible. Is it measurable in any way? How do you know you love someone…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It's a real shame. I used to watch Sabine Hossenfelder videos regularly -- she was explaining stuff far outside my…
From: Pharyngula
These days one does not hear many breathless reports of new NFTs (non-fungible tokens) being sold for huge amounts and…
From: Mano Singham
It's been a bit of a week, so I'm gonna punt this post, and leave you with Tier Zoo, and…
From: Oceanoxia
I can think of lots of candidates for the worst job humans could do. Commercial fishing is incredibly dangerous, and…
From: Pharyngula
The Neuralink Patient Registry is now open! You too can now apply to have a robot operate on your brain…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Affinity
I hate planned obsolescence. I hate it with the kind of burning passion that can only come from personal grievance,…
From: Oceanoxia
One of the biggest failures of capitalism, particularly the neoliberal version, is the simple fact that there is a lot…
From: Oceanoxia
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and nature to me was towering red cedar trees draped with moss, and…
From: Pharyngula
I know, I get complaints when I post spider photos here, but this one is just so pretty and the…
From: Pharyngula
Once again we are going through the shutdown brinkmanship, with the September 30 deadline for passing a bill that funds…
From: Mano Singham
Dr Ibram X. Kendi has a noble goal, combatting racism. To that end, he established a Center for Antiracist Research…
From: Pharyngula
Since Henry Ford was also a rich anti-Semitic Nazi sympathizer. [caption id="attachment_71214" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Ruben Bolling[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
Fat people have a hell of a time navigating the world. If they are out in public, they get stared…
From: Mano Singham
This past February, I gave an overview of how the government uses poverty to kill people, knowing that that's what…
From: Oceanoxia
I hate shopping. Whenever I go to a store, I tend to be overwhelmed by the variety before me and…
From: Mano Singham
There used to be a time in the not-too-distant past when describing Israel as an apartheid state because of the…
From: Mano Singham
This is the scenario, as I see it: A man is standing on a trolley track and the trolley is…
From: Stderr
I meant to write about the Maui fire around a month ago, but I got distracted by other things. That…
From: Oceanoxia
Leonard Bernstein had a wildly successful career as a conductor and composer who made it his mission to make classical…
From: Mano Singham
These days one does not hear many breathless reports of new NFTs (non-fungible tokens) being sold for huge amounts and…
From: Mano Singham
Once again we are going through the shutdown brinkmanship, with the September 30 deadline for passing a bill that funds…
From: Mano Singham
[Warning: This is not advocating violence.] [I can just say that, right?] "I call it a 'bloop gun'," said Phil,…
From: Stderr
As my American readers are no doubt aware, the "big three" auto companies have been refusing to negotiate with United…
From: Oceanoxia
Author Michael Wolff is known for his gossipy, lightly sourced books that dish insider dirt. The stories he relates are…
From: Mano Singham
I'm not going to mourn the demise of this organization, though: Project Veritas is dead. Dead, dead, dead. Project Veritas,…
From: Pharyngula
The indictments by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis against serial sex abuser Donald trump (SSAT) and eighteen others over…
From: Mano Singham
I hate planned obsolescence. I hate it with the kind of burning passion that can only come from personal grievance,…
From: Oceanoxia
When the US Supreme Court in their Dobbs ruling in 2021 overturned its Roe v. Wade precedent and declared that…
From: Mano Singham
One of the biggest failures of capitalism, particularly the neoliberal version, is the simple fact that there is a lot…
From: Oceanoxia