I’ve been doing a lot of chopping lately. I like to have an apple nearly every day with lunch. My teeth have been bothering me for a couple of months — not enough to schedule an emergency dentist visit — but it’s uncomfortable for me to bite into an apple. So I’ve been cutting the apple into bite-sized pieces. And even though I don’t cook, I’ve gotten great at chopping, and also pretty good at not slicing open a finger.
Last weekend I decided to once again migrate my Mastodon usage to my blog at mitchwagner.com, hosted by Micro.blog, as my only outpost on the Fediverse. Micro.blog seems to work pretty well for me as a Mastodon client, though it has not in the past.
However, I’d still like to be able to see other people’s boosts from Micro.blog — that is a feature that @manton has steadfastly resisted implementing.
Arrcus bets on a smarter network fabric for AI inference. The company’s new Inference Network Fabric aims to solve growing latency and performance challenges for telco, hyperscaler and large enterprise AI networks. My latest on Fierce Network.
I have been a professional writer for more than 40 years and I still can’t figure out affect vs. effect. I have to look them up every single time I use one of those words. It’s affecting my mental health. Or effecting.
“There is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism”
Talarico is a Texas state lawmaker studying to be a minister, who criticizes the Republican use of Christianity as a political weapon. Such politicization of Christianity both distorts politics and cheapens faith, he says. The true way to practice Christianity is simple but not easy, he says: it is to love your neighbor. Political positions should grow out of that to feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, and heal the sick. “[T]here is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism,” he told Colbert. “It is the worship of power in the name of Christ, and it is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth.”
