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Had this article shared with me today: fortune.com/2025/02/11/ai-impa

I went through an array of #emotions. At first, I found it #awkward and #discomforting. I made jokes:

Wait, you mean people aren't thinking #critically and growing #cognitively because the #digitalization of the world is doing it for them....and it's making them (gasps) #dumber!!?? #AI is making it worse?? Is this #Idiocracy? 👀 😞 Am I being #punked right now!? Where's Ashton and the cameras! 📹

Then, I had a deep #selfrealization:

Jokes aside - This is a #sensitive topic for me. I talk about it in my closest circle too often. Unfortunately, I have a front seat to the steep cognitive #decline of some close #friends and #family members for years now, and it makes me sad - not because of disease or "old age", simply because of too much screen time and no new cognitive #stimulation. I see too many people purposefully avoiding nearly anything #cerebral, if they even approach them at all. I have many days where I wish the #Internet didn't exist - for a multitude of reasons, but this is a big one. I'm not trying to be "old fashioned" or #sarcastic, I'm just #disappointed in how we #humanz have grown to depend on #technology as a #crutch, rather than using it as the #tool it was invented to be. As the article eludes to, these technologies are supposed to #complement human #evolution, not #supplement it.

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Fortune · As Silicon Valley and the Trump administration push AI, a new Microsoft studied warns what it could do to our brainsBy Chloe Berger

We saw something low in the sky to the south this evening at dusk in San Jose. It took a moment to realize it was a launch from Vandenburg that had just gone through staging.

I was tickled to realize I had seen my first space launch with my own eyes, but then disappointed that it was probably a StarLink launch by SpaceX ☹️

Small #protest (sorry, no pics) on my small campus in a small blue town in a red district. About 50-100 students, half a dozen older people (the usual suspects who went to protests in 2016-2020), and... that's it.

Over 5,000 people on this campus. 500 or so faculty. I was the only faculty member there. Everyone else says the right things: oh, yes, yes, we support #DEI and Trump is doing terrible, terrible things [solemn head nod]. And some of those people are quick to imply that other faculty are failing their disabled, LGBTQIA+, Black, Native American, Hispanic, Asian, etc. students if they can get a "gotcha" in group meetings to score points, but actually show up at a protest? Everyone is suddenly busy.

It's been the same for a decade: protests about Trump's actions in the first administration, about funding inequalities for our school, and actually about the possibility of *shutting down programs with the threat of closing the school*... I think a max of 50 faculty showed up to even that. Usually it's more like 10 or 20, and that's if the union sends multiple emails.

When I wonder if we're fucked, I worry very deeply that these experiences are my answer.

Just watched Star Trek: Section 31 and was hoping for something amazing.

Thought we'd finally get a deep dive into them, but nope, barely any action, lacklustre acting, and overall disappointing.

If you ask me, I wouldn't recommend it.

But if you've seen it, what do you think? Did it meet your expectations or let you down, too? 🚀🤔

🌏🌐🛐💁🏽*DEAR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY PLEASE Fill my heart with peace!*& contentment!*According to Your Word!*I know I have purpose!*I am loved!*& I am noticed by You Almighty God!*Who hears our cries!*even those without tears!*You are more than enough!*& my significance isn’t measured by how many people I have around me but by Who You are in my life!

🌐🌏🙏💁🏿*I pray all these things in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!

🌐🌏🙏🏿*Amen!💫

🌐🌏🛐🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻🤍💁🏼*A PRAYER For ALL Those Alone At the Holiday Times FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER!*& EITHER PHYSICALLY!*& OR MENTALLY!👉

🌏🌐🛐💁🏽*DEAR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY PLEASE Fill my heart with peace!*& contentment!*According to Your Word!*I know I have purpose!*I am loved!*& I am noticed by You Almighty God!*Who hears our cries!*even those without tears!*You are more than enough!*& my significance isn’t measured by how many people I have around me but by Who You👉

🌐🌏🛐🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻🤍💁🏼*I AM SHARING A PRAYER For ALL Those whom Re Alone At the Holiday Times FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER!*& EITHER PHYSICALLY!*& OR MENTALLY!👉

🌏🌐🙏🏻🙏🏿🙏🛐🙏*DEAR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY PLEASE Draw very close we pray!*to those that are alone!*& lonely over this holiday time!*May they discover closeness in their relationship with You that perhaps they did not enjoy before👉

Source: prayer.knowing-jesus.com/praye

🌐🌏🛐🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻🤍💁🏼*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD I AM SHARING A PRAYER For ALL Those Alone At the Holiday Times FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER!*& EITHER PHYSICALLY!*& OR MENTALLY!👉

🌐🌏🧡🛐*Dear Heavenly Father!*the holiday season can be quite a trial!*& even a deep sadness to many people!*especially those that are alone at this time!*perhaps having lost a loved one through death!*or divorce!*or for some other reason!👉

Variety: Disney Cuts Trans Storyline From Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Series: ‘Many Parents Would Prefer to Discuss Certain Subjects on Their Own Terms’

hmmm... what if we replaced "Trans" with "Interracial" or a "non-Christian religion"...

And what about parents that want their kids to see a Trans storyline, they don't get the choice.

This is the second Trans storyline cut from a Disney show, since they pulled a Moon Girl episode too.

#Disappointed
#Trans
#Disney

variety.com/2024/tv/news/disne

pixar win or lose
Variety · Disney Cuts Trans Storyline From Pixar's 'Win or Lose' SeriesBy Selome Hailu