Saturday Misadventures

Lately a lot of regular commenters have been getting their comments thrown into the spam brig unnecessarily. Late yesterday I activated a script that will automatically remove messages from the spam bin within a minute of them being posted. If your comments do not show up after sending them, just …

Saturday Misadventures

It’s Saturday, so we’re going to throw off precision and accuracy and just wildly speculate and completely make stuff up. You’ve been warned. After the Professor posted serious research indicating that opposites do not attract, I asked ChatGPT to summarize the research on marital relationships and introversion and extroversion. Here …

Saturday Misadventures

I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate a table for me without explaining why I wanted it: Now, guess what it said. It refused to do it. For ideological reasons. I’m actually thankful, because I could not have come up with a better real-life example of blankslatism if I had tried. …

Saturday Misadventures

As regular readers know, one former commenter believes that the Pericope Adulterae—found in John 7:53–8:11—is an abomination that is behind modern “feminist goddess worship” in the church. I asked ChatGPT to generate an historically accurate visual image of the scene. Turns out, he might have a point.

A Flag Of Truce

I usually don’t post on a Saturday. But, last week I wrote “A Flag of Truce,” offering the olive branch to Ed Hurst. I didn’t hear from him, but for this Saturday, I thought I’d do the same for Catacomb Resident as well. In “A New Commandment,” I responded to …

A Flag of Truce

I don’t normally post on the weekend, but I had a few thoughts that might be worth pondering for a day or two. Consider it a white flag of truce, a ceasefire, or an olive branch. One of the things I find really odd with Radix Fidem and its supporters …