The particular distrust required for constant AI detection deeply disturbs the trust that constitutes an effective student-teacher relationship. So as much as possible I take Lewis' approach. But students today see a choice between (hard) free work and no work. A far less staggering calculus is made

wood ducks are good ducks

The first risk of AI being speed is a profound insight, which is likely to be increasingly incomprehensible to many living in the world into which this document seeks to speak.

Of all the perfectly named characters in fiction, these are some of them: Clem Fandango Pizzarina Sbarro Nigel Tufnel Hazel Motes Kikini Bamalam Dr Spaceman

“It looks like your adblocker is attempting to interfere with the intended operation of this site” is the sort of thing that’s true for a website with the intended operation of showing me ads.

Who came out on top in the negotiations between President Trump and China's Xi Jinping? We asked four unvaccinated Buffalo Sabres fans who'd been ejected from an NHL playoff game.

Who would want to win like this? And having won like this, who will they be?

Saw Courtney Barnett in concert on Tuesday, the Buffalo Sabres in the 2nd round of the playoffs on Wednesday, and a whole host of neighbors at our food distribution event this morning. I am filled to the brim, and also quite tired.

"I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today will become like me, except for these chains." Paul's May Day prayer for the ruling class [Acts 26:29]

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Common knowledge that World Vision and some other orgs operate with extremely high overhead; a small fraction of donations make it to the field. I certainly did not know this: the first 6-12 months of that $39 donation covering nothing but the band/label/pRiVaTe EqUiTy(!!!) promoters’ fees.

So apparently a private equity firm has bought up the "public platforms" of Christian bands--in order to get the $$ they receive for promoting charities. And now there's a lawsuit involving a sex scandal and journalism religionnews.com/2026/04/29/n...

If there must be national anthems before games, let them all be the anthem of another country sung flawlessly by 19,000 Buffalonians.

The end of every two person sled ride down the hill

If Zadorov plays Tuesday the NHL Department of Player Safety should just close up shop.

If Zadorov plays Tuesday the NHL Department of Player Safety should just close up shop.

The joy does not fit in words of stopping on the way to preschool to look at birds. The 5yr old took the lead with a small pair of binoculars, while I IDed birds she didn't know and tried to just see what she saw. Geese are beautiful! Tadpoles are a thrill! Why is poop white??!?

I just got one that said I am getting a blood transfusion today

lunchtime walk and saw a house with a sabres flag next to a release the epstein files flag. will we live forever? signs are pointing to yes

Peter Sellers as 8 different guys wearing these in a corporate board meeting

The ESPN video of this is all over the place, obviously, but the MSG call from Dan Dunleavy and the crowd response from it is in the Sabres recap www.nhl.com/sabres/news/...

no idea how the sabres crowd pulled off a futbol crowd goal sound on a hockey goal but by god they did it on that third one

You will find our dried out husks underfoot on your own front steps when this is all over.

Seeing the AI Jesus image generate a much stronger response than any of the words said by this president to similar effect, Ellul's reflection on word, image, and propaganda in The Humiliation of the Word is probably a pertinent read this week.

I talked to so many different people today about so many different sorts of things. My exhausted introverted self needs a week in the woods.

THE HARROWING OF HELL HAS BEGUN! THE BUFFALO SABRES ARE FINALLY, OFFICIALLY, BACK IN THE PLAYOFFS!

Jesus' military chaplaincy consisted in being killed by soldiers and praying in their hearing, "forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."

I expected ctrl-v to produce a link to a nice dresser on fb marketplace, but it gave me the complete lyrics to No Sleep Till Brooklyn instead.

Now *that's* a movie that could save Hollywood

Walked out of the school and down the street to a house with a secret room that was a frequent last stop on the Underground Railroad before Canada. We also stopped by Niagara Falls a time or two, nbd. (Buffalo is the best.)

Brittany Howard should perform at all the awards ceremonies

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back. Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard.

This sounds like somebody who grew up rich trying to imagine what poor people sound like. We know how cash money works FAR BETTER than you do. You might know systems like stocks & IRAs & bonds & trust funds, but we do know cash money. We know SNAP doesn’t buy EVERYTHING at the grocery store.

Getting really sick of this shit.

There is an eastern fox squirrel nest in the tree right next to the great blue heron rookery, and it’s all just the greatest.

holy shit

The 2025-26 Buffalo Sabres are the greatest team in the history of sports

USAID managed funding of 35.4bn in 2024

The lack of extensive, limiting nuance in such passages in scripture is part of the scripture.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam spent 10 years in refugee camps before receiving his legal approval to join our community. He was here only weeks before police and immigration agents started to abuse him, which continued until he died. Vetted fundraiser for the family www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...

Starlings, blue jays, mourning doves, cardinals, white-throated sparrows, a song sparrow, eastern towhee, robins, juncos, and loads of grackles strutting all over the place. A bird feeder is a good lens onto the world.

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This is really good. Both at precisely naming many of the problems with the usa men’s hockey team this week, and at conveying honest responses to those issues from women professionally enmeshed in hockey (including men’s). Lots of nodding along to the first, and a clarifying listen with the second.

Firefox ai updates rolling out now. Easiest settings choice ever (and glad it is so easy to make this choice).

Sen. Marsha Blackburn just now.

Pray for God’s mercy, however thunderously it may arrive.

If you threaten to kill one person that’s a TOS violation. If you threaten to kill a million people that’s discourse.