No, neither did Marcion’s scribes.

I’ve not seen Nolan’s Odyssey yet but if there’s not a foot fetish scene I’m gonna get the pliers and blowtorch out.

I’m gonna blame Adam just 'cause

Jacob has some good lore here

Did they run out of superheroes?

It’s a hellscape, I’ve decided to retreat to Dead or Alive wAIfu’s from the early 2000’s due to concerns about the appeal of novel secret agent sexy fish.

First they came for the women of insta with filters and I did not speak out, now they are coming for the sexy fish I will make my stand.

The witch hunt vibes seems apt, the maleficarum got really grim in the wake of the printing press and we’ve got new meme makers now and the pitchforks are being sharpened.

The article kinda hits it home, it’s generic hysterical slop and a solid treatment of the matter will likely be available to the public for £300 from an academic press in a year or three if they promise not to share it. Then an llm will eat it and I will be able to get a summary, mixed in with lemmy comments, for my daily token ration from China: the circle of life.

Afaiu it’s somewhat easier to wreck the book and one would imagine there’s a few books cutting about that whilst not yet fully digital are also not on the endangered species list.

Sharing the knowledge for the greater good is a no go I think, especially in the USA. Me or you can do it on slsk but if a rich corp tries to do it they’ll get shafted fast & hard and the massive academic presses will not tolerate upskilling the poor.

I don’t think they are devouring the Garima Gospels, Cuneiform tablets and deleting hieroglyphs from granite but the worry is if we don’t stop them now it’s a slippery slope and the VHS tapes will be next.

It was gonna be like Eden again for a while, and then the pirates moved in.

First it was just dubbing tapes but when they started to copy that floppy things got completely out of control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

Jesus being readied for the cross by the sinful woman seems kinda 4-6th century 50 Shades of Hyssop and worth a peek, Jacob of Serugh & co.

Hard to say if it was great skill or Jesus I suppose.

Tbf Donny out there dodging bullets

It’s more that the US is just drunk on ‘the bible’ which seems likely linked to the entire country being carpet bombed in little 66 book KJV’s as a social experiment around the 1800’s and they just can’t stop rewriting it as they need a constant flow of novel Jesuses. This week it’s Mundane Markan Jesus duct taped to some bits from the Pauline corpus for lolz, The Gospel of Bart Ehrman for the masses that stopped going to masses but still need to cling to a personal Jesus.

I don’t even think Bart’s aware of what’s he’s doing, it’s completely bizarre.

If you hear the meme ‘most scholars agree’ alongside some claim from the SBL, run for the hills.

fences are for weebs, walls are where it’s at

Remember thinking they were hitting some peak level of moron back with dubbya bush but I was just young and didn’t realize 'merica is just permanently a circus.

Seems a bit late now, making a novel country out of guns and KJV’s for lolz isn’t as funny once it escapes the lab.

We don’t have AI?

What year are you posting from?

It’s been an academic discipline since the 1950’s and a work in progress since at least Ada Lovelace.

Calling AI a scam for idiots is fair enough: but please include writing, machines and computers there too.

World class moron Linus Torvadls on the matter 14 July 2026:

"AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today."***

Breaking News: High failure rates reported in early stage Oldowan startups make millennials reconsider tool use.

This just seems like anti-computer evangelism from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and anti internet stuff in the 90’s, being repurposed.

I’m working with anti-Manichean attacks repurposing old anti-Marcionite attacks at the moment, same stuff.

Bronze tooling is more than fine to get stuff done.

yeah, it would be a large use of resources for not much gain

I think what the current LLM clusterfuck is showing is that our little world or copy left and copy right we duct taped together since the printing press is all a bit silly.

All time favs:

1912 Single Edge Ever Ready

1940’s Double Edge Style Gillette Superspeed

Solingen 6/8th hollow grind vintage straight & a hefty old Sheffield wedge-ish

I would like a kamisori one day but haven’t bought any shaving gear in maybe a decade or so now.

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I think yours is a Merkur 510c double edge safety raxor, not a model I’ve used but Merkur’s are awesome and I think I have DE Merkur head somewhere.

Perfect time for the diy sourdough meme to make a comeback.