Sunday

AI can be stupid.
KFC Germany issued an apology after a "semi-automated" push notification system promoted "tender cheese with crispy chicken" as a way to remember the anniversary of a Jewish massacre.
"It's memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!" the message said according to the BBC.

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“I don’t think the conflict will be resolved with Russia and Ukraine until Ukraine gets out of — until Putin gets out of Ukraine,” Biden said. “Anyway, you guys, I’m heading down to — first of all, going to Cairo for the environmental effort, then heading over to Colombia and then — I mean, Cambodia. I was thinking — I’m thinking the Western Hemisphere.”--Biden

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Of the hundreds of millions of Covid vaccine doses given in the U.S. since late 2020, there have been around 1,000 reports of vaccine-related myocarditis or pericarditis in children under age 18, primarily young males, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of those who developed the condition have fully recovered, although research so far has only looked at how well they're doing after several months.

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Sunday

Just when you're sailing along in the poetry and abstractions of the gospel, you get a gospel like this. Today's is a casual bible reader's nightmare--and a theologian's dream.

Starting with the prophecy of the destruction of the temple, Christ moves into the various enemies of the spirit from empires to families. He then discusses false prophets, using the word 'to deceive,' an active evil force. Then the faithful are promised torture and death--then promised not a hair of the faithful would die.

An embattled Christianity with the backdrop of the to-be-destroyed temple, life as a spiritual siege. A grim picture for The Children of Light.