Category: Digging for Courage

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What do you call a man who stands by while a handcuffed child is beaten?

“Security video from Walters’ home shows the 15-year-old boy kicking the trooper’s door about 8:30 p.m., then running away. According to the Delaware Department of Justice, after reviewing the security video, the trooper’s girlfriend called Walters at work and told him what had happened.”

“Deputy Attorney General Dan McBride said audio of that call makes it clear Walters knew his home had been pranked and that there was nobody trying to enter his home, that kids had kicked his door and there was no emergency.”

“Walters called in his girlfriends’ report as an “attempted home invasion,” which saw a swarm of police bearing dogs and long rifles, as well as a helicopter, descend on the area.”

Walters then pulls an uninvolved 17-year-old from his home and attacks him.

“…Walters also lied to investigators about using a police database to pull the teenager’s address. The boy had nothing to do with the prank, was held in custody for several hours…”

The manhunt, wasting tens of thousands of dollars of public assets, finds the 15-year-old culprit and Walters goes to the location where police have the child “under control.”

“He turned off his bodycam, but the camera stays on for 30 seconds after being turned off. Footage shows Walters going to the police cruiser, shouldering another officer aside and striking the kid.

The 15-year-old, who had a concussion and fractured eye socket that required 11 screws and a mesh to repair, remained unattended in the police SUV for nearly an hour, according to the teen’s attorney.”

Walters and his fellow officers go on to cover up their abuses.

It seems that only Walters has faced consequences.

This question is for the men who read this far: What do you call a man who stands by while a handcuffed child is beaten?

The officers who assisted in this assault are losers and pussies who don’t deserve the title of “man.” They are tools of a violent system. Their job has turned them into mindless enforcers with no intent “to protect and serve.”

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Where is the US Media?

At least 126 journalists have died in IDF attacks on Gaza.

Recently, Jeffrey Loffredo of The Grayzone was beaten and arrested at an Israeli checkpoint.

“The soldiers… illegally requested that the journalists hand in their phones, and when they refused, the soldiers pointed a gun at one of the journalists, hit him with their hands and the barrel of a gun, then dragged him out of the car and slammed him onto the concrete. When lying on the ground, they pointed 2 guns at his head. The rest of the journalists exited the car and the military raided it, confiscating phones, cameras, and personal items,” said @the_andrey_x.

This story is no where to be found in major US media outlets. The US State Department has also been silent.

The abuse that Israel is committing against journalists must be brought to light.

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I’m Not Afraid of Yoga

Anything can take you away from God, if you let it. Addiction is possession.

Nothing can take you away from God if you don’t allow it to do so.

I do take these things seriously. Jonathan Pageau is one of my favorite living thinkers and he disagrees with me, to an extent.

The key for me is ignorance. We are ignorant to the depth of meaning in Christian rituals, but that doesn’t mean that we are misusing them. It does mean that Christian rituals can be distorted to worship false gods. Just look at any church during playoffs.

Because these are meant to be spaces dedicated to the worship of God and emulation of Christ, I end up leaving as soon as there’s a celebration of  government holidays, local sports teams, or innumerable secular idols.

Whether it’s a jiu-jitsu, yoga, Lego, grocery, retail, museum, arboreteum, etc., etc…space, I know it wasn’t designed with God in mind and isn’t run with Christ at the center. That doesn’t make me fearful. I know God is in these spaces and my intention is to be aware of Him and and align my actions, words, and thoughts with His Will as closely as I am able.

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AI Ain’t Smart

I have very little direct experience with language modeling apps. My instincts quickly recognized that my interactions with this tech was damaging to my spirit. Since stepping back, I have learned a lot about  “Artificial Intelligence.” These Large Language Models (LLMs) aren’t the popularly understood “thinking” machines from movies and contemporary discourse. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is what the industry refers to when discussing a properly “thinking” machine. As far as I know, this does not yet exist. I use quotes around “thinking” because these engineers do not know what that word means. Philosophers have been wrestling with the concept of conciousness for as long as…well…we don’t know how long. The tech industry is investing a witheringly small amount of philosophical energy. I’m glad. I don’t want them to figure this out and I suspect that it is an impossible feat.

Back to LLMs. These are complex modelling programs, they do not value truth. Their job is to make the best guess at producing a result that pleases the user. It acquires from each question,  and “learns” to refine the language as you refine your inquiry.

It’s a very clever conman that gets the answers right most of the time.

It’s similar to the problem with tests. Being a good test taker doesn’t mean you have mastered the material, it means you have learned the game of the test. I was a smart kid, but I realized that once I mastered the concept of tests, I could turn down my brain power and coast through school.

LLMs are mastering the test, but they have no way to master the material.

“These models acquire predictive power regarding syntax, semantics, and ontologies inherent in human language corpora, but they also inherit inaccuracies and biases present in the data they are trained on.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

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Hunter, the Laptop, and Burisma

The Hunter laptop and Burisma stories were buried under pressure from the federal government. The motivation was to damage a sitting president, their chief executive, their boss.

They lied to sway an election. We are not living in a democracy. You can’t vote your way out of this.

Of the 50+ intelligence officials who made false statements about Russian disinformation, how many have seen consequences? Who in the Biden administration was fired for spreading propaganda?

Does any journalist care enough about freedom of the press to ask Harris about her level of knowledge and involvement?

Are you so afraid of Trump that you will back a regime that actively influences the press?

Taxpayer dollars are killing Ukrainians and Russians. Taxpayer dollars are flirting with nuclear war. What connection does the president’s family have to the Ukranian government? How do these relationships compromise American security?

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The Narrative Shifts

I’m only halfway through this interview with former CDC Chief Dr. Robert Redfield, but there are so many bombs dropped, it’s hard to believe this isn’t a bigger story right now.

Watch for:

1. There was never any evidence for the wet market hypothesis, but there was early evidence for the lab leak hypothesis.

2. Fauci’s focus was protecting “Science.” Redfield uses the phrase “lack of transparency” as a euphemism for “lying.”

3. Fauci influenced the change in the definition of “gain of function research” to get around Obama’s ban on such research.

4. The definition of vaccine was changed to fit a narrative.

5. Redfield disagreed with vaccine mandates.

There’s more, but I wish this doctor had been more vocal during the Lockdowns. Normalizing the point of view many of us had in 2020 is small solace. Cuomo and Redfield exhibit a minimal level of bravery in discussing these ideas in 2024.