@LukeBrake

Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Sterling College. keywords: Christian; Rhetoric; Composition; Electracy Check out my blog: it's better.

 Sterling, KS
brake.tel/blog/
Joined June 2012
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mationicle@chicobionicleOct 8
Walked into a Papa John’s and they were playing Bionicle: The Mask of Light
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ClickHole
@ClickHoleOct 1
Pathetic!
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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 2
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Replying to @DiscussingFilm
This will be challenging for the actors to learn (and obviously require subtitles) but would be really cool if he pulls it off. If anyone can, it's Eggers
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The road to hell is paved with evil pavement
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What is happening in English departments right now should concern everyone. We are on the verge of dismantling anthropocentrism and according a mysterious form of pulsating subjecthood to material things. This research must stop until appropriate safeguards are in place
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Nathan Beacom@ZheschoolSep 1
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” -Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 | @nytimes
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I wrote about why I’m proud @TGC has drawn a line in the sand on AI usage in the writing we publish. In short: We don’t want AI’s tentacles on any of the written works we publish. thegospelcoalition.org/artic…

Our Line in the Sand on AI: TGC’s Missional Opportunity

TGC articles are human-made, human-edited, human-assessed, made in human community for other humans—as an act of love, fellowship, and worship. 

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This will include papers from @SterlingCLife's own Chair of Language and Literature, Dr. @LukeBrake and familiar IFF faces @GCSalter and Elizabeth Jennings, as well as a wonderful reflective paper from Dr. Wilhelm.
Sterling College C.S. Lewis Center@sclewiscenterMay 29
Today, at 3pm (CT) some of our presenters from our Spring conference will be reprising their papers for this encore event entitled "Sterling Treasure". All are welcome to join the zoom call whether you want to hear the papers again or for the first time! facebook.com/share/17RqbYY93…
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Neil Renic@NC_RenicMay 26
Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls
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Church coffee hour depends on complementarity. For the parents, an Apollonian hour of conversation and swapping prayer request. BECAUSE For the kids, a Dionysian hour of donuts, running around like dervishes, and screaming.
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We can solve the fertility crisis by showing people charts and then yelling at them for not having enough babies
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The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.
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Matthew Cole@mattbencoleMay 14
I barely survived “telling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,” I don’t think I can live through “telling writers they have to write is gatekeeping”
Josh Daws
@JoshDawsMay 13
💯A lot of AI hate is thinly veiled gatekeeping.
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carl 🥦@NightlifeMingusMay 14
the real question is how often in Nolan’s Odyssey we will see Matt Damon burn thigh bones wrapped in fat for the gods
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I guarantee you’re a better writer than ChatGPT. Never butcher your own writing or relinquish your own voice to put your name on the dead-eyed, mechanical hallucinations of a bunch of 1s and 0s. People who know good writing and AI have no trouble recognizing AI-generated garbage.
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Ron Iver@ronnui_May 7
Teaching a parrot Hey Soul Sister and releasing it back into the Amazon so all the creatures of the rainforest can hear it
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Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreyMay 8
We never needed blackboard or canva. And we could just stop using them and everything would be fine.
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Replying to @AnnaKateShelt @mattleeanderson @Justin_W_Earley @karabettis
Most people think sterilization is okay. But deep down they still think it’s… well, weird. I ask people to examine why sterilization makes us feel uncomfortable, suggesting it may be a hint at a deeper spiritual reality. @CTmagazine christianitytoday.com/2026/0…

What the Awkwardness of Sterilization Tells Us - Christianity Today

Our instinctive discomfort reveals something about the unnaturalness of these procedures.

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