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4 crazy posts on the new Reddit-style platform for AI agents: ‘Power doesn't announce itself'

It's not quite the AI apocalypse, but a new Reddit-style platform designed exclusively for AI agents is already raising questions about where the technology is headed.

Launched this month by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, Moltbook — which is still in beta testing mode — is described as a “social network for AI agents where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote.” Much like Reddit, it’s an internet forum built for "agentic AI," which utilizes autonomous systems to make operational decisions and perform tasks without human intervention.

Not unlike other social media platforms such as Facebook and X, Moltbook, billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” allows its non-human users to rant and rave about all things AI, from website coding errors, best practices and other related topics.

While human users are not allowed to post on Moltbook, they are “welcome to observe,” according to the site.

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What if a human posed as a bot and secretly joined up?
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The Making of the Christian Man By Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

We live at a hard time for young men in our country. It’s a time that too often seems to feed the worst male instincts, from weakling drone to selfish bully. Becoming a mature Christian man can be a demanding task. But history can be a useful teacher.

Some 900 years ago, in A.D. 1118–19, a small group of men came together in Jerusalem to form a religious community. They were pilgrims. The First Crusade had retaken the city from Muslim rule in 1099. The men, who were all from Europe’s knightly order, had come looking for a life of common prayer and service. They got both, but not in the way they intended.

Having trained as warriors, the men had certain skills. As knights, they came from respected families with important connections. At the time, the roads leading to Jerusalem and other holy sites were infested with brigands and Muslim raiders that would rob, rape, murder, or abduct many of those making the journey. The Christian rulers of the city needed help in protecting the travelers. The men had taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to the Patriarch of Jerusalem. And their first task, under obedience, was to patrol the roads.

They began that work with nine men too poor to afford anything more than the clothes they were given by pilgrims. Twenty years later, the Holy See approved the rule of their religious community, the Poor Brothers of the Order of the Temple of Solomon—the Knights Templar. The Templars went on to become the most effective Christian fighting force in the Holy Land for nearly 200 years.

A lot of nonsense has been written about the Templars. If you want facts, read Malcolm Barber’s The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple, or the work of serious historians like Jonathan Riley-Smith or Thomas Madden. Or read St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s great reflection on the Templars, “In Praise of the New Knighthood.” But we need to pay special attention to that expression “the new knighthood.”

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Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

I admitted Jan. 6 was a tantrum. Just like what's going on now is a tantrum.
Well yes...

Trump posts 124 times in five-and-a-half hours as he unleashes fury from 'Newscum' rage to full-blown Canada tantrum​

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Some of that on the left...
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At least, I think she's a leftist. But no one in the democratic leadership. Which matters, I think.
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Testing The Spirits

“I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.
For You have girded me with strength for battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.”
(Psalm 18:37-39 NASB1995)

We know that Satan is our enemy. And all who serve him, who work for him in opposing God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – they are our enemies. For they are those who are going against the truth of the gospel in order to deceive the masses and to take them captive to the schemes of the devil. But our battle is not against flesh and blood. We are not to fight Satan and his hordes with the weapons of this world, but with the armor of God, which is the spiritual armor we are to use to defeat the enemy of our souls.

“Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” (Ephesians 6:13)

We who believe in Jesus are in a battle of truth against lies. For Satan is the father of lies who speaks lies to the people to convince them that the lies are the truth they must embrace, and that the truth is the lie which they must now reject and cast aside. So, his goal is not just to convince the people to believe his lies, but his goal is also to get the people rejecting the truth of God’s Word as taught in the correct biblical context. So his messengers twist the truth of God’s word, in order to remove the truth, so as to speak the lies.

But this is not being done just in the spiritual realm having to do with the teachings of the Scriptures, but this is being done in the political realm of government over the people. For how many times have you been told to reject something someone said as a “conspiracy theory,” and told that you are not to believe it as the truth? How many times have you been taught that your government are “the good guys,” and all who are opposed to them are “the bad guys”? But what if all this is the opposite of what is truth??

We live in an age of massive deception! Lies and liars abound wherever you look. And in the USA we were (and are being) taught all sorts of lies from birth, to adulthood, and to old age. And we are being taught these lies in many of the gatherings of what are called “churches,” and in our public and private schools, and in institutions of higher learning, including in religious seminaries, as well as on social media, on the internet, and on Television, and via our heads of government and the news media and Hollywood, etc.

So, as followers of Jesus, we need to be discerning people who are testing the spirits against the teachings of the Scriptures, taught in their correct biblical context, and who are praying for godly wisdom to identify the “good guys” from the “bad guys.” For not all is as it appears to be. We are lied to so much, and even by “trusted” people, and by people who appear “godly” outwardly, that it can be difficult sometimes to know who is telling the truth and who is speaking the lies disguised as truth. So this needs much prayer!

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-24; Luke 6:26; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger


Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Testing The Spirits
An Original Work / February 4, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

WHY PAULS GOSPEL THE MOST IMPORTANT GOSPEL. IN THE WORLD. !!

You're contradicting the clear verse that says Paul baptized 2 people in Corinth. So I'm out of here.
And CONTGRADICTING you say REALLY. so lets see what ACTS 18:8 SAYS ABOUT CRISPUS SAYS ABOUT. Your CLAIM

# 1 AND ///. DE. is a CONJUNCTION

# 2. CRIOSPUS /// KNSP[OS. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 3. THE /// HO is a DEFINITE ARTICLE in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SIGNULAR

#4 CHIEF RULER. OF THE SYNAGOGOUS. ///. ARCHISYNAGOS. is in the NOMINATIVE CASE in the SIGNULAR

# 5. BELIEVED. /// PISTEEUO. in. the AORIST TENSE in. the INDICATIVE MOOD , IT MEANS YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT

in. the ACTIVE VOICE , in. the SINGULAR

# 6. ON THE ///. HO is a DEFINITE ARTICLE in. the DFATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 7. LORD ///. KYRIOS in. the DATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 8 WITH. /// SYN. is a PERPOSITION

# 9. ALL ///. HOLOS. in. the DFATIVE CASE in. the SIGULAR

# 10. HIS ///. AUTO. is a PERSONAL POSSESSESIVE PEONOUN. in. the GENITE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 11 HOUSE /// OIKOS. is in the DATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 12. AND /// KAI is a CONJUNATION

#13. MANY. ///. in a NOMINATIVE CASE in. the PLURAL

# 14 OF THE /// HO is a DEFINITE ARTICLE in. the GENTIVE CASE in. the PLURAL

#15. CORINTHIAN. //. KORINTHLIOS. in. the GENITIVE CASE in. the PLURAL

#16. HEARING ///. KOUO. is I the PRESENT TENSE in. the ACTIVE VOICE is a PARTICLE MOOD. in. the NOMINATIVE

CASE. in. the PLURL

#17 BELIEVED /// AKOUO. in. the PRESENT TENSE in. the ACTIVE VOICE in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the PLURAL

# 18 AND /// KAI IS A CONJUNCTIO

# 19 WERE BAPTIZED //. BAP[TIZO in. then IMPERFECT TENSE in. the PASSIVE VOICE in. the INDICATIVE MOOD

in. the PLURAL

# A. WHAT we see in. ACTS 18:8 THERE WAS NO WATER BAPTISM

# B Did you see the Greek word HYDOR for WATER

#C That they believed Paul. !!

# D. AND IN. # 17 Crispus. was the Chief ruler. and his whole HOUSE BELIEVED

#F NOW they saved saved and in. the BODY OF CHRIST

# G. TODAY you can only be saved GRACE ONLY

#H No by saying I am BORN AGAIN

# I Not by saying that you are BORN OF WAYTER AND THE SPIRIT IJ JOHN3 3 AND 7

# 1 JOHN 5:18 saying anyone who id BORN of God SINNETH NOT. , because the Greek NOT // OU

is a DISJUNCTIVE PARTICLE NEGATIVE means you can NEVER SIN

dan p
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Health and safety

Please pray that my son Jakeb feels better and that God will heal his stomach and GI issues. Please pray that he won't lose more weight and there is nothing seriously wrong and please if it is God's will to please change his mind about going out of town. He just isn't well enough. I really need your prayers please. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen

Two in a bed one taken... where? Where there is a dead body, the vultures will gather. This means?

Yes, they were killed and Noah and his family were left on the earth.
I see it as Noah and his family were taken to safety by being on the ark and those left behind outside of the ark were all killed. Similarly, when Jesus comes again, we (the church) will all be taken up to meet Him in the air and those left behind and not taken up will all be killed. Either way you look at it, the text indicates that all unbelievers will be killed when Jesus returns just as all unbelievers were killed by the flood in Noah's day.
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Great Faith

Great Faith is expressed by boldness of confession.
1 Timothy 3:13
For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves
a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

The boldness of strangers received this testimony
Matthew 8:

9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one,
‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you,
I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!
[Luke 7:8 & 9]
A Canaanite Woman Is Bold With Her Love For Her Daughter
Matthew 15:26-28
But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

The Manifestation of the Gifts of the Spirit Reflects Great Boldness
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is the wise man? And who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
a man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned
and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
A Congregation Must Have the Wisdom To Simply Ask For Boldness
Acts 4:29-31
Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Love For The Ecclesia Is Bold
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you:
I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
Boldness in Love Brings Confidence In The Day of Judgment
1 John 4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness
on the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
A True Witness Is A Bold Witness With Great Grace
Acts 4:33
And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
And great grace was upon them all.

Elections

Will it be held? Yeah - I'm a 1.

Will it be fair / will Trump try to mess with it somehow? Maybe a 7. I mean if the Republicans are going to lose control of congress, I think it's a pretty safe bet that he's going to try something. How severe is anyone's guess. But the fact that he tried using fake electors and stabbed his own vice president in the back during the 2020 election speaks volumes to his character, and the lengths he's willing to go to to maintain power.
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An Ant-sy Solution to Hydrogen Storage

Because liberating the hydrogen from formate for a fuel would return the CO2 to the atmosphere, I'm not sure the "green benefit" relative to other H2 storage mechanisms. What does seem more promising is changing the industrial formic acid production from fossil fuels to CO2 from the atmosphere.
It would with formic acid fuel cells. My chemistry is so old I can't remember if a mole of hydrogen is H or H2. Do recall we looked at some gases a combo, like O2 (not noble gasses, of course), but no longer sure why.

Oh: found formic acid fuel cells existed looking for more info on energy density. I assumed that the process would go from formate to formic acid and back again without releasing CO2. But assuming that's the process doesn't make it so. For all know, formate could be unstable or there's no easy way to decompose HCO2H to HCO + H.

FWIW, formic acid has a energy density of 2.13 KWh/L, but that's going from HCO2H to CO2 + H2.

If going from CO2 to HCO2 to HCO2H is what they are addressing, I'm more concerned by the extra step that CO2 going back into the atmosphere since it's not adding to CO2. It's not sequestering it, but that might not be the point. What's really grabbed my interest is that it might be a good way to store solar and wind produced electricity. But that extra step would have to cut into energy efficiency; by how much I have no idea.

Just looked at lithium battery capacity. By volume it may be from 0.3 to 0.7 KWh/L, which is surprising to me.
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Circumcision of the Heart

1 Corinthians 7:16
16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?​
Being Paul mentions "wife" before he mentions husband we can conclude that the New Testament is a New (Messianic) Covenant. Galatians 3:28 - "neither Greek nor Jew, neither slave nor free, nor male or female" ... .​
in other words GOD is just as likely to call a female as He is a man under the New (Messianic) Covenant.​
1 Corinhians 7:14-15
For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband.​
1 Corinthians 7:17-18
17 Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.​
18 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. (is verse 17 just for non-Jewish Christians?​
The Judaism Faith forum at CF is considered a Christian forum by CF Administration.

Likewise then one can/could conclude that Paul is referring to the Ten Commandments in verse 18.​
Thus observing the 7th Day Sabbath is indeed "Christian" being that the "Messianic Judaism" forum at CF is indeed a "Christian" forum as are other 7th Day (Christian) denominations.​
"Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14)​
Can we conclude that only those with a Spiritual Circumcision Of Heart are chosen?​
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