#motive — Public Fediverse posts

The Hidden Engine: Incentives Drive American History

https://simplebender.com/2026/08/01/the-hidden-engine-incentives-drive-american-history/

…For example, the Book of Genesis likely had four [groups of] authors -- the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly source -- writing between 900-500 BCE, and none of those is likely to have included Moses or Aaron, who are estimated to have lived around the 1200s BCE, if they existed at all.

#judaism #genesis #bookofgenesis #author #authorship #attribution #identity #moses #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith

From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.

#science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief

Ich höre gerade die Soziologie Keynote vom #39C3 von Marco Wähner zu dezentralen Netzwerken nach.

Er greift das Problem auf, dass die Infrastruktur sich nicht selbst (monetär) trägt. Seiner Einschätzung nach unterliegen dezentrale Netzwerke den 3 Bedingungen #Vertrauen, #Motive​n und Praxen der #Selbstverwaltung.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-auf-die-dauer-hilft-nur-power-herausforderungen-fur-dezentrale-netzwerke-aus-sicht-der-soziologie

Marco #Wähner - Auf die Dauer hilft nur Power: Dezentrale Netzwerke aus Sicht der Soziologie

#Soziologie #Netzwerk #Dezentral #Fediverse

Nostalgic vibes.

#Austin #Motive #Texas

A quotation from Brennan Manning

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works

6 Ways to Discover Your Character’s Greatest Fear

From KMW: One of the juiciest tension points in a character’s arc is the question: What is your character’s greatest fear? This question isn’t (explicitly) about what characters say they want or what stands in their way externally. Rather, the answer we’re hunting for is the deeper fear lurking underneath. Very often, that fear is […]
The post 6 Ways to Discover Your Character’s Greatest Fear appeared first on Helping Writers Become Authors.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/characters-greatest-fear/

#Characters #Backstory #characters #ghost #motive

*Did you ever actually contemplate the ongoing Russian sabotage attacks in Europe? How could they not lick their chops about shattering big plates of NVIDIA glass inside AI data-centers #means #motive #opportunity #asymmetric en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian...

Russian sabotage operations in...

@renardboy Yes, but THEIR whole other #motive & logic is to use machines to pen people in - never really to argue it out realistically about #pros and #cons. They're way..

A kind of #checkmate in the end but less and less choice or logic incrementally...

And more and more #Tech developed by the same like-minded profit-finders - good for #German style #efficiency to process the sheep / humans with less and less basic #choice / #logic and more an more #containers of fast / #hidden #machinery.

Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

@Nonilex

"During FBI interviews, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible #motive for bombs placed near the DNC & RNC headquarters."

'motive'?

He's apparently black

What more "motive" does #KashPatel and the #Trump #FBI need to bust the guy?

#Law #Criminal #Trump #StochasticTerrorism #Incitement #NotAllSpeechIsFree

Another victim of Trump’s #BigLie, who potentially could have killed hundreds.

Accused #DC pipe bomber told #FBI he believed the #2020election was stolen

During FBI interviews, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible #motive for bombs placed near the DNC & RNC headquarters.

#law #criminal #Trump #StochasticTerrorism #incitement #NotAllSpeechIsFree
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/accused-pipe-bomber-made-statements

Der US-Plan zur Beendigung von Russlands Angriffskrieg setzt die Ukraine unter Druck. Warum tut Trump das? Seine möglichen Motive.

Der US -Plan zur Beendigung von Russlands Angriffskrieg setzt die Ukraine unter Druck. Warum tut Trump das? Seine möglichen Motive.#WDR #DonaldTrump #Friedensplan #Ukraine #Russland #Angriffskrieg #Motive #Motivation #Interessen #NRW
US-Plan für die Ukraine: Welche Motive spielen bei Trump eine Rolle?

While many self-styled pundits race to attribute coherent “motives” to #massshooters and thus score some cheap political and ideological points, the idea of #motive might not be a very useful or relevant one in many #massshootings, as I argued last year. doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-...

The Killer’s “Motive”: Examini...

@Linuxkumpel

Welche #Motive sollen da sein? Bin selbst relativ neu bei #Linux. Vorher jahrelang. #Win7. Durch #TotalCrash gezwungen zu Umstieg. Bin immer noch am #Lernen. Trainiert die #GehirnZellen !

🆕Battlefield 6 na oficjalnym zwiastunie!
➡️https://rootblog.pl/battlefield-6-na-oficjalnym-zwiastunie/

#Battlefield #Battlefield6 #BattlefieldLabs #BattlefieldStudios #BF #BF6 #CriterionGames #DICE #EA #ElectronicArts #Motive #RippleEffect

Ben Shapiro Gets OBLITERATED by Neil deGrasse Tyson Over Transgenderism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Wyke5e4iA

Neil deGrasse Tyson goes head-to-head with Ben Shapiro in a fiery clash over trans rights, science, and freedom. Tyson dismantles Shapiro’s arguments with calm logic and powerful insights…

#NeilDeGrasseTyson #BenShapiro #Freedom #Science #ScienceAsACudgel #FreeCountry #Motive #DestroyingRights #Fascism #HumanRights #CivilRights #Transgender #Transgenderism #Sports #GenderSpectrum

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
 
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76086/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #LesMiserables #answer #because #motivation #motive #reason #reply #response #retort

Reebok Motive Smartwatch Goes Official At RM299 #motive #reebok #smartwatch #smartwatches #wearables

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/344932/reebok-motive/

#foto #fotografieren #mywork #Fotografie #Photography #Katzen #Cat

#TousledCraneonTour

#CatContent

Ich habe mir gedacht, da ihr nach 5 Jahren mein #Fahrrad in- und auswendig kennt, verlege ich mich mal auf etwas wirklich Seltenes:

#Katzenbilder

Aber…

… ihr wisst ja auch: bewegte #Motive sind nicht so meins.

Ich überlege es mir dann doch noch einmal.

Bleibt senkrecht und gesund!

#foto #fotografieren #mywork #Fotografie #Photography 'Katze #Cat

#TousledCraneonTour

#CatContent

Ich habe mir gedacht, da ihr nach 5 Jahren mein #Fahrrad in- und auswendig kennt, verlege ich mich mal auf etwas wirklich Seltenes:

#Katzenbilder

Aber…

… ihr wisst ja auch: bewegte #Motive sind nicht so meins.

Ich überlege es mir dann doch noch einmal.

Bleibt senkrecht und gesund!