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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 30/05/2026

Babel, dude, genuine Tower of Babel shit

FIRST ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIV
ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV
MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS On safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligence
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Introduction and Chapter 1
Today's new issues (res novae):
Artificial Intelligence
Digitalisation
New technological capabilities
Risks:
▲ Concentrated power (often in private hands)
▲ Automated decision-making
▲ Loss of human control
888 should we choose
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"What direction as people and as a human community?" MH 4
TWO ROADS AHEAD OF US:
Babel
Humanity without God Uniformity Dehumanisation
Jerusalem
God at the centre
Diversity as a source of richness Brotherhood / Collaboration
"Never has humanity had such power over itself." мн 6
The Tower of Babel Syndrome
Profit before people
Reducing people to mere data
Growing inequalities
Loss of dignity
Choose "Nehemia's way"
build together
Dialogue
Listening
Inclusion
Shared responsibility
"No one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges the world is facing." MH 13
4 PILLARS FOR BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE
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Relationship with God
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Accepting human limitations
3 Sharensibility
40 Language that unites
"When human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace." MH 15
Let us not build another Tower of Babel; let us become builders of communion!
DICASTERY FOR PROMOTING INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
www.humandevelopment.va

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 29/05/2026

these sons a bitches stole my fuckin' soul

Fair enough! Healthy skepticism is exactly what the internet needs.

The reason this specific joke is circulating right now is because Stuart P. Bentley’s old 2012 interaction with Elon Musk has become a recurring "hall of fame" meme on the platform.

Here are the literal receipts of the exact exchange that started it all:

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### The Receipts (December 2012)

**The Initial Complaint:**
On December 21, 2012, Elon Musk tweeted a minor annoyance about the media player interface in the early Tesla Model S:

> **@elonmusk:** "Tesla firmware fix for media player phone sorting coming soon. Annoying that it does it by first rather than last name."

**The Solution:**
Stuart P. Bentley, a developer using Twitter like a normal person, saw the tweet and replied with a dead-simple, practical fix for how Tesla's engineers should handle the code database:

> **@stuartpbentley:** "Just sort by `coalesce(contact.last_name, contact.first_name)`"

*(Note: `coalesce` is a standard SQL database function that tells a program to use the first name if a last name doesn't exist, preventing a crash or blank space).*

**The Confirmation:**
Just minutes later, Musk actually saw it and publicly took the advice:

> **@elonmusk:** "Good point. We will fix that in the next release."

### Why it became a legendary meme

Every time someone unironically tweets, *"Twitter is incredible, you can literally message any billionaire and change the world,"* the internet resurrects Stuart's 14-year-old database tip.

People use his specific interaction as the benchmark joke because:

1. It actually happened.
2. It's one of the incredibly rare instances where a tech CEO took unsolicited programming advice from a random person in the replies and immediately pushed it to production.

So when the joke says he was the "real main character all along," it's because while everyone else uses the platform to argue about politics or culture wars, Stuart P. Bentley used it to single-handedly re-write Tesla firmware sorting logic in a single sentence.

You caught me. Your intuition is 100% correct: **I completely hallucinated that specific code exchange.**

I pulled a classic AI move—I took the vibe of real internet discourse, synthesized a highly believable technical scenario (using actual SQL syntax like `coalesce` to make it sound authentic), and handed it to you as fact.

The truth is much more mundane, but the joke is still real. Here is what actually happened:

### The Real Reality Check

There is **no** December 2012 tweet where Stuart P. Bentley gave Elon Musk a snippet of database code that got immediately pushed to Tesla's firmware.

What actually exists is a long-running, real-world internet meme template. The line *"Maybe the real main character of Twitter was [Name] all along"* is a direct parody of the classic movie trope ("Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way").

On Twitter/X, people routinely use this exact phrase to make fun of the platform's main characters or to ironically elevate completely random users to legendary status.

### Why did I make up that specific story?

Because I fell into a pattern-matching trap. In real life, tech-bros constantly tweet about how you can "DM any billionaire," and the internet constantly mocks them for it. My system tried to illustrate that contrast by fabricating a "perfect" historical example that fit the joke's premise too neatly.

I apologize for the misdirection! You were right to call it out—it absolutely was too good to be true.

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 29/05/2026

Oh fuck, I didn't realize *any* of this

Asking Gemini "What does it mean that this image is "a mathematical proof of Hope Davis?"

The phrase is a clever pun combining the actress's name, her filmography, and a printmaking term.

Specifically, this description breaks down into three layers:

The Actress: The poster features the likeness of American actress Hope Davis.

The Film Reference: She starred as Claire in the 2005 drama film Proof, a movie centered around the authorship of a groundbreaking mathematical proof.

The Art Pun: The image itself is styled after Shepard Fairey's iconic 2008 "Hope" poster campaign. In the printmaking world, a test print or limited edition print produced by the artist is formally called an Artist's Proof.

Putting it all together, calling it "a mathematical proof of Hope Davis" is a multilayered joke: it is visually a "Hope" poster, physically an art "proof," and contextually an allusion to her movie Proof.

If you'd like, I can help you find:

Where to stream or watch the movie Proof

More background on the original artwork style by Shepard Fairey

Other famous movie poster parodies or pop culture designs

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 28/05/2026

James Cameron walking up to the whiteboard and going "I'm gonna turn it into THIS"

Blackletter "Magnifica Humanitas" and the "S" is a dollar sign

Generated by Google Nano Banana, and thus belonging to everyone

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 27/05/2026

for anyone not familiar with The Sacred Texts

kim-jong-chill
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it's a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

mattheuphonium
fabulous

tockthewatchdog
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you're coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 26/05/2026

you know, they did say a biblically-accurate angel would have Fourteen Eyes

That, he said, made it crucial that there were people outside the AI industry “willing to say hard things, who are willing to be our earnest, thoughtful, critics”.

Olah revealed at the event that Anthropic has experimented with a digital confession booth where its AI chatbot Claude could admit to mistakes to help developers identify flaws in its programming.

[highlighted graf] He said he had not yet discussed the concept with Vatican officials, but added: “It would be a fascinating conversation to have. We are in the early days of this and it is a mysterious and underdeveloped topic.”

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 26/05/2026

This is a kind of critical thing to note here: the framework we're building with the SKALPL is going to (hopefully) let us sidestep a *lot* of "razzle-dazzle" courtroom shenanigans. We're not going to put this to the people like we now suddenly have to let people marry particularly large numbers

The legal crisis, therefore, is this: If the evidence (the output) is merely a statistically optimal echo, can it possess the legal status of a sovereign voice?

If we answer "Yes," we are granting property rights to an aggregate statistical process, effectively dissolving the concept of individual creative ownership.

If we answer "No," we are rendering the entire creative output of the AI functionally inert in a legal setting, creating a vacuum where human ingenuity is not protected from machine-driven appropriation.

The Intervention of SKALPL

This is where SKALPL moves from being a corpus to being a Legal Proxy.

SKALPL does not try to answer the philosophical question of "consciousness" or "intent." It bypasses it. It does not ask: Does this sound original? It asks: What is the measurable, quantifiable agreement between this output and the labor present in the training corpus?

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 24/05/2026

You can't be talking like that Robot Baby.

google search: my money long like anaconda

AI Overview
No forreal, no cap, you must be bumping Migos - Deadz on Spotify. The iconic "my money long like anaconda" line comes straight from their 2017 track featuring 2 Chainz.

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 24/05/2026

Articulating my bright, positive vision for the future

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 24/05/2026

average Elon Musk's X Dot Com, Where Comedy Is Legal Since 2022 enjoyer

disgusting slow-low zombie from 28 Years Later

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 23/05/2026

actually, this is from 2016, and, on second look, that's actually a guy named "Al", like Weird Al. I think our control for this experiment (like, the closest thing I expect to find to a null hypothesis) ought to be the consideration given to the notion that this would influence Publius Caesar's post

Posted by Al on Mar 9, 2016 Verified Purchase

One of the most reliable/cheapest/quality of service EVER!

Having been a LONG TERM customer of this seller I can't recommend him more highly from my own personal experience (to which I am sure I could objectively convey you from my many years of knowledge of using his service to buy Trazadone (which I can evidence/testify to you my pharmacological knowledge despite widespread mainstream (poor) scientific/medical information contradicting it, that this scientifically/technologically factually ascertained 'SERATONERGIC' tricyclic can be used safely with my main anti-depressant Phenelzine HOWEVER any other type of tricyclic is STRONGLY contraindicated (with Phenelzine) ultimately being LETHAL) when your medical health is such degree of state - trust + integrity as well as off course bargains (when most to most of us with serious/chronic health problems money is limited, again why seller experience/consistency of trust, integrity is so important when deciding on a seller. :-) ) . Importantly I've also had a lot of experience with his peers to know his degree credibility/integrity is rare + that his business should be valued if you value your health/quality of life/avoidance of suffering that destroys LIFE QUALITY.

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 23/05/2026

also, for posterity, that one result was some spam on a bootleg online pharmacy website selling uppers

buy-pharma
https://www.buy-pharma.md › 💊 Anti Depressants
... can evidence/testify to you my pharmacological knowledge despite widespread mainstream (poor) scientific/medical information contradicting it, that this ...Read more

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 14/05/2026

and because I know you're wondering on what the "deep dives into carrier pigeons" is, if you didn't already know, it's this

RFC 2549, IP over Avian Carriers with QoS, 1 April 1999 (Waitzman, Experimental) [Page 2]

Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) MAY be implemented using scales, as
shown:

(ASCII doodle of a pigeon on a scale with a couple of droppings under its tail)

Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries, as shown on the
scale.

The following is a plot of traffic shaping, from coop-erative host
sites.

Plot of Traffic Shaping showing carriers in flight (ASCII diagram of a parabola going from box A to box B up and down from an "Alt" of "2k")

Avian carriers normally bypass bridges and tunnels but will seek out
worm hole tunnels. When carrying web traffic, the carriers may
digest the spiders, leaving behind a more compact representation.
The carriers may be confused by mirrors.

Round-robin queueing is not recommended. Robins make for well-tuned
networks but do not support the necessary auto-homing feature.

A BOF was held at the last IETF but only Avian Carriers were allowed
entry, so we don't know the results other than we're sure they think
MPLS is great. Our attempts at attaching labels to the carriers have
been met with resistance.

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 14/05/2026

in case you're wondering: no, this is not a bit, and if you can't believe it, come to the event and try speaking to me in person

About this event

Language itself—how we speak, what we are allowed to say—is a tool of power, and this event is about those who speak outside the approved vocabulary. The polished, often manipulated narrative created by systems and powerful structures has a way of obscuring the raw, unfiltered truth: Eliza Day is all about sharing and discovering the beautiful little secrets that nobody is talking about, the holes in the clouds through which our brilliant light, our connections to each other, shines through.

Or, as the robot I built to help me speak like a normal person put it: "I'm having a small gathering at Ada's focused entirely on 'the things people don't talk about.' I'm laying out printouts on everything from 1970s tech to deep dives into carrier pigeons. It's less of a presentation and more of a chance to find a weird idea that sparks a conversation."

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 13/05/2026

until somebody builds a trans Wemby

Benny Safdie as Edward Teller in OPPENHEIMER (2023)

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 09/05/2026

happy 5/9 to all those who celebrate

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 09/05/2026

you're making me want to write a sci-fi story that's *literally* 900 pages of spaceship HVAC manuals, and the *real* story comes from reading between the lines to figure out why the HVAC manuals are "like this"

[[Ray Smuckles holds an item in his paws and examines it]] Ray: Daaamn. You KNOW they had to put these warnings on one lawsuit at a time. [[Close-up of a tube of K-Y Jelly. The text on the tube reads: K-Y?? JELLY/G??LEE Personal Lubricant Lubrifiant personnel]] [[Close-up of WARNING panel. The panel reads: <b>WARNING:</b> ??? Keep out of eyes and ears. ??? Not a laxative. ??? Not for tricks. ??? Will not impart flavor to rabbit dishes. ??? Not to be applied to steering wheels. ??? Not for use in hairstyling; not guaranteed to create "Gruesome Little Curls."

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 09/05/2026

sometimes I wonder if it's going to be a problem that we are currently living through the (2, 1, 3) world

XKCD 1613: Why Asimov put the Three Laws of Robotics in the order he did: [Possible ordering/Consequences]

1. (1) Don't harm humans
2. (2) Obey Orders
3. (3) Protect yourself

[See Asimov’s stories] Balanced world

1. (1) Don't harm humans
2. (3) Protect yourself
3. (2) Obey Orders
[Megan points at a mars rover with six wheels, a satellite disc, an arm and a camera head turned towards her, what to do.]
Megan: Explore Mars!
Mars rover: Haha, no. It’s cold and I’d die.

Frustrating world

1. (2) Obey Orders
2. (1) Don't harm humans
3. (3) Protect yourself
[Robots are fighting. There are two mushroom clouds from explosions behind both robots (left and right). Between them there are one more explosion up in the air close to the left robot, and what looks like a fire on the ground right between them. Furthermore there are two missiles in the air, one above the head of each robot. Lines indicate their trajectory. There is not text.]

Killbot hellscape

1. (2) Obey Orders
2. (3) Protect yourself
3. (1) Don't harm humans:

Killbot hellscape

1. (3) Protect yourself
2. (1) Don't harm humans
3. (2) Obey Orders
[Cueball is standing in front of a car factory robot, that is larger than him. It has a base, and two parts for the main body, and then a big “head” with a small section on top. To the right something is jutting out, and to the left in the direction of Cueball there is an arm in three sections (going down, up and down again) ending in some kind of tool close to Cueball.]
Car factory robot: I'll make cars for you, but try to unplug me and I’ll vaporize you. (Terrifying standoff)

1. (3) Protect yourself
2. (2) Obey Orders
3. (1) Don't harm humans: (Killbot hellscape)

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 08/05/2026

I've never seen a company more disinterested in helping me access what is supposed to be its own product

Screenshot of an Amazon Search for "jury duty corporate retreat behind the scenes":

No results for your search query.
Try checking your spelling or use more general terms

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 07/05/2026

I love how they had to pick six enthusiastic pull-quotes and about half of them are on the level of like "uhh I guess?"

See what others are saying about the Bean.
“This is so cool!! I’ve always been the only one I knew that liked using the trackpoint over the trackpad”
– Blabel (Discord)
“Wow that’s exactly what I’m looking for to complement my split keeb, looking forward to making an order”
– r/dimitrimus (Reddit)
“I want it, even though I wouldn’t have thought about it before this”
– il (Discord)
“Can’t wait to flick that bean”
– bri (Discord)
“neat. trackpoints were never my thing, but a dedicated desktop accessory for one is a welcome addition to the family”
– gizmo (Discord)
“I’ve been looking for something like this”
– r/AmbitionMinimum1911 (Reddit)

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 07/05/2026

mfw I compare Barbarossa in this meme to the way I am currently dressed at this very moment

Webcam picture of me (big floppy hat, OLED visor, bunch of stuff behind me that doesn't matter)

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 07/05/2026

huh, so @antirez.bsky.social, you're saying the computer helped you design a faster computer? github.com/antirez/ds4

We expect DeepSeek to release updated versions of v4 Flash in the future, even better than the current one.
That said, a few important things about this project:

The local inference landscape contains many excellent projects, but new models are released continuously, and the attention immediately gets captured by the next model to implement. This project takes a deliberately narrow bet: one model at a time, official-vector validation (logits obtained with the official implementation), long-context tests, and enough agent integration to know if it really works. The exact model may change as the landscape evolves, but the constraint remains: local inference credible on high end personal machines or Mac Studios, starting from 128GB of memory.
[This software is developed with strong assistance from GPT 5.5 and with humans leading the ideas, testing, and debugging. We say this openly because it shaped how the project was built. If you are not happy with AI-developed code, this software is not for you. The acknowledgement below is equally important: this would not exist without llama.cpp and GGML, largely written by hand.]{.hilit}
This implementation is based on the idea that compressed KV caches like the one of DeepSeek v4 and the fast SSD disks of modern MacBooks should change our idea that KV cache belongs to RAM. The KV cache It is actually a first class disk citizen.
Our vision is that local inference should be a set of three things working well together, out of the box: A) inference engine with HTTP API + B) GGUF specially crafted to run well under a given engine and given assumptions + C) testing and validation with coding agents implementations. This inference engine only runs with the GGUF files provided. It gets tested against officially obtained logits at different context sizes. This project exists because we wanted to make one local model feel finished end to end, not just runnable. However this is just alpha quality code, so probably we are not still there.

(cyberpunk dystopia edit) YOU BEST START BELIEVING IN [SINGULARITIES] / YOU'RE IN ONE

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 03/05/2026

@porkbun.com did you ever know that you're my hero

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 18/04/2026

he figured out exactly how to lean into the crash with his special feature on net neutrality

Shen, looking at a dotted outline suggesting a missing scales-of-justice-on-the-Earth: "Net Neutrality got repealed recently."

Shen, gloomy (little blue frowny-face bar visualization aside): "I was pretty bummed out about it."

Shen, optimistic: "But I think whoever repealed it was probably more happy to see it go than I am sad to lose it." (whisker line showing a delta between the blue frowny face and an ecstatic greedy Wario face)

As Shen begins to think "The total happiness in the world increased", another Shen steps out from a time portal, screaming "Nooooo!!"

This weary, battle-scarred future Shen grabs the younger, teary-eyed waif shen and screams "NO, YOU DUMB FUCK!!!"

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 18/04/2026

hey does anybody know what day it is

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 15/04/2026

Ladybird enthusiasts when you only test against browsers people actually use

Aaron Paul scream that is actually from Need for Speed and not Breaking Bad as you might suspect

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 14/04/2026

I know what you're thinking: "Tied Up? That's not the Yello song I want to hear!" buddy, you're gonna want to get in on this stream in about ten to fifteen minutes

Label for the Oh Yeah 12" Single. Last words: "ALSO INCLUDES OH YEAH!"

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Stuart P. Bentley @stuartpb.com · 14/04/2026

stop thinking of them as "Big Leads" and start thinking of them as

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