My dog just rolled around in muck and wreaks of an ungodly stench and you people are worried about an exchange once again demonstrating that their security is more compromised than straightforward self-custody.

Justified by faith alone in Christ alone Justification is God’s verdict. He declares the ungodly righteous because of Christ’s obedience and death, received by faith. Paul states it without qualification: a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law (Romans 3). To the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness (Romans 4). The ground is Christ. The means is faith. Nothing else contributes. Faith alone does not mean faith that remains alone. The faith that receives Christ produces works. But the works do not justify. They follow the verdict. They do not complete it, increase it, or restore it when it is lost. Christ alone means his righteousness is sufficient. No merit of the believer, no sacrament, no cooperation is added to the ground of acceptance. To deny justification by faith alone is to deny that a sinner is saved by Christ alone. It is to say that something else - works, rites, endurance, the Church’s mediation - must be joined to Christ before the sinner is fully accepted, or must be maintained so that the acceptance is not lost. That something else becomes part of the ground. Christ is no longer enough. The gospel is no longer the announcement that the ungodly is justified by faith in the finished work. It becomes a process in which the sinner contributes to, or cooperates toward, the final verdict. The denial is not merely a different emphasis. It is a different gospel. If righteousness comes through the law, or through the sacraments, or through meritorious cooperation, then Christ died for nothing (Galatians 2). To reject faith alone is to reject the sufficiency of the cross. It is to say that Jesus is necessary but not enough. Scripture says he is enough. Faith receives him. That is justification. Anything added denies it.

Vercel CEO @rauchg predicts the future of the economy: AI agents buying products, creating ungodly amounts of software, and reshaping the IPO market. "Fleets of agents automating our work is a massive one. More software, just vast, ungodly amounts of software being created." "People come to me as like, we’ve never seen anything like this. There’s no comparable today in the IPO market. The math doesn’t math. And I actually think we’re still in day one of this new normal." "The other big bet is agentic commerce, the agentic web. The new protocols that are gonna take over, MCP, super bullish. Markdown, the internet that the agents can consume. CLIs. Whatever is good for the agents, they’re gonna eat it all up." "I’ll even make another prediction. We’re marketing to humans right now, but most of our growth is coming because the agents are coming. They’re buying domain names. They’re buying from the Marketplace." "If I were to summarize my predictions, the future of the economy is agents." @vercel