Exactly

Call them the "I-Pan" and wait for the sales to come in...

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views

Pope Leo on AI:

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

This short thread is worth reading:

Nominative determinism in action...

Of course…

The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran posts a message to Pope Leo in response to President Trump’s attack on him and his posting of an image of himself as Jesus on Truth Social.

A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.

Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:

www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Elizabeth Moss starts out at you from the cover of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale.

What an extraordinary novel. Plenty of echoes here of events throughout history and of today's world. Lots to unpack, but a very elegantly told story how ordinary people act to control others. Magnificent. #HandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood #Booksof2026. No. 4

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

African youth wearing a turban. Early work by Gerrit Dou, who was born on this day more or less, in 1613.

Questioning for Teaching and Learning Webinar hosted by Kate Jones YouTube video by Kate Jones

Here is the link to the recording of a webinar I hosted focusing on Questioning for Teaching & Learning.

Feel free to share with colleagues if you think it's useful. 😊

youtu.be/GRS09MgUbTs?...

Tommy Scott from the Liverpool band Space singing.

If you see this, post a character from space.

📖 New issue of the BJHS now out!

This issue brings together a rich set of contributions that explore how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and imagined across different contexts.

BSHS members enjoy full access to all articles!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is a major problem. Certain high-status institutions are hoovering up students for whom they don't have space or teaching capacity.

It's not good for students, it's driving other universities to disaster and it has none of the benefits of either a planned or a "market" system.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

I think one has to draw a line at what is acceptable behaviour...

Walking reading a phone is "dumbwalking", so doing so when reading a novel is surely "smartwalking"?

Perhaps there is also a sliding scale that depends on the book; Dostoevsky at the top, airport novels at the bottom?

“Sorry, I can’t right now; I’m quite busy.”

[ reads every word, and clicks on every link, in a 60-plus post thread on the Pentagon, the Vatican, and the Avignon Papacy ]

Thank you to the Archbishop of Bluesky, @clairewillett.bsky.social.

The 25th Amendment Isn't Coming to Save Us Trump's deranged behavior has some Democrats selling a fantasy to voters

The calls for the 25th Amendment are understandable but misguided. J.D. Vance and Trump’s cabinet are not accountable to voters in November. We need voters to understand that Trump is only able to act like this because Republicans in Congress let him. messagebox.substack.com/p/the-25th-a...

'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' review: Astonishing Broadway revival will leave your purring with delight 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' does as the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic did in 1982: innovates, astonishes, and exceeds expectations. The Ballroom-infused reimagining is a revival worthy of the Heaviside layer.

'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' does as the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic did in 1982: innovates, astonishes, and exceeds expectations. The Ballroom-infused reimagining is a revival worthy of the Heaviside layer.

Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Jeeze. Easy block.

Easy block.

Thanks for the tip.

Any shares of the posts below very much appreciated! Thank you.

A hand holds a book. There is green grass in the background. The books has white text on black, "The Wars of the Roses" by David Grummitt. The image is of medieval knights fighting in battle; some on horseback and some on foot. This is an image of the Battle of Barnet in 1471.

This didn't take long. An excellent view of the #WarsoftheRoses era which loses much of the soap-opera of Weir (which I enjoyed a lot) but puts back essential historiography and analysis. Very useful chapters on the era as a whole. Superb - useful for students. #DavidGrummitt #Booksof2026. No. 2

Why cognitive science is the exact opposite of the kind of magic bullet knowledge technique recipe teaching:

whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/02/sphe...

Don't threaten me with a good time.

46 years ago on April 5, 1980, the band played their first show. Sandra-Lee Phipps took these photos that historic night in Athens at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Oconee Street.

Holibobs is certainly a terrible word.

So is "wellibobs" for Wellington Boots.

And
"Bolibobs" for Champagne.

Although that last one might just be in Ab Fab.

Picture of Earth taken by the Artemis II mission

Ich see trees of grene
Redde roses too
Ich see them bloome
For me and you
And Ich thynke to myselfe
What a wondirful worlde

Ich see welkin blue
And cloudes of whyte
The brighte blessid daye
The darke sacred nighte
And Ich thynke to myselfe
What a wondirful worlde

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...