I do often wonder, what dead philosophical/literary figure would be the most unbearable poster? Nietzsche, Voltaire and Rousseau would certainly be contenders. Ditto Byron. Schopenhauer would be absolutely unhinged but 80% of his posting would be calling Hegel a stupid bitch, so I'd allow it.
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"The technological paradigm has become so dominant that it would be difficult to do without its resources and even more difficult to utilize them without being dominated by their internal logic."
Pope Francis - Laudato si'
*stares at AI boosterists*
"God is intimately present to each being, without impinging on the autonomy of his creature, and this gives rise to the rightful autonomy of earthly affairs. His divine presence, which ensures the subsistence and growth of each being, 'continues the work of creation'."
Pope Francis - Laudato si'
IDK either way, but you can certainly see how, in my line of work, universities *want* this to proceed: tenured professors-->adjuncts and grad students-->old taped lectures+AI content+sets of tasks that "live" on systems like canvas, through which the non-unionized teacher acts as a docent
Shout out to Oskar (10), who made pasta from scratch tonight.
Leo *did* take at least one class with Jack Caputo while he was at Villanova…
Earlier I found one of our television remotes in a puddle of Sprite. We may have had too many children.
I just moved a piece of furniture and found scrambled eggs scattered beneath it.
How much could boarding school really cost?
I’d go as high as 12, based on my recollection of being 12 myself and how much i enjoyed Rand’s *Anthem* at that age.
Libertarianism’s great power and great weakness is that it can be rendered logically consistent, which is the mid-wit’s ideal of intelligence.
Obviously I don’t like the mediocrity, corruption, human failings *themselves*, but I do like that it exists as the kind of thing that is inevitably, unavoidably susceptible to those. 2/
I’ve never been able to express it to my own satisfaction, but coming from low-church Protestant world, I really like that Catholicism has, not just ideal institutional structures of authority, but real actual existing ones, full of mediocrity & corruption & human failure. 1/
Much as The Silence of the Lambs is actually a drama about gender in the workplace, HEAT is about the consequences of de-professionalization.
A half-drunk gin martini with out of focus oysters in the foreground
Sneaking in a date night
Hello. I was thinking about Jesus, actually. Not my fault some people feel accused.
- the pope
OOH, Sheridan’s work since casts a different light on the story, but OTOH Villeneuve’s subsequent work does *too*, ya know?
I’m not ready to devaluate Sicario just yet and I’ve not read Sheridan’s original script, but I *do* remember my eyebrows going up when I learned that one of the lead Hispanic actor’s creative contributions was to say that this Hispanic main character should probably talk less. 👀
Diplo for DNI
I was just singing @bpdflores.bsky.social’s praises to Annie and she replied, “sure, but is he soft on crime?”
The Spirit of Christ Jesus, Crucified and Risen from the dead, is not a resentful, bullying and vengeful spirit.
“Learn from me,” he says, “for I am humble of heart”.
So it’s not just about what words we say or write, it’s also about the spirit that pushes them out.
Me, standing by myself in an empty room at the party’s snack table: “Tapenade?! Shut the fuck up!”
Spoiler alert, but it gets *so* out of hand that Alton Brown gets a *2nd* tattoo
This gets out of hand youtu.be/H3XN-jHzUp0
Can confirm that said professor is a scholar of Augustine of Hippo and his writings on the Totus Christus. Also, she is very interested in the Augustinian inflections throughout Pope Leo's public addresses and catechetical reflections on Va2.
Additionally, recall that John Eastman's conduct during this period was so bad, a federal judge held that his work product relating to overthrowing the election came within the crime-fraud exception.
"The illegality of the plan was obvious," wrote the judge.
Back in my evangelical days, people would piously ask me what my favorite Bible verse was and if I was feeling mean spirited that day, I would say Ezekiel 23:20
Among a mountain of bad-faith factual claims and frivolous constitutional arguments, Eastman's ultimate plan was for VP Pence (or Sen. Grassley) to *knowingly violate the Electoral Count Act* and let SCOTUS block any subsequent lawsuits on political question grounds. Just shit from start to finish.
