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:

My dog is dumb but at least she doesn’t give money to Bret fucking Stephens

Pope Leo is no angel.

Families in Tehran are taping up their windows and sleeping together in rooms away from the glass. Their buildings have already been shaken by nightly explosions from the most sustained bombing in the capital since the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war. Some are rushing to buy generators, concerned that new attacks could cause critical services like electricity and water to unravel. The bombings and threats have left many Iranians living in fear not only of their own government, which killed thousands of people in a crackdown on protesters early this year, but their would-be American rescuers, who pledged at the beginning of the war to create the conditions for their government to fall. A 43-year-old woman living in Tehran and undergoing treatment for breast cancer said she worried what intensified attacks on infrastructure could mean for her healthcare.

We are terrorizing an entire country.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Men get emotional about women sports,,, I just try do it in a positive way

John Hickenlooper @Hickenlooper Before my start in public service, I was a geologist-turned-brewer who hadn’t even run for student council! But when there were talks of selling the naming rights of “Mile High” from the Broncos’ stadium, we led a grassroots campaign to keep it there.

John Hickenlooper talking about how "Empower Field at Mile High" was a "compromise" he "won" ten feet from a gate that just says "Empower Field"

"'Invesco Field at Mile High' is a testament to what you can accomplish through moderation and compromise" is like a throwaway joke told on a leftist sports podcast that lasted nine episodes in 2017

Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong.

Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Seems good.

WE LOVE LAKE

Chicagos new field is now 2 for 2 on making away teams look silly we might have some memorial stadium style magic going on here

Newspaper illustration with the headline in the post. Text: Dr. George L. Kearney and Mrs. Frazer deprecate the Practice of Bicycle Riding as a Profession for girls. The women themselves admit that they will break down, but they are determined to race for the money they win. Under the text are five circles with illustrations of the women before the race, and under those are five circles of the same women after the race. They look much more haggard, and also a lot heavier, in these "after" pictures. The names of the women are beneath their pictures: Tillie Anderson, Dotty "Dayton" Farnsworth, Lizzie, Glaw, Lillie Williams, and Ida Peterson. Under that the text says, "The girls at the finish of the six days bicycle race in the coliseum."

"Bicycle Racing Transforms Lovely Woman from a Pale Beauty to a Perfect Fright"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 5, 1897

hey any yogi knows you gotta balance cow w cat

Correction notice from the New York Times reads: “A correction was made on March 13, 2026: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly John F. Kennedy Jr.’s religious affiliation. Mr. Kennedy was a Roman Catholic, not a “WASP” (an epithet used to refer to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants).”

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

the most dead-eyed soulless capitalists can read fossil fuels’ writing on the wall and are investing in clean energy. the problem is there are more people exist who romanticize fossil fuels because coal miners and roughnecks are men

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

Sometimes I feel like the most important message anyone can internalize these days is just "It's okay to have principles and live by them."

A thing about illegal wars of aggression is that they're just murder

We understand this with Putin's war in Ukraine, we understand it with the Caribbean boat strikes. It's no less true here. Our government is engaged in a policy of murder, basically for fun

Video proof this really happened!

Kaori, Alysa, and Ami winning gold in the "adorableness" team event at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics

Unprecedented levels of pookie I fear 2026 podium you've never be forgotten #alysaliu #kaorisakamoto #aminakai #figureskating

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

Yes we absolutely can

THAT'S OUR GOLDEN GIRL!! 🥇⭐️🇺🇸🏆 #WinterOlympics

Graceland Cemetery coyotes

screenshot from alysa liu’s IG story [photo of two cats looking at a laptop, captioned: ‘My best friends had both my cats watch me skate tn sooo cute’

ok i feel better

I would pay every dollar I have to watch the President eat shit on a downhill course

A photo of Lake Michigan, the lake surface is covered with circles of snow and ice. The sky above is blue with dramatic swirls of white clouds

lake forever problems for now

if you had told people back during the Kavanaugh hearings that disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was working the phones getting Ken Starr to lobby Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to vote yes people would have said you need to get your head checked. But this is literally what was happening.

the epstein files reveal that at the highest levels of society, men with power over women often use that power to do the same things that men with power over women do at every other level. epstein was incredibly well-resourced and his friends and enablers famous and powerful. but it's the same stuff