For sane Catholics, this garbage from Trump is not surprising or problematic. It has been more than obvious for decades that Trump’s only interest in Christianity is for personal gain.
For any Catholics - laity, priests, religious, bishops - previously fooled by Trump, it’s ’make your mind up’ time!
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.
I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines.
This is how disciplines die.
Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered.
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Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
"AI is a loaded gun in the hands of children." Good piece in @commonweal.bsky.social by @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social
"Remember when they told you the war was costing $1 billion a day? Turns out it was $3 billion a day just for the munitions. Oops."
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"It feels right that Donald Trump is the one to bring AI into the mainstream of war-making. Trump is susceptible to all forms of sycophancy, for which chatbots are infamous."
@johnslatteryphd.bsky.social on Trump's AI war:
“Our federal government is sending a message that only a narrow definition of humanities can be supported, celebrated and invested in, and that there are only a narrow set of people, culture and experiences that are worth understanding in depth"
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It feels right that Donald Trump is the one to bring AI into the mainstream of war-making. Trump is susceptible to all forms of sycophancy, for which chatbots are infamous. His administration deplores accountability, ethics, and transparency. AI is an out-of-control technological marvel, but not in the way that tech CEOs want the public to fear: we aren’t in The Matrix, and we are not in danger of HAL taking command of the ship. AI is something else: a loaded gun in the hands of children. The children holding the gun happen to be in charge of the most powerful military the world has ever seen. Welcome to the first AI war.
Thank you for this, @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social.
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My latest piece, about the nature of AI and the current war in Iran.
Donald Trump will go down in history as the president who made AI a weapon of war.
Analysis from tech ethicist @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social:
148 people at a girls’ school.
Sorry, Jensen, can't make us stop. Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 will continue on with the #RidiculeAsPraxis
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"Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society." As an avid reader of fiction these days, I support this 💯
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we
have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
At a wonderful panel on Judith Weisenfeld’s groundbreaking "Black Religion in the Madhouse"! Highly recommend. #aarsbl25
45 minutes in the exhibit hall and I'm already feeling overwhelmed with all the people! Time to find a place to break in quiet. #conferencing #aarsbl25
Enjoying an espresso and some chess at Faro Cafe near Harvard as I warm up for whole day of eugenics discussions before #AARSBL25! Wonderful little place
Hahaha amazing. Hope to see you in Boston!
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
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@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
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Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.
