Kevin Tierney

OG Trad. Tenryu of Catholicism. Tweeting about performance art, whether in politics, Catholicism, wrestling, or diets. Dad of Two Autistic tornados.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

Traditionis custodes had its five year anniversary, and I wanted to think long and hard before I wrote about it.

Nah, I played Palworld for 2 weeks nonstop, and now I'm gonna give you my thoughts in one take.

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[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

5 minutes into Rings of Power Season 3 and I can tell this will be special.

All time bad show incoming. Just ridiculously stupid.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

When you look at it like this... how could he say no?

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Men just want to be seen 😂

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

When I spoke to an Anthropic employee who invited me to their HQ for a "Christian leaders" gathering, they told me that when they hear Dario speak about morality, they often cry. That was one of the key moments I realized I was out. If you watch this man speak and are moved to tears, you probably need to talk to a psychologist. And you should not be in a position of power at any frontier lab, because we need anti-mimetic brakes on the spreading of psychosis.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

It's utterly predictable that Thomas Massie - fresh off a Republican midterm wipeout that would seem to give his recent stances more credence - blew up his own credibility yet again by launching an impeachment effort failed within 24 hours

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

To do what?

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

BREAKING: Sen. Majority Leader John Thune has been re-elected by Senate Republicans and will serve as Senate Minority Leader in the new Congress when Dems take power. Senators Barrasso, Cotton, Capito, and Lankford have all also been re-elected to their positions. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will now serve as NRSC Chairman instead of Sen. Tim Scott.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep Love how the argument against empirical facts is "then why aren't you a hedge fund manager shorting billions?"

We're done here. Clearly nobody serious on the other end of this conversation.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

So everyone who wanted Leo to do the Butleran jihad against AI, as we see the AI bubble begin to deflate, and more realistic expectations about AI begin to set in, was Leo wise for not dealing with AI in-depth in his encyclical?

Its worth considering.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

And someone should immediately respond to Mr. Christiano that he's hitting the pipe.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

"For most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident."

From Paul Christiano:
-OpenAI board member
-Co-invented RLHF at OpenAI back in 2017-2021
-Head of safety at the US gov's AI agency (CAISSI) from 2024-6

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep Yes, the economics don't work. Its why OpenAI failed to go public this year, and got 1/3 of what they wanted in their latest attempt at private investment. Why? People see the books.

A company being valued at a certain price is not the same as they make a sound profit

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep What are we doing?

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep 2026 has proven the economics work. Its why OpenAI delayed its IPO, Anthropic came in roughly half of what they were asking, several AI startups went belly up, and Gartner proclaimed the coming "Death of NeoCloud" while 90% of execs admitted AI hasn't made them money.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

But even then, these are questions of TRUMP, not his subordinate.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

6 isn't a "slam dunk" though. Especially since both Slotkin and Kelly did in fact back away from it! Officers already can disobey something illegal. There is a certain point where it could be said they were encouraging disobedience to a legal directive.

V is the only possible

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Article 6 of the Hegseth impeachment charges is basically a slam dunk. If I were the Democrats I would somehow strip the indictment of all the others and focus on the retaliation against Mark Kelly, which defines "abuse of office."

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@PDiczok But it might not be that, unless anything beyond ALL CLANKERS MUST BE DESTROYED is "shallow and peremptory"

Which was my point. Maybe there is more, and by not committing the opinions of Robert Prevost right away, there was more wisdom (even if unintentional)

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@PDiczok There is often great wisdom in not being stupid when people demand something!

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep If anything, 2026 was the vindication of the Cal Newports of the world regarding AI.

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep What have we seen? We've seen that if money is no object, and you deliberately ignore every security protocol, you can have a problem with autonomous agents. Outside of autonomous agents, AI still has the problem of not actually making anyone money. Which came in spades in 2026

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

@wontonsuep There's a difference between AI as a technology and frontier labs as a product.

[David Shor @davidshor]

Two interesting ideas here:
1) The 1974 Democratic wave coincided with the 1973 oil embargo and wasn't *just* about corruption
2) the magnitude of Trump's self-imposed oil shock was comparable in magnitude to 1973 that took down incumbent governments around the world

[Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark]

Thomas Massie's articles of impeachment being about self promotion more than anything?

I'm shocked to find gambling in this establishment!

[Byron York @ByronYork]

Reading through Thomas Massie's articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. There are 8 articles. Articles 1, 2, and 3 all accuse Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution by waging war in Iran. You might ask yourself: Did Pete Hegseth order US forces into action in Iran? I thought President Trump did that. That's a good question; from the very beginning, Hegseth appears to serve as a stand-in for Massie's real desire, which is to impeach Trump.

Article 4 is about the accidental hit on the Iranian school. Article 5 is about the drug boat attacks. Article 6 is about retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly over the you-can-refuse-an-unlawful-order video. Article 7 is about the Venezuela attack and taking Nicolas Maduro into US custody. And Article 8 is about strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

In all, Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 are matters of the president's constitutional authority to wage war. If Massie wants to impeach somebody for those actions, the proper official to impeach is the president. Article 4 is about an accident by US forces in Iran. That leaves Article 6, the Mark Kelly matter, as the only issue for which Hegseth appears to bear some direct responsibility.

Massie is clearly pushing these articles because he is racing the clock against his own departure from Congress on January 3, having been defeated in a Republican primary in his home state of Kentucky. There is only so much time left to do damage, and with this BS impeachment, Massie is trying to make the most of it.

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