Have You Prayed Today

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

I don’t believe in arch support

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

If your pet is fat that’s kinda on you, and please do not ask for my support

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

@realJaredGilman I hate that i had to listen to a British accent and then an Aussie accent

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today — on the eighth centenary of his death — I wish to recall a laborer who worked with great fruitfulness in the Lord’s vineyard: Saint Francis of Assisi, whom Jesus Himself asked to repair His Church.

[Inquisitor Himbo Juan @AndeanHermedic]

You heard the Pope, using AI makes you ugly, ontologically hollow, and worst of all, Protestant

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[delia @delia_cai]

the kind of generational NY sunset that makes you go uh oh

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

My whole life I’ve yearned to live in an ancient civilization and spend my days learning a craft with my fellow countrymen

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

@chezlution Bro can’t really tell what your point is, but this happens every year going way back

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

Having a daily multi step complicated skin care routine is a cope. Anytime I meet someone with one with just a few questions I can usually surmise what they’re avoiding in life.

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

Italians will go out of their way to explain minestrone soup, despite your multiple attempts to tell them you know what that is.
And then will look at you with shock when you tell them it’s illegal to eat horse in America.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Removing friction is how rich people end up losing agency and human IQ

It starts with Uber-everywhere, grocery delivery, all-inclusive holidays, then private driver, chef, assistant etc… without noticing you’re also removing exposure to reality

I see this in London with young ambitious professionals aka HENRYs (High Earners Not Rich Yet) trying to remove every tiny friction from life so they can focus on work + gym + sleep + money, while forgetting that a lot of the “inefficient” shit they’re deleting (cooking, walking somewhere, random talks etc) is also just… being a human in your 20s/30s

The thing is you’re not only saving time, you’re removing thousands of tiny reps of dealing with the world. Finding the place, fixing the booking, working out what to do when the train gets cancelled, asking someone for help, improvising because the plan is fucked. None of these makes you smarter on its own, but remove basically all of them for 10 years and I’d be surprised if it has zero effect. You can become incredibly high-agency at work while weirdly low-agency at normal life

It’s why so many high-agency rich people are deliberately paying to add friction back into their lives (difficult travel, long treks, sailing, marathons, remote places, silent retreats, climbing mountains, etc). They’ve understood that once comfort is abundant, difficulty becomes scarce. The luxury good eventually becomes optional hardship. The distinction is agency. Being forced to walk 10km because your car broke down sucks. Choosing to hike 20km in Patagonia feels meaningful

The way I think about it personally is just aggressively remove boring / repetitive friction, while keeping a decent amount of unpredictable friction. I’ll happily pay more for the direct flight, live centrally to kill a commute, outsource cleaning/admin, take the Uber if it genuinely saves 40 mins. A 15-min annoyance x300 a year is actually expensive. There is absolutely no hidden life lesson in doing your laundry for the 800th time or spending 2h getting somewhere you could reach in 30 mins

Think the objective of wealth shouldn’t be zero friction, but simply choosing your friction. Basically removing all the boring shit so you can expose yourself to more of the interesting stuff

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

Eating 4 green papaya salads today, if you know you know.

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

The reason that I do not have a husband is because I understand men and also mirror their behavior back to them.

[bran @slugopolis]

i'm going to miss all the weird little animals, chilly summer evenings, fresh vegetables, all of it really

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

Maybe for my next move, I move to Hell’s Kitchen.

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

People in California will be like, Iowa is east of here. And that really fucks me up

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

These days I cry from happiness much more than I cry from sadness

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

ppl always focus on how things that used to be joyful and magical as children lose their luster as adults... but not so much how many new things become genuinely interesting/joyful . like i can viscerally excited about a new couch or a dark chocolate in a way kids literally can't

[Have You Prayed Today @RinnPaulson]

Third evil way:
They want to fuck you

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

There are two ways you get a mentor:

-You are unnaturally talented or gifted in some way that makes someone far more experienced than you so excited for your potential they want to invest in your becoming.

-You remind someone of the younger version of themselves.

That’s it.