Alan Yoshioka, PhD

Catholic practising in the 🇺🇦 ☦️ Byzantine tradition. Medical editor. Widower. “Truth and love need each other.” Limericks. 🇨🇦🎶📸🌼🕷️🪰🪲🐝🍄🥀🍃

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

My enthusiastic review of a new book on Catholic Social Teaching is coloured, though not biased, I trust, by warm personal connections. Along the way, I honour the memory of my beloved wife, Theresa, who truly tried to live by that teaching.
https://t.co/fOXuUs9IeM

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Authentic freedom is founded upon the human person’s capacity to know the truth and adhere to what is good, even at great cost.
https://t.co/kQQ55yFbYK

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The ringtone was loud and filled the concert Hall and a pianist decided to improvise around it.

The pianist had two choices: 1- choose to get angry or 2- choose to be flexible in this situation.

Always choose option 2.

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

Gawrsh, how peculiar that Megan Basham accuses @DavidAFrench of being a sellout, though his position on the 14th Amendment has not changed.
Whereas Ted Cruz wrote of birthright citizenship in 2011, "As much as someone may dislike the policy...it’s in the Constitution."…🤔

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

When music brings people together… One lone piper from Scotland and Boston’s finest bucket-drum maestro somehow created the collaboration nobody knew they needed 🥹

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

We can ask a machine how many times a word appears in a document. This might spur a person to read certain passages more closely, leading to other words and other passages deserving of special attention, helping to understand the sense of the whole.
Or, maybe not. It’s up to you.

[tern @1goodtern]

I'm just going to gray those three years out to help you see..

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

Just as a 19th-century Pope Leo denied that sweatshops were inevitable, Pope Leo XIV insists we not resign ourselves to the AI arms race. His argument, @CCamosy writes, is one that "even secular readers who are deeply skeptical of the Catholic Church should take seriously."

[Charlie Camosy @CCamosy]

https://t.co/sUiGqaBCYj

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

How did a woman who once fixed bagels for Steve Bannon at the home of Sarah Palin become persona non grata in Republican circles and earn the respect of countless progressives? Read @NancyAFrench's heartbreaking yet hopeful memoir, Ghosted.

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

@Puglaas I've hardly been on this site in recent months, so I only just saw your news. May God grant you all that you need throughout this trying time.🙏

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

Encounter awesome little critters in the wild. Pacific Spirit Bug Walk, 1 pm, Saturday, April 25.
#nature #becurious #inverts #CityNatureChallenge

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

My Xitter account has been essentially dormant for many months, but on other sites I've increasingly been noticing activity here that's worth following. Maybe I'll give it another chance.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

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.

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

"They were warned they’d wreck the country by enabling Trump; they did it anyway; and now, to their dismay, they’re discovering that they won’t escape the wreckage."
--@allahpundit

https://t.co/fAvR3bgNZw

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

Said Donald, "This joint is too small.
There oughta be a beautiful hall.
We'll hold our events
Inside, not in tents.
Make room for it. Tear down this wall!"

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

Said Ronald, in hope, most of all,
That, answering liberty's call,
Berlin be united,
No longer benighted,
"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

@OurLadyofAntifa Much appreciated, Gabriel.🙏

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

1/2. I will re-engage here to share two important pieces of personal news. My mother reposed in February at the age of 103. Her ashes were laid to rest on May 17.
https://t.co/EZqwX2JZRS

[Alan Yoshioka, PhD @TheSheepcat]

@broadwaybabyto 👋

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

For more than two years now, CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has pushed back against science, the public, HCWs, patients, Long Covid victims, & common sense to introduce better airborne protections for healthcare workers and patients

[Tara Moriarty @MoriartyLab]

Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 23-Dec 6, 2024

CANADA

SEVERE (no change)

Estimated infections this week: 1,190,200-1,266,300

About 1 in every 43 people infected

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections ~27X higher
-Long COVID ~28X higher
-Hospitalizations ~29X higher
-Deaths ~26X higher