Pope Leo XIV: I hear very troubling accounts of algorithms that can block access to healthcare, employment, and security on the basis of data tainted by prejudice. I've heard the silence of those who have no voice when decisions likely to generate new forms of suffering are made. Nuclear disarmament remains a service to peace. In a similar sense, AI now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turned it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.
There is not a single poet in the English language—not Blake, not Milton, no, not Shakespeare—who ever wrote words more beautiful than these:
Through the tender compassion of our God
The dawn from on high shall break upon us
To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death
And to guide our feet into the way of peace.
I get being born in the 80s. Makes sense. I get being born in the late 90s, too. But what's up with being born in the early 90s? Like if you were born in 1993 what is even going on
My most hated take on the transplant debate is a misunderstanding of what it is:
If you spend the first 20 years of your life in Florida and then move to New York City, that is a "transplant". You are NOT a transplant if you moved to the nearest big city to where you grew up. That's just called moving
I grew up 40 miles from New York City and moved there to do a job I couldn't do in my hometown. I spent my childhood in New York. My cousins and uncles and aunts lived in New York. I have lived in the orbit of New York City for 90% of my life. The MTA operates in my hometown. I am not from New York but I am not a transplant