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Magic tricks for the blind

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

For many decades, Academia was a storage facility for the Humanities. Most Americans didn’t want to read poetry, but they were happy to pay for its storage in Universities. Then one day, someone checked the Academic Deep Freeze and found Poetry was gone. Only a note remained:

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

A country’s vitality is deeply tied to the value it affords to human life in every form and condition, acknowledging the dignity endowed upon every human person by virtue of their very existence. The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to support, protect and cherish the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

A quick audit of my week, since people ask what it’s like at Palantir.

✅ Brought NATO’s first AI-enabled command system to full operational capability, live across the Alliance’s classified networks.
✅ Was declared evil.
✅ Accused of dodging tax I demonstrably overpay.
✅ Informed that the software 32 nations now trust to deter Russia — the same software that’s helped the NHS deliver 110,000 extra operations and faster cancer diagnoses — may be deemed too hazardous to be used to schedule hip replacement operations back home.
✅ Remained evil.
The rule seems to be: the more it works, the angrier the room. Onwards.

[MaxC | Flight Risk Capital @ColeFusionHQ]

decades of transfers and the productivity gap is bigger than when we started. you cannot subsidise your way to productivity and could end up killing the golden goose

[. @_galaaus]

@Mutuniatus @miltonappl3 ??

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[. @_galaaus]

@EBasilion Character lies in incongruity

[. @_galaaus]

@simonsarris Look like scenes from Tarkovsky, beautiful

[Scamander River🌊 @immortalxanthos]

“A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.”

Wright in first half of 20th century was pioneer of “organic architecture”, buildings integrating to landscape.

[Scamander River🌊 @immortalxanthos]

“San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

He refers to its shanty urban architecture and neglect for its natural beauty saying “time you had another earthquake”.

[gigi @ptriiichor]

unfortunately i fuck heavily with the pope’s new encyclical

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.

It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity.

To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.”

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

Good art and architecture are a kind of optimism.

[. @_galaaus]

@miltonappl3 @ashwxrya Thanks very much