Bernardo Motta

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[ilyas sahin, MD @ilyassahinMD]

The complexity inside a single human cell is almost impossible to comprehend…

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@j_soares33 O problema, claro está, é que não há diferença ontológica entre as 12 semanas e as 40. É o mesmo ser humano vivo e inocente, apenas mais velho e mais desenvolvido. O aborto provocado é um crime qualquer que seja a idade da vítima.

[John A. Monaco @johnamonaco]

Maura Healey represents some of the worst tendencies of contemporary Catholicism.

She's of Irish lineage, raised in New England, attended elite educational institutions, claims to be Catholic despite her sodomitical union to another woman. When the Bishop of Worcester ordered a Jesuit middle school to stop flying Black Lives Matter and Pride flags, she criticized him, saying that "inclusion" is at the heart of Catholic teaching. In 2024, she traveled to Rome to speak at a Vatican climate summit hosted by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, and personally met with Pope Francis.

The "Catholicism" of Maura Healey is precisely the "beige Catholicism" that @BishopBarron criticizes. These are baptized and confirmed Catholics who reduce Catholic doctrine to "just be a good person", despite not even being able to do that (good persons don't typically massacre the unborn). Maura Healey's Catholicism takes the "welcome the migrant" and "protect the climate" parts seriously, while simply rejecting the "don't murder the unborn", "don't euthanize the elderly", "don't trans your kids" parts of it.

My problem isn't necessarily with her. Of course, she is extremely wrong and on the path to perdition. But Healey is a byproduct of DECADES of decadent malformation, poor preaching, and shoddy witness to the Catholic faith by a number of prelates and priests who are too scared to become martyrs for the sake of the Gospel of Life. Healey's views are heinous, but in any other century, she would be univocally condemned, shamed, exiled, and excommunicated.

This is why I believe there is a crisis in the Church. Some of the most prominent voices in Catholicism are all too eager to endorse Healey's anemic version of Catholicism. Sure, they will view the abortion stuff as bad, but figure that she makes up for it in other areas (typically the areas progressives like to champion; climate, immigration, DEI, etc.)

The best thing the bishops of Massachusetts could do, save from a formal excommunication of the governor, is to call for a week of prayer, fasting, and abstinence for the crimes against humanity committed by their so-called "Catholic" governor.

[Cláudia Teixeira @claudiaaict]

Criminalidade em Portugal:

→ Mulher sueca, de 41 anos, baleada no abdómen na Baixa de Lisboa. Dois suspeitos ligados ao tráfico de droga fogem. Pânico no local.

→ Homem baleado nas pernas durante um assalto a um banco na Amadora (Alfragide). Os ladrões levam 16 mil euros e fogem.

→ Dupla armada, numa moto, rouba um Rolex avaliado em 30 mil euros a um condutor parado num semáforo, nas Amoreiras, em Lisboa.

→ Homem panamiano, de 29 anos, mata à facada a colega de casa, brasileira, de 45 anos, em Lisboa.

→ PJ detém dois homens por rapto e agressões em Lisboa. Vítima estrangeira só é libertada após o pagamento de um resgate.

→ Assalto com chave falsa a uma casa de luxo no Parque das Nações. Ladrões levam mais de 500 mil euros em dinheiro, joias e malas de marca.

→ A “caça” aos relógios de luxo continua na Grande Lisboa: vários assaltos à mão armada nos últimos dias.

Portugal sangra nas ruas, mas a verdadeira ameaça é o discurso de ódio.

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

This is a disaster. Not a single European country reproduces its own population.

We seem to have forgotten the value of family, and unless we start getting some kids, we Europeans will become irrelevant and taken over by immigration.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

A date with my daughter last night.

Nothing in the world beats children.
Nothing even compares.

I have had a pretty decent career. I have had my share of adventures. I have been dealing with some pretty interesting stuff…

Seen beautiful places.

But nothing in life compares to children.

So if you are forgoing children, you are missing out on life.

That is the message. That’s it.

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@Najib_Ferguson @eucopresident You don’t know your History. The north of Africa was Christian before Muslims invaded it. Ceuta was Portuguese centuries before Morocco even existed as a country.

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@SICNoticias “Entrada de migrantes”. Mais uma “notícia” da “@SICNoticias”.

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@Publico Mais uma “notícia” do @Publico . Vocês não entendem que, quando estalar a guerra civil, não faltará quem quererá fazer contas convosco.

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@fcancio @pedralexpereira “Na capa do Público”. Está tudo dito. É certamente uma pacífica visita de mulheres activistas pró-liberdade.

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@BrunoARFialho @fcancio A @fcancio responde o previsível, o que ela sabe responder. Há pessoas que só vão entender o perigo quando sentirem o frio da faca islâmica ao pescoço. Empáticos suicidas.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Who cares if some old books are being destroyed?

No, seriously: Who cares?

We’re all rightfully protesting, but who’s actually buying those books when they see them at the used bookstore? Who’s taking the time to read them? Who’s learning the dead languages they’re written in?

Anthropic is simply taking advantage of the greatest neglect of our times: our disinterest in the material culture that sustains our civilization.

Damn them.

And damn us for being weak and cowardly and letting our past and our heritage be sent to the slaughterhouse while we keep scrolling.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.

They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.

They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.

An internal memo from 2024 stated:

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”

“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Why used books?

Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.

So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.

The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.

Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.

When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”

Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”

Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.

They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.

Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.

But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.

Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.

AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.

May the most moral company win.

[Abbé Pierre Amar @abbeamar]

L’aube et l’étole du père Jacques Hamel, après ce terrible 26 juillet 2016.
À Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, une plaque a été placée à l’endroit même où il a versé son sang à la suite du Christ. « Celui qui perdra sa vie à cause de moi et de l’Évangile, la sauvera ».

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Ten years ago today, Fr. Jacques Hamel was martyred by Islamic Terrorists, whilst celebrating Mass in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, northern France.
Ora pro nobis

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

beautiful engineering

[Rorate Caeli @RorateCaeli]

@ecb Here's our suggestion for the new Euro Banknotes: The Madonna and Child and arches (front); great European Saints (back) and churches.

[Bernardo Motta @bernardomotta]

@tiagopita Não somos nada poucos, @tiagopita . A maior parte das pessoas simplesmente não segue os “merdia” e não cai no radar dos jornalistas. É cada vez menos relevante o que dizem os jornais e televisões.

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

In the old calendar, today is the day of the Guardian Angel of Portugal. The Portuguese nation is the only one that has public worship dedicated to its Guardian Angel.

Devotion to the Guardian Angel has existed practically since the very beginning of Portugal and spread to such an extent that King Manuel I asked Pope Leo X for permission for public worship: and it was granted, in the early 16th century.

The feast of the Custodian Angel of Portugal and its Overseas Provinces came to be celebrated on the Third Sunday of July and was considered so important that it was to be honored on the same level as the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

At some
Point the feast was fixed on 21 July. Later, during the “Estado Novo” (in 1952), it was moved to 10 June, to coincide with the civil feast of the “Day of Portugal”.

Even so, some towns in Portugal and Brazil still continue to hold festivals dedicated to the Custodian Angel around 21 July.

From the beginning, the Guardian Angel of Portugal has been identified as Saint Michael the Archangel, the Angel who fights against Satan and the evil spirits.

It’s also the Angel that appeared to the Little Shepards in Fatima, in 1916.

Do you think your country has a Guardian Angel?

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

It is rather caricatural to claim that “it is the traditionalists who are creating divisions in the Church.” Does anyone in their right mind actually believe that there is unity in the Church? The disunity is obvious, first and foremost in the way people pray, and then in what they believe:

1. Masses in parishes are quite different from one another, thanks to the “do-it-yourself” liturgy, constant liturgical abuses, the destruction of the sense of the sacred, and the endless creativity of the clergy;

2. Catholic doctrine, although infallible and immutable, is treated as optional - a kind of “à la carte” menu where each person chooses what they like and rejects what costs them or doesn’t suit them, with complete peace of conscience and even pride in demonstrating it publicly;

3. Some Catholics believe abortion should be legal, others that it should be illegal; some Catholics see no problem with same-sex relationships, others believe there is; some think people should have a right to second and third chances when “marriage fails” because everyone has the right to be happy; others hold that marriage is indissoluble; some Catholics believe everyone has a right to the sacraments, while others believe that public and notorious sin without signs of repentance prevents access to them; some Catholics believe women should be able to be priests, while others say this is impossible;

4. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement saying that, according to Catholic doctrine, a union between persons of the same sex cannot be blessed - and afterwards, the German bishops organized a ceremony to bless such unions;

5. The vast majority of Catholic couples use contraceptive methods, even though this is condemned by the Church and considered a grave sin;

6. Only about 10% of Catholics attend Mass every Sunday and fulfill the precept of going to confession at least once a year;

7. Seven out of ten Catholics in the United States do not believe that in the Mass there is the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but rather that the Bread and Wine, after consecration, are merely symbols.

I have given only 7 examples here, but in reality the examples are endless. Does anyone really wants to convince us that the problem in the Church is the “traditionalists”?