Botond Varga

My burden is heavy,
My dreams are beyond control.

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

The problem with the Sufis is that they reject the reality of reality. Yes, the world is fallen, in each thing and person there is the sign of higher things, hidden refractions of God, they got this right. But what I see is not just a symbol, it is beloved banality, infinitely meaningful in its own right.

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@joeminocqua

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@DrDavidVernon That’s what I tell myself as well friend, keep it up, all books must be owned

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@AlluPatronia The first picture is infinitely better

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

“The heart of a woman should be so well hidden in God,
that a man, to find it, would need to seek God first.”

— C. S. Lewis

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@GTA_VI_6_ This game is so fundamentally perverted. Really drives home the point that true freedom is the opportunity to do good. In giving in to baser instincts we are become a slave to wicked masters.

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

A golden archive!

[Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @NataliaAntonova]

Here are all the LotR memes I’ve been gatekeeping

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@robbertleusink Yes, it’s a sacred space, but how many are pulled to faith by treading unsuspecting into the Body of Christ?

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@growing_daniel Monogamy from first principals. If I was a VC I would back it.

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@Steve09812 The man might leave the bee, but the bee never leaves the man.

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@MarioNawfal Who would not cry when meeting the Vicar of Christ?

[Evan Amato @SirEvanAmato]

Wow…what an incredible weekend!

Over 50 people joined me and @EduardHabsburg in Florence for the unveiling of a commissioned portrait of St. Catherine.

What a crowd it was: top thinkers from Harvard, the Pentagon, finance, and the arts joined to discuss why St. Catherine is a saint for our time. It was an inspiring weekend with loads of thought-provoking and edifying conversations.

But more than anything, it was a testament to St. Catherine’s admonition to “be who you were meant to be, and you will set the world on fire.” Few things are more beautiful than getting a diverse crowd of people who are following their calling – in the arts, business, religious life, or otherwise – together to see how the Lord works uniquely through us all.

In a time when it’s easy to despair and lament about all that’s wrong with the world (as those in St. Catherine’s time certainly had reason to do), it’s incredibly encouraging to focus on the good, and on those who remain faithful through it all. We met with people whose families have been stewarding the flame for centuries, as well as with others who just came into the Church at Easter. In every case, the unifying factor was a whole-hearted dedication to goodness, truth, and beauty: even, and especially, when these transcendentals seem most under attack.

I’ll be back in the coming weeks to share more about what we covered over our three day weekend in Florence, sharing more photos, videos, conversations, and interviews where appropriate.

In the meantime, I want to thank Carl-Nikolas von Tiedemann for creating such a beautiful portrait for my family (one we will pass down for generations!), as well as everyone who joined us to make this weekend so enjoyable. Above all, I thank St. Catherine for her example, and for all that she can teach us about following the Lord and becoming all that he made us to be.

Sancta Catharina, ora pro nobis!

[Raphael Barberi📷 @itsrapha83]

Turning Florence into an impressionist painting🇮🇹

[Eduard Habsburg @EduardHabsburg]

After an incredible weekend with @SirEvanAmato and friends in Florence, immersed in beauty, faith and Catholic Culture.
So many young people waiting to bring their faith to their fields in society.
And I learned you can be a traditional painter, just like that!

[Evan Amato @SirEvanAmato]

This weekend, @EduardHabsburg and I are thrilled to welcome 50 of the most exciting minds in academia, the arts, and business to Florence for a discussion on “A Saint for Time: St. Catherine of Siena.”

We’ll be discussing what St. Catherine can teach us about the intersection of faith, power, and politics today. We’ll also unveil the portrait I commissioned of her from Carl-Nikolas von Tiedemann, and attend a special Mass in her honor.

It’s a joy and a privilege to welcome so many great thinkers and individuals to Florence, many of whom I’ve admired and appreciated for quite some time now. It’s an even greater honor to be able to share part of St. Catherine’s legacy with the world today, as I truly believe she is a saint we can look to for guidance in our increasingly chaotic and divided world.

Interviews and conversations from the weekend be made available later to subscribers of The Habsburg Way (link in bio), so follow us there if you’d like to join the discussion.

In the meantime, St. Catherine of Siena, ora pro nobis!

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

My two favourite people coming together!!

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV met with American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a private audience on Wednesday, November 4.

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@Rainmaker1973 The bigger fish was his greed all along

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@ScienceExpand They can predict it perfectly. The exact movement is just very sensitive to initial conditions. But it’s still entirely deterministic

[Botond Varga @botond_var35195]

@jessfraz Obviously an agent doesn’t have personhood, but all the training data is from people who do, don’t you think that if we’re forcing it continually into infrequently represented habits of speech / tokens we’re lowering intelligence?

[lauren @poteto]

we will need to rebuild and rewrite much of software to adapt to a new, faster pace.

code used to arrive one drop at a time. soon, if not already, code will be written as if it were a continuous stream, like a violent river twisting and turning as it pleases.

this is not a new thing: big tech cos have had to deal with this with the enormous scale of their engineering teams. but now ai has brought an incredibly elastic and capable workforce wielded by every engineer. this is your problem now, and the only way to adapt is to evolve your systems so agents - even and especially the ones with little context about the right way of doing things - can thrive. make the easy thing the right thing.

your codebase is becoming organic architecture. agent contributions grow around the constraints and guardrails you’ve designed. good software engineering matters even more now! and no, the continuous stream of code is not something you have to watch helplessly. be more ambitious and design systems, frameworks, and languages to control the chaos.

the time for mourning coding is long over