Old-school Twitter thread on yesterday's Armenia elections #armvote26 — a few observations:
1. The main opposition was heavily constrained by being perceived as pro-Russian, which probably alienated around half of the electorate. Ru's image did not recover after Karabakh.
Late Monday morning, Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced the initial election results, according to which Prosperous Armenia fell slightly under the threshold of four percent, and therefore would not enter parliament.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization."
"The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said.
"In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”
Incorrect: Armenian is gender-neutral, making it difficult to speak Arabic (where verbs, adjectives, & adverbs are fully gendered), prompting the joke that someone buys gifts for their father on mother's day.