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To Dwell in Possibility
Fr. Antonio Spadaro SJ Interviewed by @GavJacobson in Equator Magazine.
A Vatican adviser explains how the Pope became the most formidable critic of the algorithmic age | @Equatormag https://t.co/5iN8Ack5aI
Nice to read this @GavJacobson and @Equatormag :
"The resources, in the end, are not confessional. They hold for those who do not believe as well, because they touch what exceeds all measurement: art, prayer, silence, gratuitousness, and human encounter."
Incredibly worth your time - for the texture of Spadaro's speech alone (also for thinking clearly about AI's relationship to institutions of faith) (but I just love the way it sounds)
The senior Vatican advisor @antoniospadaro talks to
@GavJacobson about the Pope’s AI encyclical – which radically critiques both Silicon Valley transhumanism and Trumpism
For @Equatormag, I interviewed Antonio Spadaro (Vatican Undersecretary, papal confidant, and co-author of a book on faith with Martin Scorsese) about the theological and geopolitical stakes of the pope’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. https://t.co/IlEJH5nVxY
Today we are co-hosting an online event with @jamhoormedia.
It’s about Umar Khalid, India’s most prominent political prisoner – and a principled activist we all have a lot to learn from.
The event will feature Umar’s partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88
Get your free tickets here!
https://t.co/NXSjurfpK5
In 1949, Thomas Mann wrote an encomium for Extempore, a small Swiss magazine that he applauded for its moral lucidity and its plucky habit of describing the world as it truly was. The essay, intended for another periodical called Aufbau, went unpublished. @Equatormag translated
"Football has lived on for generations in Palestine. But for most of my life, watching the sport on television was a challenge that required collective triangulation."
Read more in my latest for @Equatormag https://t.co/RyJGDsmBO3
“Despite these entanglements with power, money and nationalism, and under challenges no other national football association has faced, Palestine’s football culture has still found a way to persevere.”
https://t.co/IeeInsQ9rU
From Pankaj Mishra’s introduction to a previously unpublished 1949 essay by Thomas Mann – a sort of mission statement for @equatormag:
“the dignity and autonomy of the life of the mind must be resourcefully defended when societies are overrun by corrupt and philistine forces”