DHS raiding a member of congress's home to search for immigration paperwork filled out decades ago by her now-deceased father really checks all the fascist police state boxes.
La pena di morte è inammissibile perché attenta all’inviolabilità e dignità della persona. Il bene comune può essere tutelato e i requisiti della giustizia possono essere salvaguardati senza ricorrere alla pena capitale: sono stati messi a punto sistemi di detenzione efficaci, che proteggono i cittadini, ma, allo stesso tempo, non tolgono completamente ai colpevoli la possibilità di redimersi. #NoDeathPenalty
The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
So Anne Carson wins the Nobel. And what could be a better time than now to share her intimate and timeless teardrop of a poem.
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love.
"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite."
Pope Leo XIV: "Magnifica Humanitas."
Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”
Then Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s current Head of Alignment Stress-Testing, agreed with him, saying people inside the company genuinely believe AI could kill all humans.
Hubinger said he personally puts the chance of AI wiping out humanity within the next decade at greater than 10% and said Anthropic still does not have a plan to solve the problem.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
To take a day dedicated to shared national grief and use it to take petty, sarcastic swipes at Joe Biden says everything you need to know about JD Vance. No charisma. No substance. Just small-minded malice and desperate insecurity.