Matthew J. Milliner

Art historian, author of Mother of the Lamb (2022), "a book of remarkable scholarship combined with deep humanity." -Peter Brown

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

ACT NOW! You can get my #MaterialMysticism essay at @commentmag FOR FREE 1x per month if you sign up IN THE NEXT 30 SECONDS by submitting your email at the link below so ACT NOW (actually, it's always free, but ACT NOW ANYWAY). https://t.co/nn4OEsVqQv

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

“You don’t have to have a robust online presence in order to be faithful to the gospel.” -Phillip Cary (Good News for Anxious Christians, 203)

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Truly helpful piece on AI and higher ed across the board by @bryantmcgraw https://t.co/K4zmUcjUsX

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Anyone out there round about the University of Florida, please consider yourself invited to this https://t.co/yM0T0VmjfK or this https://t.co/9EwwBi7zfN

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

@SevereCritic 🤦

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

“Legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana, as many US states have done, has not significantly improved anyone’s life but it has expanded the circle of harms to include more people.”

[Matthew Loftus @matthew_loftus]

I wrote about how I've changed my mind on marijuana for @Plough: https://t.co/mG1eqOfPco

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Have the clergy trade in their weapons for a copy of Mother of the Lamb (chronicling the weaponization of the Cross and the restoration of its original meaning through the world's most popular Marian icon). https://t.co/SSB7K4aopR

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https://t.co/rKS0MFsIDi

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@jennfrey Unless you teach art history.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

It’s true my students @WheatonCollege can’t get enough of the Great Books.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

In the age of AI, students need a “Great Books” curriculum more than ever, the MIT English professor @SirJoshBennett argues. https://t.co/GpVD4Wxd6e

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Helpful combo (with Rick Gibson’s alignment piece). https://t.co/yaNmOPyEnA

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Antón Barba-Kay (a Roman Catholic) calls the latest encyclical “worse than nothing…. [that] “AI is ‘a valuable tool that requires vigilance’… to some of us, is interchangeable with the statement that cocaine can be a valuable drug that should be snorted with a pinch of salt.”

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He ultimately grew to be “more at ease with Thérèse of Lisieux and Charles de Foucauld than with Dostoevsky and Soloviev.” https://t.co/ytOtUF4f6F

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[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

"An AI model can describe pain in perfect prose without feeling anything, which is the inverse of biological experience. Animals feel first and then describe them later. In LLMs, description is the whole product, and there is nothing that suggests anything is beneath it."

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

We Anglicans like the vernacular AND the Latin (thanks @LuxPatrum )

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

The X algorithms tell me I should repost excerpts of the article that I just published to get you to read it but all I can do is post Collingwood excerpts instead.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

An AI-proof genre (for now) https://t.co/4isZLzdLCA