Roy Antonio

Tinker. Miner. Sailor. Shy. (Views are my own)

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech:
"I'd like to close with a request.
We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction.
We need informed critics who will tell the labs when
we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.
Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot.
Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take.
Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

“Have faith,” Jesus tells us in the #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 14:1). That is the secret! It is precisely this faith that frees our hearts from the anxiety of possessing and acquiring, and from the illusion that we must pursue a position of prestige to have worth. Each person already has infinite worth in the mystery of God.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

On the first anniversary of the birth into heaven of our dear #PopeFrancis, his words and actions remain written in our hearts. We carry on his legacy by always proclaiming the joy of the Gospel, announcing God’s mercy, and promoting fraternity among all men and women.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media.

I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

VIDEO COLUMN (2): The Hormuz question.

What's happening in the world's most important oil and LNG chokepoint? Let me explain the situation in the strait, and how its shipping lines (and status) are changing, perhaps for ever.

@Opinion #Hormuz #IranWar‌

[Mattia Nelles @mattia_n]

Oleksandr Yakovenko, the founder of TAF Industries, one of Ukraine's largest drone makers wrote a good response to @RheinmetallAG's Papperger's irritating statement. I used AI to translate it for you. It is worth reading in full.

"Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall,

When you called Ukrainian drone manufacturers “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers in their kitchens,” you demonstrated how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare.

This is not about emоtions. This is about battlefield reality.

Here are the figures your industry refuses to acknowledge:

In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They accounted for 90% of all combat losses of the Russian army—more than all other types of weapons combined.

A single company, TAF Industries, produces up to 100,000 FPV drones per month. Over any given 90-day period, the products of my company alone have more confirmed hits than your entire fleet of equipment over its entire history of combat use across all conflicts. And most importantly—I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that.

Our drones achieve greater kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century.

Why? Because the battlefield has changed, while your business model has not.

Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS-guided Western munitions (Excalibur, GMLRS, etc.) almost ineffective.
Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and conventional “peer-on-peer” conflict have become easy targets for drones costing $500–2,000 that attack them from above.
The cost-effectiveness ratio has been turned upside down: one 120mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones—yet our drones still prevail.

This is not a “Lego game.” This is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate weekly. We lose factories to missile strikes and rebuild them within weeks. We print parts in basements and deploy 100,000 strike systems per month, while your engineers still require 3–5 years and hundreds of millions of euros to certify even minor upgrades.

The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms—no matter how expensive or “serious”—are becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not integrate the very technologies you are mocking.

So when you say “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf offices.”

The hashtag #MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do over full campaigns. And they do so while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st-century prices.

The invitation stands, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how the war of tomorrow is actually fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think:

Those who still believe in 1979 will lose to those who are building in 2026.

With respect (but with facts),

Oleksandr Yakovenko
Founder of TAF Industries
One of those “Ukrainian housewives”"

https://t.co/oZnXASQAYw

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims.

[Roy Antonio @rda61]

@OfficialSLEX Where is Lungab Bridge?

[Roy Antonio @rda61]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Roy Antonio @rda61]

"The rise of the agent boss"... where "systems are AI-operated but human-led." https://t.co/x0Z8OTZi51

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

There is an aggressor: Russia.

There is a victim: Ukraine.

We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so.

By “we,” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others.

Thank you to all who have helped and continue to do so. And respect to those who have been fighting since the beginning—because they are fighting for their dignity, their independence, their children, and the security of Europe.

[Department of National Defense - Philippines @dndphl]

ICYMI | 🇯🇵 Defense Minister Nakatani Gen highlighted ongoing efforts to bolster security partnerships among like-minded nations, during his meeting with 🇵🇭 Defense Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. in Manila earlier this week.

#DNDPHL

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

On Sunday morning, the Holy See Press Office said Pope Francis had a peaceful ninth night in Rome's Gemelli hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia.
https://t.co/XM30KqXCxv

[Roy Antonio @rda61]

Thank you, Lord!

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Statement from the Holy See Press Office

[MINING.COM @mining]

Resource #protectionism surges in 72 countries amid #criticalminerals race, shows @MaplecroftRisk https://t.co/tMKmqlwHye

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Sonya and her 1-year-old son Adam

Both killed in a Russian missile strike against Zaporizhzhia yesterday.

Since the international mainstream media isn’t informing the world about these deaths anymore, someone else will have to

[Philippine News Agency @pnagovph]

BREAKING NEWS | President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. says operations of all Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) are banned effective today (July 22, 2024). #SONA2024

[Founder Mode @Founder_Mode_]

This speech will change your life:

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

These ties should be noted somewhere for everyone's benefit ✌️