Samuel Chan

omnia in bonum

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.

Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.

For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://t.co/iG3Bnlzt2J

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

FRANCE 🇫🇷

'A President who claims to be uninterested in the church and Catholics would be failing in his duty'

Pope Leo XIV to Emmanuel Macron in Paris

[Samuel Chan @samueljai]

@CatholicBishops Why is there an extraordinary eucharistic minister when there’s dozens of priests sitting there? Abomination

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Word has just come down that St. Paul’s Cathedral in London—the second most important church in the Anglican world—has imitated Canterbury Cathedral in permitting “raves,” nightclub-like entertainments, to take place in its confines.

The usual reasons for acquiescing to this have been trotted out: reaching out to the young, trying to get with the times, etc. But this development simply shows that the leadership of the Church of England has lost any sense of the crucial distinction between the sacred and the secular.

Across the centuries and across the cultures, our ancestors seem to have intuitively grasped the importance of this demarcation. Whereas the secular is the arena of ordinary experience and activity, the sacred is another realm, a different dimension.

Accordingly, in the properly sacred space, one is lifted out of the conventional and introduced into the numinous. This is why Christian cathedrals are filled with images of the saints and angels and why their interiors are meant first to disorient us and then to reorient us toward the divine.

It is also why, in the initiation rituals of primal peoples, a young person is purposely ripped out of the ordinary and introduced into the mythic and mystic dimension. And it is why, throughout the Bible, sacred spaces are carefully set apart from common spaces.

The contemporary West is, quite literally, the first culture in human history that is in danger of collapsing the sacred into the secular, or better, losing any sense of the difference between the two.

This is doing enormous damage, especially to young people, whose lives have been flattened into a preoccupation with money, worldly success, and material things.

The Church indeed should go out into the secular space to find those who have wandered away from God, but it should then lead those wanderers back to the holy.

Having “raves” in the nave of one of the most sacred spaces in the Christian world is, I’m sad to say, another sign of our pitiful surrender to ideological secularism.

[𝘍𝘦𝘭_𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯 @Fel_blan]

Así se canta el Padrenuestro. Qué preciosidad de voz viril.

[Samuel Chan @samueljai]

@Adroit_Cadet sounds like @mctominay10

[Daniel F.✝️❤️‍🔥 @RussianPapist]

Today I have for you the Catholic alignment chart

I tried not to include the questions on which we have consensus, and included only those that are ongoing/often disputed

Have fun :)

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🤍 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Yan Diomande emotional letter to his late sister:

"Dear Roxane,

Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?"

"We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness."

"Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream."

"Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?"

"Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times."

"Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition."

"Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working."

"You were 10 years old, and already my agent."

"Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed."

"Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers."

"Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders."

"Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show."

"Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”"

"But they still didn’t sign me."

"Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no."

"My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together."

"You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears."

"That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank."

"I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock."

"It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream."

"And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."

"I picked up, and they didn’t even soften it. You know how it is back home. No emotions. Just……..

“Your sister is gone.”
“What?”
“She died.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody put something in her drink at a party, and she never woke up. She is gone.”

"You were 15."

"15."

"I never got any answers. I don’t know if I want to know why. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it’s just something that happens in our country. Maybe I could have protected you. I don’t know."

"I try to trust God’s plan. It’s all I can do. I don’t try to forget, because I know I won’t forget. All I can do is use the pain to work harder, and to do everything we dreamed about."

"I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."

"Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you."

"So much has happened since I last saw you…… You would not even believe it. I don’t know if I believe it."

"You know what’s crazy? After my debut against Madrid, I actually swapped shirts with Mbappé. Remember when we used to watch him on TV, and you’d say, “Mbappé? Yeah, he’s good. But my brother is better.”

"I was wrong about one thing. I don’t want to be rich. I see what it does to people, even to family. When I was at Leganés, everything I was earning, I was sending home. It got to the point where I didn’t even want money anymore. It was just a burden. They never stopped asking. I guess they thought I was a millionaire already. I didn’t even have an apartment. I was living at the training ground in a room with no TV. Just football and sleep, football and sleep."

"I didn’t want a big house. I didn’t want cars. I just wanted to put everything into football. Everything to show the world that my sister was right……."

"Ha…. you will think this is funny. When I moved to play at RB Leipzig, I was always late. Well, not late. But I was on time, which in Germany means you’re very late."

"So you already know what I did next. I started arriving 90 minutes early to everything. I was so early all the time that the guys started calling me “The German.”"

"I always have to overdo everything. I have zero chill. You always said that."

"The pitch is the only place that I feel at home anymore. It’s the place where I feel calm, and I can speak to you. I just wish you were still here so I could tell you….. We did it."

"Everything you said came true."

"We’re leaving for the World Cup tomorrow. For real. Your brother is going to play for Côte d'Ivoire, like Drogba, like Yaya, like Gervinho."

"I don’t even look at it like a game. I look at it like a stage. This is my chance to show the whole world what you saw in me. Every time I score, I’ll make sure everybody knows your name. I’ll make sure they don’t forget you."

"You always said that I could be better than Cristiano. If I see him there, I’ll tell him hello for you."

"I’m going to do what you predicted, I swear. Before I even had real boots, you were telling everybody, “My brother is going to be the greatest in the world.”

"I will prove that you were right, or I will die trying... Your brother, Yan."

— @PlayersTribune

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

Not my circus, not my monkeys, but worth pointing out that the principle of non-contradiction applies here:

If the SSPX holds to what the Church taught BEFORE Vatican II, and Leo says they can't be accepted because of what Vatican II taught, then there is mutual exclusivity between what Catholicism WAS and what Catholicism IS.

In other words: he is admitting, out loud, that they are different religions.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this didn't "happen", we caused it

first, children disappeared from daily life
most women turn 30 without ever holding a baby (they don't have siblings or cousins, and young babies have been removed from shared spaces), never changed a diaper or watched one up close.
you cant want what you've never seen

second, we killed the single income.
the average family needs both parents working just to get to the end of the month, so raising a family well went from hard to something practically impossible (2-3 months of maternity leave should be considered a crime against humanity).

then schools and media, the whole cathedral, all pushed towards the same direction in a systematic brainwashing effort: pushing every girl at the career, motherhood turned into that despicable thing you settle for when the better options run out, "a smaller life". nothing worth desiring, and if you do you must be ostracised

social media just finished the job.
presented childfree as freedom and ideal life, filmed the worst four seconds of a mothers day and called it a warning or "here's motherhood"

and underneath all of it, we removed people from history

no ancestors you owe anything, no descendants you're building for, just one atomic self detached from any sense of continuity. one life with no purpose other than its own selfish goals
especially for western people who have been taught that their ancestors are the most evil humans who ever existed
someone with no past and no future has no reason to see themselves as part of history, and everything they do revolves around their own pleasure
why would you carry something you were raised to be ashamed of?

so a quarter of women raised in captivity selecting for civilizational suicide becomes inevitable
the idea that this was a conscious choice is delusional.
we are the first species in history to get everything it ever wanted: safety, medicine, abundance, ninety good years, and the result is suicide.
everything else alive still manages to reproduce through famine and plagues. we got paradise and stopped

anyone shutting off their own survival drive with no threat in sight is definitionally suicidal and that's where we are now

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Danis @DanisMCFC]

Well well well…
PGMOL title.

[Felipe Demartini @namcios]

O cofundador do Claude sentou hoje entre cardeais no Vaticano e disse ao Papa: minha indústria opera com incentivos que conflitam com fazer a coisa certa.

O Papa olhou para ele e respondeu: "Em nome da Igreja, aceito seu convite para caminharmos juntos."

Aconteceu há horas.

Leão XIV apresentou a "Magnifica Humanitas": a primeira encíclica papal da história dedicada a uma tecnologia específica.

O Papa quebrou séculos de tradição para apresentar o documento pessoalmente. Nenhum papa tinha feito isso antes.

E escolheu como convidado o cofundador do lab de IA notavelmente ausente dos contratos militares do Pentágono. A Anthropic se recusou a liberar seus modelos para armas autônomas e vigilância doméstica.

O que Olah disse diante de cardeais, teólogos e do líder de 1,4 bilhão de católicos:

"Todo lab de IA opera dentro de incentivos que podem entrar em conflito com fazer a coisa certa."

Pressão comercial, competitiva e geopolítica.

E "as pressões mais antigas e mais simples: orgulho e ambição."

A conclusão dele: "As questões levantadas pela IA são maiores que a comunidade de pesquisa em IA." Precisamos de críticos externos sérios e honestos.

Agora o documento.

A abertura coloca a humanidade diante de duas escolhas: construir uma nova Torre de Babel ou reconstruir Jerusalém.

A frase que define a encíclica: "A inteligência artificial precisa ser desarmada."

Leão XIV sabe que a palavra é forte. Escolheu de propósito. Parágrafo 110:

→ "Desarmar a IA significa libertá-la da mentalidade de competição armada, não apenas militar, mas econômica e cognitiva"
→ "Uma corrida por algoritmos cada vez mais poderosos, movida pelo desejo de dominância geopolítica ou comercial"
→ "Desarmar não significa rejeitar a tecnologia, mas impedir que ela domine a humanidade"

E depois: "Simplesmente regulá-la é insuficiente."

O Papa não está pedindo regulação. Está dizendo que regulação não basta.

→ "A IA amplifica o poder de quem já possui recursos econômicos, expertise e acesso a dados"
→ O risco não é alguém acreditar que conversa com uma pessoa ao usar IA. É perder o desejo de buscar outras pessoas.
→ "Toda escolha de design reflete uma visão de humanidade" (parágrafo 111)

A simbologia foi calculada em cada detalhe:

→ Documento assinado em 15 de maio, aniversário exato da Rerum Novarum (1891), a resposta de Leão XIII à Revolução Industrial
→ O Papa disse explicitamente: "Como o Leão anterior, sinto-me encarregado de olhar para outra enorme transformação com olhos de fé"
→ A Igreja faz isso a cada grande ruptura: Rerum Novarum (1891), Pacem in Terris (1963, era nuclear), Laudato Si' (2015, clima), agora Magnifica Humanitas

Fazer da IA a primeira encíclica do pontificado é dizer que nenhum outro assunto é mais urgente.

Agora conecta os pontos.

O primeiro Papa americano da história está em conflito aberto com a Casa Branca.

Ele traz ao palco do Vaticano o cofundador do único lab de IA que enfrentou o governo Trump em defesa de limites éticos. E juntos publicam um documento de 42.300 palavras dizendo que a tecnologia mais poderosa já criada pela humanidade não pode ficar nas mãos de quem lucra com ela.

Teologia e geopolítica na mesma mesa. Literalmente.

Quem constrói a IA não pode ser quem define as regras da IA.

O Papa e o cara que constrói a IA concordaram nisso hoje. No Vaticano. Diante do mundo.

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Michael Carrick on fielding a strong team vs Brighton:

🗣️ Reporter:
“There’s nothing left to play for. A lot of people were surprised by such a strong lineup.”

🗣️ Carrick:
“And that mentality right there is exactly why some clubs never become elite. What do you mean there’s nothing to play for?

This is Manchester United. Since when did we start celebrating third place like it’s a trophy? If I can score 10 against Brighton, I will. Happily.
Not because I hate them… but because we don’t relax here.

Even at 3-0, you go for the fourth. Then the fifth. Then the sixth. We’ve picked up the most points in the league since I took charge… and I don’t plan on dropping that standard. Next season, people will understand what we’re building.”

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie pushed back on criticism from President Trump and GOP leadership ahead of a costly and closely watched primary against former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, telling CBS News’ @edokeefe the race has become a referendum on party loyalty, foreign policy and outside political spending.

Massie is one of the few Republicans in Congress who has opposed the war with Iran and has voted with Democrats to rein in Trump's authority to carry out further military action without congressional authorization. He has also voted against symbolic resolutions backing Israel, as well as a resolution condemning antisemitism that he argued promoted censorship.

https://t.co/6MlHSreAH8

[Uber West Ham @UberWestHam]

This angle is disgraceful, we were robbed.

Pablo is literally being wrestled, not to mention the other fouls from Arsenal players there.

VAR is a plague to the beautiful game, so sick of inconsistent biased officiating.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

OKAY ✅ NOT OKAY ⛔️

[Dominik Tarczyński MEP @D_Tarczynski]

Be Like Poland 🇵🇱

[utdreport @utdreport]

#mufc have dropped 17 points against sides in the bottom six this season.

Meanwhile, United are 15 points off top in the Premier League 😬 [@primevideosport]