Framing “Magnifica Humanitas” as an AI manifesto is a way to misdirect away from the broader point. The central object of the Pope’s critique isn’t the technology, but the socioeconomic systems under which it’s emerged.
"We will always protected...Medicaid" said the guy who just gutted Medicaid.
"We lifted off 2.4 million people off of food stamps" said the guy who actually kicked them off.
ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
Worth remembering that Oscar Romero was martyred not just for speaking out against repression - both Carter & Reagan were happy to condemn it in general terms - but for identifying, & holding accountable, the perpetrators of the violence & the system it was intended to protect
In the last months of his life Romero directly addressed the 20 families owning 70% of El Salvador to remind them the Church speaks of a right to justified revolution. "If you do not give away your gold rings," he warned "a time is coming when your fingers will be chopped off"
The line between academic brilliance and thought disorder is not always sharp. Being hard to fathom can be profound; it can also be bottomless.
-Robert Chambers