Blessed and privileged to accompany HH @PopeTawadros II on his inaugural visit to HAH @EcuPatriarch Bartholomew I, with wonderful fraternal sentiments and words that express a commitment to continuing journey.
“Your Holiness, the bonds between the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox Churches in general, and between the Coptic Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate in particular, are ancient and hallowed. They are rooted in the witness of Christians from the early centuries, nourished by reverence for the patristic tradition, sanctified by the blood of the martyrs, and animated by a shared liturgical and ascetic ethos.”
Patriarch Bartholomew I
A quarterback took a Down syndrome girl to prom... and showed the world what real manhood looks like. ❤️
He could’ve chosen anyone, but he chose the girl who believed in him before popularity ever did. And that choice meant everything. 🥺🙌
Die Heiligen zu verehren ist das eine. Eine Beziehung zu ihnen aufzubauen, etwas ganz anderes. Neuer Substack-Beitrag von Abun d'Bashmayo Deutsch: https://t.co/JPFtO0JrIT
Venerating the saints is one thing. Developing a relationship with them is another matter altogether. New Abun d'Bashmayo Substack post: https://t.co/3oKT0hvVJC
This is wild.
143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.
Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.
Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.
Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.
The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.
Laura Loomer flew to India.
Before she left she deleted all of her anti-Indian tweets. Thousands of them. Gone.
She thought nobody would notice.
An Indian uncle noticed.
He read them back to her on camera.
Every one. Her own words. Her own bigotry. Directed at the people whose country she was visiting as a guest.
This is the woman who has the personal cell phone number of the President of the United States.
This is the woman who shaped immigration policy from Mar-a-Lago.
She deleted the evidence before crossing the border.
The internet is forever.
The uncle is a hero.
Here we have Paula White trying to make a woman fall over in the Spirit but the woman ain’t having it. These kinds of services were my mainstay when I was a teenager. I barely survived with my faith intact.