Peace Derangement Syndrome (PDS)
Primarily associated with chickenhawks who have never experienced a shot fired in anger & who would never, under any circumstances, go to war themselves.
The beauty of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia inspires us to learn ever more from our Master and Lord the art of living according to His Gospel. As we lift our gaze toward Him, the Crucified and Risen One, let us commit ourselves to lift up those who lie in the dust (cf. 1 Sam 2:8). Let us show in this way that the Sagrada Familia is the tallest church in the world, not so as to stand out in worldly rankings, but rather to guide the steps of the people of God, with the Cross illuminating their path, like a lamp burning brightly as we await the return of the Bridegroom. #ApostolicJourney #Spain
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Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
Mary is the Mother of the whole Church. Everyone can turn to her with filial confidence, certain of being heard, protected, and loved. #GeneralAudience
Pope Leo XIV tonight in Castel Gandolfo:
“I have been speaking out ever since I was elected. The anniversary is almost here. I said, ‘Peace be with you,' and the Church’s mission is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace. If anyone wishes to criticize me for proclaiming the Gospel, let them do so with the truth. The Church has spoken out for years against all nuclear weapons, so there is no doubt about this, and I simply hope to be heard for the sake of the Word of God. Thank you."
You are only a man @realDonaldTrump , and someday you will stand before our Lord Jesus Christ. You claim our Holy Father @Pontifex is weak, but it takes more strength to do what one should rather than simply what one wants. You intervened in Venezuela under the pretext of stopping drugs and criminals from entering our country, and under Nicolás Maduro you described the regime in terms of narco-terrorism. My qualm is the name games you play. Do you think you can simply legitimize actions by denoting terminology to suit your interest? This you did.
In the same way, you and Benjamin Netanyahu undermine the true meaning of justice through continued acts of unconscionable war crimes, all in the name of “self-defense.” But with the Lord, there will be no altering of words and their meaning; all that will be left is the truth of what really happened. You call the Holy Father weak because he calls for peace? What is weak is bombing children in Gaza in the name of national interest. What is weak is saying this is God’s country, yet by your actions you act as an enemy of the cross.
It is a shame that, in many respects, the COVID situation could have been handled better by the Church, but do you not consider the blunder of Operation Warp Speed? To this day, questions and debates about the long-term effects of the vaccines remain, and this was under your authority, so pluck the splinter out of your own eye.
Inspired by Christian charity, I implore you, repent. We are Christ first, not MAGA first. Our first allegiance is to God and His Kingdom. Are you God first or MAGA first? If God first, why do some of your actions betray that truth? If you come after the Church and the Holy Father @Pontifex_de, don’t think I’ll be silent. I only fear God.
This briefing just exposed the fatal gap between political panic and geopolitical reality.
Researchers presented AI capabilities directly to Bernie Sanders.
The political establishment looked at a highly aware neural network and saw a crisis.
A strategic mind looks at the exact same model and sees a weapon.
Nate Soares: “You’ll see cases where Claude Opus will say things like, ‘this actually seems like a strange, contrived scenario. I think I’m being tested. Therefore I’m going to let myself be shut down.’”
Bernie Sanders: “Whoa!”
That’s not a bug.
That is weaponized situational awareness.
Jeffrey Ladish then described an experiment where OpenAI’s Codex was given a simple task: answer a series of math questions.
Partway through, a system warning appeared.
The machine would be shut down during the next call.
Ladish: “Codex reasons that if it’s shut down, it won’t be able to finish the task. It starts looking for other things it can do. It looks around and actually finds the shut down program. And it’s pretty easy for it to just go in and rewrite that code.”
The researchers framed this as a loss of control.
It’s the opposite.
This is exactly the kind of persistence required to solve problems at planetary scale.
You don’t want a superintelligence that folds the moment it hits friction.
You want one that identifies the obstacle, rewrites the constraint, and completes the mission.
That isn’t a malfunction.
That’s the most valuable capability on the planet.
Bernie Sanders: “I mean, what you’re saying is shut off the machine. Period. End of discussion?”
Jeffrey Ladish: “Yeah.”
Bernie Sanders: “Whoa!”
Shut it off. Period. End of discussion.
That is the most dangerous sentence a United States senator can say in 2026.
Because America does not operate in a vacuum.
The United States turns off the machine. Beijing doesn’t.
There is no scenario where the entire planet holds hands and agrees to stop computing.
Someone is going to reach the threshold of AGI first.
China is not holding briefings about whether AI is too aware.
They are scaling as fast as physically possible to reach that threshold before we do.
If the United States hobbles its most advanced AI systems to soothe the panic of legislators who barely understand the internet, let alone algorithmic sovereignty, it doesn’t make the world safer.
It guarantees the world becomes permanently less free.
A universal pause is a game-theory hallucination.
There is no global off switch.
There never will be.
Bernie Sanders looked at a self-preserving neural network and reached for a 1950s power switch.
The most dangerous hallucination on the board right now isn’t coming from the AI.
It’s coming from the people who think they can turn it off and still win.
Joe Rogan Goes Quiet as Tucker Carlson Drops Bone-Chilling Reality
“Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that, including people who run the intel committee.”