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Hac intellegentiae artificialis aetate, urgens fit humanam artem ab iis distinguere, quae machinis efficiuntur. Ars enim et ea, quae machina ex innumeris alienis imaginibus statisticae ope computationis generare potest, ontologice, prius etiam quam aesthetice, inter se differunt. Algorithmis humani deest favilla. Quapropter Ecclesia cum artificibus et humani cultus institutis foedus renovare cupit: foedus scilicet ad humanum custodiendum.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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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. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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they made Jed Bartlet a real person and put him in charge of Canada
Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"
"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."
"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"
"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"
"Every day"
"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."
My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.
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Extraordinary response to @MarkCarney speech in European Parliament. Standing ovation from almost all MEPs and huge applause in public gallery. A new world order really is being shaped and it is not how Trump’s USA imagined. It used to be taken as read that the US President led the free world. No more. UK really needs to get fully on board with the big changes taking place. I hope this was discussed at the football last night!! Meanwhile both in our interview with @Ed_Miliband and latest @RestIsPolitics the Carney worldview is on the agenda.
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Canada really is loved around the world and so is our Prime Minister.
Damian Boeselager's was one of my favourite's at the State of the Union Address at the European Parliament today.
Damian Boeselager is a German politician and one of the founders of Volt Europa, a pan-European political party. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019, representing Volt Germany.
He is currently Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), which deals with major EU economic, financial and monetary legislation.
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What OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes effort cost in 88h could have hired 600 postdocs for a year.
Hundreds of scientists tackling hundreds of problems, likely generating far more discoveries, innovation and technology.
Developing AI is great.
But not at the cost of defunding science.
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** I lifted this off Facebook. It is a great post by Mick Doyle **
I keep hearing Americans say:
“I’m not responsible for Trump. I didn’t vote for him.”
Okay.
But let me tell you how this looks from outside the United States.
I live in a major border town. I see American licence plates every day. Lots of them.
And here's the uncomfortable truth:
I don't stop to wonder whether the person behind the wheel voted for Trump.
I don't know them. I don't know their politics. I don't know whether they despise Trump or worship him.
I see the American plate.
And whether it's fair or not, I automatically associate them with the country whose government is doing these things.
That's what national identity does.
That's how the rest of the world sees you.
When the United States invades a country, threatens another, imposes economic warfare, supplies weapons for a war, or attacks the sovereignty of another nation, the world doesn't have the luxury of separating every individual American from the actions of the American state.
The United States invaded Venezuela.
The United States is waging economic war against Canada.
The United States has seriously contemplated military action against Mexico, a sovereign country.
The United States has repeatedly threatened the sovereignty of Greenland.
The United States is supplying Israel with weapons and military support while Gaza is being devastated.
The United States continues its decades-long economic strangulation of Cuba.
And then comes:
“But that's Trump. I'm not responsible. I didn't vote for him.”
Maybe you didn't.
But here's the problem:
The rest of the world sees the American flag.
We don't see your ballot.
We don't know how you voted.
We see your government.
And if you genuinely oppose what your government is doing, then don't simply ask the rest of the world to distinguish you from it.
Make the distinction visible.
Protest.
Organize.
March.
Speak out.
Put pressure on your representatives.
Make your opposition impossible to ignore.
Because the midterms are still up in the air. There is no guaranteed deliverance from this menace waiting around the corner.
Trump could lose. He could win. Congress could change. It could remain divided.
Nobody knows.
And while everyone waits for an election to potentially save them, American power continues to be exercised around the world.
So no, I don't believe every American is a Trump supporter.
But I also don't believe Americans can simply wash their hands of what the United States does by saying:
“That's Trump, not me.”
Because whether you like it or not, national actions create national reputations.
I live with that reality every day when I see those American plates.
And so does the rest of the world.
You may not be Trump.
But the world sees the American flag.
Full stop.
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Iceland votes to stop negotiations to join EU. One week later : Trump plans to annexe it. Well done Icelanders! You will have your fishing boats but to catch McDonald’s Filet O Fish. Even less smart than Denmark breaking EU unity over Ceuta, coz they need no help w Greenland…
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Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a sailor who couldn't call a lawyer, couldn't fly home, couldn't do anything—hit post.
dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-…
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I just had a deeply alarming 45 minute sync with our Talent Acquisition team regarding their new AI-driven resume screening tool.
They reported that the software's reduced our time-to-hire by 60% over the last month.
I asked them to walk me through the specific algorithmic parameters they established for filtering out unqualified applicants.
The HR manager smiled and said they just told the AI to optimize for digital natives with high runway potential and a youthful energy.
I stopped typing and asked her to run a demographic report on every single candidate the software's rejected since September.
The data showed a 100% rejection rate for any applicant who graduated college before the year 2010.
I explained that automating age discrimination doesn't make it suddenly legal, it just makes it highly scalable and incredibly easy to prove in court.
She seemed genuinely confused and argued that the AI made the decision, not her, so we're insulated from liability.
I had to explain that the EEOC doesn't currently accept the robot defense for federal civil rights violations.
I'm currently drafting a memo to halt all hiring until we manually review 4,000 resumes.
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Jonathan Broadbent retweeted
Like the closing scenes of a horror movie that stays with you for days & days.
ARTIST TAXI DRIVER
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Jonathan Broadbent retweeted
The difference between the Vietnam War and the Iran War is that Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
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Americans realizing thier gov has been illegally taxing them for over a year and billionaires are getting the refund instead of the customers
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This is dumb because the tax only applies to people not paying income tax to New York because they’re pretending they don’t live here. So if they leave and sell their apartment New York doesn’t lose any income tax revenue, because they weren’t paying that anyway, but potentially gain a new resident that will pay income tax. It’s a win-win for the city.
The @NYCMayor Mamdani pied a terre tax (the PAT tax) will likely reduce overall tax revenues for NY and that’s before considering the capital flight it will cause.
When a NYC home is burdened with an additional annual tax, the home value will decline by the capitalized value of that new tax.
While the PAT tax is set at 5%, it is 5% of the assessed value of the home, which is generally substantially less than its market value. Assessed values are typically a fraction, let’s say 6%-15%, of the market value of a home and/or apartment so economically the PAT tax should be approximately 0.3%-0.75% of the market value of the home.
Using a 4% cap rate, a 0.3%-0.75% PAT tax should reduce market values and annual real estate tax collections by 7.5%-18.75% assuming people believe the tax will be payable annually over the long term.
The impact on current real estate values is not just on owners whose primary residence is elsewhere. As such, the value of all NYC residential real estate is going to decline. This will lead to substantially reduced assessed values and lower overall real estate tax collections.
And all of the above is before considering capital flight as more wealthy NYers leave the city and the desirability of NYC residential real estate declines.
Tell me why I am wrong.
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Jonathan Broadbent retweeted
The difference between
"There used to be hot summers too."
and
climate crisis.
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Wild how nationalist parties are all funded by foreign governments.
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