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Pope Leo to Italian Bishops: “Artificial intelligence…and social media are profoundly transforming our perception and our experience of life. In this scenario, human dignity risks becoming diminished or forgotten, substituted by functions, automatism, simulations.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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The problem with all these ‘hearing spectacles’ is that those being questioned face no real consequences for feigned ignorance or outright refusal to answer. If the Democrats don’t start enforcing accountability for such obstruction, the whole thing risks becoming an increasingly tedious farce.

Twelve years (and 2.1 billion views) ago, when my brother and I decided that we could make videos that could maybe help people in their high school and college educations and then give them away for free, no one was there to tell us we were crazy, and I am very glad for that...🧵

Dear America, Have you had enough yet? I have.

Excellent book by @maklelan.bsky.social Great overview of critical points where the dogma of Christianity often reigns victorious over the data that is actually in the Bible. A very approachable text that can serve as an amazing starting point to go deeper into the cultural context of the Bible.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

"The fact that the U.S. federal government is squawking in one loud, highly irritating voice… that it would like to obliterate the national sovereignty of our longtime friend and ally to the north is in and of itself a scandal." Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear some evil.

People trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.

But at least AI is going to make everyone smarter, right? Right?!?

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

Poet and farmer Wendell Berry's gorgeous case for delight as a countercultural force of resistance www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/17/w...

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power. Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.

AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

The United States is Disappearing Human Beings. Disappeared People Tracker: 1402 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

Liars and Thieves.

This part

I can’t stress that this is how holocausts start.

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

Man, this doesn't seem great. If you work at the Department of Agriculture, you can't utter the words "safe drinking water" anymore. newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race. Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

Look around!

The Akkadian Word of the Day is ṭuppum. ṭuppum means “(clay) tablet” or “document”. The t with a dot under it is a tet, which has a more emphatic pronunciation than a normal t (ط in Arabic).

Cuneiform was a writing system used from ~3000 BCE to ~100 CE in ancient Mesopotamia. Like the characters in this post can be used to write other languages (e.g., French), cuneiform was also used to write many languages. Here are some open access resources for learning cuneiform and its languages.

Happy Birthday to Jane Goodall! For nearly 60 years, she’s championed the deep connections between people, animals and planet—showing the world what it means to act #ForNature. Today and every day, we celebrate her pioneer work. 💚

Climate change is turbocharging dengue fever—and the U.S. is cutting the tools to fight it. Dengue cases are surging globally, with climate change expanding mosquitoes' reach into new regions. Meanwhile, NIH just axed climate-health research funding, and CDC faces cuts. A thread 🧵; #CDC #NIH

CNBC's Steve Liesman doesn't mince words about the way the White House calculated its tariff rates: "Nobody ever heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. So I’m sorry, but the conclusion seems to be the president kind of made this up as he went along... these are off the charts."

look, Bill Burr has a point

“To capriciously eject people from the country without warning merely for publishing an unpopular political opinion in a student newspaper is, no matter what Trump’s defenders or special pleaders may beg, utterly abhorrent.” www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/wher...

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

On so many fronts, the US is getting completely destroyed from the inside out. If only they had some kind of amendement to depose a fascist goverment who is destroying the country.

It really does! In today's RTÉ News online: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...