We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.

Enhanced Games but it’s Tiger Woods faded on Percocet vs John Daly loaded on 15 Jack & Cokes

On this Ascension Day, we’re honoured to share a special message from His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for Thy Kingdom Come 2026.

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The people in Oxford, MS are some of the greatest people in the country. If you’ve been there, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Don’t ever let someone run a hit piece on our school and our state and be fine with it.

Peace begins in the human heart, passes through relationships, takes root in neighborhoods and peripheries, and expands until it embraces the entire city and the world. Peace is built by promoting a culture that rejects violence, through daily gestures, education, and practical acts of justice. #PastoralVisit #Naples

On this date in 1991, 35 years ago, Chucky Mullins passed away. And on this and every day, we remember Chucky, his life and his wonderful spirit. He will forever embody the “Never Quit” attitude for us all. God bless Chucky. #38 #NeverQuit ❤️💙#ItsTime

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

“Humanity must not allow technology, especially AI, to obscure, exploit or suppress human voices, needs, knowledge, talents, creativity and critical thinking abilities.” — Pope Leo XIV

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617

I’m always pretty sure the whole Coldplay catalog has to come out during every big life event

No one is excluded from God’s love! With our unique pasts, mistakes, and sufferings, each one of us remains precious in the Lord’s eyes. Jesus revealed this to us in His every encounter, gesture, and word. He loved us to the very end, showing us that he believed in the power of love to change even the hardest of hearts. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea

Usted vive en un planeta donde los árboles se avisan del peligro a través de raíces que se tocan bajo la tierra. Donde los pulpos sueñan en colores. Donde los elefantes vuelven a los huesos de sus muertos y se quedan allí en silencio, como recordando. Donde las abejas bailan para decirse adónde volar. Donde las flores florecen después del fuego, como si el renacer fuera su manera de hablar. Donde los cuervos recuerdan los rostros crueles y enseñan a sus hijos a reconocerlos. Donde las hormigas hacen ciudades con túneles y puentes invisibles al ojo apurado. Donde los gatos ronronean con una frecuencia que puede ayudar a sanar huesos. Donde las ballenas cantan canciones que cruzan los océanos y cambian un poco en cada encuentro. Donde las ardillas adoptan crías huérfanas y las cuidan como propias. Donde los delfines se llaman entre sí por su nombre, y los caballos reconocen el sonido de una voz amiga. Donde las mariposas recuerdan rutas de migración que sus antepasados siguieron muchos veranos atrás. Donde los hongos crean redes infinitas bajo la tierra, ayudando a los bosques a respirar unidos. Donde los lobos cuidan a sus mayores y cantan juntos a la luna. Donde las luciérnagas vuelven a encender la noche para que los grillos tengan algo que cantar. Donde los peces se agrupan para protegerse, moviéndose como si fueran un solo cuerpo. Donde las tortugas regresan año tras año al mismo lugar donde nacieron. Donde los árboles viejos guardan en sus anillos la historia del clima, del tiempo y del hombre. Donde la vida, incluso en silencio, se acuerda del beso de la luz. Usted vive ahí. En un mundo que siente, que cuida, que recuerda. Feliz día :)

Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.

Pope Leo XIV's Prayer Vigil for Peace on Saturday, April 11, will see faithful from different continents light candles with fire from the Lamp of Peace in Assisi. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…

I am sick of serving in Congress with immoral freaks who abuse their office and bring dishonor to the institution. Congress is rotted to the core and it needs a complete overhaul. The American people deserve better than this.

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Pope Leo celebrates the Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter's Basilica. In his homily, the Pope said that Easter “drives out hatred, fosters concord and brings down the mighty”. "The power of God’s love," Pope Leo said, is "stronger than any force of evil … Humanity can kill the body, but the life of the God of love is eternal life, which transcends death and which no tomb can imprison”.

This girl said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” And now I can’t unsee it 🥺❤️…

Goethe wrote in 1833 that a culture of constant news eviscerates the past and the future, leaving you no time to metabolize lessons or sketch out a plan, always pulling you into the whirlpool of Something Important Happening Somewhere