Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

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Watching “is it cake” holiday edition with the three year old and he is apoplectic

just learned that the Dutch for “auxiliary bishop” is “hulpbisschop”

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Burn it to the ground

I think Star Trek endures because it encompasses all of the fundamental storytelling archetypes: Man vs man. Man vs self. Man vs computer. Man vs sexy lady. Man vs cave. Man vs God. Man vs lizard. Man vs tribunal. Man vs Abraham Lincoln. Man vs ghost. Man vs boss. Man vs doctor. Man vs rock. Man vs

AI infidelity is reshaping family law “More and more, courts are beginning to see clients cite emotional bonds with AI companions as reasons for marital strain or dissolution.” my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...

A question that emerged in the last couple weeks in my Catholic Social Teaching class - why has there not been an anniversary encyclical of Rerum Novarum since Centesimus Annus in 1991?

Do you like Maroon 5? Their early work was a little too pop-soul for my taste, but when V came out in 2014, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a bi

my favorite idiotic fact is that the guy from maroon five hates all of their hits. like 100% of them. he said when they cut a track and he fucking loathed it he knew it was destined for greatness and he was going to have to play it every week at least a year

I told my honors students that my rubric for the oral final exam is essentially "if you're interesting, you get a good grade; if you're boring, you get a bad grade" 🦋 is this pedagogy?

Enough space politics, its time to consider why the country of Genovia from the Princess Diaries is almost monolingually English speaking and what its relationship is to the EU, particularly given it is technically an absolute monarchy

Right now my 3yo son is forming a core menory* * hating clowns

This was me after hearing “Golden” for the 16th time today

In your charity, please pray for a special intention.* * It’s me. I’m at a kindergarten birthday party. It is very loud.

Why does Rod look photoshopped in?

It turns out that the answer to the question “have things been getting better or getting worse?” is usually “yes.”

It’s not required to performatively hate things

See the poetry of Timothy Murphy: gay, Catholic, alcoholic. The last lines here hit so hard!

The John Candy documentary on Amazon is very good and quite touching.

There is a meaning to the fact that Dreher cites here and it's this: religious pluralism is great! Qualified people can become leaders in our society without having to abandon or dissemble about their religious faith! Score one for pluralistic liberalism over laïcité or ethno-religious nationalism!

Recently one of my former students emailed me the recording of a homily he preached at his parish, which was a retooling of a homily he did for a class with me 9 years ago (!). It was a delight to hear!

One of my favorite parts of my job is teaching the students in formation for the permanent diaconate, which I get to do almost every semester.

Lmao

My takeaways: 1) Mary is #1 among the saints because she's Jesus's mom 2) All titles and honors given to Mary must reflect the ultimate source of grace, God 3) Mary would not want any titles or honors that might distract from her son

Morning reading: www.vatican.va/roman_curia/...

Buying a space heater for the office has been a game changer.

Compared to having your World Series-bound team chopped down by a labour dispute when you were 13 years old and loved the game, this is bliss.

Really excited for Game 8 of the World Series

this is like a horse seizing and devouring a pegasus

I enjoyed a really thoughtful and insightful conversation about Sophocles' Philoctetus today, thanks to the @catherineproject.bsky.social (also great to finally be in a seminar with @kaseynbailes.bsky.social !)

Visiting the imprisoned is a corporal work of mercy.

Driving the kids to swim lessons, they could not agree on music until I suggested the TRON: Legacy soundtrack.

Did I dadsplain to my 5yo “actually it’s Frabkenstein’s monster” today? You’re damn right I did.

Self-control win: TWO people came by my office today offering Halloween candy and I turned ONE of them down

(1) what a loving last act of a teacher now in Hell (2) bringing a baby to this funeral: oops

heist movie where the legitimist, orleanist, and bonapartist claimants to the french throne team up to steal the french crown jewels from the louvre, each planning the stab the other two in the back at some point during the caper

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

This reminded me of how, before it was announced, the Segway was supposed to be the greatest invention in human history that would fundamentally change what it meant to be a person.

tbh i'm surprised we haven't made the robot boxing from Real Steel a real thing by now

Finally saw it today! 90% disappointed was a pretty accurate guess!

In my AI and Theology class, we read the Techno Optimist Manifesto from Marc Andreessen today. Was surprised and impressed by how skeptical the students were of the whole thing, the idea of limitless growth that underlies it, and its view of the human person.

Sed contra: if development is a kind of change (and John Henry Newman says it is), then doctrine does change. And if development is not simply any change whatsoever but a function of intelligence, then we’ve not risked doctrine at all. We’ve merely specified and expanded the same intelligible field.

Georgetown University names Eduardo Peñalver, a former Dean of Cornell Law, Supreme Court clerk, and President of Seattle University, as its next President. www.georgetown.edu/news/49th-pr...

If you're in the Hampton, VA area, I'll be speaking at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Vatican II and the lay apostolate in digital contexts on Friday, November 7th!

Some of my take on #dilexite www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...