This is quite a gloss. He says "democracy as these people present it to us," by which he obviously means Western liberal democracies. Would be valuable to have the context to see what's actually being said.

Important to note in this context that he's also the Peruvian pope

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

The First Station: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says, "whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."

We love our gas guzzling idiot robots don't we folks www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

A friend warned me that baseball is a lot to keep up with because they play so many games but the Jays didn't play tonight and that sucks.

Pope Leo XIV, in a homily on the logic of the cross: "The imperialist occupation of the world is thus disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked." May we be inspired by Jesus to disrupt the imperialist occupation of our own world. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

What is marketed as AI “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labor hierarchies and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary, drawing on their year-long investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center and published by Africa Uncensored.

The form of AI denialism that assumes today's world could really ban and prevent consumer AI is of course sadly naive. But as a Christian I also think The World is bad.

This sentiment but it's aggressively investing in reliable public transit everywhere.

My latest column for NCR on Trans Day of Visibility: www.ncronline.org/opinion/why-...

I can only assume this Jays loss is a carefully calculated move to throw off the league, it's 4D baseball

Heineman was just warming up, he's about to throw those lobs at 100 mph

I mean this is honestly a very silly question. Is the implied position that it would be better to...not let Cubans have any fuel at all than let Putin earn diplomatic points with a country that has enjoyed an immensely close relationship with Russia for almost 70 years?

Medieval history is so fun because the answer to every question that starts with "did anyone ever" is always "Yes." Yes someone ate a human relic. Yes someone made an apocalypse themed gang. Yes someone transformed into a werewolf three times a year and went to Hell to fight the devil.

The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵

📣 Palm Sunday was a protest, and over 10k Minnesota Christians were in the streets this #PalmSunday2026! 🌿 Proclaiming love of neighbor 🌿 Rejecting Christian nationalism 🌿 Following the example of Jesus who rode into Jerusalem on a donkey to challenge unjust power

To be fair apart from Mexico and Iran no other country has actually even tried, to the shame of international politics.

"AI is here" But it's not if companies don't actively choose to bring it "here." AI is not a force of nature. Technology is not inevitable.

I went to the baseball game today and I did make sure to eat THE OFFICIAL KOREAN RICE DOG OF THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS. It was full of mozzarella cheese.

Good news folks, there are Jesuits in the streets today

They're calling it the Flat Vladdy

It's so cool that the Blue Jays are back and they'll never lose again.

I feel like if we learned to authentically ask the question "is this a problem for which AI is the single necessary and truly preferable, best solution" there would be no way to sustain consumer grade AI.

I think writing your stories with AI so you can "focus on reporting" is both disrespectful to your audience and a guarantee that you don't do good reporting, because you're clearly not a fan of quality information. Negative levels of respect for people that do this.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Canada's foreign policy in the Middle East amounts to saying if Israel even imagines it could be attacked, it's perfectly justified in not only retaliating but doing preemptive strikes. If Iran is attacked, it should just accept that, and if it defends itself it should be further punished.

Another classic Very Good Song by the best ones in the game rn

International convoy delivers tons of aid to Cuba amid crisis reut.rs/3NBZWIL

Caroline Walker Bynum is really such a joy to read, a great combination of a very smart person who also knows you're here for the weird stuff.

From a Maronite priest in Lebanon: "In the south, we are the only ones left in these few Christian villages. As long as we are here, this land will remain Lebanese land. We are resisting with our living flesh. We have nothing, we are helpless, our weapon is prayer." www.fides.org/en/news/7750...

That's right, he should have to ensure all Canadians including himself have a guaranteed publicly owned cottage

First Nations and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada are studying the cumulative impacts of mining and other development in the Ring of Fire — but Ontario isn’t at the table. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-fede...

Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows

This is one (among many) reasons why overshoot is extremely stupid. Because the oceans absorb far more warming than land, transgressing 1.5 will have larger lasting effects even if we were to bring the climate to 1.5. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a very silly exercise but kudos to Christie Neufeldt at the United Church for keeping to the very simple message that what the US is doing is illegal and violent and Canada ought to directly reject rather than cooperate tacitly or openly.

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

I really don't understand why academics continue to feed the specifically absurd machine of professional journals, apart from the unique clout and reputation chasing that characterizes academia. It's so much unpaid labor that generates tons of profit for private publishers and license holders.

Truly insulting on the part of the US.

A wrinkle is that the Global South has never had access to clergy at the volume experienced in the US or Canada. An average rural town has at least one parish with Sunday Mass. In rural Brazil, the country with the most Catholics in the world, a rural community is lucky to see a priest once a month.

Something that's great about Marx's analysis of how capitalism is about profit (in Capital) is that even in a scenario where a capitalist wants to be nice, they can't be. The assumption is that it's a system for vicious people, and even if you're not viscious it would be structurally corrupting.

My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services. noraloreto.substack.com/p/counting-t...

Alright I'm warming up to write, ironically about degrowth, so let's break this down a little bit, starting with the deck. There are many things you could call a strategy to raise prices and lower productivity--inflationary, foolish, self-destructive--but degrowth is not one of them.

Just gonna have to repost this every couple of months for three more years I guess. bsky.app/profile/dean...

Well yes to be fair you do have to read even one essay about it to understand that it's not reducible to Big Line Goes Down.

Wow I can't believe Iran would just do this with no reason at all

hello hi once again no degrowth is not when the big line goes down and people have to deal with austerity, that's actually the symptom of a capital growth oriented economy, hope this helps

According to Spotify last year my two most listened to artists were Takanaka and @cheekface.bsky.social and I guess that means my brain is always kind of playing Mario Kart to cope with thinking about being a millennial during the apocalypse.

One Capuchin to another in the basement of a very specific church in Rome.