Pope Leo's first encyclical is on #Ai. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

From 2004. Nothing new under the sun. Now please shut up about evangelical converts. www.touchstonemag.com/archives/art...

How can we miss them if they don't go away. poetandpriest.substack.com/p/your-so-ca...

If you're looking for someone to help clean out the garage, you cd do worse than Simone Weil poetandpriest.substack.com/p/apocalypti...

@bsky.app Don't stop me if you've heard this. Georges Simenon was massively prolific, to assert something like 'very unique', and wrote, as Mozart is said to have said of himself, 'as a sow piddles' [fast, easy, naturally ... and odorously messy?]. Analogies, they do break down.

But wd we do the second one?

The EY report larded with #ai #hallucinations was on ... wait for it ... #fraud. #Irony

According to WFB Jr, David Niven once told of two officers, Yank and Brit, in a hotel bar. Two women coming down the stairs. The American says, ‘that is the ugliest woman I have ever seen.’ The Brit replies, ‘that’s my wife.’

Walking tour of London with six odd churches and the author of V for Vendetta. harpers.org/archive/2026...

@bsky.app [from Dec] jordanorthodox.substack.com/p/nikolai-th...

Encyclopedia of #Ai 'hallucination' Sample entries — National Library of Unfinished Books [dedicated to works abandoned between 40% and 85% completion] Armund the River Mapper [mapped 14,000 leagues of river from his chair, sued by three of the rivers] www.halupedia.com

Maybe #Ai *is* human ... arxiv.org/abs/2509.22818

#AI #Advertising arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

If it doesn't come from the Ai region of hell, it's not authentic artificial intelligence.

Our internet is perfectly designed for the results we're getting. Schopenhauer note on intelligence and society makes the rounds ... with his name misspelled.

Two views —  www.plough.com/en/topics/fa... #Christianity #Culture

Long for the immensity of the sea orthodoxical.substack.com/p/long-for-t...

On singing to children childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/abiyoyo-an...

redsoxronin.substack.com/p/lets-play-... #baseball #RedSox

www.universalturingmachine.org the Universal Turing Machine. 1,000 words of memoir, open to anyone, to share what it means to be human.

This is by Jim Avett, a visual artist and musician in North Carolina. His sons have a band.

Kingsnorth [from 2011] orionmagazine.org/article/conf...

Die standing up.

@bsky.app www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...

@bsky.app www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

@bsky.app ‘Is it OK to be a Luddite’ Thomas Pynchon 1984. Heh. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

@bsky.app Dirt words. poetandpriest.substack.com/p/storming-t...

Arvo Pärt turned 90 last week; tons of links at this snippet from Paul Hillier's OUP 1997 biog. MHA a culture comment outlet. mha-members.org/from-the-hea...

Kafka My life consists and basically always has consisted, of attempts at writing, mostly unsuccessful. But when I didn’t write, I was at once flat on the floor, fit for the dustbin.