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The US launched strikes against Iranian targets today. US Central Command spokesperson Capt Tim Hawkins: “U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces. Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire."

Obama turned Libya from the country that had the highest standard of living in Africa into a war-torn failed state. Yet some still portray him as a saint. 💔💔

This Florida mom was in tears as because she was losing her Section 8 housing assistance after starting a new job: “I feel like I got punished for trying and getting a job”

New poll shows Brent Hennrich, WA-03 candidate, leading incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez by +9 points Perez has recently gone viral for her legislation to allow the killing of sea lions in Washington rivers

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Dahiye is emptying out. The last time Israel warned Beirut's southern suburbs, they flattened them. People who lived through that don't need to be told twice. Source: WarFront Witness

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said FIFA officials contacted her administration about relocating the Iranian team from its current base in Tucson, Arizona, to Mexico, even though its matches are scheduled to take place in the US. “The US does not want the Iranian team👇

Reading the encyclical, I am reminded that the Vatican is fundamentally a city-state on the continent of Europe, and that its elites, which of course include the Pope himself, cannot resist the myopic preoccupations of the Eurocrat. This document would be much improved if it were less enamored of the traditional academia/civil society talking points on AI (“The apparent objectivity of the responses and suggestions these systems provide can lead us to overlook the fact that they reflect the cultural assumptions of those who designed and trained them” woah! really???) and more engaged with where AI is headed. But instead of doing that, the encyclical dodges in the deepest sense, denying that AI “really thinks” or “really learns” and all that typical strain of cope that amounts to magical thinking: “when a computer does it, it is ‘data processing,’ beep boop, but when a human does it, it is ‘actual learning’” It is probably actively bad for global understanding of AI that the Pope endorsed this viewpoint as late as 2026. In the end, this encyclical reads to me as though ghost written by the blob of Western civil society, the same people whose feckless and incoherent preaching we have heard blanketing our media for decades now. And, in a very important sense, it was written by them; after all, who forms the peer group for the elites of a European city-state? Like that blob, the encyclical is intellectually flaccid at its core, no matter how well intentioned it may be. This document is a missed opportunity to advance global understanding of AI, and yet another blow to the legitimacy and sanctity of storied Western institutions. As if you needed one more.

It is not surprising to see that the Pope endorses a lot of superstitious mind/body dualism about artificial intelligence but it’s still wrong, even as he is also raising a lot of good points about some of the risks at play.

In unsurprising news, Saudi Arabia has halted work on the Line until after 2030 What a waste of money, time and emissions!

‼️🚨HASAN CLARIFIES THAT DESPITE WHAT THE FOX NEWS ARTICLE SAYS, HE HAS NOT BEEN SERVED WITH AN OFFICIAL SUBPOENA 🚨‼️ The article was just his introduction to awareness of the subpoena. He has not heard anything official yet.

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” (Photo: Vatican Media)

Yesterday we started running this ad during the Red Sox game. Midway through the game the ad was taken down by the station (which is owned by Red Sox ownership). And then the Sox blew a 4-0 lead.