stephanie allen 🇬🇾 + 🇩🇪

The fundamental question before us all is: are we going to keep children safe? From mass shooters, starvation, rich & powerful pedophiles, genocide, floods, or bureaucracies that would deny them medicine, housing, or other necessities?

🚨 The emperor penguin is now officially endangered. Climate change is shrinking the sea ice they depend on to breed, and when it breaks too early, chicks drown before they even have a chance. Some colonies are collapsing completely.

@zellieimani @YVRTenantsUnion

We are working to build a tenants union. As part of our canvassing efforts, besides talking, listening and inviting tenants to a meeting, we’d like to provide them with a small care package of household necessities. Nothing to costly or elaborate. Any ideas ?

@KanikaBK I dont find this reassuring at all considering the church’s role in slavery & colonization.

Anthropic asked the Vatican for help because their AI was moving too fast for them to control. A 60 year old Catholic priest who used to be a tech executive is now writing the rules for how Claude thinks. Here is how a man of God ended up inside one of the most powerful AI companies on earth. His name is Father Brendan McGuire. He runs a small parish in Los Altos, California. Some of Silicon Valley's top AI researchers sit in his pews on Sundays. But before he was a priest, he was one of them. Studied cryptosystems at Trinity College Dublin in the 1980s. Moved to America. Became the executive director of PCMCIA, the organization that basically standardized how memory cards work in every computer. Had degrees in engineering and software. Could have been a millionaire in the Valley ten times over. He walked away from all of it to serve God. But then Anthropic called. Chris Olah, one of Anthropic's co-founders, reached out to him directly. McGuire said they were basically asking the Vatican for help because the industry was moving so fast down this road that they needed someone to pump the brakes. His words: "They basically were asking for direct help from the Vatican to convene and help the industry, because the industry was going so fast down this road." So this priest, along with a Vatican Bishop named Paul Tighe and a tech ethics director from Santa Clara University, sat down and helped rewrite the Claude Constitution. That is the set of rules that tells Claude what it can and cannot do. What it should care about. How it should think. A priest helped write the conscience of an AI. And it gets wilder. Anthropic actually sued the US government because the Pentagon wanted to use their AI for autonomous warfare and domestic surveillance. Anthropic said no. Got effectively blacklisted for it. Catholic scholars then filed a federal court brief defending Anthropic, saying their ethical limits represent "minimal standards of ethical conduct for technical progress." McGuire almost filed his own brief. He said "they are having a moral conversation. They may not call it moral, but I call it moral." Meanwhile this 60 year old priest is now writing a novel using Claude about a monk and his AI companion. The working title is "The Soul of AI: A Priest, an Algorithm, and the Search for Wisdom." He also said something that stuck with me. "I think we have to help these machines be tilted towards good, otherwise they are just going to reflect back the good and evil of the world. That is a horrifying thing, right?" The biggest AI companies in the world are building machines that think. And the person they called to make sure those machines have a conscience was not another engineer. It was a priest.

The KKK began fiercely claiming that desegregation was a communist effort after Fidel Castro desegregated Cuba five years before the Civil Rights Act. Hiding racism behind "anti-communism" has been part of U.S. history for more than a century. Even many Latinos hide behind it.

If you think datacenters are useful wait till you find out about food

@zellieimani ✊🏽

Building a community of people who want to see a better world is very important to me. If that’s you, tap

Housing is inextricably linked to safety, and Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people are overrepresented among victims of violence in Canada. Read this informative article and AHMA's GBV Housing Strategy below: ➡️thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/0… ➡️ahma-bc.org/resource-centr…

Hussein Saleh lost 8 members of his family in an Israeli strike on their home, including his pregnant wife. He found the head of his young daughter amid the rubble. “When I picked up her head, everything changed. Something in my heart broke and went silent.” It is one of the most heartbreaking stories @NadaOHomsi and I have worked on during the war. Nothing could justify such a horrific attack.

The inimitable Kathleen Collins in 1984:

Happy birthday to Paul Robeson — pro athlete, actor, singer, civil rights activist, and socialist — born on this day in 1898. When he traveled abroad, Robeson made a point to sing for workers. Here he is performing ‘Joe Hill’ to Scottish miners in 1949.

The ruler is beefing with the pope, his legions have fought to a stalemate with Persia, now typhus is breaking out in a major city, oh yeah it’s late antiquity out there

BREAKING! Amid widespread bombing across Arab regions, Israel approves its largest-ever colonial expansion. Under the "fog of war'', what I warned on 14 Oct 2023 is unfolding: the largest ethnic cleansing/land grab in Palestine, since the Nakba. It’s happening. Under our watch.

Remarkable thermal drone footage from Floodlight showing xAI using "unpermitted gas turbines to power... Grok" in predominantly Black neighborhoods in Mississippi. They quote Bruce Buckheit, a former EPA official, “That is a violation of the law.”

When you are an ethical person in an unethical environment, you will be a target.

The challenge I see is that people who have power as their ultimate goal are more likely to do anything to make that happen & have built the system to reward that. People with integrity will not sell out for the sake of power & often get ejected for holding to values.

Doctor friend from a hospital ER in Beirut describing some of the scenese: a toddler with a missing leg fainted from crying, mothers from all religions are wailing in corridors, an older woman with a crushed femur, not enough doctors to treat dying patients. It’s a bloodbath.

Up at Council is a rezoning to remove 30% below market units from an approved 6-storey rental building at 5590 Victoria Drive. No public hearing, no speakers, just going for a rubberstamp for a change to 100% market rental units cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/com…

How is homelessness not extreme poverty?

El mayor crimen del capitalismo no es la pobreza (que ya es un gran crimen), sino la normalización de la muerte de todo lo vivo en nombre de la ganancia. Hemos aprendido a llamar “economía” al acto de asesinar lentamente el mundo para que unos pocos puedan decir que son ricos.

A safe home is more than four walls, but too often, that’s all young Indigenous people are offered. The Indigenous Youth Housing Strategy (IYHS) fills this gap by introducing five housing models created by Indigenous youth themselves. Read the IYHS here: ahma-bc.org/resource-centr…