Ed Burns

@ToddShaffer @EricRSammons What are we rushing towards? These companies are going to destroy society and probably crash the economies of these countries. It's okay if China gets there first.

@EricRSammons There is no stopping this. If US companies don’t lead Chinese open source will. It’s naive to think otherwise. We need to put our energy into dealing with full-blown AI automation aftermath. UBI, or whatever because this IS happening.

As the pope warns of the dangers of AI dehumanizing us, AI companies are rushing to prove him a prophet. decrypt.co/368866/ai-star…

@JDVance Our politicians are the fraud.

When politicians allow fraud to run rampant, normal Americans suffer.

@RepThomasMassie @TrumpDailyPosts @julie_pipk71617 Palantir and The Federal government of the United States.

@TrumpDailyPosts @julie_pipk71617 What’s the greatest threat to liberty in America?

What is the greatest threat to liberty in America?

@TimothyDooner I am very sorry to read this. Rob was a good, kind man. May he rest in peace.

Oh my, this is horrible news and I hated reading every word of it. Rob was the best and I'll always remember that one night I arrived in Vegas where it was freezing and there was a 3 hour long Uber line. Rob let me jump in his ride. I am going to miss talking about Godzilla with him. This is so sad, he was a good friend. He was also always the first to send a Christmas ornament for my annual freight industry Christmas tree too Heartbroken

@EricRSammons Taxation is theft. Particularly property and income taxes.

Contra: No one should pay property taxes.

@Byron4Tradition @BasedMikeLee @C_and_C_Books @KirkCenter @bradleybirzer @Hillsdale Looking forward to it! Ordering a copy now.

@BasedMikeLee Everyone needs to read this new release! @C_and_C_Books @KirkCenter @bradleybirzer @Hillsdale

FDR dangerously undermined the Constitution by deliberately weakening the Constitution’s twin structural protections: federalism and separation of powers Calling him the GOAT president is blasphemy

The Papists are at it again! Sticking their proverbial nose in the business of business and the business of the state. The pope says that artificial intelligence has the potential to become another Tower of Babel. After the flood, Noah's descendants began multiply. It says in the Bible that they were of, "one tongue, and of the same speech." Then they baked bricks, saying, "Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands." Are the techno-celebrities seeking fame? It's the AI race. The boom. Your competitors are all doing it. You won't lose your job to AI, you'll lose your job to someone using AI. Huge investments, mega-fundraises, data centers galore. Would you like AI to Strengthen your post?Don't get left behind! But where are we going? The people of Babel wanted to build a great city, a great tower, an incredible accomplishment. But they were scattered by God throughout the world, their tongues were confused. It's not clear exactly what happened or how, but it is understood as a punishment for trying to reach Heaven without the help of God; an endeavor that will only hurt the one who pursues it. I hope this encyclical from Pope Leo XIV will cause us to pause and ask that question. If you would like to read it, it is called Magnifica Humanitas. The document is long, and I am not a theologian or a lawyer. But I am reading through it. I hope to share more thoughts with you this week. And I very much look forward to reading and hearing yours.

@LewisCTech When I used to work on websites, I knew that I would probably be able to troubleshoot anything if I was willing to stick with it, go through enough pages on Google, and click around some sites. It doesn't seem to work quite the same way. I'm going back to encyclopedias.

It seems like we've entered a dark age of search engines. Is it time to return to "web directories"? I remember before google took off it's how I found a lot of sites. Or just through links to other peoples sites.

@Sachinettiyil I would like to contribute to getting him some new vestments.

Father Brendan McGuire, a former Silicon Valley executive who later became a Catholic priest, was among the contributors who provided feedback on Anthropic a's constitution for Claude, the framework that guides the Al's behavior.

The arrogance of the technocrats.

@BeingBadAtMaths @Edgarson_777 @catholicourtney If we have meaningful discussion, as I was having with Edgarson, then the Church will flourish. Calling people Protestant when they are not accomplishes nothing.

@Edgarson_777 @EdifyBurns @catholicourtney Projection, Protestant.

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)

@Edgarson_777 @catholicourtney Amen to that. There's no way of knowing or controlling, but we can always write to our bishops and to the Vatican, which I will do today thanks to you! The traditional parishes are flourishing. Deus Vult!

God bless you, Ed. I don't know how this will play out either. I don't know which side of this Pope Leo is going to align with. But I DO think it's important for the Vatican to hear the concerns of conservatives as they seem to be proceeding helter skelter down Francis' path. And I DO think they need to hear that their vagueness of expression going back to Vatican II has hit it's limit. It's like the bump in the night. We hear it, we can't see it, but we're alarmed. Or should be. Let us pray for the Church that the Lord's will be done.

@BeingBadAtMaths @Edgarson_777 @catholicourtney Guessing you didn't learn to argue from Aquinas.

@Edgarson_777 @EdifyBurns @catholicourtney Shut the fuck up, Protestant.

@EricRSammons And, as a slow folk, I take great consolation in the fact that that particular council is not doctrinal.

One more time, for the slow folks in the back: The weird obsession with one Council to the neglect of all the rest will fade with time.

@Edgarson_777 @catholicourtney I don't disagree with you on any of this. I don't have an answer. But I fully expected a Francis 2.0. The Church is at a critical juncture. I don't know how it is going to play out, but the Future is Tradition.

So why has he done NOTHING about the stifling of the Latin Mass? Why is he so intent on not granting the SSPX new bishops. Why has he not rejected Fiducia Supplicans. Why has he not disciplined the German bishops, and don't give me 'sternly worded letter', bishop Marx publicly rejected that on arrival. Why has he not clarified so many controversial things bubbling around the Church, like the scandalous Synodal Workgroup #9? Why was James Martin, who did a full gay wedding right after the release of Fiducia Supplicans (ignoring it's limits) a subject matter expert for Workgroup 9, providing their two witnesses with their 'lived experiences'? WHY has he done nothing about the divisions in the Church except EXACERBATE THEM? I'm not saying he doesn't know the Bible nor Church doctrine. I'm asking why in a Church desperate for clarification is he silent on the matter?

@Adam35377504 @catholicourtney Tolkien was profoundly Catholic. I do agree that the pope should quote the Fathers of the Church, and I believe he does. I am not here to defend everything about Pope Leo, but to criticize him for quoting Tolkien is misdirected.

@EdifyBurns @catholicourtney Podobnie jak książki Goethego, Mickiewicza, Byrona i wielu innych. Papież ma innych autorów, Ojców Kościoła, których powinien cytować.

Tolkien's work is imbued with Church doctrine. He was 12 when his mother died, leaving him in the care of a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, founded by St. John Henry Newman. He served Mass all the time. His letters prove he was as well versed in the Faith as in language.

@catholicourtney I love Tolkien's work but I'd feel a lot better if he spent more time quoting the Bible and actual Church doctrine...

@Adam35377504 @catholicourtney Oh, bother. “Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”

@catholicourtney To niepoważne. Następny zacytuje Kubusia Puchatka?

@maironpontifex @catholicourtney Master the world? Certainly care for it, yes. Man has dominion over it. We cannot master it in the way the Creator has. And certainly we are not to master other human beings.

@catholicourtney Loser mindset. It's our part to master the world. That's how we got space tech and nuclear tech.

@socialistharpy @catholicourtney Mithril Capital. Anduril Technologies. Erebor.

@catholicourtney This is clever and brilliant considering Palantir the AI surveillance crap exists. Palantir. Theres another one LOTR named too, but I forget.