Jill Shaw

Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech: "I'd like to close with a request. We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction. We need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend. Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot. Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take. Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."

Hey @united why can I not upgrade a Y class ticket via Star Alliance Upgrade page? I have heaps of miles which seem worthless right now. Tips? #help #customerservice

Brené Brown, researcher and author, on the contradiction she keeps hearing in rooms full of tech billionaires: Her work puts her in rooms where the founders and CEOs of major tech platforms talk openly about how they think. What @BreneBrown hears there unsettles her: "So I hear someone say, 'Hey, you know, tech billionaire, what should my kids study? I'm worried for my kids… they should study coding, physics,' and then five minutes later, as if that answer didn't happen, someone will say, 'What do you attribute your success to?' I mean deeply when you think about it, and the same person will say, 'My deep reading of philosophy and the stoics.'" The contradiction is what stops her: the same people crediting philosophy and the liberal arts for their own success are telling other parents their kids should focus on coding and physics. That gap leads her to a bigger, more uncomfortable question: "I start to extrapolate from there and wonder if there is a thinking class that's emerging where they're like, 'We're going to read philosophy and we're going to read the liberal arts and we're going to study history, and the rest of you just keep scrolling. Don't worry about the big words. We'll handle all the big words for you.'" She points to Steve Jobs as an early signal of the same pattern: "It's like when they asked Steve Jobs, 'Boy, your kids must love the iPad.' Steve Jobs said, 'My kids don't have an iPad.' And then his biographer who spent time with his family said he wasn't kidding. There's no technology. At dinner, they're talking about art and history." The takeaway is simple but uncomfortable. The people building these platforms are protecting their own kids from them, and giving them books, ideas, and real conversation instead. So why are the rest of us being sold something different?

@soundcoreaudio I have P41i and can’t find foam tips for them. Silicone hurts my ears. Where do I buy foam replacement tips for P41i? Thanks

Today’s #WordOfTheDay, bonsai, is borrowed from Japanese. Learn more about this word: dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-…

World Bonsai Day saw a group of Aucklanders, as happened elsewhere in the world, gather to workshop, discuss, wire, shape, reduce and encourage… Join us for the annual show in June. Or join the Auckland Bonsai Society for monthly local mtgs. #bonsai

Saturday is World Bonsai Day! @sandymaxx talked with experts from the @MilwaukeeBonsai Society about what inspired many of their members to get into the hobby. Listen to What's on Tap, weeknights at 6:00 on WTMJ!

My new book What Grows in Weary Lands is out 5/12. This was my hardest book yet to write because of the season I was in, but it’s exactly FROM that season that these words came. Whether you’re in a season of weariness or not, I pray this book is a gentle encouragement to you.

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room. wired.com/story/a-librar…

I wonder what the faith tradition of the @radionz staff person was? Our language reflects our deeply held opinions & values. What Wayne Briwn said in the moment is who he is. Same w/ @mangonui08 @AklCouncil Mayor Wayne Brown “a Muslim terrorist” rnz.co.nz/news/regions_a…

The True Size of New Zealand 🇳🇿

“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning #oldschool

The New York Times: In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencer accounts have emerged on social media

A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. Israeli officials confirmed the image is genuine and ‘promised to investigate.’

Just finished Ken Burns' 6-hour doc "The US and the Holocaust." Can't think of another doc that reduced me to tears like that. A painful reminder of what humans are capable of when we decide other groups of people are less than human. I'm shook.

David French has an excellent op-ed in today’s New York Times entitled “The Divine Right of … Presidents?” It highlights the folly of abandoning separation of church and state and embracing the melding of church and state. He writes: “When the church abandons its rightful role as the conscience of the state and instead seeks to curry favor with the state, there is a real-world consequence. If you take an already grandiose man (whose commercial brand is his own name) and fill him with a sense of divine purpose, you can uncage a tyrant.” He also calls out hypocrisy of the Great Christian Profit Franklin Graham, noting that “Graham pretended to believe Trump’s absurd explanation of the image” of Trump as Jesus and Graham’s defensive attack on Trump’s detractors rather than deserved castigation of Trump for the blasphemous image. As French notes, when Trump does something wrong, Graham always finds someone else to blame. Watching so many who are enthralled by Trump reminds me of my college days in the 70s when so many were enthralled by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker: Their longing to walk the path of righteousness obfuscated the fact that they were being led astray by pernicious pied pipers. And just like Jim Bakker, Donald Trump has mastered the PTL scam … shout Praise the Lord to get them to Pass the Loot. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/opi…

Breathtaking