Meaghan Mobbs

It was - which is why adversaries weaponizing our openness against is so dangerous. They are waging war against us from the inside. The answer is more speech not less with algorithms that do not privilege bot-propped accounts.

“Don’t you dare tell me it’s all Jewish propaganda.” Aaron Maclean shares a story about his father, a U.S. Army officer who helped liberate Dachau, and why living memory matters more than ever. Watch the full conversation with Sir Niall Ferguson on School of War. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sch…

@ahrferrier No ma’am. They are the heroes, I just have the privilege of honoring them. Proud to call you a friend ❤️🇺🇸

.@mobbs_mentality you are a patriot and a hero.

This coming after Lavrov publicly warned us to pull our diplomats out of Kyiv is genuinely humiliating for Russia. They issue threats expecting panic, and instead Rubio more or less responds with the diplomatic equivalent of calling him a limp dick. For a regime obsessed with projecting strength, that level of irrelevance is devastating.

the pope and anthropic's co-founder just stood together at the vatican to release "magnifica humanitas," the first ever catholic teaching on AI yes, you read that right. the full ceremony was 2 hours. here's the most interesting things for you to know: 1. this is the biggest religious response to AI in history. popes only put out a handful of these huge official letters in their entire time as pope. the fact that one of them is about AI tells you how seriously the church is taking what's coming. 2. small detail with massive meaning: this pope picked the name "leo XIV" on purpose. the last pope named leo was leo XIII back in 1891, and his most famous act was writing the church's response to the industrial revolution. picking the same name is a deliberate signal. this pope sees AI as the new industrial revolution. 3. the catholic church does this every time a major technology reshapes humanity. they wrote "rerum novarum" in 1891 to respond to the industrial revolution. when nuclear weapons threatened the world in the 1960s, they wrote "pacem in terris." climate change and runaway tech got "laudato si" in 2015. now AI gets "magnifica humanitas." they don't issue these often. 4. the pope's main line: "AI needs to be disarmed." he literally compared AI to nuclear weapons. he said the church spent decades pushing for nuclear disarmament because the technology was too dangerous to leave in the hands of a few. he says AI is now in that same category. 5. anthropic co-founder christopher olah told the pope, on stage at the vatican, that anthropic's own research team keeps finding things inside their AI models that "mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." 6. olah's reframe of what AI actually is: these things are grown. they're trained on a structure roughly modeled after the human brain and fed everything humans have ever written. in his own words: "they are made from us, from our words." he said even the people building them don't fully understand what's happening inside. 7. olah publicly admitted that every AI lab, including his own, faces pressure that can conflict with doing the right thing. commercial pressure to keep shipping, competitive pressure from other labs, plus the older pressures of pride and ambition. his solution: we desperately need outside critics with no skin in the game who will tell the labs when they're failing. 8. olah says there are 3 giant questions the AI labs cannot answer alone and the world needs religion and philosophy to step in on: > how do we make sure poor countries actually benefit from AI? > what does human flourishing even look like in this new world? > and what are these things we're actually building? 9. one of the sharpest lines in the whole encyclical: "the promise of automatic general prosperity often proves illusory." translation: the idea that AI will just make everyone rich on its own is a fantasy. someone has to actually design the system so the benefits get shared. 10. the pope also pulled out a 100-year-old quote: "contemporary man has not been trained to use power well." said by a theologian back in the 1920s. the whole encyclical is basically a long argument that we need to learn how to use this kind of power before it uses us. 11. the pope kept stressing that he doesn't have the technical answers. but he says the church has thousands of years of wisdom on what it means to be human, and that wisdom is exactly what's missing from how we're building AI right now. his closing line: this technology should serve "human flourishing and human dignity, not control consciences."

Good job, Pope.

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

There is something shameful and grotesque about turning Memorial Day into a partisan weapon. This kind of behavior reflects a deep moral erosion that allows some staffer to look at Gold Star families and their lost loved ones as an opportunity for political messaging. It is hard to adequately express how contemptible that is. Every generation of Americans has produced men and women willing to step forward, raise their right hand, and accept the possibility that they may never come home again. That burden has been carried by Americans of every race, creed, class, and political belief under presidents of both parties throughout our history. They do not deserve to have their sacrifice degraded into partisan theater by idiots seemingly incapable of recognizing that Memorial Day belongs to the fallen, not to political operatives.

A Memorial Day Reminder 🇺🇸 @mobbs_mentality

There could be no Independence Day without Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

Today, we honor all Americans who made that ultimate sacrifice not in service to a person or party — but to their nation. Using these heroes’ deaths for politics on Memorial Day is truly disgusting.

Newly leaked Russian documents describe “cognitive strikes” against Western audiences. The goal of these influence operations is to “deepen internal contradictions between ruling elites” and stir up protests — in part by abandoning overtly pro-Russian messaging. The strategy played out in false-flag operations across Europe, including severed pig heads left outside Paris mosques, vandalism targeting Jewish sites, and plans to frame Ukrainians for provocative attacks. Read the full story: buff.ly/rH6eQjL

Concerning.

In late 2022, I learned that a fellow Tillman Scholar had gone missing while volunteering in Ukraine. He had been working to establish a green corridor in the south so women and children could escape to safety. No one knew whether he was alive in Russian captivity or had been killed. Not long after, while meeting with another fellow American (@RyanO_ChosenCoy) in the Kharkiv direction, he asked if I had any contacts in the south. His team had heard reports of a fallen American there, but they did not have time to search for him themselves having been called to another mission. I asked, “Are you talking about Grady Kurpasi?” He said yes. That moment began a year-long effort to bring him home. Since then, we have stood shoulder to shoulder with dozens of American families whose loved ones fell in Ukraine. They deserve more than passing acknowledgment. They deserve honor, remembrance, and a country willing to speak their names with reverence. Most of the Americans who fought and died in Ukraine were veterans. Men who had already served once, and still chose to go again. They believed freedom was worth defending, even far from home. They believed some causes still demand sacrifice. On this Memorial Day, I will honor them. They did not have to go. No one ordered them to. They went because they felt called to stand against evil, to protect the vulnerable, and to fight for something greater than themselves.

"It will only be a great deal for all or no deal at all," President Trump said on Truth Social.

NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."

"I will tell my daughters: We come from a people who believed in something. Who built something. Who bled for something." tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

For some families, every day is Memorial Day.

🚨NEW: A Senior Administration Official tells me - “NO DUST, NO DEAL” — - We are not going to roll over. “We are not there yet” on a deal. “We are not going to sign a deal today” or “tomorrow.” - The President’s instinct is to give them “5, 6, 7 days” to make this deal. - “They have agreed in principle to the framework” and we are “95%” there. - We have a deal on “the nuclear stockpile” and “the Strait of Hormuz” but are negotiating language. “We don’t have a deal until there is a deal.” - A potential deal would have a “No Dust, No Dollars” concept. - We have the opportunity to make a deal that will lower the cost for Americans but will mean the Iranians will not get a nuclear weapon. - “We are not going to do a bad deal, that’s for sure.” - We have “optionality” and can resume military strikes if a deal if not reached.

The usual suspects. Weak.