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NEW YORK STAND UP 🔥 THE KNICKS ARE BACK IN THE NBA FINALS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE '99 ‼️

Last year career low minutes per game Then he's an unrestricted free agent He works all summer in New York Hoping Knicks sign him again 16 days before Media Day Gets a training camp deal And now Landry Shamet Is the hottest player in the NBA

There are still accounts saying 'this is just summer'. Actually, this is warmer than summers used to be. *And it's still only Spring*.

In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist. Now, Pope Leo XIV is releasing what’s expected to be an historic encyclical addressing AI tomorrow morning. thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-vance…

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."

BREAKING: Police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at a crowd of party supporters and officials gathered outside the gates. apnews.com/article/turkey…

What a shame. Members of Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, are being dragged out of their own headquarters by police and tear-gassed — after Kılıçdaroğlu called in the police to intervene. This is the party that founded the republic.

that's because Jaxson Dart was speaking up for an immoral sociopathic criminal who is severely damaging America Steve Kerr has been speaking up for morality and decency and genuine American values

being a young unproven QB in NYC and choosing to do this might be the biggest self inflicted publicity mistake I have seen in a long time

Turkish opposition fights court ousting of leaders in ruling boosting Erdogan bbc.in/4wL2tBS

The price Turkey pays for Erdogan's relentless push to stay in power is sky-high interest rates that have taken the country back to the early 2000s. Interest rates these days are far above Turkey's EM peers and we're closing in on a full decade of this... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/turkey-blows…

Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout bbc.in/3PhoBTP

Landry Shamet in one of the biggest playoff comebacks in NBA history as Knicks win Game 1 of ECF 115-104: First 3 quarters: 0 points 0-1 FG 0-0 three 4th quarter + overtime: 9 points 3-4 FG 3-3 three +25 game best

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"The bee is more honoured than other animals, Not because she labours, But because she labours for others.” - John Chrysostom Today is #WorldBeeDay, celebrated on the birthday of Anton Janša (1734–1773), the Slovenian pioneer of modern beekeeping.

The trump administration pulled all the funding, ensured that the whole humanitarian emergency system is degraded and then complains that the response is not up to whatever arbitrary standard they pluck out of the air. This is called 'set up to fail'. And people die.

NEW: I asked CBS News if Stephen Colbert will interview Pope Leo XIV on Thursday’s final Late Show. They declined to comment. Colbert lost his father and two brothers in a plane crash when he was ten. He has spent the next fifty years making his Catholic faith the spine of everything that followed — including the late-night chair he hands back on Thursday. The moment reveals the guiding light of his career: a Catholic faith forged in trial, tragedy, and redemption. thelettersfromleo.com/p/stephen-colb…

CDC made the correct decision to mandate quarantine of MV Hondius cruise passengers during the peak period of developing symptoms. The passenger who spoke to @nytimes said she planned to stay in an Airbnb in Florida. What is Airbnb's protocol for handling a hantavirus patient?

“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps. “And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” cbsn.ws/4wwp0T7

Buttigieg on Sean Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable and then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually what people are so frustrated about."