Anne M. Carpenter
@catholickungfu.bsky.social
Professor at SLU | Balthasar, Blondel, Péguy, Lonergan | théologienne, monstre | pensées sont en rapport avec la vie de l'âme
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If you want to discuss Balthasar's Theo-Drama 4 with me still, how's a January schedule look? Below, I've split it into its 4 major parts.
Let me know if you're
- interested
- would like some kind of "live" discussion (ie, Zoom)
Let's think apocalyptically about human action together! Or not!
Let me know if you're
- interested
- would like some kind of "live" discussion (ie, Zoom)
Let's think apocalyptically about human action together! Or not!
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The problem isn't that "AI" has no role to play in translation. Machine translation has been a thing for a while now, and is very helpful, but like with MT, publishers will see this as an opportunity to pay next to nothing for work that still takes almost as long.
HarperCollins will use AI to translate Harlequin romance novels.
“I will tell you that the author community is up in arms about this, as we are anytime an announcement arrives that involves cutting back on human creativity and ingenuity in order to save money,” author Caroline Lee told 404 Media.
“I will tell you that the author community is up in arms about this, as we are anytime an announcement arrives that involves cutting back on human creativity and ingenuity in order to save money,” author Caroline Lee told 404 Media.
HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels
The publisher is teaming with a company that claims its proprietary AI can ‘provide 2 to 3 times higher quality translations’ than other large language models.
www.404media.co
January 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The problem isn't that "AI" has no role to play in translation. Machine translation has been a thing for a while now, and is very helpful, but like with MT, publishers will see this as an opportunity to pay next to nothing for work that still takes almost as long.
A Greek hero does great things. They also achieve greatness through suffering. Hubris is their inability to modulate. They don’t do anything by halves. It’s a very Greek worry. Aristotelian mean, etc.
I’m not even confident biblical texts are intending to write about people to admire.
I’m not even confident biblical texts are intending to write about people to admire.
I just don’t even really know that a Greek hero’s hubris is “fateful wrong decision.” I don’t like the comparison to a hero.
January 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
A Greek hero does great things. They also achieve greatness through suffering. Hubris is their inability to modulate. They don’t do anything by halves. It’s a very Greek worry. Aristotelian mean, etc.
I’m not even confident biblical texts are intending to write about people to admire.
I’m not even confident biblical texts are intending to write about people to admire.
like yesterday: John continued his comic book thread and I got to revel in my irrational hatred for Bobby
Bobby, Claremont's least favorite X-Man, being a dick for no reason. That's Warren's job!
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
like yesterday: John continued his comic book thread and I got to revel in my irrational hatred for Bobby
My comic book friends on Bluesky: I genuinely love you guys and you teach me so much. It makes me happy and the key part of it is we’re not all insane to each other. It’s beautiful and, yeah, kind of stupid. But in a beautiful way.
It can be *so* beautiful when it really works. But then it doesn’t and we’ve got radtrads but they’re arguing about anime.
January 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
My comic book friends on Bluesky: I genuinely love you guys and you teach me so much. It makes me happy and the key part of it is we’re not all insane to each other. It’s beautiful and, yeah, kind of stupid. But in a beautiful way.
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Yes, giving money to a person who spends their money trying to invent new forms of genocide every day is definitely bad.
No, people being glad a character you liked died is not bad.
Get a grip. Stop being a weirdo about this.
No, people being glad a character you liked died is not bad.
Get a grip. Stop being a weirdo about this.
January 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Yes, giving money to a person who spends their money trying to invent new forms of genocide every day is definitely bad.
No, people being glad a character you liked died is not bad.
Get a grip. Stop being a weirdo about this.
No, people being glad a character you liked died is not bad.
Get a grip. Stop being a weirdo about this.
I adore fandom spaces because I am professionally obsessed with things but people get fully insane in exactly this way. It’s *fascinating* but I’d also say it’s very bad for community and sharing. And yeah, it’s a lot of reconstructed religious moralism going on.
No, being upset that the artist of a show drew a ship your friends in the fandom dislike is not in fact bad because of 'power dynamics' or whatever. You sound like an ultra-conservative southern baptist trying to claim oppression because you can't force people to read the bible.
January 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I adore fandom spaces because I am professionally obsessed with things but people get fully insane in exactly this way. It’s *fascinating* but I’d also say it’s very bad for community and sharing. And yeah, it’s a lot of reconstructed religious moralism going on.
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And this ties into my "fandom is the postmodern religion" theory very neatly
I saw a post a while back that talked about how repressed kids leaving religion don't always grapple with the moralistic framework that the religion imbued them with, so they end up performing the same behaviors but with a new text to back them up and yeah. yeah. i see that a lot.
January 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
And this ties into my "fandom is the postmodern religion" theory very neatly
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Computer Game
Secret of Monkey Island
Secret of Monkey Island
a video game called the secret of monkey island
ALT: a video game called the secret of monkey island
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Computer Game
Secret of Monkey Island
Secret of Monkey Island
Something fun about opening even a small window into the concept of the Bible actually being many texts sewn together over a long time is you get to start seeing Scripture "talk" to itself, contest its own sense of things, etc.
Like any writers, they play with genres, subvert common narratives, and reframe stories to illustrate something.
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Something fun about opening even a small window into the concept of the Bible actually being many texts sewn together over a long time is you get to start seeing Scripture "talk" to itself, contest its own sense of things, etc.
I feel this is my brand already. Can’t figure out if that’s good.
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I feel this is my brand already. Can’t figure out if that’s good.
My friend Charlie Gillespie's book got me to grudgingly admit that, even though I don't like a single character in this musical, that I also don't like, these people being completely terrible yet still wonderful enough to be seen (in a musical) is exactly what makes them signify divine apocalypse.
Is there a musical with a bigger delta between "quality of songs" and "quality of characters/plot" than RENT
because musically so many of the songs fucking slap but then like
virtually all of the characters are just terrible, terrible people
because musically so many of the songs fucking slap but then like
virtually all of the characters are just terrible, terrible people
January 6, 2026 at 1:09 AM
My friend Charlie Gillespie's book got me to grudgingly admit that, even though I don't like a single character in this musical, that I also don't like, these people being completely terrible yet still wonderful enough to be seen (in a musical) is exactly what makes them signify divine apocalypse.
Just make Once & Future (Kieran Gillen comic), Hollywood
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Just make Once & Future (Kieran Gillen comic), Hollywood
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may I offer you a sleepy bunny picture during these trying times
January 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
may I offer you a sleepy bunny picture during these trying times
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"It seems that he did engage with his Blackness, at the very least in the confessional booth. In 'God’s Men of Color,' Fr [Albert] Foley recounts multiple stories wherein penitents confessed their racism to Healy, after which he gently confronts them on their ignorance..."
Bishop James A. Healy of Portland in Maine was the nation's first openly Black Catholic prelate, but passed for White after escaping slavery in the South as a child in the 1830s.
Tulio Huggins writes that his story is both complicated and inspirational. buff.ly/JSrlDqC
Tulio Huggins writes that his story is both complicated and inspirational. buff.ly/JSrlDqC
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
"It seems that he did engage with his Blackness, at the very least in the confessional booth. In 'God’s Men of Color,' Fr [Albert] Foley recounts multiple stories wherein penitents confessed their racism to Healy, after which he gently confronts them on their ignorance..."
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That adoptive mom: we never see her again? She was mean to her daughter, the one with the purple hair (I’m above learning names), since the world was ending, and then The Purple One ran away to the boss fight and we never see this character again.
It’s less a movie and more just a vibe.
It’s less a movie and more just a vibe.
So I was listening to the K-Pop Demon Hunters album… and that one song by the evil guys (Idol) sings Latin from the old Requium Mass?
So the Korean demons… use Latin?
Not that anything in this movie makes sense ever.
So the Korean demons… use Latin?
Not that anything in this movie makes sense ever.
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
That adoptive mom: we never see her again? She was mean to her daughter, the one with the purple hair (I’m above learning names), since the world was ending, and then The Purple One ran away to the boss fight and we never see this character again.
It’s less a movie and more just a vibe.
It’s less a movie and more just a vibe.
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I mean Jinu has been alive for like 400 years so he’s still having difficulty adjusting to the post-Vatican II world
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I mean Jinu has been alive for like 400 years so he’s still having difficulty adjusting to the post-Vatican II world
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Well, the Korean concept of 귀신 is not exactly the same as a “demon,” and the song they’re singing *is* called “Idol,” so I think you can cut them a little slack.
But the 양반 get-up they have does remind one of St Andrew Taegon Kim, patron of Korea and first native-born priest
But the 양반 get-up they have does remind one of St Andrew Taegon Kim, patron of Korea and first native-born priest
January 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Well, the Korean concept of 귀신 is not exactly the same as a “demon,” and the song they’re singing *is* called “Idol,” so I think you can cut them a little slack.
But the 양반 get-up they have does remind one of St Andrew Taegon Kim, patron of Korea and first native-born priest
But the 양반 get-up they have does remind one of St Andrew Taegon Kim, patron of Korea and first native-born priest
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Abyssal is a romance language.
January 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Abyssal is a romance language.
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Yeah, the Trump administration is summed up by their comment to reporters sometimes just being “your mom.” It isn’t just lying or bullshitting, it’s *content-free* malice.
January 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Yeah, the Trump administration is summed up by their comment to reporters sometimes just being “your mom.” It isn’t just lying or bullshitting, it’s *content-free* malice.
So I was listening to the K-Pop Demon Hunters album… and that one song by the evil guys (Idol) sings Latin from the old Requium Mass?
So the Korean demons… use Latin?
Not that anything in this movie makes sense ever.
So the Korean demons… use Latin?
Not that anything in this movie makes sense ever.
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
So I was listening to the K-Pop Demon Hunters album… and that one song by the evil guys (Idol) sings Latin from the old Requium Mass?
So the Korean demons… use Latin?
Not that anything in this movie makes sense ever.
So the Korean demons… use Latin?
Not that anything in this movie makes sense ever.
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Good night from Dolly.
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Good night from Dolly.
So stressed out by the concept of ww3 because of these fucking idiots running the most powerful nation ever to exist that my nose started bleeding.
January 4, 2026 at 10:01 PM
So stressed out by the concept of ww3 because of these fucking idiots running the most powerful nation ever to exist that my nose started bleeding.
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Been going through my inspiration folder and came across this again.
I HAVE to find a way to have a scene like this for my comic.
I HAVE to find a way to have a scene like this for my comic.
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Been going through my inspiration folder and came across this again.
I HAVE to find a way to have a scene like this for my comic.
I HAVE to find a way to have a scene like this for my comic.