Note that it was not the University but the magazine's own (alumni/advisor) board which shut it down, which really says something about how rapidly young adults are being radicalized right now.

...England to the English, America to the Americans, and Germany to the Germans.”"

"The article... included the line, “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans.”

In a January 1939 speech...in which Hitelr predicted that another world war would lead to the annihilation of Jews in Europe, he said, “France to the French,

Like there are two Discourses™ in my feed right now and they're just people cycling endlessly around and around on topics from poli-sci 101 and intro to theology from freshman year.

Logging back off for a while 😅

Thumbnail: You, making a YouTuber face (I was thinking of the "stroking my beard in thought" one but you could do shocked-Pikachu too), looking at a Renaissance painting of Solomon with his 700 wives

the parable doesn’t tell us why the steward’s getting fired but if I had to guess it would be because last week, he lost 99% of the boss’s sheep

*So* much of the early Nazi success consisted of convincing sufficient numbers of British and French politicians that they weren’t really *so* unreasonable (and they’d be useful against the Soviets!) until they had become a nearly-unstoppable snowball.

People running most authoritarian regimes are not stupid, nor are they so unthinkingly evil that they cannot be strategic.

Instead they use dramatic events as cover to do evil things that they already had plans to do, but in a way that obscures the intent for just a little longer.

I don’t have access to the audio but it’s produced by Fr Wiley Ammons and he definitely has the audio and might be willing to share it — I have his email somewhere, if you can’t find it let me know and I can send it

A chatbot optimized for pastoral care conversations would be missing most of the elements that are most vital to pastoral care.

(By the way, episcobot is still struggling mightily with the question “What are today’s lectionary readings?” Specifically because it thinks today is June 22, 2025.)

I’m aware of it! Every word of my original posts applies to it, as far as I can tell.

This seems quite different from what’s described in the article. ie it is feeding the results of a questionnaire into an LLM to describe the results, not using a chatbot to hold an open-ended pastoral or spiritual conversation.

Why not have them discuss the results with you, the priest, though?

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Like this is the key difference: at its best, a chatbot could accurately restate some kind of doctrine or common advice, or could compose a nice prayer.

A chatbot cannot sit with you in the darkness or joy or confusion of life and process that *shared* experience in the light of the tradition.

What size are they? If we have the same size you’re welcome to them, we should have plenty and it will be faster than shipping!

Yep.