Thich Nat Hahn, Jimmy Carter, Pope Francis taking bets on how Trump tries to nominate himself Pope?
Was that the point of Vance's visit, to claim Francis named Trump his successor?
Mary's protest t-shirt simply states "Is he dead yet?"I'm not Catholic but have partnered with three escaped/reformed/failed Catholics and attended Mass with my children until they hit the age they could refuse confirmation (and further indoctrination). I enjoyed a great deal of what I experienced in that context and definitely appreciate a *lot* about Francis' style and nature. But just as I felt the passing of Queen Elizabeth, that the royalty and now the papacy is dead.
When DJT finally meets his maker, I wonder if the "American Presidency" is dead. He has distorted the norms and standards of the office, the checks and balances of our tripartate gubm'nt.
I'm predicting (for better and worse) that our future (self?)governance will be effected somehow through the leading edge of contemporary technology... (e.g. LLMs, blockchains, IoT, etc.). Unfortunately the heavy-hitters in each of those fields are highly suspect. I *want* to believe Altman isn't evil (like Google wasn't evil?) and I *hope* Hoskinson is as pure of intent as he aspires/projects, etc.. and I *want* to believe that to whatever extent the milieu of ML/AI co-evolving with itself these days is *capable* of transcending our human frailties... but that is a LOT of wanton Hopium...
Anyone see any healthy signal in the disturbing noise rising up amidst the authoritarian fascism whose colms are breaking through the soil this "spring"?
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