Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

Vatican News No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence". "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said. Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted. "If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ." vaticannews.va

PAPA LEONE YES

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.”

“‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.

The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

He's getting everyone addicted 🤣

My son is spreading Mennonite propaganda on the other side of the world. #DutchBlitz

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.

I want to be extremely clear that this system is an AI agent controlling other AI agents controlling OTHER AI agents which use drones to blow things up. from @willknight.bsky.social

USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep...

Under Trump, the USDA *wildly* underestimated the amount of corn that was harvested by US farmers in 2025.

This has been attributed by experts to be a direct result of massive staffing cuts.

Now, nobody in agriculture trusts USDA estimates and this could have disastrous effects.

New evidence shows that 'Jesus was never crucified' – and AI can prove it Julian Doyle, a veteran filmmaker behind Monty Python's Life of Brian, says he's spent decades researching and claims the man put to death was not Jesus but someone else entirely

I will share this with my Bible and Misinformation class. It is an example of why teaching students what actual research involves is more important than ever, and needs to be coupled with explanation of how chatbots reaffirm the bizarre things users insist on.

Mychal the librarian in Wichita!

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

No reason to quit caffeine. Find a real problem. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.

this excellent thread is imo the type of thing everyone whose name is in the files should be doing

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall

tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get

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tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

i need an emotional support perogi

Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.

The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism

Nothing Sacred (TV series) - Wikipedia

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This existed in the late 90s/early 2000s and it was called Nothing Sacred and it was amazing.

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

One of the best burns of the state of Kansas in modern cinematography.

Oh. My. God. 1) I will absolutely watch this, 2) they better show his Disneyland conversion, and 3) there about ten times in the trailer when my brain added a "Tone" at the end of a sentence like Christopher Moltisanti is explaining Carman's life story to Tony Soprano.

Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.

Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.

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Wesleyans, Scripture, and Holy Conferencing Together And are we yet alive,and see each other’s face?Glory and thanks to Jesus givefor his almighty grace! These words of...

Scripture is beautiful, a masterpiece of God’s handiwork, but also beautiful in that it lays out God’s vision for our salvation and how he will ultimately make all things new, writes the John Wesley Institute's Dr. Ryan N. Danker.

ICE releases Chicago-area mother after seven months. It failed to provide evidence justifying her detention. While Marina Lopez was in ICE detention for seven months, parishioners in her church stepped up to help care for her family.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/m... [gift link]

Another bill would limit membership on presidential search committees to board members, eliminating the opportunity for students and instructors to serve. Martin said this would undermine the concepts of faculty governance, and Democratic legislators on the committee have expressed similar concerns. Shipley said his experience in student government at Iowa State acquainted him with the “types” of people who tended to insert themselves in high-level decisions about university governance. “No matter how smart these Ph.D.s think they are, it’s not a good idea to have them in the kitchen. It’s just been pretty outrageous to where these people, these academics, have disgraced themselves to the point where nobody can take them seriously and [they’re] actually causing serious damage to the culture of the state.”

This is from the vice chair of the Iowa House's higher ed committee. State legislators have been pushing changes to higher ed for years, and actions in Washington make that a bit easier to do.

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Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.