Vince Miller

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

‪“The supreme rule in the Church is love. No one is called to dominate; all are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. - Pope Leo

Pope Leo: “We must dream of and build a more humble Church; a Church that does not stand upright….triumphant and inflated with pride, but bends down to wash the feet of humanity; a Church that does not judge.,,but becomes a welcoming place for all.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo holds a keffiyeh on a day of meetings with participants in the World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican.

"With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing, not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, but rather grave crimes committed or tolerated by the state," the pope said. "Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted – even celebrated politically – that treat these 'undesirables' as if they were garbage and not human beings," he said.

Pope Leo condemns "grave crimes" being committed against immigrants.

Significant, as violent immigration raids by heavily armed federal agents here in the Pope's hometown of Chicago have increased dramatically over the past couple of weeks.

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities A Coast Guard commander recounted scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, searching for debris to hold onto.

A typhoon has devastated communities in western Alaska and record flood waters have displaced at least 1,400 people and search and rescue operations continue. alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
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I'm struck by Leo's amazing, low key, comprehensive history of Catholic Social Doctrine in Dilexi Te... a kind of forceful rhetoric of the breadth and unity of tradition.

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...

'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

#LeoXIV treatment of Catholic Social Doctrine in Ch4 #DilexiTe reveals his voice: direct, detailed, comprehensive. He cites laity and religious, papal magisterium, Vatican II, Medellin, the CDF. Leo speaks loudly, not by emphasizing his own voice but by showing the deep consensus of Church teaching.

*Leo XIV

Pope #LeoXIV #DilexiTe on the deep theological reasons why the Church must welcome migrants and refugees:

Those looking to understand Leo in #DilexiTe need to grasp the theological root of his teaching. Powerful statements about migrants and structural injustice are rooted in faith in Jesus "the Poor Messiah" & the call to be a "Church of the Poor." Border closing indifference is a spiritual failure.

Amazing historical detail on Jesus' class from the Gospels in #DilexiTe from Leo XVI. So much of the exhortation has his quiet, comprehensive, even encyclopedic grasp of the tradition.

In #DilexiTe Leo XVI, stresses the fundamental spiritual link between Christ and the poor; concerned that many Christians have "succumbed to attitudes shaped by secular ideologies or political and economic approaches" that replace the Gospel "with the wisdom of the world."

Hydroelectricity remains the largest source of renewable generation, though virtually all of the growth in renewables over the past five years has come from solar and wind.

Solar has grown particularly fast and on track to surpass wind generation in the next year.

Renewables (primarily solar and wind) have grown dramatically over the past five years while other electricity sources have been relatively flat. Renewables are on track to generate more electricity than coal in 2025 (and already have over H1 of the year):

Your "yes" to God requires your "no" to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor..." Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German pastor, theologian, author, and anti-Nazi dissident 1906-1945

Wisdom all of us should follow.

Asked while leaving Castel Gandolfo about the statement from the Israeli Embassy attacking Cardinal Parolin for his interview with Vatican media that could risk undermining peace efforts, the Pope says: “the cardinal expressed the Holy See's opinion very well.”

What Mining for Water in the Andean Desert Reveals About “Green” Capitalism A high-­altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and b…

@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.

Gerard Manley Hopkins knew...
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim...

Female Chinook building her redd; moving silt, sand and basalt with ragged flesh and fin. She knows both meanings of arduum: difficulty and ardor, as she pours out all of her energy flaying flesh against stone to build a home for children she will never see.

Photos from my trip to the McKenzie River in Oregon to write about Salmon and Aquinas's understanding of hope as an animal passion.

So much to learn about hope as "bonum futurum arduum" from these beings of flesh and flow.

You can hear their sound in this photo.

A row of wood chisels arranged in order of size, of mixed ages and makes.

Old friends sharpened and tuned for dovetails -- a skill at which I've grown rusty, alas.

Profound writing by @ellenws.bsky.social.
Immediately added to the sacrament section of my Religion and Care for the Earth course. I can't wait for students to read it.

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

"Humans are not exempt from extinction."

Looking forward to reading this!

A black and white archival photo of a captive Thylacine. The animal resembles a dog but has pronounced stripes on its hindquarters.

OTD in 1936, the last known thylacine—a wolf-like marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger—died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species & underscores the need to protect our planet’s wildlife.
Photo: Tasmanian Archives, PD, Wikimedia Commons

Smoky skies across Washington this morning after several fires went pyrocumulonimbus yesterday. #WAwx

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like