⛪ Belarus has blessed its first AI-generated religious icon The icon depicts Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who was canonized in 2025 and became known as the “Cyber Apostle.” The icon was installed in a Catholic church in Novolukoml, where Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz blessed it on October 11. The move has sparked debate on social media, with some believers arguing that AI-generated images should not be used for prayer.

The tiger that attacked a man who entered its enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park will not be euthanized, park officials confirm. (Via: @YorkshireWP)

Reminds me of that joke about how a physicist dies and goes to Heaven, upon which he asks God why He made the speed of light as arbitrary as 186,282 miles per second. “What do you mean?” God replies. “The speed of light is 1.”

Reminds me of that joke about how a physicist dies and goes to Heaven, upon which he asks God why He made the speed of light as arbitrary as 186,282 miles per second. “What do you mean?” God replies. “The speed of light is 1.”

What kind of psycho uses miles per second

Mathematics. Green button = You instantly receive $1 billion (tax free). Red button = You receive $1 that doubles every day. You can press just once. Which do you press?

Ubisoft déploie son IA générative "Motherbrain" dans TOUS SES STUDIOS ! Le média Insider Gaming révèle que l'IA générative "Motherbrain" d'Ubisoft sera une entité globale intégrée directement dans le développement de ses futurs jeux. Dirigée par Xavier Manzanares (producteur des Mario + Lapins Crétins), il aurait expliqué dans une note interne : "[Motherbrain] fonctionnera désormais comme une entité mondiale dédiée au soutien de l'innovation en matière de gameplay au sein du groupe. L'équipe [Motherbrain] continuera de développer une technologie d'IA propriétaire et un middleware dédiés au gameplay génératif, qui serviront de base commune à tous nos studios".

wake up babe pope just said human-made memes are a cultural institution that safeguards humanity

Here's a use case I like. Imagine your grandmother sitting alone in an assisted living facility. You create a program that shows up on her TV that connects to your family group text. Each time someone in the family uploads a picture or makes a comment via text (for example, uploads a picture of their baby and says 'doesn't his outfit look cute'), that comment is read aloud by the AI who looks exactly like that person. We are really the ones communicating via text, but the text turns into a live version of us via this program, and provides an immersive way for us to "hang out" when we're not there, and not on a phone call.

NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…

Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Omg!!!! Sam Harris pondering: “Why can’t we eat babies? What’s wrong with eating babies? If we have extra babies around and nobody wants them, why can’t we eat them?” Sick demonic bastard from hell….