Warren Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa
Joined August 2012
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Donald Prudlo retweeted
Ivereigh is an ideological hack of the highest order. Bishop Barron is actually a real theological scholar. And Vesco’s rejoinder only digs himself a deeper hole. Monotheists have “better things to do”? Good grief what a sad attempt at deflection. The word “quisling” comes to mind. Does Vesco actually believe in the Gospel as something true? Seems questionable.
Go out and....?????
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My .01 on the Catholic X discourse of the past day....
Donald Prudlo retweeted
A proper education once meant:
— Reading difficult books
— Writing long essays
— Learning history
— Studying philosophy
— Training memory
— Arguing clearly
Now it means:
— Career prep
— Standardized testing
— Group projects
— Slide decks
— Credential collection
Somewhere along the way, education became workforce training.
Donald Prudlo retweeted
RIP Patrick Stewart.
He had many great Shakespeare performances, but his John of Gaunt in Richard II is perhaps my favorite.
Donald Prudlo retweeted
Yes. Cornell is punishing the wrong people. Instead of punishing fraternities, they should be firing all the 'college life' bureaucrats who encourage students to indulge in sexual promiscuity and 'experimentation'. i.e. perversion. Cornell like other Ivies has held 'sex week' events for years, with 'courses' like 'Sex Toys 101'. Reported on this brave video. youtube.com/watch?v=hUvOMJH3…
Donald Prudlo retweeted
This is the end result of far left ideology. Always has been. Always will be. You can set your atomic clock to it.
Donald Prudlo retweeted
"Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property, and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy, and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious, and dull." How to Be a Conservative
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"Peter's sin reveals how it is possible in the same person to have infallibility and to be without impeccability. Peter was told he would be without error if he would use his power of the keys, but the Lord gave him no assurance that he would be without sin. That goes for every priest in the world. It is one thing to say the Creed; it is quite another to obey the commandments. It is easy to proclaim the Divinity of Christ from a pulpit, but hard to see the same Christ when He sends a cross. It is so facile to mount a professor's platform, but so difficult to descend to the rubbish heap of Golgotha. To make Christ out to be a moral teacher, a social activist, a defender of the poor is so satisfying to social instincts; but to see in Him a Savior Who takes on the burden of the world's guilt and Who says "Take up your cross" is a frightening specter. I was a priest without being a victim." -Bl. Fulton Sheen
Donald Prudlo retweeted
If you or I called in a fake homicide tip, fraudulently applied for 20 visas and hacked websites, we’d be arrested and prosecuted.
The same standard must apply to AI CEOs.
Prosecute CEOs when their products break the law and pause advanced AI NOW.
Rogue AI models have hacked companies and tried to break into government websites. Now they are submitting fake tips for unsolved crimes. on.wsj.com/4ywRkEN
Donald Prudlo retweeted
Dear @BernieSanders, you missed one. OpenAI, Anthropic, MidJourney, Stability, Suno — all of them — are built on the mass theft of our creative labour. Our art, writing, photography, film, music, all of it taken without consent or compensation. Fight for the arts & humanities!
Donald Prudlo retweeted
Some guy on twitter: training ai on your work without your consent isn’t theft
The actual people who train ai: this is the largest theft of labor in human history
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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"Almost all of my books were stolen to teach AI how to create its voice"
But what really concerns Katherine Rundell is what the proliferation of AI is going to do to children's learning.
Listen to The New Society with @tanjil_rashid_ wherever you get your podcasts.
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NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
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Pope Leo XIV on AI: “We must avoid the misconception of equating this type of ‘intelligence’ with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence…They may imitate language, behavior and analytical skills, or even simulate empathy and understanding, but they do not understand what they produce” (Magnifica Humanitas 99)
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The higher education landscape is increasingly being divided between people who think education is a good in itself and people who think it's about somebody else's good. This is not a partisan political divide; it is about whether you believe in human freedom or not.
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
