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Stop Hiring Humans?
So says the provocative advertisement - but without my added question mark - on billboards in San Francisco - where else? Other head lines say that AI employees 'never come to work hungover', and...
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Saint Nicholas and the Silence of Saint Thomas
It was on this day 751 years ago that Saint Thomas Aquinas stopped writing. Or, more properly, dictating - for he had scribes write down his rapid thoughts, at times, I have heard, three...
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Tolle, Lege!
Ironic, perhaps, that I suggest the following article for our readers, on this medium. For Ed Simon exhorts in strong language for a return to the printed page, to immerse ourselves in books, in...
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Novena to the Immaculate Conception
Here is a worthy and beneficial novena to the Immaculate Conception, whose intercession is much needed in our world - she is the patroness of the United States - and very beneficial to our...
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Courage and Campion’s Brag
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of 'spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity' and we may add a host of other synonyms and related terms. Its opposites are...
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ChatGPT and the Purpose of Education
S.A. Dance makes a good case for true education, on the second anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, the 'artificial intelligence' software - which is in essence just an algorithm collating the repertoire of...
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Britain Chooses Death
Tragic, but not a suprise, that the House of Commons yesterday voted by quite a wide margin - 330 to 275 - to legalize physician-assisted murder-suicide, known by the euphemism 'euthanasia'. This literally means...
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Life and Death in Britain
Britain votes tomorrow - or today if you're reading this on Friday - on euthanasia, or more properly the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) legislation, which would permit the 'terminally ill' to be...
