Donetta Sifford

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Donetta is a writer residing in Virginia with poetry appearing in a few online magazines. Her other work can be found on her blog, Donetta Writes. She also contributes articles on Medium and Substack.
Donetta enjoys gardening, reading, music of any genre, taking photos, spending time with her daughters, and her dog, Sally.
Donetta Writeshttps://donettas.wordpress.com
Mediumhttps://donettasifford.medium.com
Donetta Sifford4d ago

“The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good,” Leo wrote.

https://apnews.com/article/pope-ai-tech-trump-vatican-anthropic-d92d0108730d146baa46da041b8523da

#APNews #AI #popeleo #MagnificaHumanitas

Pope Leo XIV urges AI regulation for the common good

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit. He made the call in a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. Leo’s first encyclical is called “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity). Its release Monday has been eagerly awaited ever since history’s first U.S.-born pope announced days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today.

AP News
Donetta Sifford4d ago
considerate4d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/27/leila-slimani-literature-erotic-goyas-prado

“Literature is probably the best way to give justice back to people who are not understood or listened to. A writer can go very deep into someone’s mind and try to put light on contradictions. And as a reader, you feel empathy and tenderness for this human being that probably in real life you would never have.”

#writing #literature

‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on why literature is erotic

Now in residence at the Madrid Prado, the author talks about its dark, inspirational Goyas, the clandestine nature of her writing – and why she finally wrote about her jailed then posthumously exonerated father

The Guardian
Donetta Sifford4d ago

"By far the most common cause
of a boxer’s fracture is punching a wall.

Can you imagine the sheer asininity?
My mother once put her fist
through drywall, nothing fractured..."

This is from "Boxer's Fracture" by Jackleen Holton published in The Sun.
You can follow this link to read the entire poem.

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/605-boxers-fracture?fbclid=Iwb21leASDto1jbGNrBIO2i2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHk2Q-9P8PZGK3Mjh43O_Pmwr5ImMZhNbpGKZvRQVMJVu52d5YxCA3OuOAqqG_aem_Om3GfAsQpM08tkkOt6uGRQ

#poems #thesun #writing

Boxer’s Fracture

My mother once put her fist / through drywall, nothing fractured // but that already-broken home, / a little more of her spirit and ours.