There’s now an Apocalypse Early Warning System that tracks private jets to see if the ultra-rich are suddenly fleeing major cities.

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net

Which is honestly the most American disaster plan possible: no public warning, no evacuation order, just a suspicious number of Gulfstreams leaving Manhattan for privately owned bunkers while the rest of us are still getting push alerts about door dash deals and mattress sales.

Da Pope has dropped an #encyclical. An encyclical is a pastoral letter issued by the #Pope.

Historically encyclicals serve as a key instrument of the Pope’s ordinary magisterium to guide the faithful on matters of faith, morals, devotion, or social discipline, they are generally not infallible pronouncements ex cathedra.

I’m still reading and digesting, but a quick skim suggests that this is the biggest thing to drop from the #Vatican in my lifetime.

There’s, #AI, there’s transhumanism, there’s social contract, he apologizes for the Church’s blind eye to #slavery, he declared that “just war” is no longer a thing…in a change of policy held since the Crusades. He calls for #OpenSource, he quotes #Tolkien. (I like Da Pope.)

There’s a lot. You can read it here. It’s gonna take me a while to map it all out.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Now that Google official killed search engine with AI summarise and added chatbot box to it. For those who wants alternatives to Google search try (this is sorted list):

Brave
DuckDuckGo
Ecosia
Kagi
Marginalia Search
Mojeek
Qwant
Startpage

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#OTD in 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis. And once released, he wrote one final poem: “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Books by Oscar Wilde at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/111

#Books #Literature

The anti trans movement is such a cruel movement and, while calling all trans allies and trans women “woman haters” , will actually help usher in more misogyny , homophobia , and destruction of reproductive rights - utterly topsy turvy

https://skepchick.org/2026/01/the-bbc-chose-transphobia-over-science/

Sitting on the main drag in Aix drinking a beer and realizing it’s so *quiet* — if I understood French I could listen in on three or four conversations around me.

The main drag is closed to cars.

Cities aren’t noisy. Cars are noisy.