when the room goes the other way
Two careful movements from Deuteronomy 1–2 on holding a minority faith within a majority-fear culture — and discerning which specific territory truly belongs to you. A brief field note from the middle of that lived tension.
On Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calls for AI to be disarmed. A Catholic working at the physical layer of AI infrastructure reads the document.