Richard Pütz

Richard Pütz

@richardmusing.bsky.social

For 35 years, I helped build the systems I now question. Check out my blogs and who I am: https://allthingscyberspace.com Location: Great Lakes No Salt No Sharks

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Christopher Hale
@christopherjhale.bsky.social

The Heritage Foundation adviser who recruited 12 bishops to pray over Trump in the Oval Office claimed a Ph.D. from an Italian university that doesn’t grant doctorates. His listed bachelor’s school is a high school. A Vatican official called the meeting an insult to Pope Leo XIV.

thelettersfromleo.comThe Heritage Official Who Brought 12 Bishops to Trump Claimed Degrees He Never EarnedMario Enzler spent weeks recruiting prelates for the Oval Office prayer, The Pillar reports. Archbishop Coakley was “deeply frustrated,” and Vatican officials call the meeting an insult to Pope Leo…

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Rich Raho
@richraho.bsky.social

Whether the issue is migration or climate change, calls to regulate artificial intelligence or criticism of the excessive concentration of wealth in the hands of a privileged few, Pope Leo’s positions are diametrically opposed to those of Trump and Trumpism. www.repubblica.it/en/europe/ne...

repubblica.itHow Pope Leo’s Church is pushing back against the global far rightIn Italy and across the world, the Vatican is taking positions at odds with nationalist movements. Donald Trump’s attacks on the Pope have backfired

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Jon Cooper
@joncooper-us.bsky.social

This man was dead weight, hanging high above the ground after touching a high-voltage line. His coworker climbed up, held him in place, gave him mouth-to-mouth. Randall Champion survived—and lived another 35 years. Rocco Morabito’s photo, “The Kiss of Life,” won the Pulitzer Prize. True heroism.

Richard Pütz
@richardmusing.bsky.social

Fascism in South Africa historically combined far-right nationalism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism, manifesting in groups like the Greyshirts and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, and was intertwined with apartheid and economic exploitation. This is where Elon grew up.

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Richard Pütz
@richardmusing.bsky.social

Let this settle in. Think of how disgusting this is coming from a leader of the country. Imagine how low one must go to agree with what Trump is saying.

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Q: Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, do you change your mind about the ad? Trump: No. I don't care

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Governor JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

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Q: Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, do you change your mind about the ad? Trump: No. I don't care

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Rich Raho
@richraho.bsky.social

Pope Leo: “We live in a performance-driven culture that constantly compares and ranks people, sometimes ruthlessly” and a “misguided understanding of meritocracy ultimately fails to respect people.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

vaticannews.vaPope urges Catholic schools to help young people find new way to live in world - Vatican NewsMeeting with participants in the International Congress for Pastoral Care in Schools and Universities, Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic educational ...

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Christopher Hale
@christopherjhale.bsky.social

NEW: A group of Catholic bishops prayed over President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, 12 days before the midterm elections, at a meeting organized by an official at the Heritage Foundation. A senior Vatican official called it “a highly inappropriate meeting and an insult to Pope Leo XIV.”

thelettersfromleo.com“Pastoral, Not Political” — Archbishop Golka Prays Over Trump 12 Days Before the ElectionDenver’s archbishop led bishops in prayer over Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, with Paula White at his side. Hours later, Trump told Vivek Ramaswamy to keep running an ad calling Amy Acton a lia
Richard Pütz
@richardmusing.bsky.social

Didn't our mothers teach us never to take candy from a stranger? We all know why parents warn us. Elon Musk pledges to give one SpaceX share to every American child next year — a gift worth roughly $10.5 billion macdailynews.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

macdailynews.substack.comElon Musk pledges to give one SpaceX share to every American child next year — a gift worth roughly $10.5 billionElon Musk announced on X early Monday that he plans to give one of his personal SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year, calling it “the first of many.”

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Gerd Leonhard - For the Human Future
@futuristgerd.com

#mustread: voa @economist: What Congress can do to prevent an AI catastrophe: Lawrence Lessig and Yoshua Bengio suggest how to reduce serious risks without abandoning American technological leadership. Animation below. #techvshuman #AIemergency gift link: gerd.fm/4hT2O03

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Gerd Leonhard - For the Human Future
@futuristgerd.com

Bernie Sanders nails it: "The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a few Big Tech oligarchs who are obsessed with money and power. PEOPLE throughout the world must determine that future. Human beings, not machines, must come first..." #aiemergency #techvshuman gerd.fm/4yuXyVs

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Richard Pütz
@richardmusing.bsky.social

The three words that don’t mean the same thing Empathy, compassion, and justice belong together, but they do different work. Collapsing them into a single “caring” is where much of technology ethics goes wrong.