
@lukeburgis There comes a point when we’re known by the company we keep—not by proximity, but by the structures we help build and legitimize. Certain constellations of power, technology, and theology disclose their own moral grammar—what counts as peace, how it is secured, and at what cost.

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If this is an ecclesial question, address the violence at issue—the Thiel/Palantir complex operationalizing a rival soteriology. Your post deflects downward in scale, substituting register-policing for substance, and treats intelligence and biblical interest as moral credentials. – and Here, Benatti on Thiel, AI, the PayPal mafia, et al. It may well amount to the most astute take yet. And, for the record, a quiet counterfactual, archived in HTML. Proof, if nothing else, that other trajectories were available from the start. What with auction talk in my world, a collaborator from yesteryear notes that the Save The Earth ArtRock Web Auction we initiated in 1995, is still going strong 25 years later. Then, UCLA's Inst. of the Environment & Sustainability, its beneficiary. /2 t.co/qW2rJT51n0 Counting coups. Here, the original eBay patent declaring the Save The Earth ArtRock silent auction, the 2nd web-based auction on record. We were a couple of weeks behind the EIT Computer Museum and likely the first philanthropic effort of its type. /3 t.co/w9cR9kb0UR Subtweet: Translated from Spanish Paolo Benanti is a Franciscan and the Vatican's principal advisor on AI. He writes about Thiel and his obsession with the antichrist. Transhumanism, posthumanism, Christianity, Katehon. Brilliant for the religious and accelerated times we live in.
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@MassimoFaggioli I don’t know about you, but intuition long ago suggested the Eschatological Event would ultimately manifest as a transcendent political intervention at the planetary level around nuclear confrontation. “Danger itself invites the rescuing power.” - #Holderlin
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