John P Slattery
@johnslatteryphd.bsky.social
Exec Director, Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Sci & Tech at Duquesne Univ. Historian, theologian, ethicist with a penchant for baking bread, playing chess, and critiquing society.
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
45 minutes in the exhibit hall and I'm already feeling overwhelmed with all the people! Time to find a place to break in quiet. #conferencing #aarsbl25
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
45 minutes in the exhibit hall and I'm already feeling overwhelmed with all the people! Time to find a place to break in quiet. #conferencing #aarsbl25
Enjoying an espresso and some chess at Faro Cafe near Harvard as I warm up for whole day of eugenics discussions before #AARSBL25! Wonderful little place
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Enjoying an espresso and some chess at Faro Cafe near Harvard as I warm up for whole day of eugenics discussions before #AARSBL25! Wonderful little place
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
What a senseless killing by the US Government: www.treadbylee.com/p/we-pray-he...
'We Pray He Gains Peace': Over Objection of Victim's Family, Alabama Executes Geoffrey Todd West
Will Berry opposed the execution of his mother's murderer. Alabama suffocated him anyway.
www.treadbylee.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What a senseless killing by the US Government: www.treadbylee.com/p/we-pray-he...
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A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."
Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.
www.techpolicy.press
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
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![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
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Vatican Releases Official Portrait of the New #Pope Leo XIV
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/05/vati...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/05/vati...
Vatican Releases Official Portrait of the New Pope Leo XIV
Catholic Church, Catholic News World, Vatican, Pope Francis, Breaking, Pope News, c na, Catholic Headlines,
www.catholicnewsworld.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Vatican Releases Official Portrait of the New #Pope Leo XIV
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/05/vati...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/05/vati...
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It sounds like one of the American cardinals blabbed to the Wall Street Journal about how the papal conclave voting went down. The details are in the second half of the article.
WSJ's reporting agrees with what I'd heard: the Latin American cardinals had coalesced around Prevost even before the conclave, and provided the base of his support, which then attracted those opposed to Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
How an American Cardinal Beat the Odds to Become Pope
Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave.
www.wsj.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It sounds like one of the American cardinals blabbed to the Wall Street Journal about how the papal conclave voting went down. The details are in the second half of the article.
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In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum.
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
May 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum.
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
Why Leo? "mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution." And, you know, AI!
From his address to the Cardinals this morning, May 10.
From his address to the Cardinals this morning, May 10.
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Why Leo? "mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution." And, you know, AI!
From his address to the Cardinals this morning, May 10.
From his address to the Cardinals this morning, May 10.
Since you're all wondering about Pope Leo, can I interest you in my book? Here I talk a lot about how Leo XIII balanced the influx of new ideas as the first Pope after the fall of the Papal empire, and how he charted a path for a dialogue between science and faith? undpress.nd.edu/978026810609...
Faith and Science at Notre Dame
The Reverend John Augustine Zahm, CSC, (1851--1921) was a Holy Cross priest, an author, a South American explorer, and a science professor and vice president...
undpress.nd.edu
May 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Since you're all wondering about Pope Leo, can I interest you in my book? Here I talk a lot about how Leo XIII balanced the influx of new ideas as the first Pope after the fall of the Papal empire, and how he charted a path for a dialogue between science and faith? undpress.nd.edu/978026810609...
I like John Allen's overview of the new pope, very helpful and thorough! cruxnow.com/papal-transi...
cruxnow.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I like John Allen's overview of the new pope, very helpful and thorough! cruxnow.com/papal-transi...
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
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At least now they can't say the pope doesn't understand the United States when he criticizes capitalism.
May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
At least now they can't say the pope doesn't understand the United States when he criticizes capitalism.
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The first pope born in the United States of America. Holy moly.
May 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The first pope born in the United States of America. Holy moly.
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ARE YOU SERIOUS AN AUGUSTINIAN HOLY SHIT
May 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ARE YOU SERIOUS AN AUGUSTINIAN HOLY SHIT
Looks like we're already 3 votes in with no pope! 2 votes to go today.
I don't ever post at this ungodly hour so that should tell you something....Schedule for Papal votes today (6 hrs ahead from EST)
May 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Looks like we're already 3 votes in with no pope! 2 votes to go today.
Anyone have a favorite livestream for smoke watching right now? #papabile #conclave2025
May 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Anyone have a favorite livestream for smoke watching right now? #papabile #conclave2025