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Vince Miller

@millervincent.bsky.social
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Theologian wrestling with hope in the face of climate change and ecological destruction. Private account.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
new to this. help me understand the nothing side...
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote this in 2013 about the legacy of 9/11 during the Boston Marathon Bombing. It holds up. Much to be learned by how different things are: Spectacle wrested from terrorists and served as overspiced daily pablum by autocrats through the platforms. www.americamagazine.org/all-things/2...
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Media and the demon dare of terrorism
Twelve years tick off changes in media as much as they replay the same horrible narrative of terror nbsp In 2001 we watched news camera clips on endless replay nbsp Today scenes from Boston are broadc...
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rewatching The Wire season 2. The whole cast is stellar of course, but goddamn Chris Bauer was fantastic as Frank Sobatka.
Pencil drawing by Steve Lieber of Chris Bauer in season 2 of The Wire, playing IBS local 1514 secretary Frank Sobatka.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
so looking forward to reading this.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
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The RedDot @thereddot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Reality
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Sometimes you need to come up with what seems like a very extreme idea, & then it slowly socializes and becomes something that everybody starts to understand." Appreciated @magiccanoe.bsky.social on "Lake Back," letting water (& fish) reclaim their historic domain. magiccanoe.org/inspired-by-...
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Inspired by Land Back, First Nations Aim for 'Lake Back' - Magic Canoe
How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.
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Zeb Palmer @zebpalmer.com · 18/08/2026
#IdahoFire Yep…..
Seven active and retired firefighters told Reuters they were also concerned firefighters were taking unusual risks because of an all-out approach to stopping fires mandated by the Trump administration. They ​also questioned the impact of U.S. Forest Service staffing cuts as part of broader federal downsizing.
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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is great. I also think this is a problem in some of the scholarship on "distributed agency" which disappears intention and responsibility by talking about assemblages as if they were randomly assembled constructs of vibrant energies and agencies of human & non-human. IYKYK
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Grace @areyousurebruv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Like maniacs, those occupying the seats of power are planning to destroy, indeed annihilate, whole populations, the very earth its fruitfulness, its capacity to sustain life. A total war is declared against the Creator whom we all love, honor and worship."
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is absolutely amazing: clarity, detail, principle, realism
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RNS @rns.org · 10/08/2026
OPINION: (RNS) — Since Pope Leo XIV spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the American Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ways. García-Siller's new pastoral letter accelerates that shift.
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How grief made Archbishop García-Siller a prophetic voice on immigration
(RNS) — Since Pope Leo XIV spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the American Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ways. García-Siller's new pastoral letter accelerates that shift.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
epost from @fungaia.life • I desist! Please read entire text on Instagram. May the forest be with you.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Unfortunately, and as anticipated, yesterday's widespread lightning-following-heat event amid severe drought has sparked a large number of additional wildfires, expanding existing outbreak across OR, WA, & BC. Numerous heat signatures & large smoke plumes are evident. #ORwx #WAwx
Current snapshot from NOAA Wildfire Fire Portal showing dozens of large, active fires (heat signatures and smoke plumes) from Oregon into southern British Columbia
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mivox is mostly-dead 💀 @bs.mivox.net · 14/07/2026
A link to a GFM her brother started is the next post in the thread after this:
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Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.northernjournal.com/haunted-by-h...
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Haunted by Halong
Western Alaska youth are grappling with trauma they suffered during last year's climate disaster.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thrilled to report that after more than a decade, one of our PawPaws has patched!
Photo of a trees and shrubs with a pawpaw tree and 3 offshoot trees emerging around it.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 10/07/2026
"LLMs seem like crystallizations of what Charles Taylor labels the modern 'buffered' self." — @millervincent.bsky.social
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Flourishing Through Limits
Pope Leo reminds us to consider not just what AI can do, but also who designs it, who it serves, and who gets left out.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/07/2026
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despi…
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Fourth!
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Randy Newman for the 4th of July playlist. Those 5 piano notes ...innocent nostalgic sincerity beneath the huckster horror lyrics. They wreck me every time. So much harder than Copeland or...Greenwood. But standing in real history. youtu.be/HCRGrnhdNQE
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Sail Away (2002 Remaster)
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is a human rights crisis on so many fronts.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A plea to report the meaning of "latae sententiae." In Catholic Canon Law, this means that the act itself automatically excommunicates. To consecrate a bishop w/o papal approval is to go into schism. The Vatican response was to recognize that act. (As did JPII for Lefebvre in 1988)
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Why important? SSPX knew this and built an international media event to maximize attention and claim the mantle of the Schismatic-Catholic Right. They want the drama/cred of being Leo's antagonists. This is something they did, not something mean Leo imposed on them. Latae sententiae is not dramatic.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Accord to Canon Law, they excommunicated themselves by the unlawful consecration: Can. 1387— Both the Bishop who, without a pontifical mandate, consecrates a person a Bishop, and the one who receives the consecration from him, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A plea to report the meaning of "latae sententiae." In Catholic Canon Law, this means that the act itself automatically excommunicates. To consecrate a bishop w/o papal approval is to go into schism. The Vatican response was to recognize that act. (As did JPII for Lefebvre in 1988)
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Unlike a human being moved by real emotions, LLM agents’ work will never be disrupted or transformed by, say, seeing the video of George Floyd’s murder, becoming pregnant, getting caught in a flash flood or riot on the way to work, or being struck with wonder at the ecology of a forest."
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Carefully tuning LLMs for “healthy psychology” is supposed to enable them to complete their assigned tasks without sycophancy, deception, or ethical and compliance violations."
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"In this respect, LLMs seem like crystallizations of what Charles Taylor labels the modern “buffered” self: an isolated being that engages reality from “inner, mental space” separate from the world and, indeed, from its own body."
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Granting that these model affective states can function causally, Leo helps us consider the significance of the aspects of human emotions they lack: formative relational responses. transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotion...
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Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My take on Leo's how discussion of human interdependence and vulnerability offers a substantial engagement and challenge to @colah.bsky.social's reverse engineering of "emotion vectors" in Claude. www.commonwealmagazine.org/flourishing-...
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Flourishing Through Limits
Pope Leo reminds us to consider not just what AI can do, but also who designs it, who it serves, and who gets left out.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thankful to be part of this great lineup on #MagnificaHumanitas
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you! I had no idea this existed!
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
An often ignored "side" effect of LLMs: "reinforcement learning from human feedback" (RLHF) makes the "customer is always right" voice the default. If Google's blank search bar formed generations in contextless knowledge, this will form users' every thought and whim in fluffed self confidence.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Amazing resource:
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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/06/2026
A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. scim.ag/4vs08dC
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 28/05/2026
Cryptocurrency replaces banks about as well as an LLM replaces the human brain. A struggling simulacra of a tiny subset of very complex systems. What is shocking is how easily modern societies can fall for these blatantly false claims. Our immune system against hallucinations was tested and failed.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/04/2026
A rough estimate of doing as much generative AI coding as the CEO of Nvidia recommends : an increase of 2.7x of the global annual emissions footprint for the average person By Boris Gamazaychikov www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"If engineer did
not consume
$250,000 worth
of tokens, I will be
deeply alarmed.",
— Jensen Huang
NVIDIA CEO
What's the carbon footprint of
$250K
AI coding?
Q) 7-11 tcqe
Claude Code (Opus 4.6)
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tC02e/yr
6.6
tCOoe/yr
Estimated carbon
footprint for
S250K Al coding
$250K Al coding
(upper bound)
High-end estimate based on
current infrastructure and
energy nx.
Individual carbon
foot
raises ave
footprint
2.7x
1262x1640px, 631:820
Aver,
per p
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fun fact: a conclave burns black smoke to announce that no Pope has been chosen, white smoke to announce that a Pope has been chosen, and red smoke to announce to the faithful that it is time for the Butlerian Jihad.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Absolutely, but props to Schmidt for the honest disclosure of the Snowpiercer seating arrangements.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Amazing in so many ways: The collapse of the shiny AI vision when people--especially new college grads--get to speak back. His smug and clumsy showing of the Foucaultian cards: find a way to "say yes." Yes to what? A seat on a space ship... with a promised Snowpiercer hierarchy..
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I don't understand the decision to compare human poets with AI imitations of different poets and styles. Respondents might just prefer Whitman to Lasky (as the low negatives on revealing AI Whitman suggest)? It seems much more useful to compare human Shakespeare, Lasky and Whitman to AI imitations
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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
More concentrated precipitation decreases terrestrial water storage - Nature
Concentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.
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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores.
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Edward Chen @edwrdchen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The largest forest research organization in the world, the US Forest Service's R&D branch, may lose up to 74% of its sites under a planned reorganization. Researchers on the ground and former officials shared many thoughts with Nature's News team: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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World’s largest forest research agency faces severe cutback by Trump administration
The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread fear and uncertainty.
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