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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So delighted to hear this! Thank you for teaching the book!

Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Endless respect and empathy for anyone working to publish real human thinking, writing and reporting in These Times. First the advertising model fell through, and readers started to expect info created by human labor to be free... (1/5)

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just can't stop thinking -- any elected could have been doing this all along.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just a reminder that kitchens started out as large rooms for an entire staff of servants to prepare meals, and then the Frankfurt kitchen turned that into a one-woman job, hidden away, so all men had to see was a woman emerging with a cooked meal, and then the open concept floor plan made that ugly.

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is a helpful skill for everybody! if you're reading humanities research: - read the intro - read the conclusion - identify the author's argument, what evidence they're using to support it, and why they think it matters - skim headers and topic sentences it's a word find, not a novel

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 14/08/2026

The conservative neural misfire about UBI schemes is that they are all convinced that everyone will just sit around doing nothing enjoying "free money." This is a complete misunderstanding of human character. People will do jobs that they *enjoy* doing if they can afford to live doing so.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

www.thenation.com/article/soci... Good read for folks studying/teaching worker justice, or in need of elder care--on worker-owned cooperatives in the elder care space.

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The Dignifying Solution to America’s Care Crisis

Employee ownership turns care work jobs into good jobs—and leads to better patient outcomes.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This essay makes me cry. Is very very good.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️

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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.

The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

TV ads last night in our dystopia: -sell your clothes -sell your plasma -Ring cameras -private chef for your Airbnb -Lexus

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... Gift link: performative wokeness meets economic inequality at an elite university, by Tyler Austin Harper

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Why I Quit the Tenure Track

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

amazing course of action during a measles outbreak. if you wanted to ensure it would infect more children and toddlers, this is what you’d do.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"Though the four-hour Mass began in sunlight, clouds slowly gathered and darkened overhead... As the host was consecrated, a torrential downpour fell on the crowd and muddied the hillside while thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky."

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The fact is that the Catholic Church has *not* budged on natural law or its teaching even as it has made practical changes that integrate it more solidly into the rest of Catholic life. It’s not pastoral or theological care to encourage Catholics in this kind of traditionalist paranoia.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Was just going to post about how much I'm enjoying this book and realized the Kindle edition is free (today?!) Come for Steve Long's incisive essay on the "Protestant ethic" and Milwaukee sewer socialism, stay for an edited volume whose authors are visibly in conversation and not always agreeing.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hey friends in the 518! I'll be home for vacation in July and talking about Making a Life at the wonderful Book House at Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY, 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 16!

The Book House Kate Ward presents Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work Thursday, July 16 Stuyvesant Plaza 1475 Western Avenue Albany, NY Books will be available for purchase

Flyer includes images of Kate Ward and the book cover of Making a Life

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Please share this call for book proposals for a new series, Short Introductions to Engaged Catholicism! 50,000 words could be just right for so many projects. Bloomsbury Academic/T&T Clark is great to work with; your book will be peer reviewed and fairly priced. Happy to chat w/those interested!

T&T Clark Short Introductions to Engaged Catholicism Series
Bloomsbury Academic invites proposals for a new book series, T&T Clark Short Introductions
to Engaged Catholicism, which explores how Catholic moral theology and ethics engage the
most pressing challenges of contemporary life. The series will publish concise, accessible, and
academically rigorous volumes of approximately 50,000 words that address topics such as
democracy, migration, ecology, healthcare, economics, technology, peacebuilding, gender,
sexuality, and social justice.
Written for students, seminarians, clergy, educators, and informed lay readers, the series
seeks books that bring the Catholic moral tradition into constructive dialogue with
contemporary ethical questions. Contributors should engage both the strengths and
limitations of Catholic thought while demonstrating its continuing relevance for public life,
human dignity, solidarity, and the common good. We particularly welcome proposals from
scholars whose work reflects diverse global perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches.
For further information, or to submit a book proposal, contact Kristin Heyer,
heyerkr@bc.edu or Richard Brown, richard.brown@bloomsbury.com.
Series Editor Kristin E. Heyer is the Joseph Chair in Theology at Boston College and one of the leading
voices in contemporary Catholic ethics. Her scholarship focuses on immigration ethics,
Catholic social teaching, moral agency, public theology, and political responsibility. A former
president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and current co-chair of Catholic
Theological Ethics in the World Church, she has published extensively at the intersections of
faith, justice, and public life.
www.bloomsbury.com
Susan Abraham, Pacific School of Religion, USA
Victor Carmona, University of San Diego, USA
Catherine Clifford, St. Paul University, Canada
Daniel Fleming, St. Vincent’s Health Australia
Christine Firer Hinze, Fordham University, USA
M.…

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Observations in no particular order: - outsource the genuinely delightful work of choosing books for your offspring? srsly? - teachers pay teachers but AI just steals from them - by her own admission, she 👏 isn't 👏 doing 👏 less 👏work! www.thecut.com/article/jess...

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Very excited that Catholic Labor Network is leading a summer book study on Making a Life! There's a discount code to order the book and you can sign up at CatholicLabor.org/events!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Missed this back in March--from a Jesuit economist, a case for UBI in light of AI labor disruption, and specific proposals for funding it www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

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The case for a universal basic income in the era of A.I.

Do we just do nothing if artificial intelligence leads to rising unemployment and poverty?

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Great piece, featuring a thought experiment on how Anthropic should be treating Claude based on their belief that it may become conscious, and the many downsides to entertaining that idea.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 31/05/2026

If you read my recent report on the Vatican’s relationship with Anthropic — which focused on the U.S. context, which gets a mention in here — this traces some of that same history from the Vatican side, focusing on Tighe. Fascinating stuff.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Those looking for insights on Magnifica Humanitas would do well to check out the ongoing series on CatholicMoralTheology.com. I liked this from Julie Hanlon Rubio on the proper place of "pelvic theology." www.catholicmoraltheology.com/p/ai-magnifi...

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Catholic Moral Theology | Substack

We are Catholic moral theologians who come together in friendship to engage each other in theological discussion, to aid one another in our common search for wisdom, and to help one another live lives...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/05/2026

Have you perus’d the letters from the Pope

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Black Catholic Messenger @blackcatholicmessenger.org · 26/05/2026

In his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas", Pope Leo condemned the Vatican's role in the slavery—a first for the world's largest Christian church. The remarks come in the wide-ranging document on AI, human dignity, and the dangers of new technologies. www.blackcatholicmes...

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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/05/2026

NEW from me: In new findings, researchers from a group of religious schools (BYU, Notre Dame, Baylor and Yeshiva) say popular AI models have a bias towards Catholicism when asked questions about conversion. religionnews.com/2026/05/26/a...

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AI has a bias toward Catholicism, researchers say

(RNS) — ‘As AI amplifies and compounds religious bias at scale, more users may misunderstand the contribution faith and belief can make to moral and ethical AI grounding,’ said Elder Gerrit W. Gong, o...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pope Leo addresses the Synod Hall after presentation of his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen."

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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Really great for disability lens as well poor people have right to live. (From the new encyclical)

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Good to see recognition that we also need to see justice *within* the church and its structures - too long neglected.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

That each soul is of equal value regardless of its "contribution" should not sound radical, but to the modern Calvin-drenched ear, it does.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

243-5: an ending focused on Mary in an unmistakenly liberative, Magnificat-focused tone, a move both deeply traditional (JPII always closed with Mary) and new, and that's our Leo XIV.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

... I would encourage a careful examination of the supply chains of digital production, the working conditions hidden behind our devices and the mechanisms that profit from manipulation and war.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

240. Every technical or economic decision should include spiritual discernment and be an opportunity for assessing whether the advances in AI are promoting justice and participation or concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a select few. ...

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Drawing to a close, Leo points to the Incarnation and the Eucharist. Struck me as more Christian-specific than Francis who liked to sound interreligious notes in conclusions, but both also quite appropriate in a doc reflecting on humanity.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The previous ref's attacks on civilians and children, but it also reminded me of Peter Thiel's complaint that Christianity "always takes the side of the underdog."

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Adopting the perspective of victims 216. There are times when, in order to remain human, we must set aside our reservations and take a stand. In some conflicts, it is unjust to remain neutral, nor is it enough merely to claim that we are not complicit." ...

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

213: Tolkien!!! Cue ecstasies of joy from Catholic nerds the world over. But it was the Maria Montessori reference for my CGS catechist heart (and Dorothy Day of course).

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"212. A subtle temptation may emerge, namely the thought that the problems are too big and we are too small, and that our choices, therefore, cannot make a difference. This is a polite form of resignation, often disguised as realism." Sounds like Francis in content and tone.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ch 5 addresses AI and warfare: troubling signs of increased conflict in our age, and decisions to use force must always have a clear chain of human accountability.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

While it's not the focus, Leo's ecclesiology shines through.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

176 discusses the Church's "growth in understanding" that promoting human dignity incompatible with acceptance of slavery: "This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached."

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