I am happy to indulge in bread and circus whilst also knowing that the system is corrupt AF and stealing from FIAT me. More and more, bit by bit my flow to sats increases. I think France will win the world cup at this point, I know I smash bought sats today.
GM. Day 4 of trying to claw back limbo money from a brick house bank who state funds have left, sorry, and a fintech bank who say funds didn't land with us, sorry. Have to wait the full 5 business days before escalating. Hurry up BTC and just be defacto value transfer already.
GM. The Pope just dropped a 42,000-word encyclical on AI.
But the timing matters.
It was released exactly 135 years after Pope Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum — the landmark 1891 document on workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution.
Back then, the Church was responding to factories, mechanization, labor exploitation, and the concentration of industrial power.
Today, Pope Leo XIV is arguing that AI represents a new industrial revolution — one with even deeper implications for human dignity, labor, freedom, and social order.
Most people will read the headlines saying:
“The Pope warns about AI.”
But the actual message is more interesting.
The concern isn't really the machines.
It's power.
Who owns the data.
Who controls the algorithms.
Who shapes perception.
Who decides what is true.
Who benefits when human judgment is replaced by machine systems.
He warns about:
• AI-driven propaganda and disinformation
• Mass surveillance and loss of privacy
• Autonomous weapons
• Job displacement
• Digital monopolies
• The concentration of technological power in a handful of institutions
Reading it through a NOSTR lens, this feels less like a document about AI and more like a document about centralization.
In 1891 the question was:
What happens when industrial power becomes concentrated?
In 2026 the question is:
What happens when intelligence, data, communication, and reality itself become concentrated?
Decentralization isn't just a technical architecture.
It's a human safeguard.
The Pope wrote 42,000 words about AI.
The entire thing can probably be compressed into one idea:
Don't let powerful machines become an excuse for concentrating power in fewer human hands.
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