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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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edit: messed up and replaced image with a fixed image. I stumbled, foolishly, into using an AI filter I thought, foolishly, was a traditional style image filter.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/84b9c49b-7f1c-4332-a74b-82e80f485475/https-www.vatican.va-content-leo-xiv-en-encyclicals-documents-20260515-magnifica-humanitas.htmlRSS for NodeSat, 30 May 2026 18:02:28 GMTWed, 27 May 2026 21:07:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 20:25:43 GMT]]>@davidaugust Oh no, we've all stepped in it online. Thanks for owning it with maturity, David. You're one of the good guys.

Meanwhile, I came here because I wanted to comment, simply, that this is first time I can ever remember agreeing with a pope.

The thing the sociopathic techbros have lost sight of is the social contract that exists in a supposedly-democratic country - that government and laws work for the betterment of citizen's lives and that jobs and the economy exist to provide purpose to the people.

Government and corporations that do not provide value to society have no legitimacy. Corporations are legal constructs not people. AIs are mathematical parlour tricks not people.

This is why Sam Altman, comparing the resource costs of raising a human to that of training an AI, was such a bloody outrage.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/zazzoo/statuses/116654076300997860https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/zazzoo/statuses/116654076300997860Thu, 28 May 2026 20:25:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 20:22:57 GMT]]>@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr hey, good on you for owning it!

I had to go months back in my camera roll to find anything even remotely uncontroversially cute so here's a burrowing bee poking its head out of its burrow lol

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/116654065438989067https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/116654065438989067Thu, 28 May 2026 20:22:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 19:52:47 GMT]]>@davidaugust @mastodonmigration @unlambda @ai6yr Not quite the same thing, but I wrote up this article https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653 after I found myself yelling swear words at the International Space Station, because it's a bright satellite, even though I used to be super excited about watching it. Made me realize my relationship with spaceflight had really dramatically changed thanks to for-profit tech companies, and writing it up helped me sort through that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116653946810962880https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116653946810962880Thu, 28 May 2026 19:52:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:52:30 GMT]]>@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

I agree.

I am debating if it might be good for me to write up my experience as an article of sorts for my https://stuff.davidaugust.com. Not sure yet if that is a good idea or exactly how to frame it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653709731110419https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653709731110419Thu, 28 May 2026 18:52:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:38:24 GMT]]>@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Feel like you experience here is a great case study justifying such an initiative.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653654279716825https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653654279716825Thu, 28 May 2026 18:38:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:32:08 GMT]]>@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be great. I imagine there is already an appetite for it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653629646764359https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653629646764359Thu, 28 May 2026 18:32:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:30:24 GMT]]>@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Would love to see this become more of a marketing thing. That is, people promoting that their tools are AI Free. Kind of like "organic" food products.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653622874959939https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653622874959939Thu, 28 May 2026 18:30:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:28:20 GMT]]>@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be nice. I wish it had been more clear in their interface.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653614707319758https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653614707319758Thu, 28 May 2026 18:28:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:26:17 GMT]]>@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Took this as a bit of an opportunity to boost the labels, but a serious issue is knowing the provenance of something like this filter. Wouldn't it be good if you had been able to choose filters attested to be AI Free from the get go, rather than it being a crap shoot?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653606637179693https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653606637179693Thu, 28 May 2026 18:26:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:26:08 GMT]]>@ai6yr @davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker That also means I need to find a way to re-do my Ko-fi page in GIMP, since I decorated it up with Canva. 😀 Not that I've been actively soliciting on it for the last few months anyway, but, ugh.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pagan.plus/users/Ashmire/statuses/116653606077754642https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pagan.plus/users/Ashmire/statuses/116653606077754642Thu, 28 May 2026 18:26:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:16:04 GMT]]>@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Don't think you should feel bad about getting taken in by the slop merchants.

We live in interesting times where nothing may be what it seems. Kudos for making the situation clear once you realized what was going on.

Here's an AI Free label for your troubles to use on your next truly AI Free photography project.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653566494924567https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116653566494924567Thu, 28 May 2026 18:16:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 18:14:26 GMT]]>@davidaugust Gotta love when the big man gets it right

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floofy.tech/users/Jbear5/statuses/116653560093900863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floofy.tech/users/Jbear5/statuses/116653560093900863Thu, 28 May 2026 18:14:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 17:48:32 GMT]]>@RunRichRun @davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Also called the β€˜double croissant’ position.πŸ₯πŸ₯

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/firefly/statuses/116653458221138964https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/firefly/statuses/116653458221138964Thu, 28 May 2026 17:48:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 17:29:08 GMT]]>@davidaugust @IcooIey @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr

Thanks,everyone in this whole on , for demonstrating/affirming once again the excellent reasons I left behind for the more intelligent discourse enjoyed here in the
Solidarity from Tacoma
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Here's a random kitten just for joy...

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://union.place/users/PeachMcD/statuses/116653381961466809https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://union.place/users/PeachMcD/statuses/116653381961466809Thu, 28 May 2026 17:29:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 17:21:34 GMT]]>@IcooIey @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr 😊 thank you!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653352165893805https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653352165893805Thu, 28 May 2026 17:21:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 17:20:34 GMT]]>@ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker thank you. Yeah. I was (clearly) surprised to learn they did that.

Now figuring out how to get my data off their systems and find better alternatives.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653348236216791https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116653348236216791Thu, 28 May 2026 17:20:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Thu, 28 May 2026 05:44:30 GMT]]>@ai6yr
Well, yes. See for example the screw on the scissors to the left. No filter in the old sense of the word would come from the original photo to the "filtered" result.
@sundogplanets @davidaugust @unlambda

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/musevg/statuses/116650611192563336https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/musevg/statuses/116650611192563336Thu, 28 May 2026 05:44:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:52:07 GMT]]>@davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Upping the ante β€” two cute dogs competing in synchronized sleeping.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/RunRichRun/statuses/116648989686084350https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/RunRichRun/statuses/116648989686084350Wed, 27 May 2026 22:52:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:45:13 GMT]]>@davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr I appreciate this whole thread actually. Well done humans on detecting, correcting and forgiving. Adding a lupin to the goats and bunnies of forgiveness.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/IcooIey/statuses/116648962513627538https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/IcooIey/statuses/116648962513627538Wed, 27 May 2026 22:45:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:42:05 GMT]]>@davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker Thanks!!! And, sorry that company fooled you 😑

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/116648950170226432https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/116648950170226432Wed, 27 May 2026 22:42:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:09:29 GMT]]>@unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116648821992684457https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116648821992684457Wed, 27 May 2026 22:09:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:08:58 GMT]]>@unlambda @sarae @ai6yr @sundogplanets

Happy to be responding, not so happy I got this way wrong and doubled and tripled down. Oops.

The problem was decidedly between the chair and the keyboard over here, I borked up, the call came from inside my cranium.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116648819998655077https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davidaugust/statuses/116648819998655077Wed, 27 May 2026 22:08:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:08:26 GMT]]>@sundogplanets @davidaugust @ai6yr I'll see your goats, and raise you a couple of bunnies.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/unlambda/statuses/116648817910824673https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/unlambda/statuses/116648817910824673Wed, 27 May 2026 22:08:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html on Wed, 27 May 2026 22:07:35 GMT]]>@sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

YES! Thank you. Quite welcome.

Still almost can't believe I not only got it wrong but I doubled and kinda tripled down on my wrong. Humiliation is mine, goats help.

Thank you very much!

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