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Public_N_M_E

**Bloc Party - Banquet**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdkmhquF60o

The race to AGI-pill the pope

> **A team of believers want the Vatican to take AI doomsday scenarios seriously.**
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> Pope Leo XIV probably isn’t the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios. But last month, AGI researcher John-Clark Levin found himself inside the Vatican on a mission to put those concerns in front of the pope.
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> Levin hasn’t been acting alone. In the past year, he has been quietly assembling a loose network of roughly three dozen academics, scientists, policy researchers, and priests — a group he half-jokingly calls the “AI Avengers” — who meet virtually to strategize how to get the Vatican thinking more seriously about AI’s more extreme possibilities.
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> His main worry is that the pope will take too long to realize the risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a goal pursued by some of the world’s biggest tech companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. “If you wait for perfect certainty, it’s going to be too late to act to stave off the very severe danger that appears to be just several years away,” he tells The Verge.
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> - The Vatican’s AI moment
> - Putting AGI on the agenda
> - Cracking the Vatican
> - Finally, an opening
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> **[...read more at archive.is](https://archive.is/CIfAn)**

~Christianity

econ

Research in Public #09: Abstract submitted!

SimpleStacker

charts_and_numbers

> Following the shooting that claimed the life of a National Guard member last Wednesday in Washington, the Trump administration has announced it will be halting all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people travelling on Afghan passports. The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting that killed Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and critically wounded Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, is Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War and had been living in the U.S. since 2021. He applied for asylum during the Biden administration under a program that resettled Afghans after the U.S. withdrawal from the country, and was granted it this year under President Trump.
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> [...]
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/120101)
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> **[🔗 statista.com](https://www.statista.com/chart/25619/asylum-grants-in-the-us-by-nationality/)**

~Politics_And_Law

Who Is Granted Asylum in the United States?

Bitcoin Champion Strategy Launches "Dollar Reserve" (FT, Nikou Asgari)

denlillaapan

> ... , the company would sell bitcoin to found its dollar reserve ...

This is a massive signal for the shorts. Where's the mNAV at? Is it far from 1 or close?

Stacker Saloon

saloon

I use different distros. It's just a risk mitigation thing. Total paranoia, I know...

Yeah, if NixOS has a security bug, all your boxes are screwed.

Doesn't that create a single point of failure?

> **Ultimately, the debate over 50-year mortgages is less about exotic loan structures and more about the deeper structural limits of America’s housing system.**
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> The US housing market in late 2025 is defined by contradictory forces: rising prices but slowing growth, increasing inventory but falling affordability, and a demographic shift that is weakening long-run demand even as short-run supply remains structurally constrained. 
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> Against this backdrop, President Trump’s proposal for a 50-year mortgage is an attempt to stretch affordability in a market that has outpaced incomes, and it exposes deeper issues. Mortgage duration is both a financial feature and a policy artifact shaped by decades of government intervention dating back to the New Deal. A 50-year mortgage may expand access by lowering monthly payments, but it also dramatically increases lifetime interest costs and could raise prices depending on supply elasticity. The debate over this proposal is ultimately a debate over the real frictions in the housing market, namely interest-rate lock-in, constrained supply, and the institutional architecture that prevents solutions like portable mortgages from being widely available.
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> The American housing market rarely changes in sudden leaps. Prices adjust gradually, construction responds slowly, and mortgage product design barely shifts at all. That is why the mere suggestion of a 50-year mortgage by President Trump is so economically revealing. If housing finance policymakers are floating half-century debt structures, something fundamental in the market is out of balance.
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> **[...read more at thedailyeconomy.org](https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-the-50-year-mortgage-debate-reveals-about-us-housing-constraints/)**

~Politics_And_Law

What the 50-Year Mortgage Debate Reveals About US Housing Constraints

bitcoin

I finally found a tenant who will pay me in bitcoin

siggy47

Construction_and_Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79xontgRjyU

How China Built the World's Highest Bridge | The B1M

The Declining Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar

Did you just sell it for melt value, or was it worth something to collectors?

> The U.S. dollar has steadily lost value over the past century. According to Federal Reserve data, the purchasing power of one dollar today is equal to just a few cents in 1913 (the year the Fed was created).
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> In this graphic, we track the decline in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since the early 1900s, illustrating how inflation has eroded its value.
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/119986)
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> **[🔗 visualcapitalist.com](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-declining-purchasing-power-of-the-u-s-dollar/)**

~charts_and_numbers ~Politics_And_Law

> While the U.S. ended federal Prohibition in 1933, local restrictions on alcohol still persist across the country to this day. As shown in this map, based on work by Wikipedia user Mr. Matté, many counties remain “dry,” banning the sale of alcohol entirely, or “moist,” allowing only limited sales.
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/119985)
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> **[🔗 visualcapitalist.com](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/americas-dry-counties/)**

~food_and_drinks ~Politics_And_Law

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