While discussing solutions to the dehumanising aspects of AI the Pope quotes Tolkien. (Quoting Gandalf)
\nEncyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
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\n- The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
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DLC for story-based games is lost on me. I played through Cyberpunk when it was a crappy mess and enjoyed it. Phantom Liberty came out, I played it for half an hour and never went back. The game was over, I saw the ending. Make a sequel.
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Had Soylent Green on in the background. The film sets New York’s 2022 population at 40 million; the source novel, set in 1999, gave it 35 million. The actual figure, in either year: about 8.5 million. We’re not running out of space, we’re running out of people.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://storagezilla.xyz/2026/05/21/quibi-was-an-expected-failure.html","date_published":"2026-05-21T03:01:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-21 03:01","date_timestamp":1779332469,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@2me.mark/post/DYlbpR8loQ1"]}},{"id":"90522073","content_html":"Spider-Noir with Nicolas Cage looks delightful. Shot for both black and white and Technicolor, pick the mood you’re in when you watch. If you have a 4K OLED, you win either way.
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Watched: Tag: The Assassination Game 🎬 A mongrel genre movie mixing satire, noir, thriller and campus comedy that never commits to any of them. Not worth seeking out but fine if it’s on. Linda Hamilton has a great time.
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\nFinished reading: Moonraker by Ian Fleming 📚 Bond in the novels is a tool of the state. He is precise, observant, cruel and has a remarkable ability to tolerate pain. But he has no ambition beyond the system. His opponent, Drax, is nothing but raw ambition. It makes their exchanges good to read.
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Watched: The Drama 🎬 Some call this a dark comedy but it’s a tale of relationship disintegration. The characters are under so much pressure they vomit. Uncomfortable to watch, but the leads are great. I won’t watch it again.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://storagezilla.xyz/2026/05/02/weve-moved-on-from-warm.html","date_published":"2026-05-02T21:42:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-02 21:42","date_timestamp":1777758170,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89287619","content_html":"\nBringing back Friendster seems like a lark. But Supabase rate limiting showed up to spoil the post registration fun.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fstoragezilla.xyz%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fb17296fe58.jpg\")
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","summary":"Microsoft made sure the upselling worked. While the basics were left to rot.","url":"https://storagezilla.xyz/2026/04/30/when-microsoft-put-advertising-into.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T00:29:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 00:29","date_timestamp":1777508956,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89278358","content_html":"Token-based billing for AI is inevitable. The subsidies won’t continue. With the drive to use AI where I work, I can’t imagine the token bill versus the payroll. If interns start becoming a thing in tech again, it’ll be because they’re cheaper.
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","summary":"The halogen bulb in my wake-up lamp went. The replacements I’ve tried don’t look much like a sunrise.","url":"https://storagezilla.xyz/2026/04/28/hitting-snooze-on-sunrise.html","date_published":"2026-04-28T21:58:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 21:58","date_timestamp":1777413505,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89201797","content_html":"@alexgalbraith Hahahahaha!
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","summary":"My MacBook Pro met an unfortunate end at the AWS London Summit. Replacing it has been more complicated than expected.","url":"https://storagezilla.xyz/2026/04/24/the-downgrade.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T21:05:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 21:05","date_timestamp":1777064755,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88954093","content_html":"@alexgalbraith Every SaaS purchase starts with good intentions. Then you have a mountain of good intentions and a mountain of a SaaS bill.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/Storagezilla/88954093","date_published":"2026-04-24T20:28:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 20:28","date_timestamp":1777062510,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88953631","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw154%2FmUjK0jqx485OM7hmJiOQ6nHfBD0.jpg\")
As poorly as Westworld season 3 is regarded by large parts of the audience, I liked Engerraund Serac as the antagonist. He wanted to build a system of invisible control to prevent human extinction. He succeeded up until the moment he failed. Today’s corporate AI plans are heading the same way.
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\nThe RAM shortage could last years
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Planned a two-hour Dungeons & Dragons session but since we haven’t played in months it takes 20 minutes just to get everyone back up to speed. The grand finale then becomes “You open the door two doors away from the boss… and we’ll leave it there for tonight.”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/Storagezilla/87206304","date_published":"2026-03-29T18:27:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F21%2F1786642.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Storagezilla"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 18:27","date_timestamp":1774808836,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87212655","content_html":"@jimmitchell Working great! Thanks for the fast turn around.
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