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Magnifica Humanitas (en.wikipedia.org)
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the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, concerned with "preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence". It was published on 25 May 2026.[1][2] Leo XIV chose to present the encyclical personally at the Vatican,[3] unlike most other popes who delegated this task to cardinals. The presentation was attended by AI experts, including Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah.[3] The encyclical was the first to be published without an official Latin version. This followed a recent change to Vatican regulations permitting such documents to be drafted in other languages.[4]

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Urban planners and traffic engineers have many strategies for traffic calming, including narrowed roads and speed humps. Such measures are common in Australia and Europe (especially Northern Europe), but less so in North America, where the focus is often more on facilitating motorized traffic flow.

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One dreads to think what would happen upon contact between such an Anti-pope and a Pope

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The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalized nations and peoples worldwide. It was formed on 11 February 1991 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its members consist of indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognized or occupied territories.

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The world's smallest park (Japanese: 世界一小さな公園, Hepburn: Sekai-ichi Chiisana Kōen) is a park located in Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan. There is a wooden bench, a black stone plate with a carving of flowers, and some vegetation in a 0.24 m2 (2.6 sq ft) square area surrounded by bricks.

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