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Last week, I published a very irreverent piece about Fiducia Supplicans titled “Notes From a Divorce”. I’m happy with how it turned out, but it was, without question, the most polarizing piece I've ever run on G.O.T.H.S.. I can’t really be surprised by that, because Fiducia Supplicans has led to polarized responses everywhere, and whatever responses I got to my piece are nothing compared to the backlash facing Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, who issued Fiducia Supplicans in the first place.

If you’re not already a subscriber to Leveling Up and want to join other curious music industry professionals, creators, investors, and entrepreneurs, enter your email below and you won’t miss out on future newsletters: GM readers 👋, Happy (belated) January! I hope your 2024 is off to a great start. In my hometown of New Orleans, folks are celebrating the city’s next holiday – Mardi Gras. If you’re a veteran of this newsletter, you know what that means… 

Discover how NVIDIA's Project GROOT is reshaping the future of robotics by blending AI and cutting-edge technology. Explore its groundbreaking principles, innovative training methods, and transformative applications in this blog.  Foundation models, also known as General-Purpose AI or GPAI, are capable of a range of general tasks such as text synthesis, image manipulation, and audio generation. They are trained on broad data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks.

Straight up I will tell you I’m not much of a fan of emus. I have seen them around, given I grew up in Australia. Not like in the street or anything…but at farms. Anyway, while I’m not a fan of emus, I am a fan of niche internet drama. So with that in mind, after requests following my last post, here’s my breakdown of the emu content controversy. OK wait what is EmuTok?

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve maybe seen me make mention something called the Jewish x Italian Handshake. A few people have asked me if that’s really a thing, and all I can do is look at them and ask them if they think it’s really a thing. Because, no, it’s not. There wasn’t a meeting hundreds of years ago where a few Jewish people and a couple of Italians got together and decided on this idea that Jews could play Italians and Italians could play Jews and we should all be OK with that.

**Please note there is a brief bit of explicit language at the beginning of the song** “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? -C.S. Lewis A little over a decade ago, my wife had an ectopic pregnancy. For us, the pregnancy was an answer to hundreds of prayers to conceive.

The University of North Carolina’s 16 campuses spend no less than $90 million per year in pay and benefits on no fewer than 686 staffers under the “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) umbrella. On Wednesday, the system’s governing board may end the controversial program that institutionalizes bias and prejudice based on neo-Marxist principles and falsehoods — such as America is a structurally racist country. Our audit team at OpenTheBooks.com reviewed official university payrolls after filing records requests and searched university websites for DEI committees and their membership lists.

Airing dirty laundry in public. I write about things that scare the shit out of me, imaginary friends, stuff I've done that makes me want to crawl in a hole, unexpectedly beautiful interactions, and inappropriately funny things. By Juliane Bergmann · Launched 3 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmitnqKyr8DIqKWampyawG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo

Ahead of Presidents’ Day weekend, the ICBP is rolling out, exclusively for subscribers, the 2017 oral history podcast looking back at the meteoric rise and devastating fall of Ike “The President” Ibeabuchi, the seeming heavyweight-champion-in-waiting who knocked out Chris Byrd in 1999 to run his record to 20-0 … and never fought again. Interview subjects… ncG1vNJzZmian622r7PWoquhqpGouKq6zK6jr5memsZvv9Sbqq2Zk6B7pLvMaKdorJiaeqqvwalknqiZqLylsYxqamatnqeyorjIs5ydZaSdsg%3D%3D