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The Lord works in mysterious ways, 2/26

Alabama: Former pastor sentenced to prison after stealing $400K from church

California: Bethel Church places pastor Ben Armstrong on administrative leave after sexual abuse allegations

Money from the poor and visits to brothels: Rome investigates the California bishop

California: Catholic bishop, 69, is regular visitor to brothel called The Hong Kong Gentlemen’s Club, report alleges

Florida: Law professor at Catholic university is accused of possessing child pornography

Georgia: Former Cobb Co. church director sentenced to 25 years after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving teen boy

Georgia church that hosted Trump accused of not reporting child molester

Illinois: Lake Zurich priest retires after sexual abuse allegations as Cardinal Cupich cites ‘exemplary leadership’

Kentucky: Former worship pastor in Owensboro takes own life after sexual abuse charges

Excerpt: David Rodgers, 40, had been charged with third-degree rape, second-degree sodomy involving a position of authority, first-degree sexual abuse, procuring or promoting the use of a minor by electronic means and possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor under the age of 12.

He was arrested and later released on $75,000 full cash bond.

The KSP initially received the complaint in early January 2026, but the incidents are alleged to have begun 10 to 11 years ago and continued for four to five years.

Michigan: Fellowship of Christian Athletes youth soccer coach gets 22-60 years for sex crimes against player

Former teacher, coach at New Jersey Catholic school at the center of another sexual abuse lawsuit

New York: Diocese of Buffalo priest facing second-degree harassment charge

New York: Unsealed personnel files show Brooklyn Diocese knew priest was a perv

New York: ‘Substantial number’ of people come forward on former Owego pastor’s alleged misconduct

Virginia: ‘Too much love to give’: Report finds Vineyard pastor abused women in two states

Of course, the vast majority of crooked or pervy religious leaders get away with everything. Of those that are caught, many are quietly reassigned to other duties, not defrocked or punished. Of the few cases that aren’t hushed up, there’s no knowing how many make the news, but undoubtedly I miss most of them, in compiling this list.

Previously in God’s divine plan

2/26/2026

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👁️ Eye on AI, 2/25

Pete Hegseth gives Anthropic choice to abandon AI safeguards or be labeled ‘national security threat’

AI opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time during war games: researcher

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon

Seedance’s heavily-hyped ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap

Accenture tells employees to adopt AI or face no raises after laying off 11,000

Meta’s AI chatbot won’t discuss abortion with teens—even as the company fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm

Grok exposed a porn performer’s legal name and birthdate—without even being asked

AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

Musk’s xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

Columbia University is all in on AI

Excerpt: On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

Amazon’s vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: ‘Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently’

Now they’re calling it “AI co-workers”

OpenAI flagged a mass shooter’s troubling conversations with ChatGPT before the incident, decided not to warn police

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

I’m a tech dummy, so correct me if I’m wrong, but — of course it ‘remembers’ what it’s been ‘taught’. It’s a frickin’ database. The original text was uploaded to the database, but the ‘AI’ still managed to get huge chunks of it wrong.

Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two

OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Android or iOS auto-sends files to AI & OneDrive before you even realize it, instead of opening normally

Previously in artificial AI

2/25/2025

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Weekly dead, 2/24

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give ’em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this once weekly, until I’m on the list myself.

Tyrah Adams
forgotten person

Jane Baer
animator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Tishuana Ballard, Eboni Silas
2nd Amendment

Vermonte Blair, Quiade Daniels
2nd Amendment

Joanne Bland
National Voting Rights Museum

Eric Dane
actor, Grey’s Anatomy

Aidan Dorgan, Rhonda Dorgan
2nd Amendment

Guyle Fielder
hockey player, Seattle Totems

Susan George
activist and author, How the Other Half Dies

Angela Luce
actress, The Decameron

Bill Mazeroski
baseballer, Pittsburgh Pirates

Lashyd Merritt
2nd Amendment

Doug Moe
ABA basketballer, Virginia Squires

Rondale Moore
footballer, Arizona Cardinals

Javan Myers
2nd Amendment

name withheld, 1
2nd Amendment

name withheld, 6
2nd Amendment

Tom Noonan
actor, Manhunter
and filmmaker, What Happened Was…

Penelope Putz
bitterly opposed to the Iraq war

Shinya
rock’n’roller, Luna Sea

Michael Silverblatt
radio host, Bookworm

Billy Steinberg
songwriter, “True Colors,” “Like a Virgin”

Green Vigo
rugby, Wigan Warriors


• Greg Abbott • Mark Alford • Samuel Alito • Marc Andreessen • Sam Altman • Brian Babin • Steve Ballmer • Ben Bankas • Steve Bannon • William Barr • Amy Coney Barrett • Joel Berry • Scott Bessent • Jeff Bezos • Lauren Boebert • Pamela Jo Bondi • Emil Bove • Greg Bovino • Sergey Brin • Vern Buchanan • George W Bush • Doug Burgum • Steven Calabresi • Tucker Carlson • Elaine Chao • Jonathan Choe • Susan Collins • James Comer • Tim Cook • Tom Cotton • Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz • Henry Cuellar • Paul Dans • Michael Dell • Ron DeSantis • Betsy DeVos • Sean Duffy • David Ellison • Larry Ellison • John Fetterman • Randy Fine • Tulsi Gabbard • Newt Gingrich • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez • Jonah Goldberg • Neil Gorsuch • Franklin Graham • Lindsey Graham • Chuck Grassley • Marjorie Taylor Greene • Nikki Haley • Sean Hannity • Josh Hawley • Pete Hegseth • Mike Huckabee • Sarah Huckabee Sanders • Laura Ingraham • Hakeem Jeffries • Benny Johnson • Mike Johnson • Ron Johnson • Alex Jones • Jim Jordan • Alex Karp • Brett Kavanaugh • Robert F Kennedy Jr • Charles Koch • Julia Koch • David Kustoff • Leonard Leo • Jared Kushner • Jake Lang • Karoline Leavitt • Corey Lewandowski • Joe Lonsdale • Howard Lutnick • Ed Martin • Ghislaine Maxwell • Mitch McConnell • Dave McCormick • John McEntee • Linda McMahon • Vince McMahon • Mark Meadows • Katie Miller • Stephen Miller • Steven Mnuchin • Lisa Murkowski • Elon Musk • Mick Mulvaney • Peter Navarro • Benjamin Netanyahu • Kristi Noem • Andy Ogles • James O’Keefe • Larry Page • Kash Patel • Rand Paul • Ken Paxton • Sonny Perdue • Tony Perkins • Mike Pompeo • Sidney Powell • Vladimir Putin • Vivek Ramaswamy • John Ratcliffe • John Roberts • Joe Rogan • Karl Rove • Chip Roy • Marco Rubio • Rick Santorum • Chuck Schumer • Jeff Sessions • Ken Shamrock • Kyrsten Sinema • Roger Stone • Peter Thiel • Clarence Thomas • Rex Tillerson • Donald Trump • Donald Trump Jr • Ivanka Trump • Melania Trump • Tommy Tuberville • JD Vance • Russell Vought • Alice Walton • Rob Walton • Jim Walton • Lukas Walton • Bari Weiss • Mark Zuckerberg
• and any Secret Police wearing a mask •

“I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
          —Clarence Darrow

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The Lord works in mysterious ways, 2/26

👁️ Eye on AI, 2/25

Weekly dead, 2/24