The most wonderful thing that happened to Tommy McHugh

photo cred: my dadThis is the quarterly links ‘n’ updates post, a collection of things I’ve been reading and doing for the past few months.(1) THE MOST WONDERFUL THING THAT HAPPENED TO TOMMY MCHUGHA British man named Tommy McHugh was on the toilet pooping when apparently he strained too hard, had a stroke, and woke up in the hospital. McHugh was construction worker and ex-con who had never been in an art gallery “except maybe to steal something”, but as he recovered, he was possessed by an intense desire to make art:I’ll paint three or six or nine pictures at a time. […] Canvases became too costly, so I started painting the ceilings and the wallpaper and the floor.Here’s what it looked like:(source)As he said in an interview, “The most wonderful thing that happened to Tommy McHugh [was] having a stroke while doing a poo.”(2) POPE-PLEXITYThe blogger claims that Pope Leo’s first encyclical, which is about AI, was substantially written by AI. I believe that it’s a mortal sin to pass off…