I'm happy to add to our growing database of facts about Pope Leo: in the collective estimation of two free AI services,
The photo on the left is from Microsoft CoPilot. The one on the right, from ChatGPT.
Both the red and black zucchettos are appropriate for Chicago White Sox traditional uniform colors. According to yet a third AI service (Google Search Labs), a properly papal zucchetto is white, while a cardinal's is red. It adds that priests and deacons may wear a black zucchetto (which is news to me).
The photo on the left is flopped. Note that SOX looks like X02.
ReplyDeleteWhy White Sox? I thought he was a . . . Cardinal.
Very good!
DeleteWhen I get to my desk, I'll have to check whether I inadvertently did the "flopping" somehow, or the AI engine did it.
Amid the series of cut-and-pastes I did to get the photos into the post, I must have done something to "flip" the CoPilot photo from frontward to backward, as the original had him batting right-handed, and "Sox" was spelled left-to-right. I've corrected it.
DeleteIt is just about guaranteed that he will not be able to see his family as much. He won't have the freedom that any of us retired folk enjoy, to not report to a boss any more. His boss is the church.
ReplyDeleteHis brother said Leo is a White Sox fan, correcting some earlier meme that he is a Cubs fan. The Cubs organization believed it and put something to that effect on the marquee outside it's stadium. The Cubs owners, the Ricketts family, are Catholic and have said he's still welcome there any time.
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected.
DeleteSorry, I guess that was tmi
DeleteHappy Mothers Day to anybody who is or has/had a mother. None of us mothers lives up to the Hallmark ideal. But for the times we gave you enough leash to run amok, provided a safety net, and kept our mouths shut, you're welcome.
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