Hey, so, you might have seen Crisp Rat, Mark "don't talk about my hate crime" Wahlberg and has-been Gwen Stefani shilling for the Hallow app. The app is supposed to be for Catholics/Christians, to help them pray or to challenge themselves or whatever. On its own, that wouldn't be an issue, although, sidenote: Hallow has a free version and a subscription version, and paying to pray is very funny to me. Praying is free. Going to church is generally also free. (Also, the free version is limited.) But anyway, behind Hallow is Peter Thiel, like an allegedly meth-ed or special-k-ed up, apparently always sweaty ghoul, here to impose white Christonationalism on us or at least a surveillance state he can profit from. Or whatever he has going on while he misreads Tolkien again.
And why that matters is, Hallow uses AI (for reasons?), and it encourages people to enter personal information. Like, possibly including your local parish, and people's names, and your name. A huge chunk of Catholics in the US are immigrants and/or not white. This information is relevant if you know anything about the US rn, obviously.
So, just a personal suggestion here, don't use Hallow. In fact, don't put any personal information on any app unless you can't avoid it for actual government or job reasons. They don't need to know anything about you.
Also if you are Catholic and this appeals to you, just find a prayer group or keep a journal. Like with a paper and pen.
