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Here's the full text of Audre Lorde's 1979 conference talk "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House": https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-masters-house-oct-29-1979 (The text is from the collection _Sister Outsider_, and is […]
The two sides of my sign for today's #NoKings marches in Philadelphia. #UsPol #vote
We witness
We remember
Vote this spring
Vote in November
#NoKings
(Adjust as appropriate for your state's election schedule: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/calendar/ ) #USPol #PAPol
Whether or not you're at #NoKings this weekend, I care more that you show up to vote afterwards. Electing candidates who will fight for the people's rights instead of cooperating with the Trump regime's wrongs is essential for peaceful change.
Start with the primaries, happening soon in many […]
Penn is holding an AI Month in April, including sessions at the Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities discussing issues of copyright, geospatial and qualitiative analysis applications (presumably using machine learning/classification), and the "new political economy of writing" […]
Since some media are misreporting it, here's what the American Medical Association actually says about transgender care in minors.
2026: "AMA policy on gender-affirming care is unchanged. The AMA supports gender-affirming care as medically necessary per our policy." […]
This Defector story on "Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business" notes that, while ganbling firms have some safeguards for gambling addicts, they generally don't kick in until a bettor is in serious trouble. E.g.: "Customers don't set limits on their accounts until after they have done something […]
More of the Penn sessions appear positive than critical. The editorial board of the Daily Pennsylvanian (student newspaper) is concerned about that attitude, warning "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking […]
John Mark Ockerbloom
John Mark Ockerbloom
My non-doctor understanding of medical consensus is that gender transition *surgery* is usually best deferred to adulthood (with non-genital surgery maybe appropriate in some teen cases), but a broader spectrum of gender-transition *care* (eg. social transition, puberty blockers, hormones, etc.) […]
