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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD

@edrescherphd.bsky.social
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Puppy mum, gardener, green cook, scholar of living non/religion, urban religion, material religion, domestic religion, religion in everyday life. Committed bot blocker.

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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13m
Today's thought: What if we'd spent, I dunno, maybe 10% of what's been spent on AI development or data center intelligence to educate humans toward "super intelligence"?
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Not Catholic. Not a "believer" in a religious sense. But offering 🙏🙏🙏 for #PopeLeo this morning.
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Leo XIV’s Lung Cancer Diagnosis Tests a Papacy Still Taking Shape (Gift Article)
For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How can you tell? All I saw was makeup and bleach. Meow.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's not an either/or proposition. Until boys and men learn not to rape—and that'll take a minute—women need to learn to protect themselves and each other and decent men need to support them.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That, or she's a lizard 🦎person. I've always thought that, but it's especially the case since she's started slamming GLP-1s. Meow.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so sorry your beautiful friend is gone. 😔 May his memory be a blessing.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Except for the pro-vaxxers they make ill or kill...
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Surely, AI companies & ethicists are looking at moral practices of ordinary people using AI. Are ppl looking for advice on stealing, cheating, manipulating, otherwise harming others? Or trying to solve human, planetary problems? Heal relationships? Seems to me this is what is training AI morally.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, this will create a robust moral framework for AI! Especially if it's mostly white, male academics! NOT! bit.ly/3VpyG3A #AIMorality
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@colah.bsky.social: Process here is backwards. Religion/morals don't emerge from authoritative cognition, but from human practice in relational communities eventually appropriated & codified by authorities. You're trapped in a linear, Cartesian binary. bit.ly/4rNG9pq
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a note, #ElizabethDias @nytimes.com: @colah.bsky.social did not coin the phrase "moral formation." More importantly, morality doesn't develop primarily from "religious and secular VIEWS," but from embodied, lived experience. Lex orandi, lex credendi. How to architect that artificially?
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fact that @nytimes.com felt a cartoon was necessary to share this research kind of tells the whole story...
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Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? (Gift Article)
We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Small note: I'm mostly #plant-based, but I could hear about #TanyaSichynsky veg book from @NYT Cooking about 0000.0000 more times.
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Gordon Ramsay: I've Had Enough!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Beyond f'd up. #Vans
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Vans Off The Wall: Feet Over Water
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You're being facetious, right? 🤔
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Understood. For my Religion & Pop Culture course, I have to consume media like a 15YO every summer to update course content and lecture examples.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In a world where you-know-who(s) being dead would be super helpful to, you know, humanity, the earth, etc., taking out Duncan Sheik seems particularly cruel. #IAmBarelyBreathing
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56 (Gift Article)
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, maybe Ariana Grande or Zendaya?
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I was working on an MFA at Pitt, I would walk around Point Breeze, the neighborhood Dillard grew up in, hoping to absorb a molecule of something that fueled her gift. RIP, Annie.
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Editor of a textbook I've been testing chapters of with students suggested that I not provide digital copies to reduce risk of content being fed into AI. Anyone else moving away from digital content? Plan to shred copies for compost at end of term.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The botox eyes look like he's a little groggy and confused.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dear @theatlantic.com: Not interested in hearing about "the good life" from someone who does not value the lives of so many good people.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, please!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
May I recommend Bad Bunny, Sam Smith, Brandi Carlisle, Olivia Rodrigo, Bruce, Rosalía, Bruno Mars, a long list of other non-a-hole artists for your listening pleasure?
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Sam Smith: Nice To Meet You
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good on you!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So many mornings, I wake up, and as I open the news, I think, "could he just be dead already?" The swirl of hope and disappointment at 6AM is heady. But it has to be close, right?
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also, @jamestalarico.bsky.social, the following might get you out of the "inherently evil, objectively deformed" hole you've dug for yourself on #transathletes and #genderidentity:
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey, @jamestalarico.bsky.social, maybe you could lead with reflective nuance rather than bald-faced pandering on #transathletes. Imagine if you'd said something like this:
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@jamestalarico.bsky.social knows that #anti-trans rhetoric is a political distraction. So, shame on him. Is he a better bet than #Paxton? Sure. But he's also better than this. Winning on the bodies of vulnerable Americans is SOOOOooo NOT WJWD. Do better @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social.
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James Talarico reverses stance on trans student-athletes
Talarico’s comments on Fox News came in contrast to positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Incorrect attribution. Not "unknown." EVERYONE with half a brain.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And ME, AOC. And ME.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wait? You mean the president and the whole administration besides Janine Pirro KNOWINGLY LIED? As recently as earlier this week? Well, I think it's National Medal of Honor time!
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage (Gift Article)
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For sure. Though CA raised the bar significantly.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the "free, non-slavery state" bit, maybe talk to an Indigenous Californian... But, you know, happy to be here.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If all the dogs went back to the planet they came from, we're really be fukked. #JustSaying
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That’s a prudent deal. It is rational.” - Charlie Kirk
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charlie kirk eraserhead
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's a 377-page document. Any chance you've got a page number for this chart?
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(Very) oldie but a goodie!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
See, no need to poison yourself with tRump meat dumps! Yay, you!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The callowness of @nytopinion.nytimes.com in platforming the widow of a fascist who continues to profit from his evil is gobsmacking. There was absolutely no journalistic reason to amplify her voice, particularly without any coverage of the hate-spewing life she grieves.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As I prep for fall quarter, I've been thinking a lot, of course, about AI, and have found the guidance of Wendell Berry particularly helpful.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Erika Kirk hasn't learned about grief that the pain of being dehumanized by a narcissistic hate-monger lingers, wave upon wave sneaking up on queer kids, people of color, women so that "Charlie feel[s] impossibly close" in the worst way. Shame on @nytimes.com for platforming this monster's spouse.
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Opinion | Erika Kirk: What I’ve Learned About Grief (Gift Article)
It is there, always, but so is the beautiful gift of life.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Norma Rae
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey, if you're enjoying this Labor Day holiday, and the whole weekend before it, take a minute to thank a #union member. #SEIC #workersunite
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Unionize All The Workers Cartoon
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The premise being that they're two different phenomena?
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Pink's Confused Expression
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thank you!
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So, remind me how you like your meat done...with or without industrial grade fat trimmings from an unknown source country? #plantbased
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The hits just keep on hitting... #RobinMorgan
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Robin Morgan, Voice of Radical Feminism, Dies at 85 (Gift Article)
She edited the landmark 1970 anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.
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Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trade school is not a new thing, even if it emphasizes engineering. And who doesn't want grads to get jobs? But they also need to develop purpose in life, lack of which results in the evil crew of narcissistic transactionalists running the govt & most corporations. Do we need more of that???
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