Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13mToday'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"? 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Not Catholic. Not a "believer" in a religious sense. But offering 🙏🙏🙏 for #PopeLeo this morning.nytimes.comLeo 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. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026How can you tell? All I saw was makeup and bleach. Meow. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It'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. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That, 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. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm so sorry your beautiful friend is gone. 😔 May his memory be a blessing. 030
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Except for the pro-vaxxers they make ill or kill... 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Surely, 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. 010
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh, this will create a robust moral framework for AI! Especially if it's mostly white, male academics! NOT! bit.ly/3VpyG3A #AIMorality 020
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 011
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just 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?nytimes.comIs 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. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The fact that @nytimes.com felt a cartoon was necessary to share this research kind of tells the whole story...nytimes.comWill A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? (Gift Article)We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Small note: I'm mostly #plant-based, but I could hear about #TanyaSichynsky veg book from @NYT Cooking about 0000.0000 more times.static.klipy.comGordon Ramsay: I've Had Enough!ALT: Gordon Ramsay: I've Had Enough! 001
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Beyond f'd up. #Vansstatic.klipy.comVans Off The Wall: Feet Over WaterALT: Vans Off The Wall: Feet Over Water 001
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Understood. For my Religion & Pop Culture course, I have to consume media like a 15YO every summer to update course content and lecture examples. 010
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In 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. #IAmBarelyBreathingnytimes.comDuncan 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.” 060
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yeah, maybe Ariana Grande or Zendaya? 110
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When 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.nytimes.comAnnie 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. 030
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Editor 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. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The botox eyes look like he's a little groggy and confused. 010
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Dear @theatlantic.com: Not interested in hearing about "the good life" from someone who does not value the lives of so many good people. 152
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026May 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?static.klipy.comSam Smith: Nice To Meet YouALT: Sam Smith: Nice To Meet You 1190
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So 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? 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Also, @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: 020
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hey, @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: 010
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.texastribune.orgJames Talarico reverses stance on trans student-athletesTalarico’s comments on Fox News came in contrast to positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Incorrect attribution. Not "unknown." EVERYONE with half a brain. 011
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wait? 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!nytimes.comReflecting 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. 010
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For sure. Though CA raised the bar significantly. 111
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026On the "free, non-slavery state" bit, maybe talk to an Indigenous Californian... But, you know, happy to be here. 120
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If all the dogs went back to the planet they came from, we're really be fukked. #JustSaying 000
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 Kirkstatic.klipy.comcharlie kirk eraserheadALT: charlie kirk eraserhead 010
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's a 377-page document. Any chance you've got a page number for this chart? 100
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026See, no need to poison yourself with tRump meat dumps! Yay, you! 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The 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. 011
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026As 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. 010
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Erika 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.nytimes.comOpinion | Erika Kirk: What I’ve Learned About Grief (Gift Article)It is there, always, but so is the beautiful gift of life. 020
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hey, if you're enjoying this Labor Day holiday, and the whole weekend before it, take a minute to thank a #union member. #SEIC #workersunitestatic.klipy.comUnionize All The Workers CartoonALT: Unionize All The Workers Cartoon 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The premise being that they're two different phenomena?static.klipy.comPink's Confused ExpressionALT: Pink's Confused Expression 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026So, remind me how you like your meat done...with or without industrial grade fat trimmings from an unknown source country? #plantbasednytimes.comOpinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)On second thought, I’m not that hungry. 164
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The hits just keep on hitting... #RobinMorgannytimes.comRobin 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. 000
Elizabeth Drescher, PhD @edrescherphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Trade 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??? 010