PF Anderson

Pink clematis flowers illustration with gouache, sketchbook spread botanical Illustration

I'm on my way for more flowers in my sketchbook so here are pink clematis from today! 🌸

#gouache #art #illustration

on the other trafficked girls in Esther because the girls in the harem matter, too

When I met w/my beit din, I posed this question to them — where were the stories about the other women in Shushan's House of Women? @theradr.bsky.social has thoughts. >
On the other trafficked girls in Esther (because the girls in the harem matter, too) www.lifeisasacredtext.com/esthertraffi...

Life is a Sacred Text Truth, transformation, & collective liberation; ancient stories serve as mirrors & lights.

I figure a lot of folk I know here probably already follow @theradr.bsky.social and their fabulous site/blog "Life is a Sacred Text." So excited by their new post about the OTHER women in the story of Esther & Purim.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com#/portal/sign...

Ms. Global: Iranian Girls’ School Hit in U.S.-Israeli Strikes, Taliban Legalize Domestic Violence, The Netherlands' First Gay Prime Minister, and More The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully lacks paid family…

Hikaru Fujita has become a powerful political symbol in Japan after campaigning for, and winning, a seat in Japan’s House of Representatives while pregnant. More in the latest Ms. Global:
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anyway a 10th person has died in ice custody this year

Why every scientist needs a librarian Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.

“Ultimately, the researchers analysed 191 reviews. They found that those with a librarian on the author list scored 15.4% higher on their quality assessment than did reviews that didn’t involve an information specialist1.” www.nature.com/articles/d41... #medlibs

To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t > wrote: » intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor » caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do."

This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t > wrote: » intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor » caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag

Epstein responds in the affirmative, insisting "no really smart women---none." Schank, in turn, admits that his "very best Phd student was female," but laments that she "decided to quit being a professor," adding "that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap."

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

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I'm not sure either. It feels a little less personal to me, maybe? Like less of an acknowledgement of Moses as existing in relationship to other people. #ParshaChat

and the way the things he says & the way he says it HAVEN'T CHANGED. Don't tell me that we can't learn anything from people 2500 yrs ago because everything was different then, when it's THE SAME SHIT
#ParshaChat

Oof. This chair wouldn’t cut it for me, even if 1/10th the price. It looks really uncomfortable and lacks conveniences like a place keep things handy. With as large of a base as it has, I don’t want to have to reach past the chair all the time for books, remote, beverage, etc.

Megilat Ḥam-Ed — the Scroll of the Steamed Portions of Cham YouTube video by Isaac Mayer

Also the Steam Hams Megilah that @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social yer.bsky.social made remains one of the funniest things I have ever seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6HC... #ParshaChat

OMG, that's so incredibly precious. Knowing that each one carried a story, one of Mel's stories ... WOW. What an honor. #ParshaChat

Following up on the Parsha:Purim parallels: The lovely things in the Tabernacle don't just appear, they come from human labor & human cooperation. The modern Achasheverosh wants things (gold, yachts, books, pictures) WITHOUT human labor or cooperation, just by wishing or ChatGPT
#ParshaChat

I really love this pair of poems about Vashti reformjudaism.org/blog/vashti-... and Esther reformjudaism.org/blog/book-es... #ParshaChat

That would honestly be even worse. #ParshaChat

this is what i kept screaming during the build-up to the Iraq War. We had HUGE protests. it's like they never happened
#ParshaChat

#ParshaChat rocks are really cool and anybody who tells you otherwise has no wonder in their heart. The truest joy a human being can experience is being a kid and finding a cool rock. I still have like seven or eight cool rocks that I found in my childhood bedroom

One of my favorite rocks looks as boring as anything. An asymmetrical roundish gray lump. But the story! The large crow who spent a half hour struggling to lift and carry off a rock as large as its chest. #ParshaChat

One of my best friends was a surgeon in that war. They're the 1st person who suggested to me that I might want to learn more about Judaism. They were often asked how they could, as a Jew, support that war. Part of their answer was If all moral folk step away, who is left? #ParshaChat

Exactly. I cannot imagine having 400 women living in one building without a lot of activities, discussions, shifting alliances and more. #ParshaChat

this is such an important point, for our individual lives & even more for all collective (government, corporate) decisions.
The cost of owning housing isn't just the property value, it MUST include ongoing maintenance--otherwise it's a slum.
#ParshaChat

#parshachat he wants to possess nice things and he sees human beings as things to possess, and the thing about a possession is that you can do whatever to it and it can’t stop you because you own it. Which is the reason why a healthy society does not allow for the possession of humans

GRANNY WEATHERWAX!!! Wonderful! Tangentially, have you read Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy? Humorous in similar ways, I think. #ParshaChat

"There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that—" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."

#ParshaChat when I say he “wants to possess nice things” I am keeping in mind Granny Weatherwax’s well-known quote as to the nature of sin:

I do love rocks. Slices of dolomite and agate. Ammonite fossils. Shimmering labradorite. The landscapes in miniature of hickoryite and jasper. I find the famous fancy jewels (diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires) so much more boring. #ParshaChat

The rhetoric here. The abuse of language to say something accurate and complete false at the same time #ParshaChat

Nothing wrong with wanting a rock collection, rocks are cool! There's a lot wrong with rocks being trophies of empire and oppression and destruction, though. #ParshaChat