PF Anderson
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PF Anderson
@pfanderson.bsky.social
· Jun 19
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed
In the wake of a brief PubMed outage, team launches project to ensure uninterrupted access
www.medpagetoday.com
The good news is that the German government has decided to replicate PubMed/MEDLINE because of a lack of confidence in it's current infrastructure www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... #medlibs
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New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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I think another way you could read it is that Isaac was *not* involved in setting it up but *did* know what Rebekah was doing and decide to cooperate with it.
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I think another way you could read it is that Isaac was *not* involved in setting it up but *did* know what Rebekah was doing and decide to cooperate with it.
#ParshaChat
#ParshaChat
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Which is also related to how I see meltdowns and what it looks like to be responsible as a disable person who is prone to them. Sometimes what you do in the moment isn't controllable, but it matters a *lot* what you do before and after. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Which is also related to how I see meltdowns and what it looks like to be responsible as a disable person who is prone to them. Sometimes what you do in the moment isn't controllable, but it matters a *lot* what you do before and after. #ParshaChat
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Yes, and I've also seen bad situations in which disabled people don't take any responsibility for managing their meltdowns and triggers likely to lead to meltdowns. It's really complicated to sort out sometimes! #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yes, and I've also seen bad situations in which disabled people don't take any responsibility for managing their meltdowns and triggers likely to lead to meltdowns. It's really complicated to sort out sometimes! #ParshaChat
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A3 I hear this as an expression of Rebecca herself being "on overload," to use a term we heard just a moment ago. "I can't take this any more! Why is this happening to me?" #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A3 I hear this as an expression of Rebecca herself being "on overload," to use a term we heard just a moment ago. "I can't take this any more! Why is this happening to me?" #ParshaChat
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Now I'm wondering if there's a way to read either Jacob or Esau as having concern for someone other than themself. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Now I'm wondering if there's a way to read either Jacob or Esau as having concern for someone other than themself. #ParshaChat
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Here's an article about Midrash Chad Shenati (10th c Cairo Geniza), which noticed that Isaac is the only patriarch who prays to G*d on behalf of his infertile wife. Isaac is also only monogamist.
#ParshaChat
www.thetorah.com/article/a-mo...
#ParshaChat
www.thetorah.com/article/a-mo...
A Monogamous Isaac Prays for his Barren Wife - TheTorah.com
Midrash Chad Shenati, discovered in the Cairo Genizah, criticizes Abraham for not praying for Sarah and praises Isaac for praying for Rebekah, and gives Rebekah pride of place in its homiletic exposit...
www.thetorah.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Here's an article about Midrash Chad Shenati (10th c Cairo Geniza), which noticed that Isaac is the only patriarch who prays to G*d on behalf of his infertile wife. Isaac is also only monogamist.
#ParshaChat
www.thetorah.com/article/a-mo...
#ParshaChat
www.thetorah.com/article/a-mo...
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It also relates to how both communities and individuals often have trouble acknowledging something as a hard problem without attributing it to malice on anyone's part. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It also relates to how both communities and individuals often have trouble acknowledging something as a hard problem without attributing it to malice on anyone's part. #ParshaChat
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And of course, the inverse is also true. Sometimes people and communities have trouble acknowledging malice that *is* a real contributing factor. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And of course, the inverse is also true. Sometimes people and communities have trouble acknowledging malice that *is* a real contributing factor. #ParshaChat
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It also makes sense to me that a particularly obnoxious and entitled person might not even be willing to be bothered to pay enough attention to the person they're asking a favor from to be specific about it. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It also makes sense to me that a particularly obnoxious and entitled person might not even be willing to be bothered to pay enough attention to the person they're asking a favor from to be specific about it. #ParshaChat
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And *that's* got me thinking about how sometimes people who do things for disability-related reasons get perceived as doing them for indifference-to-others reasons. (And how that gets complicated to sort out because disabled people are as capable of indifference as anyone else). #Parshachat
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And *that's* got me thinking about how sometimes people who do things for disability-related reasons get perceived as doing them for indifference-to-others reasons. (And how that gets complicated to sort out because disabled people are as capable of indifference as anyone else). #Parshachat
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I think that in left/liberal/progressive/etc spaces, there's often a norm that presumes that caring about people = being nonjudgmental. And I think that's not always actually the case, but it's hard to talk about without seeming to endorse a certain kind of traditional hatefulness. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I think that in left/liberal/progressive/etc spaces, there's often a norm that presumes that caring about people = being nonjudgmental. And I think that's not always actually the case, but it's hard to talk about without seeming to endorse a certain kind of traditional hatefulness. #ParshaChat
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This is also reminding me about the texts later on in the Torah that talk about how eating an otherwise-correct offering after the time limit makes it an offensive offering. A lot of things people try to offer to disabled people are like that! #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is also reminding me about the texts later on in the Torah that talk about how eating an otherwise-correct offering after the time limit makes it an offensive offering. A lot of things people try to offer to disabled people are like that! #ParshaChat
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Yes. Which is why I try to teach people that inclusivity and accessibility are things you have to do on purpose, including through ongoing intentional learning. The way our cultural institutions and norms are currently built means we're all going to get a LOT wrong by default. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Yes. Which is why I try to teach people that inclusivity and accessibility are things you have to do on purpose, including through ongoing intentional learning. The way our cultural institutions and norms are currently built means we're all going to get a LOT wrong by default. #ParshaChat
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And: When I think about b'nai mitzvah, I tend to advise teachers *not* to default to dropping requirements and to err on the side of finding alternative ways of doing things. Now I'm wondering about that in combination with the principle of being ok with accepting limitations sometimes. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
And: When I think about b'nai mitzvah, I tend to advise teachers *not* to default to dropping requirements and to err on the side of finding alternative ways of doing things. Now I'm wondering about that in combination with the principle of being ok with accepting limitations sometimes. #ParshaChat
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Tangential, but: This is getting me thinking about how when I can't fast, I prefer *not* to do substitute things or do additional prayers for it.
I'm wondering if there are any Jews who can't have gluten who feel similarly about challah/matzah/etc substitutes?
#ParshaChat
I'm wondering if there are any Jews who can't have gluten who feel similarly about challah/matzah/etc substitutes?
#ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tangential, but: This is getting me thinking about how when I can't fast, I prefer *not* to do substitute things or do additional prayers for it.
I'm wondering if there are any Jews who can't have gluten who feel similarly about challah/matzah/etc substitutes?
#ParshaChat
I'm wondering if there are any Jews who can't have gluten who feel similarly about challah/matzah/etc substitutes?
#ParshaChat
Hey BSky folk, HELP? I'm not sure who to ask. A friend has a small online business selling traditional Asian weapons. The place hosting their online shop started promoting right-wing extremist merchandise, so they left. They're looking for a new online home for their shop. Ideas? I'm stuck.
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hey BSky folk, HELP? I'm not sure who to ask. A friend has a small online business selling traditional Asian weapons. The place hosting their online shop started promoting right-wing extremist merchandise, so they left. They're looking for a new online home for their shop. Ideas? I'm stuck.
Asking help for #EthicalShopping hosting services for #OnlineVendors - a friend has an online shop but left the hosting service when it promoted right wing extremist shops. Friend is looking for a new hosting service for their shop selling traditional Asian martial arts supplies.
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Asking help for #EthicalShopping hosting services for #OnlineVendors - a friend has an online shop but left the hosting service when it promoted right wing extremist shops. Friend is looking for a new hosting service for their shop selling traditional Asian martial arts supplies.
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Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Ken Burns’ American Revolution: 1950s History for a 2026 Audience
Ken Burns’ The American Revolution might seem new and refreshing to audiences, especially on the left, because it acknowledges slavery’s brutality, includes women and Indigenous people, and presents t...
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
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Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
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HLS Library announced the release of digitized transcripts and evidence from the Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the international military tribunal for Nazi leaders.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
Harvard Law School Library Releases Digitized Evidence From Nuremberg Trials | News | The Harvard Crimson
Researchers at the Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project digitized more than 750,000 pages of archival materials, including evidence and transcripts, previously only accessible in physical form in HLS’…
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
HLS Library announced the release of digitized transcripts and evidence from the Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the international military tribunal for Nazi leaders.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
Caroline G. Hennigan reports.
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To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros.”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
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My publisher has added shareable assets to support my book, and a sneak-peak of the expanded table of contents, including the resistance principles.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan...
#resistancehistory
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan...
#resistancehistory
A Resistance History of the United States|Paperback
Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our past—and how its principles ca...
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My publisher has added shareable assets to support my book, and a sneak-peak of the expanded table of contents, including the resistance principles.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan...
#resistancehistory
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-resistan...
#resistancehistory
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Then Frog and Toad ate a big breakfast. And after that, they spent a fine, long day together.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Then Frog and Toad ate a big breakfast. And after that, they spent a fine, long day together.
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the first clinic I went to for HRT told me I had to lose weight or hormones wouldn't work, and when I called bullshit they said I should come back in 6 months having lost 15 pounds, to "prove I was committed" to changing my body. yes, in those words.
for those of you who didn't know that fatphobia and transphobia are intertwined:
trans people seeking trans-specific medical care -- care that would otherwise be covered -- are often turned away until they lose weight. sometimes they're turned away full stop.
health care is held for ransom.
trans people seeking trans-specific medical care -- care that would otherwise be covered -- are often turned away until they lose weight. sometimes they're turned away full stop.
health care is held for ransom.
Earlier this year I hauled my fat ass over to New Jersey for a consult appt for top surgery.
I will not be going with that doctor, in part because her skinny ass was shocked that I estimated it would take me 3 months to lose 15 pounds.
"That long?!" she exclaimed.
It's definitely entwined.
I will not be going with that doctor, in part because her skinny ass was shocked that I estimated it would take me 3 months to lose 15 pounds.
"That long?!" she exclaimed.
It's definitely entwined.
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the first clinic I went to for HRT told me I had to lose weight or hormones wouldn't work, and when I called bullshit they said I should come back in 6 months having lost 15 pounds, to "prove I was committed" to changing my body. yes, in those words.