Steven Moon

From time to time I visit the YouTube comments section of the music video for Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” and good lord no one is okay.

Extremely good analysis of the recent Ezra Klein situation.

Trans Patients File Groundbreaking Legal Complaint Against UPMC For Capitulation To Trump UPMC bowed to Trump and abandoned its trans patients, advocates say. It may have violated state law.

1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care.

Federal funding threats do not override state law.

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WSJ has now appended this lengthy editor's note to its original report. It notably contains zero contrition for the initial decision to spread such incendiary misinformation. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

So you guys going to issue a retraction?

yea so this is sort of my premise: they know of her and know they should know her but maybe don’t really have a sense of her career beyond Titanic

Does Gen Z know about Celine Dion?

You can do things that help create the world you want to live in.

please do not post things you don’t want to see on The Free Press and Fox News later this evening

Alt text: A section from a government memorandum titled "Segregation Based on Protected Characteristics" under the header "What Constitutes Unlawful Segregation?" It explains that segregation by federally funded entities based on characteristics like race or sex is generally unlawful, even if intended to promote inclusion. Highlighted text focuses on concerns regarding allowing males, including those who identify as women, access to female-only spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic events. The memo claims this compromises women's safety, privacy, and equal opportunity, potentially violating Title IX, and advocates for sex-based boundaries based on biological differences.

DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms.

www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

How many of you mid-millennials know about bacteriophage and can you remember why it was so present for us??????

this is so fucking depressing

Witnessing this in real time, as so many others are, and it is so deeply demoralizing. Our institutions are SPRINTING to integrate AI and make shows of its utility when it is primarily undermining our mission.

Watched Conclave last night, which I liked far more than I expected, and am now finding myself entranced by the actual conclave beginning today. Religious rites and liturgical forms are so wild

Hard-hitting journalism over at the NYT

Something about Rubio makes him always look like he was just stung by a bee

I work at a university where 1 in 10 students is trans. That’s pretty remarkable. And in this moment we need to celebrate it. I love working with such a massive body of LGBTQ students (~1 in 2).

It’s been a second since a movie messed me up like “The Assessment.”

YouTube video by OTYKEN OTYKEN - LEGEND (Official Music Video)

If my students aren’t enthusiastic about this, I don’t know what else I can do as a teacher:

youtu.be/tXLoP9iSU5Y?...

I’ve gotten several AI generated essays this semester and they stick out of the pile like a sore thumb—and the composition in the intro is so often the first sign, followed by absolute word salad of information.

We know how our students write.

like this man is so self-serving and has used trans people to make his name and launch himself into publications like the NYT where he gets to play Guy With Reasonable Concerns who lands on whichever side of the fence is politically advantageous.

Would be unbelievable if he weren’t the most unserious fucking hack of a journalist

tfw you have put off grading an assignment because you knew it would take forever, but when you finally do they’re all so good and a pleasure to read 😭

Today's work soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3B...

Her Tiny Desk concert is so good too.

That it is, or is not, decidedly a “constitutional crisis” does’t mean much if there is no mechanism for repair.

Maybe I’m inept, but……..what the fuck difference does it make?

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

Also I apologize to Deirdre Borba, whose last name I added an L to. All errors my own.

Perhaps these are hacked profiles turned bots. That is possible I suppose. But, /some number/ of them /must/ be real genuine humans engaged in a conversation in the Comments section of an ad on Facebook. And that is so beautifully bizarre to me.

But is she a bot? Did this bot raise $25 for Planned Parenthood last year on her birthday?