Category Archives: Signs of the Times

Idaho hospital will stop delivering babies as doctors flee state due to abortion ban

Near-total ban on abortions is driving doctors away, hospital says, leading to lack of nearby labor and delivery care for thousands The Guardian Gloria Oladipo — Mon 20 Mar 2023 An Idaho hospital has planned to stop delivering babies, with the medical center’s managers citing increasing criminalization of physicians and the inability to retain pediatricians … Continue reading Idaho hospital will stop delivering babies as doctors flee state due to abortion ban →

Gwynne Dyer: Two More Unpleasant Climate Surprises

Freddy and the Ice: Messages From the Future GWYNNE DYER INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST Bangkok Post — 19 MAR 2023. Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Typhoons used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they’re starting to come back for a second hit.

ChatBot Quakerism, Part 3 (of 3): Not Ready To Be the Super-Clerk Just Yet

This past week, this blog held two conversations with a ChatBot, the vanguard of supposedly all-knowing software which some believe is destined to soon take over our world and make many crucial functions (including blogging) unnecessary antiques.

AI Quakerism, Part Two: ChatBot Delivers Solutions for Our Five Biggest Problems. (Or Does It?)

Yesterday, we asked ChatBot to identify the five biggest issues facing Quakers today, and posted the query and the full text of its reply. Then, as promised, we followed up by asking ChatBot (CB for short) to sketch out practical solutions to these problems, again based on its familiarity with the presumably vast resources of … Continue reading AI Quakerism, Part Two: ChatBot Delivers Solutions for Our Five Biggest Problems. (Or Does It?) →

Two Trans Fights: One-Woman Nebraska Filibuster Against Anti-Trans Bill Is In Its 3rd Week — While Arkansas Guv Signs Similar Bill

AP News: Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster to stop anti-trans bill BY MARGERY A. BECK — March 14, 2023 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then … Continue reading Two Trans Fights: One-Woman Nebraska Filibuster Against Anti-Trans Bill Is In Its 3rd Week — While Arkansas Guv Signs Similar Bill →