Sean Prophet

Intersectionality affirms that the combined impacts of oppression and marginalization are greater than the sum of their parts.

My dialog with ChatGPT-4 demonstrated a capacity for deep and substantive conversation. It’s not “fooling us.”

We’ve all lost people. To death. To addiction. To fascist beliefs. We’ve all lost dreams of one sort or another. No one’s life turns out exactly the way they want it to.

Intelligent machines are beginning to impinge on the exclusive franchise of human meaning, by stealing some of our thunder in language and the arts.

“Keep right except to pass,” is not as simple as it might seem.

Acts of “goodness” provide a reliable return on investment. That’s why we do them.

We are made of stardust, yet we are mortal. How do we reconcile our own mortality with a near-eternal universe?

Display of the cross in the United States is plausibly-deniable patriarchy and white privilege hiding in plain sight.

“Free speech absolutism” is a nightmare authoritarian concept that grants more power to the powerful, while weakening marginalized groups.

Verbal responses to sneezing are near-universal across human cultures. What is the meaning of these sayings? What should you say?