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Dr Lena H

@lenarivkah.bsky.social

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artist; lefty Jew; ragey, radical poli sci PhD/fmr prof; cat person; grackle enthusiast; disabled/chronically ill/Covid conscious; (she/her) For art licensing: www.reveandbloom.com For Judaica: www.lenarivkah.com

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · Nov 19

This is the way to know me best, not through a list of questions, but as a soul living the journey from grackle terror into grackle stan.

Grackle bird staring off into the distance on the edge of an asphalt road, with debris and stray grass nearby

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 1d

Never more pertinent than now 🕊️by legendary Beat poet & co-founder of City Lights publishers - booksellers 🙉🙈🙊

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15h

the social media of everyone marginalized in any way whatsoever, in a nutshell:

פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 1d

In the replies: “Are you sure that's antisemitic? Can you please explain it to me? That's not really convincing, can you try again?”
In other replies: “Jews run all the media companies, and their Bronze Age beliefs are cruel and scary to all of us.”

Step. On. 🐍

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22h

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22h

They also obstruct the view of the shock troops, making it much harder for them to aim into the crowd or take body cam footage of folks.

AND by drawing the camera they allow for news-ready protest images that don't reveal identity without looking scary like those ICE gaiter masks.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 21h

"People are _losing_ their jobs for _doing_ their jobs." WHEW. @lisalmoore.bsky.social on the current attacks on Texas higher ed #SaveUT

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 23h

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 1d

“Anne de Bourgh of apples”!!!

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 1d

His eyes went very wide and he goes “when do you usually write these?”
“Oh, I mean, the night before? I do all my prep typing out quotations and stuff for ages before but…”
He was absolutely aghast (and I suspect more than a bit jealous haha). (Obviously these had a lot of edits before my defense)

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 1d

I had meetings every few weeks with my college honors thesis advisor my last semester of college to turn in chapter drafts, and we were about 3 chapters in when he was saying something he liked about that bit, I said “yeah, it really clicked together when I was writing last night!” all excited.

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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Mood.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 1d

This

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

It’s interesting being the only person masking anymore because I’ve essentially taken my invisible disability and made it visible. So people all stare at me and whisper to each other. I now experience the world as a visibly disabled person and it’s informative.

My strategy is direct eye contact LOL

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 2d

How is this happening at Sukkot and not Pesach, I ask you? It’s like a reverse tzfardea gedolah!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously it makes you not just a tourist but basically an enemy to call it the first.

Paula Whyman @paulawhyman.bsky.social · 2d

"Reagan" airport. The correct pronunciation is National Airport or DCA.

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 2d

On, as in “on the table”
I still have to practice to get it normal.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been away for a decade and halfway through reading that I snorted.

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 3d

That said, I have an academic background, and knew so many stilted, terrible writers! So not ideal writing is not just the freaking computers 🙄

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 3d

Damnit. Feel ashamed it tricked me, but it was hard for me to focus on 2/3 texts because of style?

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

The comic is FULL of excellent lines and visuals, but this one is exceptional

A screenshot of the Oatmeal comic, featuring a colorful meal on a plate with emojis around it, the text reads: "Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutriton. That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings (accompanied by a smiley face and sad face emoji). And if thats the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam"

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 3d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

You cannot, by definition, be eugenicist to an LLM.
Thats not what eugenics was, is or means.
But also, it should worry everyone when tech people like Hailey dehumanize the actual survivors and ongoing victims of eugenics by making comparisons like this--its alarming.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Powflip @powflip.bsky.social · 3d

I can't currently locate Jay's post, but there's this (carefully worded) "official" post from 10 months ago that explains things: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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