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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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Lee Wright @thewrightwordsmith.bsky.social · 2h

Mood.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16h

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 · 1h

This

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 20h

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

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 21h

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

Paula Whyman @paulawhyman.bsky.social · 23h

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

Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 21h

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

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

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 · 21h

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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

I only half understand this, but it all makes me sad for all my fellow artists.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams was one of the most singular performers we’ve ever had. Endlessly vulnerable, speed-of-light humor, every set was his playground, he could be imitated but never recreated. The fact anyone would even try to taxidermy him into AI is truly obscene.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Roey Hadar @roey.bsky.social · 3d

With Sukkot, the Jewish holiday centered on building a hut, starting tonight, worth remembering the time in 2006 that Andrew Cuomo reportedly got so annoyed to see Jews celebrating it that he said: “These people and their f***ing tree houses."

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/m...

Andrew Cuomo’s White-Knuckle Ride (Published 2021)

www.nytimes.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

Here is how I appealed the suspension. It took them about an hour to respond. All in all I was down for about 4 hours.

Hello, I have been suspended for a post accusing me of threatening violence. If you look at the thread the post is part of, 1 am describing the evangelical belief system about the rapture, which includes the mass murder of Jews.
I, a Jew, was not making threats against Jews.
I, a Jew, was educating about the dangers that the evangelical community poses to Jews in order to *protect us*
This is obviously and clearly not a threat or an excuse for suspension.
Please reinstate my account.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 3d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

bsky.app/profile/aman...

"All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It's why they're all Zionists obsessed with Israel.
Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die"

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

WHAT.

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

This the second time in the last day that I read a thing online and it’s like “stop surveilling the inside of my head.” 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 5d

Because it is, in fact, exactly like a man saying "I guess we're not allowed to give compliments anymore" when told to stop catcalling women on the street. Just like catcalling, it's about reminding the oppressed person that you have power over them, & they should be afraid. bsky.app/profile/gamz...

GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 6d

But ultimately it's like @saralegal.bsky.social said, while yelling "nice rack" at a woman passing you might be true, and might be considered a compliment under other circumstances, it gets old very quick and is pretty much never appreciated when it's yelled at you on the street.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 5d

It's actually extremely obvious when someone is shouting "Free Palestine" out of solidarity and when someone is shouting "Free Palestine" as a way to say "K*ke" and pretending we can't tell is a habit a lot of gentiles need to break.

Saralegal @saralegal.bsky.social · 6d

I think you misread the comment. The scenario is random strangers shouting "Free Palestine!" at someone in the street for being visibly Jewish, not people in an anti-Zionist setting talking among themselves.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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