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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was SUCH a treat to write this story for Audubon, which includes my sister @akpresto.bsky.social's crow friends Sal and Pal, @carlbergstrom.com sneaking across campus in a tunnel, philosopher @thomvandooren.bsky.social, and me meeting thousands of crows at once: www.audubon.org/magazine/are... 🧪
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Are Crows Really Our Friends?
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My sister @akpresto.bsky.social's latest Lego-art-and-data-visualization newsletter is a lovely meditation on picking up trash: aangles.ghost.io/picking-up/?...
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once you start noticing something, it can be hard to stop at one point, i decided i'd feel better trying to address what i saw at first, it turned noticing into a game faced with clear work ahead,...
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“inventory” aangles.ghost.io/inventory/
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when birds perch on human objects, i wonder if they would have preferred a tree branch there i thought of recording times i saw birds using human items, within view of our yard this record soon felt...
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
new post: "priority" aangles.ghost.io/priority/
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crosswalks are places of conflicting needs, where the powerful often have priority recently, a raised crosswalk1 was put in nearby it makes it feel like the road crosses the walkway, rather than the...
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
#teslatakedown
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
if you like lego-based hot takes on climate and more, you might like my newsletter aangles.ghost.io
lego man drives large lego SUV
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
huge #TeslaTakedown in berkeley ca
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/03/2025
it's a fucking CHATBOT
Claude may also have a hand in building its own successor. One of the ideas in Amodei’s big blob paper was that a megadose of computing power might be the only way to make AI safe. “We’ve been looking at how to help Claude accelerate the development of our actual Claude app,” says Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer (and Instagram cofounder).
It’s not a stretch to see Anthropic’s deep embrace of Claude as a test run for humanity’s future relationship with AI. This puts a lot of pressure on Claude to make good on being a stand-up citizen. Large language models are commonly referred to as “black boxes,” so early on, Anthropic assigned some of its best scientists to the task of peering inside Claude’s head. Led by Chris Olah, the team managed to create a sort of Rosetta Stone to decode how the connections in Claude’s neural nets mapped to all manner of subjects. Then they tested how they could manipulate Claude’s thinking. Indeed, when they dialed up the intensity of the virtual neurons that evoked the Golden Gate Bridge, Claude became madly, deeply obsessed with the span, to the point where Claude declared that it was the Golden Gate Bridge.
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
[newsletter of engineering department where I got my phd] -AI! -AI! -misogynistic professor sits down to talk AI! -Chevron -AI!
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
big & prolonged turnout for the #TeslaTakedown in berkeley
sign saying “death to fascist oligarchs” in front of a Tesla store
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/02/2025
We need to break the propaganda of “all young white men who use computers must be geniuses” before it literally destroys the United States of America.
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
thank you, but I would rather walk into the sea forever
"LinkedIn top job picks for you": a list with roles at Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon including descriptions like "AGI," "Health AI," "Trustworthy AI," and "Media Understanding"
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annie @akpresto.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“the tech oligarchy is here, and it will do what it wants” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musk-...
cartoon showing a person saying “wow” in response to a computer screen saying “summarize this email” with a lot of stars around it.
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