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Lynn Gazis-Sax

@empressnorton.bsky.social
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DevOps Engineer, speculative fiction writer, Quaker. I enjoy singing in several languages. Was in Katie Porter's district till redistricted to Young Kim's district, soon to be back in David Min's district. She/they. Everyone is a player character

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 11h
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 20h
Holy shit.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h
I dunno, Yale... Are you actually envious of Cornell and Columbia? Think things are going well for them at the moment? That appeasing fascist demands has yielded positive results for them? And the Trump regime is on the upswing, so better hurry up and forfeit core university values now? You sure?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h
looking directly into the camera and supervillain monologuing about how i will do everything i can to ensure my party controls the court for the rest of all of your lives while the party is polling south of rabies is certainly a choice one can make
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Eli Kahn 🏳️‍🌈 @elikahn.bsky.social · 14h
it’s strange to me how many people seem to think that the “let people enjoy things” ethos has gone too far, when there are multiple prestige publications whose entire editorial philosophy is finding new things to scold people for enjoying
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 13h
Literally nobody is forcing you to publicize the felonies you are committing! Why are you doing this?!
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 13h
When I was in school, a drug dealer got busted two days after he published an anonymous op-ed in the school paper about how he was retiring from selling drugs... ...which was made even easier because he accepted Venmo and some of the transactions were public
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 13h
The most amazing thing about articles like this is that people who commit international crimes are willing to just let a journalist take photos and publish pretty identifying details about them, alongside their extensive confessions of the crimes
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 12h
Why would you do an interview with the New York Times about your gun running?
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 12h
The Independent somehow managed to miss that dengue has been turning up in the Tampa Bay area for years, not just in South Florida, and also missed that Southwest has direct flights between Tampa and Havana, and that the strain driving the outbreak is the same strain as most travel dengue from Cuba.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12h
🧵 #Herstory
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daviss @daviss.org · 12h
More from today in Downtown Minneapolis where protesters demand charges be dropped against the Minnesota 15 and all other protesters charged. And ICE OUT.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12h
Met a woman in Park Slope today selling dozens of portraits of her friends she painted during a challenge with another artist where each painted one portrait a day for 300 days
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 12h
… kinda now getting inklings of a heavenly/after-lifey Special Ops group who are immortal, but still have creaturely needs, in the pay of Something (on the side of the angels or not, could go either way) whose whole job is to get Shit With Power out of conflict zones (and get paid for it).
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 12h
Almost like Christ and all the saints are objecting to being used this way.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026
Ha, OK, I stand corrected on the capabilities of parrots! Though I maintain that parrots' advanced reasoning skills are generally not what people have in mind when they draw the comparison. bsky.app/profile/pmww...
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026
Yeah I honestly think that paper was incredibly prescient. Hell, most of the folks who criticize it today didn't even know what an LLM was when that paper came out. I just think the tech has since evolved a lot more than some of that paper's stauncher adherents realize. bsky.app/profile/hims...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there is some very useful early discussion and framing in the stochastic parrots paper. But the parrot itself is pining for the Norwegian fjords.
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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 15h
It’s actually pretty impressive that someone in an ad who said surgery is being forced on Ohio children like her was wrong in literally every part of the statement, since when she had the procedure it was voluntary, she was 19, and it happened in Texas.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes but many assumed she would be stupid and he would be smart because of reasons
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17h
There are lots of reasons I miss the D.C. area, which I’ve been near or lived in for more than half my life — but I have no regrets about my children missing out on the sensation of growing up in an armed camp.
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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 23h
I really hate how people downplay sexual assault as "a mistake", like forgetting to use your turn signal because a deer jumped out on the road. Nobody ever tries to say, "He made a mistake beating someone to death, but he's really sorry. Don't ruin his life over it." I wonder why? /s
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 25/09/2026
I loved this blurb from Francesca Forrest so much, I had to put it on the front cover! Only a few weeks left to grab the special pre-order price! dancingstarpress.com/product/a-ho...
a promo graphic for A House of Perfect Safety by Virginia M. Mohlere

the cover image of the book is on the left, featuring a young-looking woman with blue hair wearing a blue coat holding a steaming mug. She stands in front of a cottage surrounded by trees and a large garden. 

On the right is a quote:
"It's said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but in A House of Perfect Safety, Virginia Mohlere uplifts and honors both. It's a tender, resolute, and moving story that speaks to both the oppressive-systems fighters and the single-starfish rescuers among us."
— Francesca Forrest, author of Lagoonfire

cover art by Dhiyanah Hassan

Available this October from Dancing Star Press
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 17/08/2026
I have been sitting on this for SO LONG, but it is finally ready to share with the world! Look at this absolutely beautiful cover by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social! For A House of Perfect Safety by @virginiam.bsky.social, coming out this October!
Cover Reveal for A House of Perfect Safety by Virginia M. Mohlere
Cover Art by Dhiyanah Hassan

Arrow book promo image:
In the center is the cover for A House of Perfect Safety. The cover art features a woman with blue hair, wearing a blue coat, with hands that are vaguely blueish. She is standing in front of a cottage.

There are eight arrows pointing to the book that say:
- This book LOVES trees
- justice-loving introvert coded
- SO much caretaking
- body diversity
- magical, shapeshifting house
- why choose the bear when you can be the bear?
- Extremely fae shit
- this book also loves books

Available this October from Dancing Star Press!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h
“No NEW wars” was the trick, and I can’t believe people fell for it, but many did (including most media). If Americans have to hear about war in a new location, that is bad and the US president’s fault (Libya, Ukraine). Trump Term 1 worsened Syria, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, but that doesn’t count.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“Woke” is not just racial code, but indeed gendered: Black Lives Matter, #Metoo, etc emphasized a politics of empathy and care for the victims of America’s white patriarchal systems. Empathy is radical and threatening to such systems. Hence the attacks on books, journalism, and education.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 21h
To the extent AI is involved in this system (either entering data or searching), that should be a far greater AI-related concern than it turning into some sort of incipient godhead.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23h
In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 21h
so when they want you not to disclose, this is what they want for your life story to be a swiss cheese of shamey cryptic bullshit that makes no sense to the people in your life
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 21h
another thing people who haven’t been through the aftermath of rape don’t appreciate: lying about it just by never mentioning it can warp your whole life if you got hit by a bus, and were SECRETLY in and out of hospitals for a decade, it would make weird unexplained holes in all your stories
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22h
Thank you, uh, Bill Kristol.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21h
If they did this, if they tried to just unilaterally invalidate a whole bunch of election results, we’re in hot civil war chaos immediately. These men are cowards.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21h
My wife told me about this guy, Emerson Etheridge, who served as clerk of the house in 1863 and attempted to skip over swearing in enough republicans to give democrats a majority. It didn’t work, and if it would have, it wouldn’t have.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 21h
Spectro, I'll have you know the Holy Father was elected by the College of Cardinals on the fourth ballot of the conclave in the year of our Lord 2025.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22h
It’s wild how every (putatively independent) federal agency has focused their social media messaging around the GOP’s midterm strategy of “stopping communism.” Also, how many American voters do you think could identify this “loser” who died 102 years ago and never set foot in the US?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h
this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 22h
the big questions of "what are LLMs" and "what is alignment" remain important but they are separable from the question of AI safety we can talk about safety as a systems process regardless of what the nature of the technology is, and AI companies are failing in those processes
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 22h
this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 20h
And he was quite literally elected 😂
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20h
Icymi somehow bsky.app/profile/loll...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21h
This is why I wrote my “do less with less” piece this week. The public needs to understand
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20h
Moreover, Congress designed NSF to have a presidentially-appointed and Senate confirmed director, and a National Science Board serving not at the pleasure of the pres, to check the power of the director. But SCOTUS and Trump killed that structure. NSF today isn’t what Congress designed
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20h
This statute (Public Law 115-402 115th Congress, 2018) says “the Director… working through SBE…” That provision makes no sense if SBE is dead (Edited 11:48 via @skeetsapp.com)
Public Law 115-402
115th Congress
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the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the "Innovations in Mentoring,
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Training, and Apprenticeships Act".
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
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Congress finds the following:
note.
(1) To remain competitive in the global economy, foster greater innovation, and provide a foundation for shared pros-perity, the United States needs a workforce with the right mix of skills to meet the diverse needs of the economy.
(2) Evidence indicates that the returns on investments in technical skills in the labor market are strong when studentsmathematics, including computer science."
SEC. 4. RESEARCH ON EFFICIENCY OF SKILLED TECHNICAL LABOR
MARKETS.
(a) EFFICIENCY OF SKILLED TECHNICAL LABOR MARKETS.—The irector of the National Science Foundation, working through the Pirectorate of Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, shall support resea on labor
market analysis innovations, data and information sciences, electronic information tools and methodologies, and metrics.
(b) SKILLED TECHNICAL WORKFORCE.—
(1) REVIEW.—The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation shall consult and coordinate with other relevant Federal statistical agencies, including the Institute of Education Sciences of the Department of Education, and the Committee on Science, Tech-nology, Engineering,
and Mathematics Education of the
National Science and Technology Council established
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 21h
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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