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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 8h

I could cheat and post these for #boktober 1-3, but no I'll go off and make some new chickies.

a watercolor of 3 angry looking chickens of various sizes and styles

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 8h

how have I been sleeping on #boktober? I'd better get on it.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 8h

True story. Happy ending, or more accurately, not an unhappy ending.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 9h

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 9h

You're right. It's unfair to just focus on the frats. The worst crime that happened while I was a student at Dartmouth was a double ax murder. A man killed two women grad students. One of them had rejected his proposals of marriage back home. He bought the ax before they all went out to dinner.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 10h

It was a huge honor to talk with @briangoldstone.bsky.social, author of the amazing and heartbreaking "There is No Place for Us." I have a little review tacked onto the top of our conversation, but it's a stunning work that exposes the suffering we tolerate among our fellow citizens. (1)

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Bunson Sans-Culottes @bunson8r.bsky.social · 21h

Wild to think the biggest mass murderer in world history also holds the title of biggest distributor of child sexual assault material in history. And he is supported by and supports a political party with more money that's ever been put into politics in world history. And Democrats somehow 🦗

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was in a gender-inclusive frat. ("Greek house" feels wronger.) We counterprogrammed winter carnival with a cabaret/drag show. The winning drag snowqueen was wearing my HS winter formal dress. So proud. In 2022, students started a drag house named after one of my siblings. www.houseoflewan.org

houseoflewan.org

HOME | My Site

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can, in fact, have fun jackassery without misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, or mortal danger.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"If the only way students can feel true “brotherhood” with another is by creating artificial trials of cruel and demeaning tasks, then there is something deeply wrong with the organization."

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy Friday! This week’s newsletter is about disappointing your parents! “The most brutal thing about being a parent is that your heart no longer resides inside your own body, but in someone else’s.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

buttondown.com

How to disappoint your mother

My mom asked a relative to offer me a job that I don’t want. Should I accept it anyway? I’m really scared of disappointing her.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Self-Promo Clinic was so fun today. New heist teams were formed

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time to get my day on. Keep it weird out there.

a gouache painting of chickens in the style of de Chirico's The Song of Love

particularly proud of how that rubber chicken came out

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happening in a couple of hours if you need pointers, a pep talk, and 90 minutes with good people. www.eventbrite.com/e/self-promo...

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Self-Promotion Clinic

We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Giving Rupert churus to keep him quiet during movies has backfired so spectacularly.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going to have nightmares about sweaters tucked into slacks.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finally watching Let the Right One In. Can’t tell what’s supposed to be freaky and what’s just Swedish.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Generative AI will never be as fun as shitty photoshop

elon musk on a yacht as the twitter fail whale

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it's bad to burn it all down…but just for air quality reasons.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marie Curie was one of my childhood heroes. The bit from her bio about underground education in Poland, the Flying University, really stuck with me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_...

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Flying University - Wikipedia

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perhaps time to rebuild all of our institutions from first principles.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I found this interesting post about the early days of Fortune which is not totally unrelated to everything happening now, but the pictures are nice. Lots of page scans. www.lexigerdtsphotography.com/fortune-maga...

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Inside Fortune Magazine 1930: Ads, Articles & the Depression

What three 1930 issues of Fortune magazine reveal about business, advertising & power during the Great Depression, with photos of the originals.

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Trinity_Embers (トリニティー・エンバーズ) @trinityembers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The rain was starting to pick up, so I went to check if Fluffy Butt was safe on the porch. Someone accidentally left the porch gate closed and he was standing in front of it looking at me like "Hey!" 😭 I grabbed him so fast LOL

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andy Basheer just said to Jake Tapper the KY had 1 (ONE!!!!) transgirl playing sports. She is in 7th grade and SHE STARTED THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM TO PLAY WITH HER FRIENDS. Think about her when you are demanding democrats crush these young people for the *potential* political gain

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

truly striking how much people are using the word "suck" in the pre questionnaire for the Self Promotion Clinic I suck at this promoting stuff sucks etc.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I know, it's impossible to eliminate bias, but "acknowledge and mediate to the extent possible and appropriate" is a lumpy phrase.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heading into spooky season like

a salty chug in a backpack wearing a black satin bat hat with green eye circles also pink doggles attached to a cyclist on a sunny day next to a freeway overpass

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

eBay is better than pinterest now for those with eyes to see. and I found this phenomenal website of…stuff www.philsp.com

philsp.com

Galactic Central

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what a trove! and the classic cinefex pointing at the screen shot!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Enjoy this time capsule exitmagazine.net/index.php

exitmagazine.net

EXIT Magazine

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fortune magazine, I apologize for being unfamiliar with your game

1932 article about Einstein with an amazing illustration of the scientist and thee atoms in the negative space of two columns of text

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I present…the Diego Rivera cover.

Fortune magazine March 1932 a Diego Rivera illustration of a crowd of caps in Red Square with red flags and some sort of gray float or machine decorated with a hammer and sickle

as viewed through a little trompe l'oeil window

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the early days, Fortune magazine covers were all designed with a trompe l'oeil window. E.H. Baker

July 1931. Tugboats and an ocean liner on the cover of Fortune magazine desigend to create the illusion as though viewed through a window

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is now dark when we go home.

Salty chug wearing pink doggles at dusk in a backpack attached to a cyclist in a high viz jacket and orange helmet.

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