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Hadas Kotek 🦄

@hadaskotek.bsky.social
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Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT she/her | grayspec | 🏳️‍⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ

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Maureen @liberallady5678.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good analogy
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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good news AND a garden path sentence! Double the fun
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Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kitty cat update
Mitzi lays across my legs looking very cute and peaceful
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DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com · 10/08/2026
Just read @olivia.science on the anxiety we feel in the face of "AI" hype & proliferation and institutions & colleagues embracing it as we try to navigate our roles with integrity. Everyone working in #NLProc should read it, esp. if you don't understand objections to AI olivia.science/anxiety/
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Anxiety
Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.
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lucaisharsh @lucaisharsh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Cats covering their eyes with their paws rt if you agree
Polly, my grey tabby cat, doing the thing
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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Dear automated customer service bot, If a computer could do the thing I need done, I would be ON a computer and not calling on the phone. Get me a HUMAN
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026
Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026
An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south
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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
mens ≠ unisex
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Arthur🎨 @idreamofentropy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The discord was lit today
The distracted boyfriend meme where Mitch McConnell is the girlfriend, death is the boyfriend, and the other woman is Lindsey Graham
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
📌Just in case a MAGA in your life is lecturing you about respecting Lindsey Graham and the dead. Have a good day, everybody.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/07/2026
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Many, many years ago I worked for a certain legal news website to which Lindsey Graham subscribed. Anyway i hardcoded it to always spell his name wrong in the top corner, no matter how many times he tried to manually correct it.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/
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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
remember
Cartoon of a person holding a smaller person: 

The Tech Bro (“religious man” is crossed out and tech bro replaces it) fashions a God he can handle… A small replica of himself
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Aries: The first step to forgiveness is crushing your enemies. Actual forgiveness comes later.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 05/07/2026
A couple of shots im happy with from tonight.
a firework trail that looks halfway exploded and kindof like hair above the pacific ocean, the ocean is starting to light upred and blue fireworks explode in the air as a white one streams below, the ocean is a bright reda shoreline with dozens of fireworks behind houses and palm trees, a single firework begins to launch but hasnt exploded yet, above the groupinga green red and yellow firework explodes behind an american flag thats out of focus. im glad its kindof a bad shot. i didnt realize there was a flag in the scene tonight. laughing out loud.
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Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 7th gotcha day to my perfect goobers
Two gay cats laying on a gray blanket in my lap looking dapperTwo gray kitties sharing a cat bed and looking at the camera. 
Two tiny gray kittens sitting inside a triangular scratcher Sleeping kittens, one is hugging the other
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This Nebula Ceremony, in Chicago & online, is a time to reveal our latest winners & also celebrate our special award recipients. It is OUR honor at #SFWA to thank N. K. Jemisin for her tremendous contributions to genre. Our 42nd Grand Master is a powerhouse whose work is not yet done! #61stNebulas
Our 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master N. K. Jemisin
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hate to say it but that mental health walk/jog, along with drinking water and getting enough sleep does seem to help. Terrible news.
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Kelly YN 🦀🏳️‍⚧️ @typologianista.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ok 2026, now what
Cup o noodles campfire s’mores Ramen noodles in sauce 

Top label of s’mores ramen, picture has ramen noodles with marshmallows floating on topCup o noodles campfire s’mores Ramen noodles in sauce 

Front label of s’mores ramen cup o noodle “LIMITED EDITION”
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
who’s that diva
a poorly drawn cat seen from behind with an exaggerated oversized pawphoto of a tuxedo cat standing by a window and sniffing pink flowers on a table, with one giant fluffy paw and pink toe beans stretched toward the camerapoorly drawn cat standing with one huge paw planted in front of itphoto of the same tuxedo cat, looking up at flowers while its enormous fuzzy paw with pink paw pads fills the foreground
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
ranch for poorly drawn horses
a drawing of a western landscape with a bunch of extremely crudely drawn horses on it, like, disproportionately bad for the drawing that they live in
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Rikker Dockum @rikker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Today I talked to my Intro Linguistics students about bias in LLMs. On the day of a lecture like this I poke around to see the various ways that current models still should not be trusted. Even on basic things. Last time I gave a talk on this (a few months ago) here's what Llama said. 1/9
Screenshot from Llama 4 Scout chatbot with the prompt "How many r's are there in the word 'strawberry'?" and the response "There are 2 r's in the word 'strawberry.'"
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Be this kind of human being: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/04/2026
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The ref needs to stop this fight
@brockm.bsky.social: Any other leftists want to challenge me on this notion that we should welcome Republican defectors? I'm quite hungry to humiliate you, and demonstrate to all the world's wary inhabitants what a worthless troll you are.


‪@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com‬:
hi, sorry, not sure i follow. could you rephrase this but in an even more embarrassing way for an adult to talk


‪@brockm.bsky.social‬: Your stupid little status-dominance game isn't going to work on me.

  
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com‬
perfect thanks
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“WITCH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK”
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Which Witch R U 🏳️‍🌈 @which-witch-ru.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I always love an excuse to pull out one of my favorite quotes about men like this, and I’d like to add that someone else recently taught me another word for this general theory: homosociality
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. 

From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)
A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’
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Lauren @laurenlangston.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Jorts followers continuing to be just a great section of the internet
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Rachel @rachmarie.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Do you demand Justice? Here you go! Have a kitty. This fluffy girl is Justice. When you feed her, you can say Justice has been served. She’s available for adoption in Minnesota through Feline Rescue. You can learn more about her here: us10d.sheltermanager.com/service?acco...
A long-haired brown tabby cat with big green eyes
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Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Apropos of nothing much: where you were born, where your parents were born, where your grandparents were born—that is all luck. It doesn’t make you any more or any less virtuous
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 01/03/2026
The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/02/2026
These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 24/02/2026
“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union. This could have tremendous implications for voting:
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 23/02/2026
Congratulations everyone
A chicken walking on the beach the caption is:

If you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day
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localswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
Tweet that reads Leo Xander
@STALLEON
Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V
- it is bigger
than the car
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elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 23/02/2026
very important video please watch
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Arya Sundaram @aryasundaram.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.
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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I haven't finished reading this (pretty long, baby naps are limiting) but even though I've read a good deal of stuff about antisemitism and the history of racism in America, reading a Black perspective of modern antisemitism is *really* educational. This piece is excellent. Please check it out!
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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
#linguistics Early WOTY nom
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