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Liza Boyd

@lizaboyd.bsky.social
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Fast Company | The Information | Guardian | Politico | SF Grotto | writing a book on women entrepreneurs (Byline: E.B. Boyd) ebboyd.com

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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
News Orgs: It's OK to refer to Taylor Swift's wedding as "Taylor Swift's wedding" (Would anyone be following TK's wedding if he was marrying anyone else? No? OK, so it's "Taylor Swift's wedding") #IRestMyCase
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
News people: why isn't anyone doing a Great American State Fair daily tracker? - Attendees/day - Total cost - Cost/attendee - Total # food concessions vs. Average state fair - etc The news doesn't have to just be word-based stories Sometimes it can be a dashboard that tracks ongoing news stories
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Towns isn’t getting enough credit for putting himself in the air to be right there at the basket and give the ball a final push, in case Anunoby’s tip didn’t make it in That’s some really phenomenal playing Video below #knicks
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Obvs we don’t need to tear down pols gratuitously, but Talarico does need to address how long his gf continued working in his office after they started dating & how he acknowledged/approached the power differential in the sitch It’s basic accountability & gives insight into character/blind spots
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What if the astronauts end up not having a planet to come back to?
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I think the burning question no one’s answered is: If negotiations are taking place via *text message* bw Kushner, Witkoff & Iran’s foreign minister (?!?) WHAT ARE THEIR FAVORITE EMOJIS??? 💣💥☢️🤯🌋🧨☄️🔥💋🐣
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Am I the dumb dumb here? - Can the US take Kharg Isl? Y - Can it hold it? Y - Can it hold it _without_ being subsequently bombed every day & sustaining mass cas & major loss of equipment ($)? Um...? Iran, as w VN, doesn't have to "win." They just have to make this v painful for the US, & they can.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
After 9/11, the Bush admin asked Congress for $40 billion for a brief "high-intensity" operation to go after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. They said it would take just a few months. We ended up spending 20 years & $2.3 trillion there. The White House now wants $200 billion for Iran. Choose wisely.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I keep thinking abt how, for so long, they said we couldn't have women leaders bc they'd be too irrational
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The SAVE Act does not require “ID.” It requires passport or birth certificate, which most ppl don’t have & which are $$ & time-consuming to get. “ID” is drivers license (or state ID), which everyone already has—and which is *already* the standard for registering to vote
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Women can do all the things. They've always been able to. Society just created artificial constraints to force them into the confines society wanted them in.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
No AI? No SMB loan "Bankers are increasingly demanding whether and how a small business loan applicant is thinking about and harnessing the disruptive impact of AI." www.forbes.com/sites/brando...
forbes.com
No AI Strategy? Your Small Business Loan Could Be At Risk
Banks are starting to factor artificial intelligence into small business loans, asking borrowers how AI could disrupt their industry over the life of a 10-year loan.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If the Traitors cast had included a bunch of middle-aged women who’d spent the last twenty years in corporate America, I promise you, they never would’ve trusted a dude like this
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s OK to continue talking about the Epstein Files & the US men’s hockey team. “War” might feel dramatic. But these other two subjects affect 50% of the population—a sufficiently large interest group to merit our continued focus & attention
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DUZOUfR...
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If AI chatbots that are talking to each other very quickly created a new religion... ... that says more abt us than the machines AI is just a prediction machine. They simply apply what they learned from human writing/interaction. So that's what they learned.... www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
wsj.com
The World’s First Viral AI Assistant Has Arrived, and Things Are Getting Weird
We thought AI agents were meant to assist human work. What happens when they start talking to each other?
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
WSJ just wrote abt office workers using more voice-to-text (vs typing on keyboards) Is it just me, or would you be unable to work in an open-plan office where everyone's talking to their computers? I have highly sensitive hearing — I literally couldn't function www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The New Office Oddity: Co-Workers Dictating Everything Into AI
Real advancements in voice-to-text AI let people ditch keyboards to dictate emails and code. But will talking to your computer at work ever feel normal?
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay. Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40. stanford.io/2C0io2A #WomenInSTEM
A vibrant, composite portrait of the brilliant Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal. She is shown in a close-up head-and-shoulders view, facing the camera with a gentle, thoughtful expression—short brown hair, bright blue eyes, and a calm smile. She wears a navy blue fleece over a teal/green collared shirt. Overlaid transparently behind and around her is a dense blackboard filled with intricate handwritten mathematical equations in white chalk, featuring complex expressions involving binomial coefficients (e.g., n! / (k!(n-k)!)), factorials, summations, powers, and terms suggestive of hypergeometric series or combinatorial identities. The equations partially surround and frame her face, symbolizing her deep immersion in advanced mathematics, particularly in hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory, and dynamical systems, while evoking the creative, exploratory nature of her work as a Stanford professor and groundbreaking researcher.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Texas A&M University to end women's studies due to new policy on race and gender topics 😡👩‍🔬
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Texas A&M University to end women's studies due to new policy on race and gender topics
Texas A&M University is ending its women’s and gender studies program and changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If someone creates a "TLDR" app for Substacks — which would just spit out the main point(s) of each newsletter — I'll pay $5/month to run the 30+ Substacks I subscribe to through it so I can get a daily summary that can be wolfed down in 5 mins or less
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Copyright Global @thepianoinstructor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d... #Blacksky #WomeninSTEM
thezebra.org
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hedy Lamarr died #OTD in 2000 at 85. In the 1940s, in an attempt to help the war effort, she quietly invented what would become the precursor to many wireless technologies we use today including Bluetooth, GPS, cellphone networks & more: frequency hopping. #WomenInSTEM
A glamorous black-and-white studio portrait of Hedy Lamarr, the legendary Austrian-born Hollywood actress and co-inventor of the frequency-hopping patent US 2,292,387. She is posed reclining slightly in an elegant chair, gazing upwards with a poised, captivating expression—softly lit to accentuate her striking features, including large expressive eyes with dramatic makeup, perfectly arched eyebrows, full lips, and flawless skin. Her dark, voluminous wavy hair is styled in soft Hollywood waves framing her face. She wears a polka-dot blouse or dress with a sheer overlay, adorned with a multi-strand pearl choker necklace and pearl earrings, evoking classic 1940s Golden Age glamour and sophistication.Black-and-white technical drawing from U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387, titled "Secret Communication System," granted on August 11, 1942, to inventors Hedy Kiesler Markey (Hedy Lamarr) and George Antheil. This is Sheet 1 of the patent figures, showing a schematic diagram of the frequency-hopping invention (a precursor to modern spread-spectrum technology used in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS). Key labeled components include: a variable frequency carrier oscillator (with piano-key-like switches 31a–31h connected to a notched paper roll mechanism for synchronization), two oscillators (100kc and 500kc), a modulator, an amplifier, an antenna (23), a ground connection, and a piano-roll reader (with reels 37–41 and motor drive). The diagram illustrates how synchronized frequency changes between transmitter and receiver enable secure, jam-resistant radio communication, such as for torpedo guidance during World War II. Handwritten-style annotations and figure labels (e.g., Fig. 1) are visible, with the patent header noting the filing date of June 10, 1941.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
When you decide to turn rage bait into television programming…
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Anthony Scaramucci just called Trey Parker (age 56) “that kid” “who created South Park.” (On the @thedailybeast.bsky.social podcast) Congrats Trey. You are now an honorary woman (A Guardian reporter the other day just referred to Mikie Sherrill (53) and Abigail Spanberger (46) as “young”)
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I feel like he should have a go at one of those period pain simulator thingies.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wired is doing amazing work these days, and Katie Drummond has been a phenomenal leader. Please don’t cancel your subs there. And if you weren’t subscribing, please consider to do so.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The NYT showed us this morning that even the most respected institutions think it’s OK to perpetuate the subjugation of one demographic group only: women Imagine if this headline had been written about any other group. Heads would’ve rolled. www.linkedin.com/posts/ebboyd...
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Holy soon-to-be-fired-NYT-editor, Batman! This is all over the socials this morning. But here's what no one's talking about: Imagine that any other group's name had been in there: ⁉️ &qu...
Holy soon-to-be-fired-NYT-editor, Batman! This is all over the socials this morning. But here's what no one's talking about: Imagine that any other group's name had been in there: ⁉️ "Did Black Peop...
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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Would it Be Better if Women Were Chattel Again? I’m quietly confident about my pitch to the NYT op-ed page
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Mexico's president filed police charges against a man who groped her, while she was speaking to supporters on a street in the capital. "If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?" Damn straight www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I just heard a mainstream news reporter refer to Abigail Spanberger (46) and Mikie Sherril (53) as “quite young.” Ffs This is the kind of oblivious sexism that has a direct impact on how the media reports on women politicians. @theguardian.com: Train your reporters better
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Everything we know abt "Frankenstein" is wrong. Say what? No movie has told the real story from the 1818 novel. They've all just been forms of fan fiction, repurposing the orig into monster movies, vs the gorgeous story it actually was. I explain why: www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...
thepersistent.com
Why Frankenstein Needs a Female Director
Male directors can't go Mary Shelley's tale justice
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Man asks Claude to check his article about the demolition of the East Wing. Claude insists this is fictional, bc if such an event had happened, it would be major international news, and as of yet, Claude is not aware of it 😮
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Woo! Sonia Raman becomes the first woman of Indian American origin to become head coach of a WNBA team (the Seattle Storm)! (She comes to the Storm from the NY Liberty, where she was the first Indian American woman to become an assistant coach) frontofficesports.com/storm-sonia-...
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Kathleen Davis @kathleenedavis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In all the (justified) uproar about the East Wing demolition @lizaboyd.bsky.social noted that the East Wing was the home of the Office of the First Lady and that by tearing it down, it's another of the administration's efforts to reduce the visibility of women across the board.
thepersistent.com
Trump Has Demolished a History of Work by First Ladies
The East Wing was the nation's symbolic heart.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The UK will ban NDAs that prevent employees from speaking out about abuse & harassment #hugeprogress www.reuters.com/business/wor...
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UK plans to ban employers from using NDAs to silence workers subject to abuse
Britain plans to ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that are used by employers to silence those who are subject to harassment or discrimination, as part of a broader bill to protect workers' rights, the government said on Monday.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
First hospital closure after the MAGA murder bill passes? Who's building the 🚑 HOSPITAL CLOSURES TRACKER 🚑?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It is 2025(I think) and new restaurants still aren’t putting purse hooks under thr bar.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It’s insane that Dems are repeating the name he gave it & calling it the “Big Beautiful Bill.” They’re playing into his hands by making it sound nice They need to rebrand it, to make it clear what it actually is: “The Big Beautiful ‘Steal Everything from You’ Bill” Any other suggestions?
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 16/06/2025
If you really want to make a difference to news, journalism, and democracy, and you're an experienced engineering manager, supporting SecureDrop is a great opportunity. freedom.press/careers/job/...
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Job Description
Defending press freedom for the next generation
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Highly recommend RIP Brian Wilson
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This feels like AI’s “Theranos”, so question: Will the founders be prosecuted for securities fraud? Or is that just reserved for female founders?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
once again I must tap my own sign
@clairewillett

honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion

6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sign of the times
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Liza Boyd @lizaboyd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Not letting me steal jewelry from Tiffany's is really going to kill my Etsy fine wearables business, and I think we need to take that into account
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
When male lawmakers pass these bathroom laws, they’re thinking of what they would do if they had access to the women’s bathroom, not what trans women do in the women’s bathroom…
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).
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