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Cynthia Gayton

@squizzi3.bsky.social
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Attorney, educator, public historian, documentary filmmaker

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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me: Thanks so much for finding [something very rare]! Research librarian: No problem. Here are [ridiculous number of even more rare resources] for a deeper dive, #librariansareawesome
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Autumn Slug Bunk Shroom #fungifriends
Slug sandwuched between tree bark and turkey tail mushroon,
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/09/2026
"Just as our museums have a responsibility to the public, the public has a responsibility to our museums. Members of the public should take an active part in their museums....They are ours to shape."
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How to Save the Smithsonian
The institution was born of debate and chance. Surviving today’s culture wars requires grounding its mission in open inquiry, shared inheritance, and the objects in its collection.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/08/2026
The Kennedy Center will eventually have to be demolished unless President Trump is allowed to save it, Justice Dept. lawyers representing it said in a court filing, marking the first time Trump’s allies have explicitly raised the prospect of demolishment.
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DOJ says Kennedy Center could be demolished if Trump’s plans are blocked
The filing marks the first time President Donald Trump’s allies have explicitly raised the prospect that the Kennedy Center itself could be demolished.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sunset ground cloud #fungifriends
Puffy pink and cream colored mushroom
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Beauty in bronze and cream. Mushroom rosette #fungifriends
Large mushroom that looks like a rose with bronze and cream colors growing above a deep green leaf.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Hoyle Hat Co. Pioneer Square #Jimothy
Image of pork pie hat in the window of a custom hat company in Pioneer Square in Seattle with a burnished image of Jimothy
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Step 1: Quietly put face recognition code on millions of phones Step 2: Insist that you could not possibly answer any questions about that face recognition feature because it "doesn't exist" Step 3: Have your CTO describe the face recognition in great detail on a podcast. from @couts.bsky.social
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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/07/2026
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
To this day, Harpers Ferry, John Brown and his men are living in many heads rent free. #harpersferry #shenandoah #potomac #johnbrown
Photo from Harpers Ferry West Virginia overlooking the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where John Brown, who studied Toussaint, Vesey and Turner, brought his cause and his men in 1859.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am going to call this a Shenandoah Mud Violet. I figure this is a small way to confound the algorithm. 🌱
Small pale lavender 6 petal flowering plant flourishes along the Shenandoah. River.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/06/2026
EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.
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Move Fast, Surveil Things
Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired. EFF’s Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition cod...
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Embronzed now Caged - Music and Harvest
Music and Harvest bronze cast statute facing Lincoln MemorialText at base of Music and Harvest statute - "A gift from the People of Italy to the People of the United States of America."
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Life changing #booksky
Dont let anyone talk you out of buying that 1 book at the bookstore. Those 3 books could be the most life changing 10 books you’ve ever gotten
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Useful read.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Fungi Fringe #fungifriends #lichen #sycamore
Green lichen on damp sycamore tree trunk which has two holes created by woodpeckers that look like eyes with eyelashes and the lichen looks like bangs.
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Timothy Cornell @timothycornell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.justice.gov/d9/2026-05/u... Lawyers in their 40s who graduated from Yale and Columbia Law and worked for Latham & Watkins, Gotschal Weil, Sidley Austin & Goodwin Procter, now facing insider trading charges for tens of thousands in trades.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Haven't written a blog post in a while - do these flowers help? Comments on the US v. Heppner case. gaytonlaw.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/p...
Yellow daffodils
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Flowers for Friday 🌱 chocolate scented phlox.
Wild phlox - pink - smells like chocolate
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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It’s about to get wild this Saturday.
DC independent bookstore crawl. Saturday April 25
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Witness the engineering marvel of Mercedes-Benz Stadium as its retractable roof closes like a blooming flower, overcoming unique challenges along the way.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
NEW: The French government has disclosed a data breach at the agency that manages national IDs and passports. Stolen data could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers. The number of affected individuals is unclear.
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France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs | TechCrunch
The French government agency that issues and manages national IDs, passports, and other documents, announced that hackers stole the personal information of an unspecified number of citizens.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Morel trying to blend in. #fungifriends
Photo of morel mushroom in the midst of leaves, rocks and shedded tree bark.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Flowers 🌱
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
TODAY @ 4 -- Rick Atkinson on the revolution as war. Friends would you share? This series is meant as a resource for teachers, journalists, non-specialists/ specialists alike-- and folks who always want to learn more. Last week @rezekjoe.bsky.social kicked off this series and I learned a lot!
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Listening to Meghna Chakrabarti & Anand Giridharadas on 88.5 about Epstein Class series - thinking this class has profound similarities to the international enslaver class circa late 1500s - ? not dependent on place but rather funded by wealthy people around the world & complicit institutions
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A nice thing yesterday. I received a call from a human regarding a reservation and was NOT directed to an online reservation service. #personaltouch
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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The American Revolution was global. 🇫🇷 In Ep 432: We explore how France and Spain tipped the balance 🇫🇷 Next Week: The Marquis de Lafayette returns in a special Revisited episode 🇭🇹 In 2 weeks: The Chasseurs-Volontaires of Saint-Domingue Start the series now: benfranklinsworld.com/432
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Important to note that bearing witness is something people have done since long before video existed. We bear witness by listening, but sharing the stories, by refusing to let them be distorted or ignored. We do not have to watch execution videos to do that.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 22/01/2026
Donald Trump is erasing American history. And as @kwistent.bsky.social explains in our new issue, we’ve only just begun to reckon with what the U.S. government did to Native children.
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Serious Reservations | Kristen Martin
The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The photo of the camera flying through the air is such a powerful symbol of the efforts to document the atrocities. I usually am dim on sofa activism. But when you share people's efforts to document the Minneapolis situation, you are helping. Share. Widely.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
"Philippa Islington-Smythe appears to be a public figure, known as an actor, influencer, and designer, featured in articles like Tom Cox's feature on her home and lifestyle in November 2024. She's associated with home, design, and potentially lifestyle content, often with pets like Chester & Sylvester mentioned alongside her in features."

Profession: Actor, Influencer, Designer.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It was in the rider.
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Cynthia Gayton @squizzi3.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Color coordinated fungi #fungifriends
Riverside sun bleached log with gray and white fungi
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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Shoutout to small venues & promoters, small studios & pressing plants, small labels/publishers, small booking/ management firms, small publicists, small record shops, small instrument/gear shops & manufacturers, LPFM stations, and small music publications. Small is beautiful! #SmallBusinessSaturday
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The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow Bill McClintock: 🎵 Peter Gabriel and Sly & the Family Stone - "Thank You (Falettinme Be Your Sledgehammer)" #BillMcClintock ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
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The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow Zeds Dead: 🎵 Channel Flipping 2 (Only You) #ZedsDead ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 14/11/2025
Authors accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of copyright infringement over its downloading of their works to train its generative AI models can obtain more discovery from the tech giant, a judge ordered days after expressing skepticism over the request.
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Meta Ordered to Produce More Documents in Authors’ AI Lawsuit
Authors accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of copyright infringement over its downloading of their works to train its generative AI models can obtain more discovery from the tech giant, a judge ordered days after expressing skepticism over the request.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 03/11/2025
Etats-Unis : l’aide alimentaire sera réduite en novembre en raison de la paralysie budgétaire
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Etats-Unis : l’aide alimentaire sera réduite en novembre en raison de la paralysie budgétaire
Le gouvernement va utiliser 4,65 milliards de dollars d’un fonds d’urgence pour financer les versements liés au programme SNAP, principal programme public d’aide alimentaire du pays, qui bénéficie à 42 millions d’Américains. Cette enveloppe couvrira environ « 50 % des aides des foyers éligibles », selon le ministère de l’agriculture.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/10/2025
Two federal judges admitted that their offices used artificial intelligence to draft factually inaccurate court documents that included fake quotes and fictional litigants, prompting a call for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
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Federal judges using AI filed court orders with false quotes, fake names
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee blasted the two federal judges for the erroneous filings and called for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 28/10/2025
This morning’s hype anthem
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/10/2025
The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
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