It was SUCH a treat to write this story for Audubon, which includes my sister @akpresto.bsky.social's crow friends Sal and Pal, @carlbergstrom.com sneaking across campus in a tunnel, philosopher @thomvandooren.bsky.social, and me meeting thousands of crows at once: www.audubon.org/magazine/are... 🧪

Are Crows Really Our Friends?

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.

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My sister @akpresto.bsky.social's latest Lego-art-and-data-visualization newsletter is a lovely meditation on picking up trash: aangles.ghost.io/picking-up/?...

picking up

once you start noticing something, it can be hard to stop at one point, i decided i'd feel better trying to address what i saw at first, it turned noticing into a game faced with clear work ahead,...

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“inventory” aangles.ghost.io/inventory/

inventory

when birds perch on human objects, i wonder if they would have preferred a tree branch there i thought of recording times i saw birds using human items, within view of our yard this record soon felt...

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new post: "priority" aangles.ghost.io/priority/

priority

crosswalks are places of conflicting needs, where the powerful often have priority recently, a raised crosswalk1 was put in nearby it makes it feel like the road crosses the walkway, rather than the...

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#teslatakedown

if you like lego-based hot takes on climate and more, you might like my newsletter aangles.ghost.io

huge #TeslaTakedown in berkeley ca

it's a fucking CHATBOT

[newsletter of engineering department where I got my phd] -AI! -AI! -misogynistic professor sits down to talk AI! -Chevron -AI!

big & prolonged turnout for the #TeslaTakedown in berkeley

We need to break the propaganda of “all young white men who use computers must be geniuses” before it literally destroys the United States of America.

Linda Bessin@lindabessin.bsky.social · last yr.

My neighbor today told me he heard they were all "savants". I told him nope. Wrong. He was stunned

thank you, but I would rather walk into the sea forever

“the tech oligarchy is here, and it will do what it wants” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musk-...