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Amy Berkowitz

@amyberko.bsky.social

Author of Tender Points and Gravitas • Cohost of the Light Jacket Reading Series • Working on a novel that I like to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project • she/they • amyberko.com • writinggroup.substack.com

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Glen Dunlap@glendunlap.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions

The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

nbcnews.com

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

reuters.com

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There's something so perverse in the way that Waymo uses San Francisco--and more generally, public space--as their hype ground for a technology that is not ready for primetime, has had multiple high-profile failures, and is poorly supported when infrastructure goes down.

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Matt (@deptofmeteors.bsky.social) made a dreamy poetic board game called 'air light water moon shadow sky' and you can order it from Bathers Library today! And in a very Matt move he recorded drone music for players to listen to while playing (lap steel!). bathers-library.square.site/product/air-...

Bathers Library

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deptofmeteors@deptofmeteors.bsky.social · 10mo ago

and I also made two new accompanying drone pieces, one on lap steel and one on lyra 8, as potential soundtracks for your sessions. silohomes.bandcamp.com/album/bathers

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm making final (?) edits to a novel and it feels like being inside a sock that I'm darning various holes in / also kind of feels like being inside a cocoon. I guess the thing about sewing is that it doesn't matter how messy the inside is. Trying to figure out how I feel about being in the cocoon.

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · 12mo ago

There are still spots available in my virtual collaborative poetry writing workshop :) Writing collaboratively is a way to resist alienation, embrace interdependence, & reconnect with the pure pleasure of writing — I'm obsessed with it & you can be too! No poetry or collaboration experience needed.

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens when we “animate [our] privacy with another person’s magic”? I'm leading a virtual collaborative poem writing workshop via @poetshouse.bsky.social on September 20 and I hope you'll join / spread the word! There are need-based scholarships available. poetshouse.org/event/magic-...

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens when we “animate [our] privacy with another person’s magic”? I'm leading a virtual collaborative poem writing workshop via @poetshouse.bsky.social on September 20 and I hope you'll join / spread the word! There are need-based scholarships available. poetshouse.org/event/magic-...

Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Amy Berkowitz: The Magic of Collaborative Poetry

9/20: We’ll experience the joy, play, and intimacy of collaborative writing and consider what is gained when we embrace interdependence.

poetshouse.org

Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤@fluxandflow.bsky.social · last yr.

Need a reason to mask up? Here you go: whn.global/want-to-redu... Who are the World Health Network? The Lancet has info for you. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Want to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer? Heart Disease? Diabetes? Dementia? And More? Here's How. - WHN

What if simple changes could significantly reduce your risk for serious illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and more? We all want to protect our health: eat better, move more...

whn.global

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · last yr.

Just reread the review a doctor wrote of Tender Points years ago and am cracking up at the line "Yet for all her truth telling, Berkowitz reaches some questionable conclusions about physicians and the field of medicine"

Amy Berkowitz@amyberko.bsky.social · last yr.

I don’t get the commotion about the new press that plans to focus on male writers. It’s unsurprising, inevitable, and frankly boring. Men have been doing stuff like this for years. No judgement if you wanna share the article online but may I suggest - we don’t have to give these guys more attention.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

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