Kristen Dietiker

@dietiker.bsky.social

Travel addict • PNW • Fan of baseball, birds, & small dogs 🏳️‍🌈

“If you admit the danger, you establish yourself as the one honest actor. And if you are the one honest actor, your safety claims do not require external verification. You have pre-certified yourself through the performance of self-doubt.” om.co/2026/06/07/t...

The Myth, the Mythos and the Man

For a while I have been wondering why Anthropic named its most powerful AI model Mythos. A safety company. A company whose entire justification for existing is that someone needs to tell the truth …

om.co

“Women who have their tubes removed reduce their chances of getting ovarian cancer by nearly 80 percent. It’s a five-minute operation that can be done as part of nearly any abdominal surgery, including a hysterectomy, tubal ligation, gallbladder surgery and hernia repair”

There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It. (Gift Article)

The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.

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Me: The Artemis II mission is doing an amazing job of reminding me about what's important in this lifetime, and not to waste so much of my energy suffering over little stuff that really isn't very consequential in the end. Also me: This fucking bullpen

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

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In the spirit of seeking peace, here's an essay of mine calling for the development in the United States of a shared politics of #conscience. I welcome further conversation on this topic and honor all of those courageous people already engaged in the work of peace. www.scu.edu/ethics/all-a...

“Unguarded Eyes”: The Doorway to a Politics of Conscience

We need to develop a shared sense of conscience that binds people together across divides and becomes the basis of a story that leads to the renewal of our political world.

scu.edu