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Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻‍♀️🧁

@karenyin.bsky.social

Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. KarenYin.com/links VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company

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Authors Against Book Bans@authorsabb.bsky.social · 4d ago

Are you near Montrose, CA? Join this postcard writing party TOMORROW!

Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻‍♀️🧁@karenyin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fight back against book bans and learn about the proposed legislation at this fun postcard-writing party with a bunch of authors Friday (8/14) at 7 PM at Underdog Bookstore in #MontroseCA! Snacks, beverages, and postcards will be provided. RSVP: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... @authorsabb.bsky.social

Flyer features four authors, including me. Headline: Protect the Freedom to Read. Below: Take action: Learn how to contact your elected representatives. Write postcards to your reps and to people in your network to educate on book banning bills. FREE BOOKS giveaway. Snacks and beverages. RSVP @ underdogbookstore.org/events.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 6d ago

DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is published in the UK today! To mark the occasion, I've written a blog about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs some clarification. 🌈📚🗃️ yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins... #booksky #histsci #histsex #queerhistory

Darwin’s Queer Inheritance - Yale University Press London

Darwin is significantly queerer than we’ve been led to believe. While his writings are sometimes invoked to insist that sex should be understood in binary

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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.

New: Flock planned to use cameras in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery driver vehicles as a way to collect more license plate data. Pitched the idea to an Attorney General. Would basically turn Uber/Lyft into roaming surveillance vehicles www.404media.co/flock-pitche...

Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles

A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)@travisclau.bsky.social · 2w ago

My book of poems, What's Left Is Tender, is just over a year old now. Over this year, I've really come to believe in this work and the project of tenderness it attempts to pursue. This pantoum, after many failed drafts, finally arrived, and I realized it was the soul of the collection:

The text of my pantoum: When did we learn that hitting things made them more tender? When did we learn that hitting things made them more tender? Rather than a caress, we prefer the mallet that softens the chew. We make them more tender for the crassness of a need: the mallet that softens the chew breaks apart humble flesh, for the crassness of a need takes no care in breaking apart humble from flesh— limp now with submission. Taking no care, we together limp now with submission toward each other: we together praise the blows that ache us toward each other, back into new hardness. Praise the blows that ache us: this is how we put our backs into new hardness when we could have remained soft.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...