it’s almost passover and that means it’s time for me to share this silly Haggadah insert I made of the four children as sesame street characters as a printable PDF static1.squarespace.com/static/64418...
This piece from @charlespulliam.bsky.social interviewing Valerie Veatch is fascinating and also opens up a horrifying angle to the foundations of genAI I hadn’t quite put together so directly
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.
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”
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Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out this Thursday m.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_r...
Because @amyberko.bsky.social is a friend that truly sees me, she made me a Christmas ornament of this cover. It cannot be topped.
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.
Not travel but I did recently walk into a restaurant for my reservation for six only to realize I had merely THOUGHT ABOUT making a reservation for six
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!).
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Happy birthday! Wishing you easier months ahead 💜
Aww thank you Mattilda that means a lot.
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.
make a zine with me! online! pay what you can! in two weeks! register now. hopeamico.com/classes
#zine #zinesky #collage #artclass
As you may know I love learning about what the other Amy Berkowitzs of the world are up to and this is a new plot twist for us!
Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry
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.
Writing about the importance of hijinks in cinema and song — post includes a link to my long awaited hijinks song playlist!
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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.
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A great song (that in my personal opinion could be one minute shorter), I hadn't thought of it in a long time and then my toddler fell down and wasn't really phased by it and a friend said "she's so tough!"
My seven-year-old neighbor wrote a very similar message on the sidewalk recently, you’ll have to come to the Sunset and keep an eye out for her chalk commands.
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...
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - See you on 1/22/26! On PC, Mac and Switch.
Release date unlocked!
Imagine choosing to make that face in your headshot
On the back of a piece of torn-out notebook paper previously used to write a collaborative poem, serif text reads: writing collaborative poems all day and forever, winslow house, sunday june 29, 10 am - 6 pm, lunch provided, a workshop for anyone who likes to write and is curious about collaboration. The paper is decorated with stamps that I borrowed from my kid, purple and yellow flowers balancing on green stems, green curlicues suggesting grass, black dots that look like moons and match the holes punched in the paper.
I'm excited to be hosting this workshop at Winslow House in Vallejo on 6/29!
Read the description & sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I personally think collaborative writing is the perfect antidote to the doom & isolation many of us are trying hard not to feel 💜
Just realized that the reason I didn't get a grant 2 years ago is that I never submitted the application 😂
*blogspot lol
this:
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This is more of a blogpost post but have you ever noticed how much these songs sound the same?
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and ...
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"