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hoperhenderson.bsky.social
writer & scientist feminist, queer, crip 😷 🍉 berkeley, california hoperhenderson.com writing in river teeth, passages north (spring 26), rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more. reader for fractured scicomm for @innovativegenomics
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

the bench at the end of the world

Hey good news, I just learned about this fish

A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/a-sm...

ivory, a local lavender orpington

crimson bottlebrush in berkeley

the ella harrigan memoir piece tho

happy Father’s Day! here are a few of mine from over the years: “Edna,” originally published in HAD, “My daughter asks for a sugar cube before bed…” originally published in my book Ways We Vanish, and “View from Eurydice’s Shoulder,” originally published in Poet Lore.

you ever unsure of what to do so you just reread Brigit Pegeen Kelly until the thing you’re waiting for happens

i had some truly brutal ocd as a kid just to bring you this essay 30 years later. so you should probably read it

Forgiveness is a literally conservative stance – in conserves relationships, it conserves power structures, it conserves the status quo. Complaint, criticism, righteous anger, and grudge-holding are vital for change.

a pill popper, churu, and god

Happy #Pride! Love, Rubisco

how to PILL cat 😭 😭

goth lily in berkeley

berkeley

Jane Hirshfield, who I saw read at UC Berkeley maybe 8 years ago

Hope Henderson Feline

How come i never heard you all talking about this excellent story collection & where is she now? www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

august and everything after on repeat was my mfa program

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

out n about

visited the ladies yesterday

Long COVID is now the most common chronic condition in kids – surpassing asthma. From @jama.com: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

she doesn’t know she’s load-bearing

hi babies guess who has an essay in @riverteeth.bsky.social 26.2 ???

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn

seen in berkeley. happy pride!

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%