@edenmbeck.bsky.social
Copy editor focusing on online trust and safety, domestic and global digital policy, AI, and saving the world from tech gone wild. Scientist in a parallel world. Member: ACES, EFA, Editors Tea Club. If there's a K-drama out there, I've probably watched it.
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Doubt truth to be a liar
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Doubt truth to be a liar
It’s a wonderful feeling when you see kids you taught in middle school, now all grown up, cited in the academic papers you’re editing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s a wonderful feeling when you see kids you taught in middle school, now all grown up, cited in the academic papers you’re editing.
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Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance | TechPolicy.Press
We're witnessing the simultaneous capture of knowledge-producing institutions and the elimination of independent verification mechanisms, writes Renée DiResta.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
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My advice to would-be prescriptivists:
• Choose your battles.
• Don’t pick all the most classist “well, if you spoke Greek, you’d know this” battles.
• Know what you’re talking about before you talk about it.
• Choose your battles.
• Don’t pick all the most classist “well, if you spoke Greek, you’d know this” battles.
• Know what you’re talking about before you talk about it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression.
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers - Karen Yin
The Conscious Style Guide provides a roadmap for communicating with sensitivity and awareness—no matter how the world around us progresses.
karenyin.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression.
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
My 30-pound dog has delusions of grandeur and thinks she can take on a four-point buck. Luckily the fence is doing its job and the buck has no shits to give.
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My 30-pound dog has delusions of grandeur and thinks she can take on a four-point buck. Luckily the fence is doing its job and the buck has no shits to give.
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All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
Caught in the government shutdown mess waiting for a flight at the lovely Burbank, CA, airport, where there are currently no air traffic controllers.
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Caught in the government shutdown mess waiting for a flight at the lovely Burbank, CA, airport, where there are currently no air traffic controllers.
Chef’s kiss.
Give us a word, you’re the dictionary man.
Give us a word tonight.
Give us a word tonight.
September 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Chef’s kiss.
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The right has built a social architecture of state-enforced harassment for implementing ideological and social control through participatory engagement and bottom-up escalation of individual’s grievances via personal media creation and sharing (cf trading up the media chain)
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The right has built a social architecture of state-enforced harassment for implementing ideological and social control through participatory engagement and bottom-up escalation of individual’s grievances via personal media creation and sharing (cf trading up the media chain)
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former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
August 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
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D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
Watching in horror and heartbreak from the opposite coast as my beautiful hometown is overrun with military forces. 💔 and fear for my country.
August 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Watching in horror and heartbreak from the opposite coast as my beautiful hometown is overrun with military forces. 💔 and fear for my country.
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People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
August 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
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I will never lose my sense of awe for the miracles that public health and medicine bestow.
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
August 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I will never lose my sense of awe for the miracles that public health and medicine bestow.
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We are seeing in real time why DC needs the full power and protection of statehood.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while.
Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
August 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We are seeing in real time why DC needs the full power and protection of statehood.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
A ridiculous performance for the tourists.
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
August 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A ridiculous performance for the tourists.
The em dash fights back!
August 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The em dash fights back!
Just realized an eighth grader I taught years ago is all grown up and cited in an academic paper I’m editing. Oh my heart!
August 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Just realized an eighth grader I taught years ago is all grown up and cited in an academic paper I’m editing. Oh my heart!
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that liminal thing when you're reading and falling asleep and start to hallucinate words on the page that aren't on the page, i love that
July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Ok have to confess when I first heard the word “Labubu” I thought it was a nickname for those shoes with red soles
July 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Ok have to confess when I first heard the word “Labubu” I thought it was a nickname for those shoes with red soles
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Friends, I am offering a "Public Science Engagement Using Social Media" course through the Center for Wildlife Studies!
You can take it for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill!
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/pu...
You can take it for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill!
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/pu...
Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Friends, I am offering a "Public Science Engagement Using Social Media" course through the Center for Wildlife Studies!
You can take it for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill!
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/pu...
You can take it for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill!
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/pu...
I grew up in DC saying “y’all.” At some point during my moves to Boston and California and the cultural changes that meant, I switched to “you guys.” Switching back feels right for so many reasons. Y’all should try it out.
July 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I grew up in DC saying “y’all.” At some point during my moves to Boston and California and the cultural changes that meant, I switched to “you guys.” Switching back feels right for so many reasons. Y’all should try it out.
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Spell check isn't perfect and your hard work deserves a set of trained eyes reviewing it. A professional who has your back is one good reason to hire an editor. Here are five more: editors.ca/hire-an-edit... #HireAnEditor
Five good reasons to hire an editor - Editors Canada
Why should you hire an editor? Here are five reasons why an editor can be a valuable asset to your organization and vision.
editors.ca
July 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Spell check isn't perfect and your hard work deserves a set of trained eyes reviewing it. A professional who has your back is one good reason to hire an editor. Here are five more: editors.ca/hire-an-edit... #HireAnEditor