The Muse
@birgitterasine.bsky.social
Deep dives on the things that make us human 🦋 Author of The Jaguar & the Cacao Tree 🍫 Mother & daughter of artists 🎨 Ex-stringer for Variety & THR.
All words 100% human crafted.
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All words 100% human crafted.
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We are going to need a lot of poetry, art, satire, and music to get us through these next few years. Heart-rending, earth-breaking, soul-ripping, human made and human lived. Hug your loved ones, embrace your neighbors, stand for your communities and your values. Never get down on your knees.
September 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We are going to need a lot of poetry, art, satire, and music to get us through these next few years. Heart-rending, earth-breaking, soul-ripping, human made and human lived. Hug your loved ones, embrace your neighbors, stand for your communities and your values. Never get down on your knees.
A walk outdoors with no chatter crowding your mental space is better than an hour in the gym with the TVs blasting
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A walk outdoors with no chatter crowding your mental space is better than an hour in the gym with the TVs blasting
Hey BlueSky! Word's out that US states will retain their authority to regulate AI. Senate just voted 99-1 against a ban on AI regulation that had been included in the OBBB (One Big Beautiful Bill).
Nice to see something done right. Huge thanks to Senator Blackburn!
apnews.com/article/cong...
Nice to see something done right. Huge thanks to Senator Blackburn!
apnews.com/article/cong...
Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S.
apnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hey BlueSky! Word's out that US states will retain their authority to regulate AI. Senate just voted 99-1 against a ban on AI regulation that had been included in the OBBB (One Big Beautiful Bill).
Nice to see something done right. Huge thanks to Senator Blackburn!
apnews.com/article/cong...
Nice to see something done right. Huge thanks to Senator Blackburn!
apnews.com/article/cong...
Proud of you SF Bay Area for a string of peaceful protests up and down the peninsula. Exhilarating and heartwarming to walk in community with all of you! All colors, all ages, all faiths. 🙏🏽
June 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Proud of you SF Bay Area for a string of peaceful protests up and down the peninsula. Exhilarating and heartwarming to walk in community with all of you! All colors, all ages, all faiths. 🙏🏽
This is real and it is raw. Courage, that is. May we all hold the line on our own floors.
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
May 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is real and it is raw. Courage, that is. May we all hold the line on our own floors.
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I just called my House Member, and BOTH of my US Senators ... Call them to tell them UNEQUIVOCALLY NO on the State AI Regulation Ban.
No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy!
5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy!
5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
Stop the State AI Regulation Ban in the Budget Reconciliation Bill ⭑ 5 Calls
On May 11th, Republicans in the House Energy & Commerce committee added language to their portion of the partisan budget reconciliation bill that …
5calls.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I just called my House Member, and BOTH of my US Senators ... Call them to tell them UNEQUIVOCALLY NO on the State AI Regulation Ban.
No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy!
5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy!
5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
Time to take your daily dose of the red pill. Call your Senators and representatives... esp. bc they may not know this provision on banning AI regulations for an entire decade has been quietly introduced into the Budget Reconciliation bill.
Yet another issue to repost the hell out of.
Yet another issue to repost the hell out of.
Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm!
For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste)
Need to find your representatives? Here you go:
5calls.org
For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste)
Need to find your representatives? Here you go:
5calls.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Time to take your daily dose of the red pill. Call your Senators and representatives... esp. bc they may not know this provision on banning AI regulations for an entire decade has been quietly introduced into the Budget Reconciliation bill.
Yet another issue to repost the hell out of.
Yet another issue to repost the hell out of.
Copyright is breaking down in front of our eyes. The people charged with protecting our right to benefit from the creation of our own works are being fired. Don't scroll past this. Lean in strong and fight for copyright. Spread the word to all your creator friends. Call your reps!
The last few days have been quite dramatic for anyone paying attention to copyright law and policy.
Here's our breakdown of the third and final Copyright Office report on copyright and AI, and the dismissal of the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter:
www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/12/t...
Here's our breakdown of the third and final Copyright Office report on copyright and AI, and the dismissal of the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter:
www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/12/t...
May 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Copyright is breaking down in front of our eyes. The people charged with protecting our right to benefit from the creation of our own works are being fired. Don't scroll past this. Lean in strong and fight for copyright. Spread the word to all your creator friends. Call your reps!
These changes to T&C's are always "quiet." Our response should be LOUD.
Use your voice not just to act, or sing, or do spoken word. Use it to stand up for your creators' rights!
Thank you @stardustbluepr.com for keeping us informed.
Use your voice not just to act, or sing, or do spoken word. Use it to stand up for your creators' rights!
Thank you @stardustbluepr.com for keeping us informed.
Music industry heads up!
“SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.”
#MusicSky
“SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.”
#MusicSky
SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content | TechCrunch
SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.
techcrunch.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
These changes to T&C's are always "quiet." Our response should be LOUD.
Use your voice not just to act, or sing, or do spoken word. Use it to stand up for your creators' rights!
Thank you @stardustbluepr.com for keeping us informed.
Use your voice not just to act, or sing, or do spoken word. Use it to stand up for your creators' rights!
Thank you @stardustbluepr.com for keeping us informed.
Inspiring to be part of the journey of this critical legislation on AI copyright transparency… and to get our young people involved in civic life. @bauerkahan.bsky.social @digelsrud.bsky.social
AB 412 passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee today!
We're grateful to everyone who showed up in support!
There’s more work ahead, and we hope to see you back in Sacramento as AB 412 moves through the legislative process. @sagaftra.org @navavoices.org
We're grateful to everyone who showed up in support!
There’s more work ahead, and we hope to see you back in Sacramento as AB 412 moves through the legislative process. @sagaftra.org @navavoices.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Inspiring to be part of the journey of this critical legislation on AI copyright transparency… and to get our young people involved in civic life. @bauerkahan.bsky.social @digelsrud.bsky.social
Narcissism is like microplastics. It's pervasive, relentless, harmful to human well-being, produced from toxic sources deep underground, and it breaks down in full sunlight.
Reduce, refuse, and replace! But please don't recycle and definitely do not reuse.
Reduce, refuse, and replace! But please don't recycle and definitely do not reuse.
April 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Narcissism is like microplastics. It's pervasive, relentless, harmful to human well-being, produced from toxic sources deep underground, and it breaks down in full sunlight.
Reduce, refuse, and replace! But please don't recycle and definitely do not reuse.
Reduce, refuse, and replace! But please don't recycle and definitely do not reuse.
To enjoy the full length of this path, and to feel the burn in our muscles as we walk, especially the parts with an incline, because that is how we grow to be seasoned travelers.
Lovely to walk along with all of you #writers here. 🖋️. 2/2
Lovely to walk along with all of you #writers here. 🖋️. 2/2
April 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
To enjoy the full length of this path, and to feel the burn in our muscles as we walk, especially the parts with an incline, because that is how we grow to be seasoned travelers.
Lovely to walk along with all of you #writers here. 🖋️. 2/2
Lovely to walk along with all of you #writers here. 🖋️. 2/2
The path we writers travel is a long and winding one, dotted with flowers and brambles and rocky outcrops and the worn out shoes of writers who’d passed through before us… but this is precisely the point. 1/2
April 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The path we writers travel is a long and winding one, dotted with flowers and brambles and rocky outcrops and the worn out shoes of writers who’d passed through before us… but this is precisely the point. 1/2
We know everything
About everyone
Everywhere
All at once
Too much
Yet not enough
No more mystery
No more wonder
No more solitude
Anywhere
About everyone
Everywhere
All at once
Too much
Yet not enough
No more mystery
No more wonder
No more solitude
Anywhere
April 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We know everything
About everyone
Everywhere
All at once
Too much
Yet not enough
No more mystery
No more wonder
No more solitude
Anywhere
About everyone
Everywhere
All at once
Too much
Yet not enough
No more mystery
No more wonder
No more solitude
Anywhere
Watch a future leader at work. Humble, bright, quietly determined. He could teach a thing or two to "leaders" easily 3x his age. Thank you Michael Gold for the interview.
During a recent episode of Climate Swings, my podcast about climate career trailblazers, youth activist Avroh Shah revealed how the EPA uses economic discounting methods that financially devalue future generations—reducing the perceived worth of young people's lives by up to 7% annually.
April 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Watch a future leader at work. Humble, bright, quietly determined. He could teach a thing or two to "leaders" easily 3x his age. Thank you Michael Gold for the interview.
You know the most painful, ironic thing about the El Salvador situation is?
“el salvador” means “the savior” in Spanish.
💔
“el salvador” means “the savior” in Spanish.
💔
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
You know the most painful, ironic thing about the El Salvador situation is?
“el salvador” means “the savior” in Spanish.
💔
“el salvador” means “the savior” in Spanish.
💔
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This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺
nywolf.org
nywolf.org
April 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺
nywolf.org
nywolf.org
Hard times create strong men and women.
Strong men and women create stability and prosperity.
Stability and prosperity create comfortable men and women.
Comfortable men and women create hard times.
Rinse and repeat.
Strong men and women create stability and prosperity.
Stability and prosperity create comfortable men and women.
Comfortable men and women create hard times.
Rinse and repeat.
April 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Hard times create strong men and women.
Strong men and women create stability and prosperity.
Stability and prosperity create comfortable men and women.
Comfortable men and women create hard times.
Rinse and repeat.
Strong men and women create stability and prosperity.
Stability and prosperity create comfortable men and women.
Comfortable men and women create hard times.
Rinse and repeat.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Please take a few mins to read this. Your wellbeing might depend on it. open.substack.com/pub/danielpi...
Paul Krugman is Wrong
Why don't liberal pundits understand what's happening?
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Please take a few mins to read this. Your wellbeing might depend on it. open.substack.com/pub/danielpi...
I love BlueSky. I really do. Feels like a breath of fresh air. Like Substack too, and a few other places.
But taken together, social media sucks up a lot of time. Time you can’t reel back once gone.
If you're a creator, it's especially important to watch your social media diet.
Don’t overdose.
But taken together, social media sucks up a lot of time. Time you can’t reel back once gone.
If you're a creator, it's especially important to watch your social media diet.
Don’t overdose.
April 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I love BlueSky. I really do. Feels like a breath of fresh air. Like Substack too, and a few other places.
But taken together, social media sucks up a lot of time. Time you can’t reel back once gone.
If you're a creator, it's especially important to watch your social media diet.
Don’t overdose.
But taken together, social media sucks up a lot of time. Time you can’t reel back once gone.
If you're a creator, it's especially important to watch your social media diet.
Don’t overdose.
How do you reconcile the words of great wisdom from writers of great renown, with their rather unwise personal behavior behind closed doors? Does their failing in one arena taint their achievement in another?
April 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
How do you reconcile the words of great wisdom from writers of great renown, with their rather unwise personal behavior behind closed doors? Does their failing in one arena taint their achievement in another?
Writers don't let their writer friends use generative AI to illustrate their essays and articles.
Artists don't let their artist friends listen to AI generated music while painting.
Musicians don't let their musician friends read AI generated novels.
Create responsibly.
Artists don't let their artist friends listen to AI generated music while painting.
Musicians don't let their musician friends read AI generated novels.
Create responsibly.
April 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Writers don't let their writer friends use generative AI to illustrate their essays and articles.
Artists don't let their artist friends listen to AI generated music while painting.
Musicians don't let their musician friends read AI generated novels.
Create responsibly.
Artists don't let their artist friends listen to AI generated music while painting.
Musicians don't let their musician friends read AI generated novels.
Create responsibly.
Podcast interviews can be so much fun—if they're led by the right interviewer. If it feels like a conversation btwn friends, you know you've got a good thing going.
We talk about my journey from Central Europe to the US, my path from Hollywood to high tech, and my life's purpose as a storyteller.
We talk about my journey from Central Europe to the US, my path from Hollywood to high tech, and my life's purpose as a storyteller.
New podcast episode featuring
@birgitterasine.bsky.social, a Hollywood insider turned climate and sustainability storyteller. I loved her yarn about holding a stick for Dennis Quaid. Nothing can substitute for joy and authenticity in climate storytelling!
#climatechange #podcast
@birgitterasine.bsky.social, a Hollywood insider turned climate and sustainability storyteller. I loved her yarn about holding a stick for Dennis Quaid. Nothing can substitute for joy and authenticity in climate storytelling!
#climatechange #podcast
🎥 Hollywood Filmmaker REVEALS the Secret Weapon in Climate Action: Storytelling #Podcast
YouTube video by Climate Swings
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March 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Podcast interviews can be so much fun—if they're led by the right interviewer. If it feels like a conversation btwn friends, you know you've got a good thing going.
We talk about my journey from Central Europe to the US, my path from Hollywood to high tech, and my life's purpose as a storyteller.
We talk about my journey from Central Europe to the US, my path from Hollywood to high tech, and my life's purpose as a storyteller.
History cannot be erased. Reality cannot be erased. People cannot be erased. We can choose our sources of truth.
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Historical figures cut from military websites while others are restored following ‘DEI’ ban
Doris Miller, the first Black sailor to earn a Navy Cross, is one of many from marginalized backgrounds whose contributions have been scrubbed from Pentagon websites.
www.nbcnews.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
History cannot be erased. Reality cannot be erased. People cannot be erased. We can choose our sources of truth.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
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