Emily Liu

Emily Liu

@emilyliu.me

this bio is left as an exercise to the reader 🌱 emilyliu.me

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METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.

even law schools are hiring for members of technical staff

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@toni.bsky.team

Week 1 observations: toni.org/2026/03/13/i...

what it feels like catching up on new atproto projects (lovingly)

It's on Roomy. Message me on Germ. It's literally on Streamplace. You can find it on Leaflet. Go to Eurosky. Use Tangled.

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@propublica.org

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

this but good

Bluesky@bsky.app

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work. Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

bsky.socialBluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - BlueskyBluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

reading alexander hamilton's biography and becoming a hamilton-laurens relationship truther > hamilton meets eliza schuyler > decides to marry her > doesn't tell best friend john laurens > when he finally does, he's like "she's fine i guess but you're still my #1" > historians: "just friends"

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@teorth.bsky.social

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

newsletter.ofthebrave.orgI’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

on the surface Elon’s purchase of Twitter has made the need for open networks (somewhat) clear to consumers, but I’m not convinced this was net more effective for the movement for open protocols

Rabble@rabble.nz

Did Elon buying Twitter actually help the open internet and the movement for social media protocols?

if Elon never purchased Twitter and - Bluesky stays within Twitter to develop atproto - Twitter keeps original intention to adopt atproto - atproto now has 300M+ users Maybe that would’ve applied much more pressure to other mainstream networks to adopt open standards, given Twitter’s size

For example, Anthropic’s MCP (an open protocol equivalent for AI models) has been adopted by many other labs including OpenAI, and I’m unsure if a non-frontier lab introducing MCP would have the same influence (at least at the same speed)

we need a new word to replace “enshittification.” the word itself has become enshittified

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SwiftOnSecurity

@swiftonsecurity.com

it's good actually that the sitting U.S. Vice President has joined bluesky

more government accounts should join bluesky

Emily Liu@emilyliu.me

meeting audiences where they are is important, but government officials posting on closed networks will never make sense to me. of all use cases, gov announcements seems like the one that most especially needs to be somewhere freely and transparently available (i am looking directly at you, NTSB)

bluesky is one step closer to getting its own 👊🇺🇸🔥 moment

just watched a video on Obsidian that described it as "future-proof," i.e. it uses open file formats so you can easily migrate to a different note-taking app & you're not locked in. could borrow that to explain bluesky decentralized → open → billionaire-proof → future-proof

i like future-proof more than billionaire-proof because it shifts bluesky away from being an anti-twitter i think successful movements require a positive vision instead of existing solely in opposition to something else. tricky though bc the opposition is currently the value to many people

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personal update: today is my last day with the Bluesky team! this is bittersweet news to share, but the great thing about an open network is you never really have to leave. I’ll be rooting for Bluesky and atproto from the outside 🫡💙

i wrote a quick reflection on my blog: emilyliu.me/blog/leaving...

emilyliu.meLeaving Bluesky

Bored Cow animal-free dairy milk review: it has the creaminess of whole milk but not the sweetness. the flavor is milder but the difference is less obvious in coffee. it's not a true replacement for whole milk yet but i'm glad someone is working on it

guys be like "i know a place" and then take you to the cloudflare AI labyrinth

born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore the galaxies, but born just in time to watch nathan fielder's the rehearsal

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NOOO THAT'S OOMF

Consumer Reports@consumerreports.org

The @cpsc.gov, a federal agency dedicated to keeping unsafe products out of our homes, is now under threat, say lawmakers and safety advocates.

consumerreports.orgLawmakers and Advocates Denounce a Plan to Eliminate Critical Product Safety Agency - Consumer ReportsA leaked budget proposal would eliminate the Consumer Product Safety Commission as an independent agency. Safety advocates are raising the alarm.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)

i'd shift the dates back by like 5-10 years each though

kevin roose literally spends 75% of the article defensively preempting the obvious criticism (see comments on original post) and yet people are still mad at him (the author, not the featured ai researcher). not beating the "didn't read the article" allegations

The New York Times@nytimes.com

“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”

nytimes.comShould We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.

if there's a small team on the margin in an otherwise large industry investigating this question, seems reasonable to me? it's actually good to have people working on obscure research questions. if you think the answer is "obviously no," still let the research process happen — that's the whole point

AI becoming a politically polarizing topic is one of the worst things that could have happened because now it's magnitudes harder to reach consensus on what the ground truth about the technology is

Emily Liu@emilyliu.me

and i think it's really important that it does tbh... feels honestly dangerous to me that AI progress is speeding up as fast as people are getting polarized about the state of its actual capabilities

the real abundance agenda is liberal pundits growing beards (see also: ezra klein)

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

real jumpscare when they zoomed out to a room full of men in the last two seconds

common self-hoster W

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

One very funny part of this outage: all the self-hosters stayed online

me when i was trying to enjoy my friday afternoon and the verification feature leaked last week

William Shakespeare@shakespeare.lol

There’s a leak sprung, a sound one. How they cry!

i still think domain verification is a great solution but as someone who often explains DNS to large bureaucratic institutions these days, trust me when i say that quick and easily recognizable account verification is necessary too. especially for verifying authenticity in moments of breaking news

WIRED@wired.com

Bluesky’s new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

wired.comBluesky's Blue Check Is Finally HereBluesky’s new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen

@vanhollen.senate.gov

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

kelsey piper has this one tweet that says "we're not doomed, we just have a big to-do list" and i think about it 30x a day

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@zidan.bsky.social

Replying to @zidan.bsky.social

Also, this is a first for me in like 15 years to be posting live from an event here and not on that other site, for all the obvious reason. Panel at #IJF25 in beautiful Perugia. Panelists from left: @peter.andringa.me; @fadahjassem.bsky.social; @sarahjeong.bsky.social; and @emilyliu.me.

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Listening to @emilyliu.me doing an amazing job describing the benefits of an open protocol to a room full of non-technical journalists. It’s such a hard thing to do - but real examples and relatable stories go a long way. #atprotocol #bluesky

Ben Werdmuller@werd.io

Really really great to see the open social web in the big hall at #ijf25.

Emily Liu reposted

Big announcement: We now have *automated alerts* on @bsky.app! Follow @alerts.bart.gov for the latest about what's going on. You will still find news and more on this account.

BART Alert@alerts.bart.gov

BART is recovering from an earlier problem. There is a 20-minute delay in Downtown Oakland in the Antioch and Richmond directions due to earlier police activity at 19th St. station.

bluesky is hiring a senior comms manager if you get the internet, media x tech, and understand bluesky’s mission as an open network, i encourage you to apply — even if you have no “traditional” comms experience (in fact, even more so!) job posting:

jobs.gem.comBluesky JobsBluesky Jobs

if you’re at #IFJ25 i’m here and happy to chat about the role, otherwise feel free to DM me or reply publicly if it’s a generic q so others can see the exchange as well!

turns out 6€ aperols are the backbone of the journalism industry #IJF25

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@sarahjeong.bsky.social

and coincidentally, I am in Perugia this week for the International Journalism Festival @journalismfestival.com as part of a panel about breaking news on Bluesky, might even talk a bit about me liveskeeting at the National Assembly on the night of the martial law declaration

Emily Liu@emilyliu.me

will be in perugia for @journalismfestival.com next week to talk about breaking news on bluesky w @peter.andringa.me @fadahjassem.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social! pls drop me a note if your org is hosting any side events there, would love to attend :)

will be in perugia for @journalismfestival.com next week to talk about breaking news on bluesky w @peter.andringa.me @fadahjassem.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social! pls drop me a note if your org is hosting any side events there, would love to attend :)

the "big tech" label on the side of the panel description though lol i guess in early 2024 a newspaper did call us a "tech giant" (we had like 10 employees)