B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)

@b-cavello

activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world @b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town avatar: Portrait of B against colorful background banner: Collage of creative commons illustrations

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jul 13

#a16c

Comedic poster from “the most serious investors under any tent,” the 16 absurdist clowns, advertising seed funding “for ridiculous ideas, exclusively” with instructions on how to find the red-nosed investors and how to pitch your idea

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jul 12

@visakanv.com this mural reminded me of some of your moodboards

Dynamic illustration of Indian godlike figures (maybe Vishnu and Lakshmi) with windblown hair and peacock feathers

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jul 3

😳

Screenshot of error for image missing accompanying the the post reading “America’s first feminist president”

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jun 29

In a survey of global food security practitioners, @aspendigital.bsky.social found that practitioners from around the world were in agreement that Institutional Capacity and Governance was a top challenge in combatting world hunger. www.aspendigital.org/report/feedi...

Challenge rankings by region cluster. Institutional capacity and governance is number one or number two out of six for all four clusters.

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jun 11

Trying to make some plans for July... Who is going to be in Geneva for #ITUAIforGood or #WSIS2026? 👀

AI for Good Global Summit banner reads "Unlocking AI's potential to serve humanity, 7-10 July 2026 - Geneva, Switzerland"

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jun 11

There’s so much to be disappointed/disgusted/outraged by with how the AI industry has been operating. But we don’t have to accept this as the only way of doing things. We can imagine other AI futures—thriving, democratic futures. Write #PublicAI futures for the Protopian Prize! protopianprize.com

“Public AI” in white on red, but the greater than or equal to sign (which looks like a stylized letters for AI) is between the words so it reads as “public equal to or greater than AI”

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Jun 6

Nonetheless, we must try to document, to bear witness, and to build the credible case for accountability. We have already seen people and organizations make decisions based on the calculus of future accountability. www.ibtimes.co.uk/wall-street-...

'We have an issue, OK?' he told host Erin Burnett. 'Anything we do — since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world — we have to be very areful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.’ — excerpt from linked article

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· May 12

Kicking off Innovations in Biological Intelligence & Machine Agency is Zachary Schlosser thedivinityschool.endemic.org/events/antho...

Zach addresses the room from a podium on stage

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· May 7

#DefiningTechnologies of Our Time print editions ship THIS WEEKEND! This is the last chance for libraries, universities, and government offices to request a FREE copy before they go on sale: form.jotform.com/260566324386... This resource features expert analysis on how we define #AI in US #policy.

Libraries, Universities, Government offices: last chance to request a free copy! (with a picture of the Defining Technologies of Our Time handbook)

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· May 5

Since I was just sharing this with a colleague yesterday... My warning sign! (This was the door to the lab at the University of Texas where we worked on quantum dot research!)

Door bears signs reading "DANGER," "Authorized personnel only," and "strong magnetic field," with a light up warning over the door reading "laser in use"

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Apr 30

Ah! There is one. Thanks! I wanted to give it a go, but I found the agree/disagree to be challenging. My results somewhat surprised me! I would not have considered myself “high“ in the longtermism category.

B’s TESCREAL quiz results showing low for all categories except transhumanism and longtermism which are both marked high

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Apr 26

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Apr 17

It's giving

Picture of a cat next to painting of same cat with the comment "all cats deserve a self portrait" and then another person quote tweeting or whatever to say "no disrespect to this beautiful cat. but she did not paint this"

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Apr 10

Feelin real

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," says Frodo

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Apr 7

FEELING ya! 🫠 High key wrestling with these feelings every day working on AI policy stuff, but I hoped we had more time with quantum. It feels to me like it’s so much more bad than good right now.

B responds to Filippo’s post in a text with “oof. I wish it need not have happened in my time”

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Mar 20

We're giving away 100 FREE copies of Defining Technologies of Our Time for libraries, universities, government offices, and educational institutions! Don't miss your chance to snag one 👀 form.jotform.com/260566324386...

"Request a free copy for your library!" above a photo of hands proudly displaying the Defining Technologies of Our Time print edition

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Mar 20

What does the first part of the post say?

Screenshot of post shows a bunch of unicode replacement blocks of some sort

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Mar 16

People who know art stuff: is this a redrawing of a painting or something? Trying to figure out the story behind it

Graphite sketch of a man wearing a straw hat, but the illustration has lots of short pencil strokes almost like Van Gogh style brushstrokes

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Mar 11

Am I... a published author?? 😳 Defining Technologies of Our Time will be purchasable soon, BUT we’re giving away 100 FREE copies of the handbook to universities, libraries, and policy offices! Request a copy or nominate an institution: form.jotform.com/260566324386...

B posing excitedly with arms outstretched to show off the Defining Tech handbook

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Feb 19

Jack Sparrow: "I'm dishonest and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest"

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Feb 18

LOOOONG overdue, but if you've been wondering what I've been up to (or wanna see how my thinking has evolved), this week I completed a BEEFY overhaul of my website's speaking and coverage page. Check it out! bcavello.com/coverage

Collage of images of B speaking at conferences, on stages, on panels, etc.

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Feb 16

Never really left xAI the first time, according to her LinkedIn claims

Amanda Scales's LinkedIn shows Talent at OPM starting in January 2026 after previously showing "chief of staff" in January 2025 for three months. According to her LinkedIn, she was employed by xAI July 2024-July 2025, meaning she was occupying both roles simultaneously.

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Feb 9

SO EXCITED THAT THIS IS HAPPENING! A passion project for the last five years, today we launched Defining Technologies of Our Time, a practical resource for anyone wondering how to scope "AI" in a legal or policy context. Shoutout to @nickgarcia.bsky.social for representing at #StateOfTheNet! 🎉

Nick Garcia speaking at the podium at State of the Net

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Dec 30

Long-awaited @summoningsalt.bsky.social VHS viewing! Another masterpiece 💯✨

Screen shows title text for History of Halo 2 World Records VHS from Summoning Salt

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Dec 21

Taps sign (via our AI 101 primer: www.aspendigital.org/report/ai-101/) #TalkBetterAboutAI

Chart of “tech that people call artificial intelligence” with examples like expert systems in a branch titled automated reasoning and examples like generative, classification, clustering, and reinforcement learning algorithms under a branch called “machine learning”

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Dec 21

fwiw, the quote does NOT appear in the official Nelson Mandela Foundation archive, but I was to find a somewhat related (tho tamer) quote which is not loading for me for some reason, but I had previously taken down a copy. archive.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za...

[Information and communication technologies] have the potential to enable us to solve many of the critical problems confronting us. If this potential is to be realised, then we must find ways of turning these technologies into a resource for all people despite the challenges they face within their communities.
-Nelson Mandela

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Dec 4

Mean Girls edit: Oh my god, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're gay.

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Dec 3

We made this because the public is rapidly adopting the language of "benchmarks" & echoing ambitious claims about AI capabilities extrapolated from these standardized tests for AI models. Now that they're mainstream, it's important to understand what they're are good for & where they fall short.

Google trends graph showing a mounting interest in the term "AI benchmark" from almost nothing in Nov 2020 to a big spike this year leading up to Nov 2025

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Dec 2

It's stunning in sunny San Diego! 🌴 I'm so honored to be representing my co-authors and presenting our work for the #NeurIPS2025 Education track and then on Thursday, I'll be helping run the inaugural Position Paper track!

B smiling at the camera, backlit by a radiant sun with palm trees and the bay in the background

B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)@b-cavello· Nov 29

the artificial lady doth protest too much 😹 lol @ this incredibly lazy Spotify artist description for some genAI music The trickery of this stuff makes it feel so much more gross. Just say what you’re doing!