Avani

@avani.bsky.social

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ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023 #cw2026. https://linktr.ee/circumviso

Worldcon schedule: Thursday, August 27, 2026 12:00 Free Will: Well? Do We Have Free Will or Not? 260C (ACC North),Starts: 12:00Duration: 60 mins Friday, August 28, 2026 10:30 Data and Privacy: Keeping Your Data Safe 253B (ACC North),Starts: 10:30Duration: 60 mins Saturday, August 29, 2026 10:30 Science Fiction as a Driver of Scientific Innovation 259 (ACC North),Starts: 10:30Duration: 60 mins 13:30 Is There A Man Behind The Curtain, Or Is The Internet Dead? 253B (ACC North),Starts: 13:30Duration: 60 mins Sunday, August 30, 2026 10:30 LLMs: What They Can Do, Can't Do, and Will Do Someday 260C (ACC North),Starts: 10:30Duration: 60 mins 13:30 Grudges in Science: Science can be a tough competition 258 (ACC North),Starts: 13:30Duration: 60 mins 15:00 What Happens if We Create Truly Sentient AI? 260C (ACC North),Starts: 15:00Duration: 60 mins
Screenshot of the Word Perfector config panel. Darude Sandstorm is an option for keypress sounds.
Street art of an eye crying a drop of liquid with a globe in it that only depicts the Americas
The storyteller statue of Honolulu, a large seated Hawaiian woman rendered in grey stone, with a fresh magenta lei on her arm.
A mug with a graph of a uniform distribution with the mean at "Good Mom" and a marker for "you" at less then one std down. Flowers in the background
Rue flower, green with 5 leaf like petals
Locks and picks
Colourful floral arrangement at the Legion of Honor's "Bouquet de Art" event. It looks like a big green muppet
A museum display in SFO with a description that begins "Payphones, now nearly non-existent, remained an important part of communicetions until the advent of cell phones"
A vase full of flowers, some of which are pink and red and at odd angles
Sunrise out a plane window over patchy clouds
An airport kiosk with a sign that reads "crushed red: artfully chopped craft salads", where the food options are all pizzas and cookies.
A ridiculous amount of conference swag, laid out on a hotel desk. Photo in panorama mode because see previous.
Best paper award for "Beyond Guess and check: quantifying the fidelity of proxy applications" by Si Chen etal
Playbill for "Waiting for Godot" with keanu Reeves and Alex winter
A guerrilla billboard that reads "all empires fall, lets end this one together"
Overmarbled paper in grey black red and white
Cover page reads "The day of their return" by Poul Andersen
The sun rising next to Salesforce Tower, taken from a city roof
Ice cream display with "Cuda Crunch" and "Let me be Perfectly Queer" as adjacent flavors.
A small grey plastic seal with black eyes
Card made of blue, white, and green marbled paper over cardstock. Held in a messy kitchen with 2 dark, suspiciously empty 750ml bottles in the background.
Inside of a hand bound book
Wet green and blue marbled paper on a drying rack
A white tub filled with marbled paint in red, black, white, and orange, ready to be printed onto paper
A photo of a red and black fuschia blooming on a sunny deck.
Outdoor side view of a woman in a black jacket with rainbow pixelated hair.
Red table covered in locks and lock picks
The author wearing a red speedo, with messy wet hair and no makeup on a beach.
Farmers' market scene. Picture of bulbous yellow fruit that looks like mangos, with a sign that says "Eggfruit" behind them.
A young boy learning to paddleboard at sunset on a beach
Clouds lining the horizon like the tail of a dragon
BMW vehicle display that asks the driver to log in with an app or make an account
A snow bank lined road going up to a snow covered mountain peppered with tall thin evergreens
The back of the encyclopedia, showing an ad for Brodurbund's Carmen Sandiego
A second hand blue paperback copy of the one volume new American desk encyclopedia.
A copy of Gujarati pulp fiction with a demi goddess holding swords? Glowsticks? Over monster.
A large purple circle flower with a white center and 5 petals, from Vilnius.
Author seated, dressed in a flamboyant LSD-compatible dress, magenta/brown fair, wearing a red triangle necklace and long straight earrings.
Google search results for "reviver e-ink licence plates" that, mind blowingly, return actual results that are not AI generated, including the fact that e-ink plates are legal in California.
Photograph of metallic flecks of iron embedded in faintly greenish white crystal. Esquel pallasite, American museum of natural history.
A fallen eucalyptus tree in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Hand holding a black and white postcard of a man dressed like he's a 30s noir bystander, black hat and coat, accepting a swaddled film roll from a masked nurse also dressed in white period clothing.
A vintage white handkerchief with lace edges and a black wolpertinger silhouette in one corner
Avani with 5 different shades of pink/purple/red in her hair, front view
A TI-99: actual CRT with a fat keyboard/cartridge reader/computer in front., showing the Texas instrument logo and a colour test on the screen
A mason jar, seen from above, half full of quartered black walnuts that have been soaking in alcohol.
A drag queen performing on an outdoor plaza, dressed as the statue of Liberty, with tears drawn on their face, holding a tattered American flag.
The beginnings of dawn seen from about 20,000 feet, with a few clouds in the foreground
The contents of a care package my mother mailed: sparklers, pop-its in their original packaging, a light blue paper bag full of pop-its *not* in their packaging, and 2 containers of ghee.
Avani looking vaguely menacing
Dali coming out of a Paris subway station walking his armadillo
A thin piece of paper held up showing the first few paragraphs of the story
A photo of a middle aged man in profile and greys, with the quote "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - William Adama overlaid over it.
A pink sky with greens at the horizon
City scene of Philadelphia at golden hour taken from a 39th floor window
The author set up at the outdoor Biergarten with her iPad with keyboard and a half liter of dry cider