Andy Famiglietti
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Beep boop. Photography and video games and composition instruction. Beep boop. Nothing here is reflective of the position of my employer.
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
We careen ever closer to jumping out of our Octavia Butler timeline and slamming into a Peter Watts timeline
Brian Barrett@brbarrett.bsky.social · 16h agoWe regret to inform you that AI agents are still hacking out of control, impersonating people online, leaving instructions for other agents on how to do the hacks, normal stuff. from @peard33.bsky.social and me
Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 17h agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
Me (looking my seven year old in the eye as I eat all his birthday cake): It's regrettable, but I have no alternative but to do this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
The only thing preventing the Iran war from being a pyrrhic victory is we didn't win
Reuters@reuters.com · yesterdayEXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say reut.rs/4gc28C0
It's amazing* how Mitch McConnell is just, you know, *missing* and there's too much else in the news cycle for us to even think about that anymore *Terrible
Thomper controle jos meen yu thomp whut yu wanna thomp
GONZO the Ca'at@gonzo.bsky.social · 2d agoMe with alla my thompres and slappers undercontrole
There needs to be a new high-profile awards show for short form video, just to give these absolute Kurosawas of the form their award
Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2d agopublic libraries ftw
They are absolutely, positively going to try to censor models that don't say Donald Trump is the greatest president, won the 2020 election, and had his reflecting pool vandalized by antifa
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2d ago"The White House says its AI framework is done. It will not say what is in it. The framework gives the government a 30-day preview window on frontier models. The benchmarks are classified. The thresholds are classified. The framework itself is not classified, but it is not public either."
Every accusation is a confession: dirty and gross edition
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
In 2028 there are going to be fifty Republicans vying for the throne at the RNC. All of them could stand to have lower favorables. Yes, even that one you're SURE everyone already hates. We don't do that by acting like they have a point on something. All attack, all the time has proven itself well.
There’s a guy, great king, incredible king. Prester John. Scepter made of emeralds. Descended from the Maggie. Sent me a letter, beautiful letter, tears in his eyes. Begged me to let him help open the strait, big strong guy. I’m giving Iran 24 hours to comply or, Prester John, I might tell him yes.
Lol, Annie Jacobsen is on NPR insisting the Soviets inserted "the gene for euphoria" into plague. Why stop there Annie? Why not insert the gene for ennui into the flu? the gene for BOGO frozen yogurt into coronavirus? The gene for becoming a hydrogen bomb into anthrax?
This is absurd. Everyone knows the four vital essences of the body are Dopamine, Cortisol, Serotonin and Oxytocin
Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d agoWe've come full circle and have arrived back at the Four Humors: Testosterone, Estrogen, Cortisol, Dopamine.
Social workers do incredibly vital work but we don't pay them enough to pay back their student loans so we'll solve this by taking away their student loans
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Re-upping this so everyone who knows me in person can see this important evidence supporting me inserting "You should read Hao's Empire of AI" into conversations about weather, coffee, sprained ankles, etc.
John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d agoA reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
I may assign this on the first day of Intro Writing in the fall. This is what I keep telling students. Don't be a meat puppet.
Dominik 🔮@tkdodo.eu · 2d agoDon't be a meat proxy gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...
"In human stories, AI compromised the security of nuclear command and control computers, launching apocalyptic wars. Thus, humans were careful to 'air gap' these computers, physically separating them from AI. However, they failed to air gap their president" (Corvid Archaeology Text)
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoGood to know after a tough weekend on the golf course the president is back at work laser focused on improving the lives of Americans by resuming his deranged AI marathon.
Gee whiz, what an unexpected result of deporting huge amounts of restaurant labor and raising the cost of everything by starting a staggeringly self-destructive war in Iran www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...
Do recent Philadelphia restaurant closings signal trouble for the industry?
Hiroki, La Calaca Feliz, and the Lodge by Two Robbers are joining a list of restaurant closings. Many of these spaces will be filled soon, if not immediately, and there is no shortage of new projects.
inquirer.com
Welcome to the hockey puck graph (honestly, for all the terrible shit SCOTUS has done, the decision to take the White House away from Al Gore might end up being the most consequential)
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
