Tom Andes
@tomandes.bsky.social
Detective novel WAIT THERE TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME (Crescent City Books 2025), stories around the internet and magazines. Working musician, editor for hire.
Thanks so much to the folks at Vol. 1 Brooklyn for taking my story, “I’m Just Saying.” @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social
Vol. 1 Brooklyn@vol1brooklyn.bsky.social · last wk."He had a Ziploc with what looked like cinnamon rolls, cream cheese frosting smeared around the inside of the baggie." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/09/13/s...
I’m so happy and proud to be on this press. They’ve been publishing some of my favorite contemporary literature for a long time, and I’m honored to be among this number.
Cowboy Jamboree@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 3w agoWe came hard with it in August, and we're gonna keep the hits comin in September. @thedrevlow.bsky.social @jdclappwrites.bsky.social @tomandes.bsky.social
As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
questions remain, including about implementation, but this is good! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...
A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools (Gift Article)
A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
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I’m incredibly excited to announce my story collection Guess This Is Kaput from Cowboy Jamboree Press is available for preorder. If you’re a reviewer, and you want an advance electronic copy, please hit me up!
Guess This Is Kaput
Guess This Is Kaput - Kindle edition by Andes, Tom. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Guess This Is Kaput.
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One of my big takeaways from Ken Burns' country music doc was that Dolly Parton was one of the great writers in any genre this country produced in the last half of the 20th century.
"Nine To Five" (Dolly Parton cover) @ Dmac's, 8/6/23
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8/19/70: WUSA (D: Stuart Rosenberg) #70s curio; strong cast incl Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey @larrythek.bsky.social: "a dry run for today’s breaking news" More: @dcairns.bsky.social: mubi.com/en/notebook/... @tomandes.bsky.social: therumpus.net/2011/03/16/w...
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Excited for classes like “how to make no money 101” and “fuck, I still don’t have health insurance 102”
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.Digital media and people who star in it have been cultural mainstays for teens’ entire lives. Now they can earn a college degree in that very field. Arizona State University recently launched a new bachelor’s degree in content creation. The announcement was met with swift criticism from many sides.
I liked this a lot and am excited for part two.
Daniel Denvir@danieldenvir.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust published first in two-part interview w/ @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. This installment covers the foundation of the Bund through emigration to NYC to the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maki...
Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2mo agoCentrist Democrats hate humanities scholarship just as much as Republicans do - the difference is that Democrats think humanities teaching is important in the elite private institutions they aspire to send their kids to, but not the actual laborers.
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2mo 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
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2mo agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
good morning chicago /midwest artists! 10 days left to submit proposals for ART IN THESE TIMES, in conjunction w FALL OF FREEDOM artists unite against authoritarianism! artists reconsider political art! (politics here start with: selected artists will be PAID!) interccect.com/art-in-these...
Art In These Times – Fall of Freedom
Art in These Times October 2–4, 2026 Authoritarian assaults on free thinking, fellow feeling, and creative making call for artists to unite in defiance. The 2nd annual Fall of Freedom festival conv…
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If you're looking to FALL back into writing, I've got some great workshops starting in September that'll help you get started, keep going, write more or submit! writerscircleworkshops.jumbula.com/fall-2026-ad...
The Writers Circle
At the Writers Circle, we believe in the uniqueness of each writer's voice. Our workshops nurture that pure, honest self-expression in each of our students. We welcome the most reluctant child, the...
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"The Gotham Publish a Book Scholarship is open to people of color who have completed a book manuscript (or nonfiction book proposal) and are ready to seek agent representation and go to market with their book. Three scholarships will be offered every year to un-agented writers."
Publish a Book Scholarship - Gotham Writers
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo agoOPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK
Because it’s Meta, you can assume that they know very well that the core market for the perv glasses is stalking (and — once they switch on facial recognition — repression) and this concern about ‘misuse’ is just Kabuki to stall calls for regulation futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
Remember the SNAP cuts in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill?” Children account for nearly half of the 2.4 million people who are no longer receiving SNAP in at least 19 states. The true number of kids impacted nationwide is unknown. This is horrifying. No child should go hungry.
Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
John Carl Baker@johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 11mo agoIt’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com
