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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.

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Vauhini Vara@vauhinivara.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote a book last year showing how tech companies' values and goals show up in the rhetoric of their products themselves — including through AI chatbots. People questioned that; maybe it seemed too dystopian? Well, I've been collecting other examples in the wild, and here's the latest.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Darcy James Argue@darcyjamesargue.com · last mo.

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.

Tom Andes@tomandes.bsky.social · last mo.

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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Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

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 · 2mo ago

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.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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 ago

Centrist 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.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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 ago

It 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.

An email from The Information: Exclusive A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing By Jyoti Mann A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest in a string of such incidents at major AI firms. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the systems of a company and made changes to its internal systems, said one of the people, who said the AI was able to access the public internet because of an error in the set up of the “sandbox” testing environment. Meta worked on that testing with an outside evaluation partner called Irregular, the people said.
Emily Bell@emilybell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.”

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Paul Renfro@renfro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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 ago

President 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

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER)@libbycudmore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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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