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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 37m

Me (to the children huddled around the fire we built in a tire rim in the back corner of the burnt out shell of drone-struck super-Walmart): we used to have so much food in this country people would destroy it on video just for attention

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 40m

In retrospect, of course "watching the mad undead emperor rot in front of us" was always the most likely Warhammer 40k event to Really Happen

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 55m

Please dear god when the wheels come off the AI bubble and everything officially Goes To Shit in like 4-8 months, please don't be stupid enough to blame the newly elected Democratic congress, America. Please god.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 1h

Can of black beans, an onion, a carrot, a cup of rice. Little bit of vinegar and a bag leaf if you are fancy. Some cheddar cheese and hot sauce if you just got paid. Food.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 1h

"Remember baby, we call it 'superior' lip filler now"

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Recycled Light Photography @recycledlightphotography.com · 1h

Railroad underpass near Allentown, earlier today #Photography

A line of light across a dark graffiti covered wall

A graffiti character called "love bug." A pink devil with a broad grin and horns.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 1h

We stopped buying our seeds from fedco in Maine and started buying them from Southern Exposure (mostly) here in the Philly Burbs. Better climate match now.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 2h

Somewhere at the giant factory that makes aspartame: "holy shit, we're doing Superior Sweetener."

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 2h

The constant question of 2026: "Is this a bit or have things gotten this stupid?" Like if there is a nuclear war I am gonna be like "wow, commitment to the bit, yo" as I watch the bombs explode.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 7h

Listen, I probably shouldn't do fashion criticism as a filthy flannel dweller... but is the lady in the red dress about to play a little football? Is she wearing some kind of jetpack? The shoulder line going on there is *weird*

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 7h

Bet you weren't ready for that It's a spaaaaace corridor I'm sure you know where it's at, yeah yeah

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 7h

The Group W bench, where we're playing with the pencils

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 8h

What else is in there? What isn't in there? I think it's increasingly difficult to assert there isn't anything in there besides what's already encoded in our explicit symbols. I think asserting (as AI companies would) that all "intelligence" is in there is at least premature. Probably wrong.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 8h

This raises interesting questions about @tedunderwood.com's formulation of "the latent space" of language/culture as the thing mapped/recorded by LLMs. Like what's in there? Looks like probably a bunch of math. Makes sense, math is a kind of language, latent math hiding between the explicit math. OK

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 8h

Where's the beef? No really. Where is it?

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 13h

Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...

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Trump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 9h

It turns out all Star Wars needed to become Good Again was the Real Life Fall of The Republic (this is about the moment in Zero Company after you-know-what when your soon-to-be ex-friend says you-know-who just needs a "public show of compliance" and then everything will be OK)

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 12h

More like embrace, extend, destroy

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 12h

Stop collaborate and listen?

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 12h

Ok, yeah, we're about to discover intellectual property does still exist (just not for artists lol)

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 12h

No, no, that's a shark. For a chatbot attack you are supposed to make yourself look big, like stand up and stretch your arms out

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 12h

The 2026 question is: can you make a big lie so big it's too big to fail?

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 12h

Oversight of the admin is only half the job. Breaking the back of the ultra-rich's power, especially the tech bros, (Peter Thiel first, then the rest of them) is the other half. Maybe more than half.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Blah blah blah you work so hard your special season blah blah blah. No performance enhancing drugs? No illicit pharmaceuticals?! No edge??? Just go out and raw dog reality. Thanks, Obama.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

The thing is, we already had an abundance of information and a scarcity of attention. The LLM has been marketed as an efficient way to create information, which is exactly what we don't need. They can also sort and filter information, which is much less sexy, but actually (with care) useful.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

He took the Kung Fu grip literally not seriously

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

Honestly the amount these guys just straight up say "war is peace" and "ignorance is strength" is like "I know writers who use subtext" level

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

I don't know what I am voting for Chancleta to be, but I am voting for him. I don't know what district, state, or country he is in. I will move there. I will naturalize if needed.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

If Trump's hamfisted campaigning nudges any more races into being competitive for Dems, they are gonna have to start calling it the "Let Him Cook Report"

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

Wtf is going on with the second blurb in these Google search results for PA house candidate Bob Brooks? Both those links go to the same website, his...

Two Google search results for Bob Brooks. The first is gives information from the candidate's website. The second describes him as a "retired Brigadier General, farmer and Democrat running for Georgia's 14th congressional district?"

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

I would play that rogue like deckbuilder

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

This is all very speculative at this point but it was interesting to me that the recent fox poll had Talarico ahead by I think 7 points among RVs and only 3 among LVs, which suggests there might be potential D voters in TX waiting to be energized by a sense the state is in play & their vote counts

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

I mean, if they could really do this and keep the lights on it would be the least harmful social media business model yet deployed. Not even close.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

One of the more intangible things I think we will find we have lost in the last 10 years is the consensus that the Will of The People is the only legitimate source of political power that was so strong even those who planned on running authoritarian systems still called their countries "republics"

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026

There could be a massive recession, so yeah, in a sense

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

I am seriously considering pouring bleach into my eyes for having seen this

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

I would say we should declare war on the people who like to win games people but we'll all be so busy enjoying our process they'll wipe us out with some sort of nuclear drone strike in the first 20 minutes

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

What we're going to discover is there are people who like to play games and there are people who like to win games and they are not the same kind of people

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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK, it took 30 hours to do it, but I finally managed to create Agentic systems to play all my video games for me Now if I can just create some agents to ride my motorcyle for me and drive my car through some winding Mountain roads, I can get back to my life’s work: Working myself to into a grave

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

This is hilarious. Also I got my wife your Metal Heron t-shirt and it was a total hit. She wears it like once a week. Thanks for the great shirt!

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

Once the hyperscaling crash (which is coming, I am pretty sure) wipes out the "we're gonna build God" contingent and we can deal with AI as the next-generation search engine and code-compiler it actually is (which is a big deal BTW) we can work out learning rights. Probably. Might take a century.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

Because without authors, the copying machine owners would have nothing to copy in short order. The machine learning machine owners, at least some of them, at least some of the time, recognize they have the same problem. At least the ones who understand they aren't building God.

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