Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Happy “wonder if it’s cool to mention being offline tomorrow for Rosh Hashanah to this new group of people without getting weirdness and judgement from them” to all my fellow MOT freelancers out there. Shana tovah u’metukah 🍎🍯 170
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I took a book-binding workshop years ago but would like to learn restoration and book making at THIS level bc holy shit and also this feels like a revolutionary act at the moment 161
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Your periodic reminder not everything is a hack: I just saw a video in which a grown ass adult influencer excitedly explained their amazing travel hack is to… bring a sandwich from home. It’s not like humans have been bringing food on journeys for a minute or anything. Carry on. 080
Reposted by Amy GuthIndieWire @indiewire.com · 18/08/2026Best International First Feature and Digital Creator Award categories added to Film Independent Spirit Awards. Berlinale becomes qualifying festival.bit.lyThe Film Independent Spirit Awards Are Adding Categories for Creators and International FeaturesBest International First Feature and Digital Creator Award categories added to Film Independent Spirit Awards. Berlinale becomes qualifying festival. 072
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Experimenting and doing things in different ways is almost always creatively worthwhile, so I will be interested to see how to develops for this producer team. Seems like an especially cool opportunity for bilingual actors, too. www.screendaily.com/news/how-a-s...screendaily.comHow a Spanish-US producing team is betting on a bilingual production modelFestival winner Face Love is being sold as separate English- and Spanish-language versions. 020
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026At a gate at LAX a passenger is annoyed w everything as far as I can tell and each new thing he doesn’t like, he goes “That’s CALIFORNIA for ya!” Like, my dude, sometimes Hudson News is just out of fucking Diet Sprite. Let’s cool off with the confirmation bias spiraling, man 061
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Another smart piece from Michele Weldon in @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/08/07/m...msmagazine.comThe Political Boys’ Club: A Long List of Politicians Accused of Domestic Abuse—and a Short List Facing ConsequencesFrom Max Miller to a growing roster of elected officials across both parties, allegations of domestic abuse have too often been met with denial. 043
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Heyyyy I see you, ai collapse theory coming true: www.404media.co/ai-companies...404media.coAI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.” 083
Reposted by Amy GuthBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026They claim this robber brought a kitten along, how do we know the kitten didn't bring him? www.thebanner.com/community/lo...thebanner.comAlleged Maryland bank robber brings stolen kitten along for attempted heistPolice confirmed officers responded to the 10400 block of Baltimore Avenue late Monday morning for a reported bank robbery. 1213719
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Hills I will die on: 1. Skipping whole lines between every sentence in newsletters doesn’t make it easy to skim or give the message gravitas or whatever. It just feels like having a kid’s book read to me very slowly. 2. There is no brand I need in my inbox every day. Not one. 090
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Earlier this month I was in a room with several VCs and other finance people talking about how I believe creatives struggling to launch their projects can borrow a lot (though not all of it to be sure) from the way tech startups approach the funding ecosystem. 120
Reposted by Amy GuthPixie Casey @pixiecasey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026it’s insane that Stephen Root doesn’t have an emmy yet. he should be given a lifetime achievement award for Bill Dauterive alone 2172
Reposted by Amy GuthAbby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"Need Someone," Gavin Brivik and Andrew Bird's song from The Pitt, has an Emmy nomination!!! Here's my latest interview with Gavin from @thepitch.bsky.social where we talk about his work on the show's music:thepitchkc.comStill blowing up: The Pitt composer Gavin Brivik on scoring for TV, collabs with Andrew Bird, and Faces of DeathIf you’ve been watching HBO Max’s medical drama The Pitt (and given that the show averages 12 million viewers per episode, those chances are pretty good), you may have noticed a new Andrew Bird song p... 182
Reposted by Amy GuthKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting 6262071115
Reposted by Amy GuthDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups. 6887001641
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Behind the scenes, I also produce a podcast about getting fired called Canned. It’s hosted by the inimitable @nerdseyeview.bsky.social and once in a while I join her on the mic. Like when job-related ai news is bonkers, for example. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5jxrf-...podbean.comS2 Interlude: Some Bullshit in the NewsPam and Amy talk about, well, some bullshit in the news. How to think about AI before it's too late Nvidia's Jensen Huang says CEOs who blame AI for layoffs are giving a 'lazy' excuse Microsoft AI... 175
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I try to be conscious of not sending people email way outside of biz hours but I’m in project conversations w folks in two EU time zones and in all North Amer time zones but one so at this point I’m just changing my email sig to “answer whenever the fuck you work” in like six languages 030
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026“Not what I intended” always reads like such a self-centered, bullshit, non-apology of a response. (*raspberry sound*) 120
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Fr, calendar math is an underrated skill and so help me if World Time Buddy ever goes out of business, I will rend my garments and sit shiva for it. 040
Reposted by Amy Guthdan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/06/2026The new global forever stamps are cool as hell. 1346640
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Gahhd, search is so awful now. Was trying to locate a specific essay about trauma and resilience and forgot to add the “-ai” modifier at the end of the search query and the results began: “As an ai, I don’t have feelings but perhaps you are looking for [crap unrelated to what I was looking for]. 120
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This “comment WORD for recipe so a bot can send it and you can be on my not-terribly substantive sales mailing list” is exhausting. I cook by feel/taste more than recipe but I cook daily and GLADLY share or swap recipes w anyone at any time bc it’s fun to share delicious things with nice people. 060
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Yes the world is on fire and there are many things to discuss but pausing to mention this is still a great album 050
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Here’s my thing: I do not give a fuck how famous/powerful/connected anyone is if they can’t manage to be a decently kind person. Like, great, dude, you have so-and-so’s name in your phone, you’re still condescending. Man, I have no patience for that game. 160
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Quite a read: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comClaude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business 010
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026You know, not every class needs to be (or frankly qualifies as) a masterclass. It can just be a class or a webinar or whatever. Just like not every speech is a keynote bc by definition a keynote sets the theme a conference or event and there’s only one of them, usually right at the start. It’s okay. 050
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Regular reminder this website exists and the music will always get a yes-vote from me (cc @nerdseyeview.bsky.social) : www.cameronsworld.netcameronsworld.netCameron's World🌍 A web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of GeoCities. 140
Reposted by Amy Guthlil jon lovitz @liljonlovitz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025is anybody else's amulet glowing 1237087
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I’m noticing some folks are starting to *talk* like AI (“It’s not THIS. It’s not THIS. It’s THIS.”) and makes me fear they’ve outsourced some of the best parts of their minds. Just say the thing. The “not this” throat-clearing bullshit preamble sucks and dilutes your fucking point. 020
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Root canal ✅ Woof. Heavy painkillers are not for me so I’m riding it out with ibuprofen. Please shower me with photos of your beautiful pets and visiting bird friends. Thank you in advance. 110
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Humans are like “we needed this” and it’s just watching smart and kind humans in space and on the ground at their best, doing awe-inspiring, history-making work and showing humanity and care to each other and making us all ugly-cry and not think about the horrors here on earth for a moment, nbd. 050
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026FFS, I saw a video in which an influencer shared the “amazing smoothie hack” of storing peeled bananas in Tupperware to save yourself the time of peeling a goddamned banana. 120
Reposted by Amy GuthMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 6228441231
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026This is very cool and while I’m no cartographer, I am glad to pass this info along 120
Reposted by Amy GuthNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2026“she has deep knowledge of women’s pay…That research has included the role that discrimination plays in pay gaps between men and women. Goldin won her Nobel for advancing understanding of women’s labor-market outcomes.” 012829
Reposted by Amy GuthTeddypasketti @teddypasketti.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Between the ornithological bird and the cartoon bird, what do I choose, you ask? I choose chaos. 1102
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Meanwhile, in Alaska: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...alaskapublic.orgAlaska legislator's chief of staff arrested on child sex crime chargesFederal agents arrested Craig Scott Valdez, 36, early Friday in Juneau, according to court documents. 121
Reposted by Amy GuthDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This is, without exaggeration, the smartest, clearest discussion I have heard regarding AI in the workplace. You should listen. 4286
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I need everyone to listen to this episode of CANNED pls 111
Reposted by Amy GuthDawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026When I die, if you turn my image into a shitty computer facsimile of me I swear to God I will rise up from the grave and haunt you 1184
Reposted by Amy GuthMicah @rincewind.run · 18/03/2026I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation 582696431
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Seattlians! Seattlites! Pls show up for Pam and listen to her radical brilliance. Internetlandia: you too. 000
Reposted by Amy Guthshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/03/2026and she asked all the women in the room to stand up because (paraphrased) “i wouldn’t be here without all of you.” such an amazing moment. 983295
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I recently went back through the bajillion screenshots of things on my phone to prune them and some of you prob have no idea a comment you prob said as an aside meant so much to me at the time. In one hard era especially, kindnesses I screengrabbed were absolutely carrying me through it. Thank you. 051
