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Andrew Amster

@andrewamster.bsky.social
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Retired developer of science education stuff. Basically, just a liberal, snarky old man who wanted to be less outraged this year. Nope. Boston area. #Writer #Poet (He/him/his)

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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, hell. Let's get it over with: Super Duper Intelligence.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A.I. Lake Ontario Gulf of Mexico Kiss my butt.
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything about Cornell is horrifyingly familiar, and cyclical, because the powerful men saying “we didn’t want ruin these boys lives” are the same kind of bad men whose lives the bad men before them didn’t want to ruin, on and on ad infinitum
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/09/2026
Americans have paid $74.4 Billion more on gasoline & $47.5 Billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. $122 Billion of disposable income gone up in smoke because elected Republicans refuse to say "no" to Trump.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maine, it's high time to let Susan Collins go.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you, Dublin!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/09/2026
Lawmakers must avoid the mistakes of the social-media era and begin regulating AI’s interactions with kids before it’s too late, Sherry Turkle argues.
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The Original Sin of AI
The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump’s Despicable 9/11 Lies jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/trumps-des...
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hey, Microsoft! AGAIN, I'm begging you to please stop resetting my Windows power options whenever you do your updates. It's not your decision to make, and you are messing things up for me. Stop. Just stop.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined.
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 19/08/2026
We all have to be one of two people now: The person who rips these fucking things off the face of anyone doing this, OR, the bystanders who 100% have the back of the person who rips the fucking things off the face. The aggressives and the passives must unite to make it unsafe to wear these.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There was a time when people said things like, "Oh, that guy does X. I don't approve, but... hey! It's a free country!" What happened to that level of normal tolerance? No one says "It's a free country!" anymore.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The same people who lied about the Reflecting Pool also lied about . . . The 2020 election How things are going in Iran COVID Trump’s intelligence Caring about you and your family Not cutting Medicare Who would pay for the wall & ballroom Donald being successful in business & school
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In which Trump unintentionally creates precedent material for climate reparation demands against the nation that has put more greenhouse gases into earth‘s atmosphere than any other nation: the United States of America. His quote „the cost is incalculable!“ Indeed, Mr. President, indeed.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wow, Amazon. That must be a very big truck and a very big route.
Msg from Amazon saying a package is out for delivery... but it won't get here until 24 hours from now. What do they even mean by out for delivery???
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Kevin Tompkins, but halloween @ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 10/07/2026
Trump empowered his allies to gut government programs, and the consequences for everyday Americans are becoming clearer every day. Last year, they bragged about cutting thousands of FDA and CDC staff. This year, more people are getting sick.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I really need them to get Trump back to the Eastern Daylight time zone and not wake him up before noon. I can't take seeing so much of his addled stupidity this early in the day. It's easier when they only trot him out to play with Sharpies at 4:00 pm.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four Supreme Court justices inventing the "nuh-uh I don't like it ewww" defense to the actual text of the Constitution.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I have to remind everyone that are are 30 million CHRISTIAN Zionists in the US ALONE. And there are only ~16 million Jews IN THE ENTIRE WORLD and many of us aren’t Zionists. And those 30 million CHRISTIANS make Zionism a core tenet of their faith. This information needs to be household knowledge
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The founders, in the Treaty of Tripoli -- begun under Washington, signed by Adams, ratified by a Senate filled with other crafters of the Constitution -- said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Tom Emmer is a dumb-as-dirt bigot.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
huh, I wonder if the guy blatantly lying about a pool renovation might be lying about anything else
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.
OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How's the tarp today? (Casting shade on a tarp seems redundant.)
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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Pogroms. There is no other word for what is happening in Belfast. To name it, is the opportunity to respond to it accordingly.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you remove the sprinkler system from a building and it burns down, you bear some responsibility for the damage, even if you didn't start the fire. This post is about screwworms.
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Morgan @larubia22.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
OMG. Don't sing "New York, New York" if you don't want to sing the actual lyrics. Ugh.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 02/06/2026
BREAKING: Don't fall for what Blanche is suggesting - DOJ is NOT getting rid of the whole bogus slush fund deal; it's still giving Trump $1,776 billion AND still giving him (and family) a broad civil release of liability; all it is NOT doing is using the $1,776 to create a fund for J6ers and others.
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Andrew Amster @andrewamster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Someone, please let me know when the meta-Bluesky-navel-gazing is over for the weekend? Thanks! 🫧🫧🫧
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
elephant.art/molly-crabap...
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Molly Crabapple Finds the Pleasure in Politics
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The United States has moved into a stupid, corrupt era where reparations go to people who did bad things, not to people to whom bad things were done. 🤷‍♀️
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
An analysis of 141 films since 1919 finds geologists are usually portrayed as likable characters, though nearly a third of on-screen geologists die, most often by murder or geological events. doi.org/hb3tq4
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Geologists in films are the good guys... but they often die
It all began with a perfectly ordinary chat over coffee between four researchers. How many films featuring geologists can we think of?
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn | Judaism | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Iran Accumulated 11 Tons of Enriched Uranium
Two months after the United States began a war meant to prevent Iran from ever building an atomic bomb, the fate of its stockpile of enriched uranium remains a mystery.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 01/05/2026
News of the Times: Trump Reveals New Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms Cartoon by @rubenbolling.bsky.social
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today @evangreer.bsky.social of @fightforthefuture.org writes on dangerous social media surveillance legislation that would force everyone in MA to upload a government ID to post, and attempts to "keep children safe" from the internet around the country. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-kids-are...
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The kids are protecting us from ourselves
Now I know I’m not supposed to say this as a poet but there are entirely too many easy metaphors at play in real life of late. Cut the shit with all the big dangling meatball over the plate metaphors....
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