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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

@joshuafoust.com
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Made the CommSky Starter Pack go.bsky.app/QkcgePD Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️‍🌈.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1h
This looks extremely cool and I need to read up about it.
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 3h
We're so excited to see the arrival of Aster ID as a home for researchers on the open web and to welcome them to the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social family. Very lucky that we've been able to support their tech stack at Eurosky 💖
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h
No, we did the demon twink polo layering 20 years ago and WE WILL NOT GO BACK
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h
This is extraordinary
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 6h
Why isn’t this illegal?
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 6h
Trump’s signature block has a typo 🙇
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 6h
You mean only some government workers
globalvoices.org
After repeal of anti-gay sex law, LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face discrimination in Singapore
"Though more LGBTQ+ individuals are slowly emerging into the mainstream, prejudice and bigotry in present societal attitudes keep many LGBTQ+ individuals from coming out of the closet."
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 17h
😅 just ordered a steam machine
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t understand how any “leftists” can be on X when a Elon Musk blocks the account of the Brazilian Catholic Church
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
“Last semester I permitted my students to use AI on their final essays... Each then had a 45-minute oral exam in which I could audit their understanding of their claims and push them further in their analyses.” Cool. Just one of my classes has 60 students, twice his entire student load. What now.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
OMG WHY WAS THIS FLAGGED AS ADULT CONTENT
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
Oh no he’s going cryptid
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
Interestingly, there is an identifiable cultural component to how people react (emotionally and aesthetically) to learning an online figure is synthetic: east Asian audiences get less upset. This data didn’t capture different African perspectives, but that could make for a really interesting study.
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Simulated influence, real impacts: a cross-cultural qualitative study of ethical and emotional perceptions of virtual influencers - AI & SOCIETY
This article explores the ethical and cultural dimensions of virtual influencers (VIs), computer-generated characters used in emotionally persuasive digital environments, through a cross-cultural qual...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
I just love the idea of the corporate-sponsored administration punishing students for a bad economy 👌🏻
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
Fondly remembering when Hillary and Bill Clinton bought their house in Chappaqua, NY for her Senate run, where they have lived for decades, and got called Carpet Baggers 🥰
nytimes.com
In a Kennedy's Legacy, Lessons and Pitfalls For Hillary Clinton; Carpetbagger Issue Has Echoes of '64, But Differences Could Prove Crucial (Published 2000)
Article compares Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for Senate seat from New York to Robert Kennedy's in 1964; cartpetbagger accusations that are hurled at Clinton were also used against Kennedy; even thoug...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/09/2026
Check it out: Not one but TWO Democratic governors recently spoke out against the party abandoning trans rights. Plus Cheryl Reeve continues to be a stand out ally at the WNBA and a lawsuit confronts the impact of Trump's discriminatory policies in HIV/AIDS care. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democratic Governors, WNBA Coach Defend Trans People in Sport - Assigned Media
Leading Off: Reagan appointed judge defends trans Americans, WNBA coach Cheryl Reeve defends trans athletes, and Governors Gretchen Whitmer and Andy Beshear both spoke out in favor of Democrats contin...
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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’ve never wavered on these issues, and politically, I’ve been successful,” Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said in an interview with The Advocate, going on to say that allies aren’t “willing to hurt a community to score political points.” Some centrists get it.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to know why Senator Lee wants the Kennedy Center ripped down, you won’t find it in this story, for some inexplicable reason.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026
Seriously, why can’t we have nice trains
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
The idea that not hearing of a chart-topping country artist means someone lives in a “bubble” and not that the charts being gamed is so weird. It is not an obscure genre! It sounds more like a Megan Trainor situation: her success is probably a supply-induced artifact, not a measurement of demand.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.
cnn.com
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Obligatory Pauline Hansen posting
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Pauline Pantsdown - I Don't Like It! (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Pauline Pantsdown
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
I really wish Evgeny Morozov was less prickly as a person because he was arguing this in 2010 as an OSF fellow and I think the way Jared Cohen in particular outmaneuvered him in the 2010s mania about the Arab Spring was genuinely bad for society.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow, this is monstrous. As if teachers aren’t under enough stress. People do not do their best work when they are surveyed, belittled and menaced. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Ahh yes, the pop song theory of politics, which is why Charli’s Brat Summer gave us a Kamala presidency
bbc.com
What is Kamala Harris' 'brat' rebrand all about?
In the opening hours of her campaign she is leaning heavily into a trend popularised by popstar Charlie XCX.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
frontiersin.org
Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Gahhhh side by side, angry phone posting typos are obnoxious
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Two things worth considering dude by side, with AI in research:
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
“Joyce Carol Oates is on social media defending furries from fans of President Donald Trump” is a sentence I just wouldn’t have understood in 2005.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Finished Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It was fun to do stealth instead of Uncharted’s mass murder, but leveled a lot of sealed temples and it felt kinda weird to be like, finally we destroyed these ancient artifacts while also discovering a new species of human and everyone shrugs at the end.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 27/09/2026
It’s kind of remarkable: research I’m aware of shows people hate drones flying over their homes, and Amazon has spent a decade trying to do exactly that at massive scale. Small wonder this response isn’t even sharper, but it’s one more way tech monopolies distort local government and harm residents.
techspot.com
Amazon's delivery drones are annoying an entire Texas neighborhood, and there's nothing they can do about it
The drones launch from an Amazon distribution center and deliver packages across a 7.5-mile service area. The company says customers can order tens of thousands of items...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 27/09/2026
Please clap
Wendy Williams in front of a screen wall that says “hot topics” while the caption says, “Clap if the veil’s been thin these past few days”
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 27/09/2026
This wasn’t quite what I was expecting, TBH 💁 #CommSky
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International Communication Association
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Nature @nature.com · 27/09/2026
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. Science shows ways to keep the brain sharp go.nature.com/3V1488l
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
Nature - There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Printing issue 6! 🔵🩷🟡⬛️
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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📣 Happy to say that Pre-Orders for Issue 6 are NOW LIVE! 📣 Go reserve your copy now! 👇👇👇 shop.apwot.com
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 26/09/2026
Found a new favorite bumper sticker today in the wilds of central New York
A grey car with a bumper sticker on it with a yin and yang symbol and text that reads: “THICC DADS WHO VAPE FOR CHRIST”
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 26/09/2026
this is a fine piece but i think it's missing a crucial ingredient, and yeah it's a cliché for a millennial to say this on bluesky but whatever: GENDER, and the connection between empire and fetishized depictions of supposedly distinctly masculine virtues.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 26/09/2026
Every once in a while I remember Radiohead exists
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Everything In Its Right Place + Idioteque - Radiohead @ Openair St Gallen 2016
YouTube video by ThomT94
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 26/09/2026
Okay you guys know I’m gay as hell but that Megan remix of Pink Blush is ☺️
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