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Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์

@quincetessence.bsky.social

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Host and Producer of @AsianAmericana.com, a podcast about Asian American culture and history. Actor, journalist, managing editor at @fi2w.org, Thai Chip & Dale. Thai-Teochew American (he/him)

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Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์ @quincetessence.bsky.social · Nov 13

Seeing more old and new friends Bluesky every day!

I'll post/chat about many things including: Asian American community and history, audio journalism and podcasting, acting & voice acting, tabletop RPGs and board games, Star Trek, biking+urbanism, languages+linguistics, Thai culture, and food!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 19h

Don’t make me tap the sign.

Tap the sign meme saying “Using AI ironically is still using AI.”

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Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์ @quincetessence.bsky.social · 8h

Looking forward to Doubting Toms (2028)

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Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์ @quincetessence.bsky.social · 16h

Please, if you keep going you're going to en-snare Gale in these puns and make them crash out.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 17h

Still the greatest and most relevant Onion headline

theonion.com/recession-pl...

Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In

WASHINGTON—A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory econ...

theonion.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

This isn’t even close to a plan! Why is this being reported as a “five year plan” when it’s a series of vague ideas?

OpenAI is working on new revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising as part of a five-year plan to make good on the more than $1tn in spending it has pledged to create world-leading artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is planning on deals to serve governments and businesses with more bespoke products, creating more income from new shopping tools, and new sales from its video creation service Sora and AI agents, said multiple people familiar with the start-up’s efforts.
These people said it is exploring “creative” plans to raise new debt that can help it build out its AI infrastructure, while considering becoming a supplier of computing resources via its data centre initiative Stargate.
It is also weighing ways to cash in on its intellectual property by developing new AI infrastructure, making forays into online advertising and plans to launch consumer hardware products, including a new AI-powered personal assistant device, with former Apple star designer Jony Ive.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21h

Mmmm idk did Greek riot cops "scuffle" with doctors protesting poor public healthcare services or did Greek riot cops "fire volleys of pepper spray and used shields and batons to" brutalize doctors protesting poor public healthcare services?

Greek riot police scuffle with protesting doctors during hospital tour by PM Mitsotakis

Riot police have scuffled with medical staff at an Athens public hospital, after dozens of staff gathered to protest the state of public health services during a visit to the hospital by the country’s...

apnews.com

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t mention Hong Kong as a gotcha. I mention it because people had umbrella barricades , masks and tear gas treatment that worked

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

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Jonathan Keane @jonathankeane.bsky.social · 22h

This one's been brewing for a long time and the fact that companies making this tech have not yet properly considered people with facial differences or people with disabilities speaks volumes.

I mean, I wrote a piece about this almost 10 years ago.
www.vice.com/en/article/f...?

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 5d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarrassing that, as real science is under attack on an unprecedented scale in America, Scientific American has decided to use its platform and credibility to shill for the slop machine. Just embarrassing.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This is an intentional framing choice that can easily be avoided if one wants to avoid it!

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 1d

really do genuinely feel that our local press needs to find a better word than clash for interactions between federal agents armed to the teeth with chemical munitions and actual guns and some neighbors who are yelling and maybe throwing found objects. not even delving into protests facing the same.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

we need to abolish this shit

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Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์ @quincetessence.bsky.social · 5d

Do they still give the pillow spray? I still have mine from a few years ago!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

Where did "speed to power" come from? Suddenly hearing it everywhere now. It doesn't even really make sense as a phrase?

Tony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 6d

All the lip gloss being put on the AI boom as somehow good for climate or the energy transition is masking that, at the present moment, it's a disaster.

Not only more gas generation, but the worst, dirtiest, least efficient kind. Turning the clock back 25 years.
heatmap.news/energy/natur...

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

heatmap.news

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 5d

This good news was brought to us by labor and the Left:

1️⃣ @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social set the standard for what to do.
2️⃣ @nysaflcio.bsky.social got Hochul to include this in the final budget (even though she initially excluded it).

It's important to know that Hochul was more against than for it.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 5d

The maximum unemployment check will increase from $504 to $869 per week, the state’s first rise in payouts since 2019.

Unemployed New Yorkers Get Benefit Boost

After years stuck at $504 per week, the maximum unemployment insurance payout set to hit $869 on Oct. 13 — helping more than half of those currently on the rolls.

buff.ly

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Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์ @quincetessence.bsky.social · 5d

Typeface and color scheme gives me Monkey Island nostalgia.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 6d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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kylie, themeny of the state (pumpkin),,, @kylie.hater.club · 6d

I’m blocked on the source but this is pretty fucking bad and I hope @workingfamilies.org is seeing this and reconsidering their support.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 6d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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