Andrew Amster
@andrewamster.bsky.social
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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KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through.
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through.
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
I continue to be baffled by @warren.senate.gov on these Internet bills.
Boston City Council is currently considering a resolution condemning KOSA and similarly misguided censorship legislation that would help the Trump admin suppress LGBTQ and human rights content.
How can @warren.senate.gov be so wildly out of touch with her constituents and MA civil society?
How can @warren.senate.gov be so wildly out of touch with her constituents and MA civil society?
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I continue to be baffled by @warren.senate.gov on these Internet bills.
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Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Bewitched? I'd say I was more bothered and bewildered. Anna's more like a stink bomb thrown in a unlit china shop and the floor's covered in marbles. You suspect she turned out the lights. You know she dropped the marbles. It makes her interesting, I admit. But..."
#vss365 - BEWITCHED
#vss365 - BEWITCHED
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Bewitched? I'd say I was more bothered and bewildered. Anna's more like a stink bomb thrown in a unlit china shop and the floor's covered in marbles. You suspect she turned out the lights. You know she dropped the marbles. It makes her interesting, I admit. But..."
#vss365 - BEWITCHED
#vss365 - BEWITCHED
"...launching a violent government purge of immigrants is even more ludicrously monstrous when it happens in New Orleans." Make their lives hell, NOLA.
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"...launching a violent government purge of immigrants is even more ludicrously monstrous when it happens in New Orleans." Make their lives hell, NOLA.
"She never got my birthday right. Always a month early or late."
"If it's any consolation, she never remembered mine at all."
"Worst grandma ever."
"She made a good homemade egg nog."
"And she let us watch 'Buffy' and 'Ren & Stimpy' when we slept over."
"Explains so much."
#vss365 - CONSOLATION
"If it's any consolation, she never remembered mine at all."
"Worst grandma ever."
"She made a good homemade egg nog."
"And she let us watch 'Buffy' and 'Ren & Stimpy' when we slept over."
"Explains so much."
#vss365 - CONSOLATION
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"She never got my birthday right. Always a month early or late."
"If it's any consolation, she never remembered mine at all."
"Worst grandma ever."
"She made a good homemade egg nog."
"And she let us watch 'Buffy' and 'Ren & Stimpy' when we slept over."
"Explains so much."
#vss365 - CONSOLATION
"If it's any consolation, she never remembered mine at all."
"Worst grandma ever."
"She made a good homemade egg nog."
"And she let us watch 'Buffy' and 'Ren & Stimpy' when we slept over."
"Explains so much."
#vss365 - CONSOLATION
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Randy was that guy in college who read Siddhartha and then decided to wanted to become a mystic. He tried Sufism. Then he dabbled in Kabbalah. Last I heard, he was practicing tantric sex with a dish-faced girl named Pug in a yurt someplace in West Virginia.
#vss365 - LAST
#vss365 - LAST
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Randy was that guy in college who read Siddhartha and then decided to wanted to become a mystic. He tried Sufism. Then he dabbled in Kabbalah. Last I heard, he was practicing tantric sex with a dish-faced girl named Pug in a yurt someplace in West Virginia.
#vss365 - LAST
#vss365 - LAST
"See that ol' moon? She just keeps comin'. This month like last month, year after year. Don't matter what the politicians do. Don't matter what we do to this here Earth. Nothing matters to that ol' moon. That's why I like her. She dependable like your Mama."
#vss365 - MATTERS
#vss365 - MATTERS
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"See that ol' moon? She just keeps comin'. This month like last month, year after year. Don't matter what the politicians do. Don't matter what we do to this here Earth. Nothing matters to that ol' moon. That's why I like her. She dependable like your Mama."
#vss365 - MATTERS
#vss365 - MATTERS
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Maybe it's not such a great thing that humans can pass the Mirror Test. We look at our reflections and know they're us. An orca can do that. A magpie. But that flat, flipped image we see isn't what others see. We can't know that view, see us walk in space.
#vss365 - REFLECTION
#vss365 - REFLECTION
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Maybe it's not such a great thing that humans can pass the Mirror Test. We look at our reflections and know they're us. An orca can do that. A magpie. But that flat, flipped image we see isn't what others see. We can't know that view, see us walk in space.
#vss365 - REFLECTION
#vss365 - REFLECTION
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Average electricity cost increase since Jan:
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Average electricity cost increase since Jan:
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The first time my parents went on vacation without me, I was nearly 18. They left me a list of dos-and-don'ts written in longhand on a legal pad. Three pages. The relevant instructions could be pared down to these two essential: 1) don't starve; and 2) don't burn the house down.
#vss365 - RELEVANT
#vss365 - RELEVANT
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The first time my parents went on vacation without me, I was nearly 18. They left me a list of dos-and-don'ts written in longhand on a legal pad. Three pages. The relevant instructions could be pared down to these two essential: 1) don't starve; and 2) don't burn the house down.
#vss365 - RELEVANT
#vss365 - RELEVANT
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
"I see you didn't draw my tattoos."
The art class model was walking around on her break, looking at our drawings. She was wearing a pink terricloth robe.
"I guess not, but..."
"But you made this smaller," she said, pointing at one specific curve. "So, I forgive you."
#vss365 - SPECIFIC
The art class model was walking around on her break, looking at our drawings. She was wearing a pink terricloth robe.
"I guess not, but..."
"But you made this smaller," she said, pointing at one specific curve. "So, I forgive you."
#vss365 - SPECIFIC
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"I see you didn't draw my tattoos."
The art class model was walking around on her break, looking at our drawings. She was wearing a pink terricloth robe.
"I guess not, but..."
"But you made this smaller," she said, pointing at one specific curve. "So, I forgive you."
#vss365 - SPECIFIC
The art class model was walking around on her break, looking at our drawings. She was wearing a pink terricloth robe.
"I guess not, but..."
"But you made this smaller," she said, pointing at one specific curve. "So, I forgive you."
#vss365 - SPECIFIC
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
...There's a time for navel-gazing, and there's a time for action. I needed a "meet cute" with my new neighbor. I hadn't yet nailed down a plan when I ran into him in the laundry room as he was fishing my bra out of a broken washer.
"Yours?"
"Yeah. Hope it wasn't the culprit."
#vss365 - ACTION
"Yours?"
"Yeah. Hope it wasn't the culprit."
#vss365 - ACTION
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
...There's a time for navel-gazing, and there's a time for action. I needed a "meet cute" with my new neighbor. I hadn't yet nailed down a plan when I ran into him in the laundry room as he was fishing my bra out of a broken washer.
"Yours?"
"Yeah. Hope it wasn't the culprit."
#vss365 - ACTION
"Yours?"
"Yeah. Hope it wasn't the culprit."
#vss365 - ACTION
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I needed to draw this picture
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I needed to draw this picture