Andrew Hurst
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So I asked myself, "Why on earth would this be a thing I would want?"
I love storytelling, as an art form. I love games, TV, movies, books, plays. But I think something just clicked for me -
For some people, TV is just lights and sounds.
I love storytelling, as an art form. I love games, TV, movies, books, plays. But I think something just clicked for me -
For some people, TV is just lights and sounds.
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Up. Up. And away!
North Pacific water temps the past 15 years, with September 2025 being the cherry on the top (right) of the chart. @zacklabe.com is going to need a bigger Y axis!
North Pacific water temps the past 15 years, with September 2025 being the cherry on the top (right) of the chart. @zacklabe.com is going to need a bigger Y axis!
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Up. Up. And away!
North Pacific water temps the past 15 years, with September 2025 being the cherry on the top (right) of the chart. @zacklabe.com is going to need a bigger Y axis!
North Pacific water temps the past 15 years, with September 2025 being the cherry on the top (right) of the chart. @zacklabe.com is going to need a bigger Y axis!
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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The visual storytelling here is phenomenal
A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S.
After President Trump issued an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City.
www.newyorker.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The visual storytelling here is phenomenal
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okay fine I’ll do it but you were warned
with worldcon coming up I should do a thread of Seattle travel tips for newbies, which I promise will be biased, impractical, and full of gaps. if not outright fictional
August 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
okay fine I’ll do it but you were warned
Zurich has a skin disease museum: www.uzh.ch/en/explore/m... Museum of Wax Moulages | University of Zurich | UZH
(I didn’t go, but my spouse did)
(I didn’t go, but my spouse did)
August 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Zurich has a skin disease museum: www.uzh.ch/en/explore/m... Museum of Wax Moulages | University of Zurich | UZH
(I didn’t go, but my spouse did)
(I didn’t go, but my spouse did)
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Monday challenge: post the least flattering photo of your pet.
July 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Monday challenge: post the least flattering photo of your pet.
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Monday challenge: post the least flattering photo you have of your pet
July 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Monday challenge: post the least flattering photo you have of your pet
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Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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I have mostly seen guys commenting on this bold future and now I’m wondering how many of them have actually planned a kids birthday party (it involves a lot of choices!) or ordered a 🎂 (more choices!) or planned a family trip (shit ton of choices!) involving variable preferences of multiple ppl 😂
May 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I have mostly seen guys commenting on this bold future and now I’m wondering how many of them have actually planned a kids birthday party (it involves a lot of choices!) or ordered a 🎂 (more choices!) or planned a family trip (shit ton of choices!) involving variable preferences of multiple ppl 😂
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
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This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.
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This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.
It isn't a surprise to me that returning to print has made the Onion significantly funnier, but it is a surprise to me how *quickly* it has done so.
April 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.
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The great thing about being born is 1980 is that I get to swap my genx card out for a millennial card the moment everyone realizes genx is going to be just as selfish and nasty as the boomers were.
April 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The great thing about being born is 1980 is that I get to swap my genx card out for a millennial card the moment everyone realizes genx is going to be just as selfish and nasty as the boomers were.
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once again, programming is *not* the code, it's the ability to clearly specify constraints. programming is not going away. the user interface for how we do it is what's changing, making it more accessible to more people.
If you can describe your program in English clearly and with a lot of specificity, and it’s not too huge, it can pretty much do it in one shot
Eg something I made last night
dfeldman.org/labs/blackqu...
Eg something I made last night
dfeldman.org/labs/blackqu...
BlackQuartz CSS Designer
dfeldman.org
April 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
once again, programming is *not* the code, it's the ability to clearly specify constraints. programming is not going away. the user interface for how we do it is what's changing, making it more accessible to more people.
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We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.
HAIRCUTS.
This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
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“It is undoubtedly true that the Trump administration won’t stop at denationalizing trans people, but it is also true that a majority of Americans are safe from these kinds of attacks, just as a majority of Germans were.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“It is undoubtedly true that the Trump administration won’t stop at denationalizing trans people, but it is also true that a majority of Americans are safe from these kinds of attacks, just as a majority of Germans were.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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who called it dressage and not an obstacle horse
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
who called it dressage and not an obstacle horse
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
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Just to Start, since this is a member of my discipline either obfuscating the truth or forgetting it: The cost of shelter has risen much faster than the cost of the items used to measure inflation (usually a 'basket of goods')
Love the charts. I wish people were more curious about why people's lived reality doesn't match up with the charts, because nothing is more frustrating to poor people than feeling like they're being gaslit by exasperated Democrats
Everyone has utterly lost the plot about the actual material state of the economy. It's as if the last 4 years did not happen. Denial of the shape of the earth. There's really no other conclusion other than that nothing actually matters anymore. We're through the looking glass into pure vibes.
November 7, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Just to Start, since this is a member of my discipline either obfuscating the truth or forgetting it: The cost of shelter has risen much faster than the cost of the items used to measure inflation (usually a 'basket of goods')
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" In short, RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in the germ theory. He believes in something called the miasma theory."
Oh my God
Oh my God
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
Why does RFK Jr. believe so many weird things? One reason.
Why does RFK Jr. believe so many weird things? One reason.
Understanding RFK Jr.
If you want to know why RFK Jr. believes so many weird things, just read his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. Four pages explain everything.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
" In short, RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in the germ theory. He believes in something called the miasma theory."
Oh my God
Oh my God