Andrew Hungerford
@luxtheatrum.bsky.social
Theatrical designer / director / storyteller. Astrophysics enthusiast. Recovering Artistic Director. I want to design all the plays. (Except Mamet & LaBute.) he/him
also: @[email protected] | was hungerf9 @ bird site.
https://andrewhungerford.com
also: @[email protected] | was hungerf9 @ bird site.
https://andrewhungerford.com
Pinned
FYI, The Light Chasers, the sci fi musical that @jesshutchinson.bsky.social and I made based on the album Light Chasers by Cloud Cult is still available as Video on Demand!
vimeo.com/ondemand/the...
vimeo.com/ondemand/the...
I remember sitting in the library stacks as an undergrad, reading all the Stoppard plays on the shelf.
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I remember sitting in the library stacks as an undergrad, reading all the Stoppard plays on the shelf.
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
Mourning the loss of Cincinnati fight/stage violence director Jonn Baca today. Baca was an incredible human and collaborator, generous with his time, expertise, and friendship.
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Mourning the loss of Cincinnati fight/stage violence director Jonn Baca today. Baca was an incredible human and collaborator, generous with his time, expertise, and friendship.
I just found my 2012 notes on how to revise my stage adaptation of A.J. Raffles: Amateur Cracksman.
Guess I need to do that now.
Guess I need to do that now.
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just found my 2012 notes on how to revise my stage adaptation of A.J. Raffles: Amateur Cracksman.
Guess I need to do that now.
Guess I need to do that now.
"Gonna make it through some rough fuckin' years:
Faith and determination in the boombox/glam dialectic of The Mountain Goats and Foxy Shazam"
Faith and determination in the boombox/glam dialectic of The Mountain Goats and Foxy Shazam"
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Gonna make it through some rough fuckin' years:
Faith and determination in the boombox/glam dialectic of The Mountain Goats and Foxy Shazam"
Faith and determination in the boombox/glam dialectic of The Mountain Goats and Foxy Shazam"
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Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A Massive Shift In Health Care Politics
As both parties are legislating criticism of socialism, Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
Good news: the three small dogs at Thanksgiving all got along!
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Good news: the three small dogs at Thanksgiving all got along!
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
Not unrelated to my play Fully Autonomous.
A humanoid robot-shaped bubble is forming, China warns
A humanoid robot-shaped bubble is forming, China warns
There are few proven uses for humanoid robots, but that hasn’t stopped investment pouring in.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Not unrelated to my play Fully Autonomous.
Spending the afternoon working on rough drawings of my scenic design for Pericles in Space.
It's gonna be a lot of fun, y'all.
cincyshakes.com/on-stage/per...
It's gonna be a lot of fun, y'all.
cincyshakes.com/on-stage/per...
Pericles
cincyshakes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spending the afternoon working on rough drawings of my scenic design for Pericles in Space.
It's gonna be a lot of fun, y'all.
cincyshakes.com/on-stage/per...
It's gonna be a lot of fun, y'all.
cincyshakes.com/on-stage/per...
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
There is a play I really wanted to see, and intended to see this weekend. But then I discovered it is dark all this week for Thanksgiving, and I will be out of town for the final week of performances.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
There is a play I really wanted to see, and intended to see this weekend. But then I discovered it is dark all this week for Thanksgiving, and I will be out of town for the final week of performances.
We maintained a copper landline for a long time for emergency purposes, but eventually AT&T's neglect of the infrastructure made it untenable:
The line would go out whenever it rained!
Even when it worked, it would have such a loud buzz as to be unusable!
And it cost $100+ a month!
The line would go out whenever it rained!
Even when it worked, it would have such a loud buzz as to be unusable!
And it cost $100+ a month!
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We maintained a copper landline for a long time for emergency purposes, but eventually AT&T's neglect of the infrastructure made it untenable:
The line would go out whenever it rained!
Even when it worked, it would have such a loud buzz as to be unusable!
And it cost $100+ a month!
The line would go out whenever it rained!
Even when it worked, it would have such a loud buzz as to be unusable!
And it cost $100+ a month!
All this rain in LA County means that we are now in the season of the Loud Frog.
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
All this rain in LA County means that we are now in the season of the Loud Frog.
Today, among other small accomplishments, I took the dog on her afternoon constitutional and I wrote a very good joke.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today, among other small accomplishments, I took the dog on her afternoon constitutional and I wrote a very good joke.
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Update: in the spirit of accuracy, I should note that the title has been changed to Fully Autonomous: A Non-Fungible Revenge Comedy.
It's got revenge AND jokes!
It's got revenge AND jokes!
Today I wrote the first 10 pages of my new play Fully Autonomous: A Non-Fungible Revenge Tragedy.
Excited to finish my non-fungible trilogy, even if no one will ever produce it!
You can read the first two installments at the @newplayexchange.bsky.social .
newplayexchange.org/script/20386...
Excited to finish my non-fungible trilogy, even if no one will ever produce it!
You can read the first two installments at the @newplayexchange.bsky.social .
newplayexchange.org/script/20386...
Non-Fungible | New Play Exchange
newplayexchange.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Update: in the spirit of accuracy, I should note that the title has been changed to Fully Autonomous: A Non-Fungible Revenge Comedy.
It's got revenge AND jokes!
It's got revenge AND jokes!
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
Today I wrote the first 10 pages of my new play Fully Autonomous: A Non-Fungible Revenge Tragedy.
Excited to finish my non-fungible trilogy, even if no one will ever produce it!
You can read the first two installments at the @newplayexchange.bsky.social .
newplayexchange.org/script/20386...
Excited to finish my non-fungible trilogy, even if no one will ever produce it!
You can read the first two installments at the @newplayexchange.bsky.social .
newplayexchange.org/script/20386...
Non-Fungible | New Play Exchange
newplayexchange.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Today I wrote the first 10 pages of my new play Fully Autonomous: A Non-Fungible Revenge Tragedy.
Excited to finish my non-fungible trilogy, even if no one will ever produce it!
You can read the first two installments at the @newplayexchange.bsky.social .
newplayexchange.org/script/20386...
Excited to finish my non-fungible trilogy, even if no one will ever produce it!
You can read the first two installments at the @newplayexchange.bsky.social .
newplayexchange.org/script/20386...
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"Worse, the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where 'health and money collide,' flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear."
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Worse, the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where 'health and money collide,' flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear."
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Horrific news. The book is great btw, but also horrific.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
Once again: read @mariahblake.bsky.social's "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Horrific news. The book is great btw, but also horrific.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
Found this on my doorstep this evening!
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Found this on my doorstep this evening!
But as I write my current adaptation project, I'm listening to multiple versions of Music to Die Alone in Space To back to back.
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
But as I write my current adaptation project, I'm listening to multiple versions of Music to Die Alone in Space To back to back.