Amy Isikoff Newell
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Amy Isikoff Newell
@amynewell.bsky.social
· Jan 21
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"Amusing at best": I write about software engineering, tech, management, politics, bipolar disorder, mental illness, disability, queerness, gender, books, poetry, fashion, boots, and photography. Also...
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2 awesome things about it:
1. arrives irregularly, def not every week, only when I have something to say
2. I like when ppl pay/share/like but I don't hound you for it
Honestly, I think the guy claimed the horrific act so as to prove his white supremacist bona fides to powerful people in washington in order to further his career prospects. Like, I'm not saying he did or did not make that call, who knows, but he claimed it for publicity and personal benefit.
Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Honestly, I think the guy claimed the horrific act so as to prove his white supremacist bona fides to powerful people in washington in order to further his career prospects. Like, I'm not saying he did or did not make that call, who knows, but he claimed it for publicity and personal benefit.
I will now report on all the dinners I make as if I'm writing a Times cooking headline.
"This tangy one-pot pasta dish can be made entirely from pantry staples and bodega arugula, because who wants to grocery shop when it's pitch black at 4pm? "
"This tangy one-pot pasta dish can be made entirely from pantry staples and bodega arugula, because who wants to grocery shop when it's pitch black at 4pm? "
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I will now report on all the dinners I make as if I'm writing a Times cooking headline.
"This tangy one-pot pasta dish can be made entirely from pantry staples and bodega arugula, because who wants to grocery shop when it's pitch black at 4pm? "
"This tangy one-pot pasta dish can be made entirely from pantry staples and bodega arugula, because who wants to grocery shop when it's pitch black at 4pm? "
I actually had no idea Larry Summers was still employed by Harvard. Just emailed Alan Garber asking why, in light of his long and close association with Jeffrey Epstein, as well as his atrocious spelling, he still holds any post at all at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit | News | The Harvard Crimson
A new cache of emails released by a House committee paints a vivid portrait of the relationship between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein. The ...
www.thecrimson.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I actually had no idea Larry Summers was still employed by Harvard. Just emailed Alan Garber asking why, in light of his long and close association with Jeffrey Epstein, as well as his atrocious spelling, he still holds any post at all at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
After you read this mcsweeney's about IT HAPPENING, read my post about what happened in Spain when IT HAPPENED to Franco.
www.amywriteswords.com/p/all-the-ca...
www.amywriteswords.com/p/all-the-ca...
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
After you read this mcsweeney's about IT HAPPENING, read my post about what happened in Spain when IT HAPPENED to Franco.
www.amywriteswords.com/p/all-the-ca...
www.amywriteswords.com/p/all-the-ca...
You love to see it, Malden!
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
You love to see it, Malden!
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It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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As an expert in the philosophical, social, & historical implications of technology allow me to explicate how self-referentially arguing that, in spite of its harms, "AI" is necessary because it will be necessary thus a) amounts to a continual cock gargling of the "AI" industry & b) is bad news bears
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As an expert in the philosophical, social, & historical implications of technology allow me to explicate how self-referentially arguing that, in spite of its harms, "AI" is necessary because it will be necessary thus a) amounts to a continual cock gargling of the "AI" industry & b) is bad news bears
today's bsky wordle clue:
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
today's bsky wordle clue:
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
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Larry Summers commiserating with Epstein about the unfairness of holding men accountable for sexual misconduct. In 2017.
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Larry Summers commiserating with Epstein about the unfairness of holding men accountable for sexual misconduct. In 2017.
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The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
Yes this is What I keep trying to tell people!
Re-upping this essay I wrote about sunsets last year
www.amywriteswords.com/p/how-to-wat...
Re-upping this essay I wrote about sunsets last year
www.amywriteswords.com/p/how-to-wat...
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Yes this is What I keep trying to tell people!
Re-upping this essay I wrote about sunsets last year
www.amywriteswords.com/p/how-to-wat...
Re-upping this essay I wrote about sunsets last year
www.amywriteswords.com/p/how-to-wat...
In Boston area watching the northern lights also caught what looked like a large meteor flashing green in the west around 10 or so @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In Boston area watching the northern lights also caught what looked like a large meteor flashing green in the west around 10 or so @universalhub.com
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
I suppose it is better than nothing, but "ai companions" should be flat-out illegal. they are a bad product that has nothing but negative personal and social impact, and they are built on top of theft, exploitation, and environmental degradation.
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I suppose it is better than nothing, but "ai companions" should be flat-out illegal. they are a bad product that has nothing but negative personal and social impact, and they are built on top of theft, exploitation, and environmental degradation.
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When they say crime they don't mean disregarding the law and seizing agencies. They don't mean banks illegal auto pen on foreclosure. Or insider trading. They don't mean the largest crime bosses not paying for work done. They mean of you peeon not following arbitrary tiny infractions
“We’re going to end carceral systems through constant state monitoring.” - tech CEOs for like the last month now.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When they say crime they don't mean disregarding the law and seizing agencies. They don't mean banks illegal auto pen on foreclosure. Or insider trading. They don't mean the largest crime bosses not paying for work done. They mean of you peeon not following arbitrary tiny infractions
This is sure as hell one of the many reasons I LOVE him.
is this why "people" don't like him?
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is sure as hell one of the many reasons I LOVE him.
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved
"We are tearing people down by convincing them that they can't function without these tools. And we are doing this purely because some very rich unhappy oligarchs would like to become even richer if no more happier. There is nothing benevolent about this."
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved
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November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
I will throw my smartphone in a lake and get a ham radio license and a walkie talkie and spend days and days in the library reading things on microfiche before I delegate my research to an ”ai agent”
Yes, I understand I’d be giving up shitposting if I did that but just you watch me.
Yes, I understand I’d be giving up shitposting if I did that but just you watch me.
Highly personalised and personable, Advanced AI Assistants may soon become the primary way that most people access the internet.
Our research explores the challenges that could arise if their adoption is not carefully managed in the public interest.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/dilem...
Our research explores the challenges that could arise if their adoption is not carefully managed in the public interest.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/dilem...
The dilemmas of delegation
An analysis of policy challenges posed by Advanced AI Assistants and natural-language AI agents.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I will throw my smartphone in a lake and get a ham radio license and a walkie talkie and spend days and days in the library reading things on microfiche before I delegate my research to an ”ai agent”
Yes, I understand I’d be giving up shitposting if I did that but just you watch me.
Yes, I understand I’d be giving up shitposting if I did that but just you watch me.
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my friend picking out plates: “do I go with rainbow or goth?”
Me: ah yes, the two genders
truly I have this debate with myself every day. All the colors or none the colors? There is no in between.
Me: ah yes, the two genders
truly I have this debate with myself every day. All the colors or none the colors? There is no in between.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
my friend picking out plates: “do I go with rainbow or goth?”
Me: ah yes, the two genders
truly I have this debate with myself every day. All the colors or none the colors? There is no in between.
Me: ah yes, the two genders
truly I have this debate with myself every day. All the colors or none the colors? There is no in between.
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Sweater weather is so conflicting. I look real cute in a big cozy sweater but also how will anyone know that I have cool tattoos
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sweater weather is so conflicting. I look real cute in a big cozy sweater but also how will anyone know that I have cool tattoos
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Donald Trump has sued the BBC for one billion dollars. The network should wait 40 days and then pay him the entire amount without a trial.
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Donald Trump has sued the BBC for one billion dollars. The network should wait 40 days and then pay him the entire amount without a trial.
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
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Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.