Andrew Hearst
@andrewhearst.bsky.social
Brooklyn-based freelance content designer, content strategist, UX designer. Mostly working on civic tech and govtech projects these days. Past: Blue State Digital, Vanity Fair.
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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What is fascism but a opportunistic infection of every parasitic instinct that should have been purged from society?
The narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.
May 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What is fascism but a opportunistic infection of every parasitic instinct that should have been purged from society?
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“He installed Matt Fraser, former Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD’s Info Tech Bureau, as the chief officer of the rechristened Office of Technology and Innovation, or OTI. And he put the office in charge of delivering a legacy project: a “one-stop” online portal for public services called MyCity.”
NEW: Over the past two and a half years, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has spent tens of millions of dollars building an online tool it says will transform all social services in New York City.
Two years and $100 million later, the MyCity portal is a skeleton of what it was supposed to be.
Two years and $100 million later, the MyCity portal is a skeleton of what it was supposed to be.
Does Eric Adams’ $100 Million Website Do Anything?
The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it…
nysfocus.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“He installed Matt Fraser, former Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD’s Info Tech Bureau, as the chief officer of the rechristened Office of Technology and Innovation, or OTI. And he put the office in charge of delivering a legacy project: a “one-stop” online portal for public services called MyCity.”
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You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/
18F Guides
A central resource for all 18F guides and methods
18f.org
March 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/
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Confirming what others have discussed or reported, 18F, the elite tech consultancy within TTS/GSA, was formally disbanded overnight. There’s a formal RIF, the legal system in which the government downsizes/layoff people. I’m told it’s 60 days on leave for all involved.
March 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Confirming what others have discussed or reported, 18F, the elite tech consultancy within TTS/GSA, was formally disbanded overnight. There’s a formal RIF, the legal system in which the government downsizes/layoff people. I’m told it’s 60 days on leave for all involved.
1995. Things were simpler then.
February 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
1995. Things were simpler then.
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Alternative possible new taglines for The Washington Post:
"Sure, I can write that for you"
"Let's delve into this"
"Sure, I can write that for you"
"Let's delve into this"
January 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Alternative possible new taglines for The Washington Post:
"Sure, I can write that for you"
"Let's delve into this"
"Sure, I can write that for you"
"Let's delve into this"
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Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)
C is for cookie. That’s good enough for me.
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
C is for cookie. That’s good enough for me.
My arrangement of the piano-and-whistling intro to Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” It was the first album I obsessed over as a child; my sisters and I would fight over who got to hold the lyric sheet.
Billy Joel's "The Stranger" Intro - Solo Guitar on Josh Williams Mockingbird With UAFX Enigmatic
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November 2, 2024 at 2:47 PM
My arrangement of the piano-and-whistling intro to Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” It was the first album I obsessed over as a child; my sisters and I would fight over who got to hold the lyric sheet.
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Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.
November 1, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.
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This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.
We now live in a world where I, a novelist, can no longer keep an open tab for thesaurus dot com because they autoplay video ads. I was immersed in chapter seven when an ad somehow broke through AdBlock Plus to scream at full volume. I hate, despise, and abhor this.
September 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM
This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.
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"Whoa" is the standard spelling, but some people think "whoa" and "woah" mean different things.
‘Whoa’ or ‘Woah’?
Some people think "woah" is a misspelling of "whoa," and other people thing it has a different meaning. Here's why - Quick and Dirty Tips.
buff.ly
August 28, 2024 at 10:57 PM
"Whoa" is the standard spelling, but some people think "whoa" and "woah" mean different things.
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The platonic (in more than one sense) ideal of a Talk of the Town story. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For Sale: Busy Philipps’s Marriage Stuff. Yes, Used
The actor and her ex-husband, the filmmaker Marc Silverstein, host a “divorce sale” to sell their Le Creuset and her wedding veil.
www.newyorker.com
March 11, 2024 at 10:23 PM
The platonic (in more than one sense) ideal of a Talk of the Town story. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A little disappointed we haven't been using the term "Generative Large Language Models" more often, since it leads to the satisfying acronym of GLLM—which we'd naturally pronounce as "Golem."
(And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)
(And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)
Golem - Wikipedia
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February 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM
A little disappointed we haven't been using the term "Generative Large Language Models" more often, since it leads to the satisfying acronym of GLLM—which we'd naturally pronounce as "Golem."
(And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)
(And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)
I think we can agree that this is not a good content experience
February 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM
I think we can agree that this is not a good content experience
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anyone want ai to have your medical records and be your doctor
The boys and I figured we’d ask ChatGPT to help us solve a clue from the Times crossword.
January 10, 2024 at 12:10 AM
anyone want ai to have your medical records and be your doctor
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Someone once described the Facebook reactions, in order, as “the stages of learning about Morrissey” and that’s really stuck with me
November 9, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Someone once described the Facebook reactions, in order, as “the stages of learning about Morrissey” and that’s really stuck with me
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“A list of words first recorded in English between 1918 and 1923 reads like a Jazz Age divination of the century to come, a catalogue of the origin of our lives:”
October 8, 2023 at 12:42 AM
“A list of words first recorded in English between 1918 and 1923 reads like a Jazz Age divination of the century to come, a catalogue of the origin of our lives:”
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Me sowing potatoes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping potatoes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping potatoes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
September 11, 2023 at 6:06 PM
Me sowing potatoes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping potatoes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping potatoes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
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There is no worse music than 80s radio. Aesthetic is fucking poison. Literally everything. Prince, Madonna, Don Henley, Wang Chung, even "rock." A bestiary of shit sound:
Linn Drum
Squenced bass
DI Superstrat (sub Rockman or JC120)
Roland Juno
String synth
Gated reverb
Emulator stabs
I choose Ugu.
Linn Drum
Squenced bass
DI Superstrat (sub Rockman or JC120)
Roland Juno
String synth
Gated reverb
Emulator stabs
I choose Ugu.
September 2, 2023 at 4:14 PM
There is no worse music than 80s radio. Aesthetic is fucking poison. Literally everything. Prince, Madonna, Don Henley, Wang Chung, even "rock." A bestiary of shit sound:
Linn Drum
Squenced bass
DI Superstrat (sub Rockman or JC120)
Roland Juno
String synth
Gated reverb
Emulator stabs
I choose Ugu.
Linn Drum
Squenced bass
DI Superstrat (sub Rockman or JC120)
Roland Juno
String synth
Gated reverb
Emulator stabs
I choose Ugu.