Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Found a new favorite bumper sticker today in the wilds of central New York
September 26, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Found a new favorite bumper sticker today in the wilds of central New York
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this is a fine piece but i think it's missing a crucial ingredient, and yeah it's a cliché for a millennial to say this on bluesky but whatever: GENDER, and the connection between empire and fetishized depictions of supposedly distinctly masculine virtues.
Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
this is a fine piece but i think it's missing a crucial ingredient, and yeah it's a cliché for a millennial to say this on bluesky but whatever: GENDER, and the connection between empire and fetishized depictions of supposedly distinctly masculine virtues.
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Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
September 26, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
Every once in a while I remember Radiohead exists
Everything In Its Right Place + Idioteque - Radiohead @ Openair St Gallen 2016
YouTube video by ThomT94
youtube.com
September 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Every once in a while I remember Radiohead exists
Okay you guys know I’m gay as hell but that Megan remix of Pink Blush is ☺️
September 25, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Okay you guys know I’m gay as hell but that Megan remix of Pink Blush is ☺️
I stumbled across this photo from 1983-ish, no idea who took it, from Kazakhstan near Baikonur. It is basically the plot to one of my favorite books, “The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years” by Chinghiz Aitmatov.
September 25, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I stumbled across this photo from 1983-ish, no idea who took it, from Kazakhstan near Baikonur. It is basically the plot to one of my favorite books, “The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years” by Chinghiz Aitmatov.
I’m teaching myself to knit right now and this is *fabulous* news 🥰
Craft subreddit bans Harry Potter projects: aftermath.site/craft-subreddi...
September 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I’m teaching myself to knit right now and this is *fabulous* news 🥰
Super cool to see the phone hacking guy involved here
September 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Super cool to see the phone hacking guy involved here
Posted this late yesterday and figure it would interest some of the day shift On Here
Wrote out some thoughts on those racist arcade games from the other week… I am not terribly thrilled with them.
Gameful Propaganda Comes Home
About those racist Trump arcade games…
joshuafoust.leaflet.pub
September 25, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Posted this late yesterday and figure it would interest some of the day shift On Here
The Violence of Being Seen
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
BOSTON—The twigs and acorns crunching pleasurably beneath his boots, Mr. Autumn Man Dennis Clemons, 32, reportedly strolled down Massachusetts Avenue on Wednesday wearing a gray sweater over a plaid c...
theonion.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM
The Violence of Being Seen
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Girl dinner
One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten. www.wired.com/story/venus-...
Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon
One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.
www.wired.com
September 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Girl dinner
While cultural genocide is a contested term, when you place this cultural destruction next to Russia’s attacks on children, hospitals, and forced population transfers, I think you can argue they are engaged in a war of genocide against Ukraine.
“It’s such a disaster,” said Viktor Kruglov, the publishing house’s chief executive… “Russia thinks that books are more dangerous for them than military equipment,” he said. “They deliberately damage, erase, extinguish everything which is connected with Ukrainian culture.”
Russian Attacks Destroy Millions of Books, the Heart of Ukrainian Culture
A publisher whose warehouse was hit twice said Moscow “thinks that books are more dangerous for them than military equipment.”
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:09 PM
While cultural genocide is a contested term, when you place this cultural destruction next to Russia’s attacks on children, hospitals, and forced population transfers, I think you can argue they are engaged in a war of genocide against Ukraine.
“If you have a great idea for a game, you should be able to build it, get it in front of players, without spending months navigating tools, hardware and marketing…”
Unusually clear slop endorsement. They want us to never develop skills or knowledge, just flood the market content they can monetize.
Unusually clear slop endorsement. They want us to never develop skills or knowledge, just flood the market content they can monetize.
Introducing Horizon Create and Horizon Studio
Horizon is building a new way to go from idea to players, without the barriers. Describe what you want to make, and AI-assisted creation tools work with you to build it. When you publish, your game...
developers.meta.com
September 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM
“If you have a great idea for a game, you should be able to build it, get it in front of players, without spending months navigating tools, hardware and marketing…”
Unusually clear slop endorsement. They want us to never develop skills or knowledge, just flood the market content they can monetize.
Unusually clear slop endorsement. They want us to never develop skills or knowledge, just flood the market content they can monetize.
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Happy birthday to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social - best known for his work on Wing Commander III: Heart of Tiger (1994), Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1996) & Wing Commander Prophecy (1997).
Also, "The guy from Star Wars."
Also, "The guy from Star Wars."
September 25, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Happy birthday to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social - best known for his work on Wing Commander III: Heart of Tiger (1994), Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1996) & Wing Commander Prophecy (1997).
Also, "The guy from Star Wars."
Also, "The guy from Star Wars."
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Every time there’s a mass shooting, people circulate those posts reminding everyone how to avoid spreading false information in the first chaotic hours. We need one of those for AI stories.
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
September 25, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Every time there’s a mass shooting, people circulate those posts reminding everyone how to avoid spreading false information in the first chaotic hours. We need one of those for AI stories.
Inevitable that GEO would not be constrained to corporate websites. This is the sane tactic used to skew search engine results — and a serious flaw in the passive “wisdom of the crowd” approach to a lot of tech-based knowledge (e.g. Wikipedia is good but not replicable).
AI Chatbots Are Quietly Spewing Partisan Talking Points www.politico.com/news/magazin...
AI Chatbots Are Quietly Spewing Partisan Talking Points
Partisan websites disguised as independent, local news outlets are infecting chatbots’ responses about key races.
www.politico.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Inevitable that GEO would not be constrained to corporate websites. This is the sane tactic used to skew search engine results — and a serious flaw in the passive “wisdom of the crowd” approach to a lot of tech-based knowledge (e.g. Wikipedia is good but not replicable).
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Pretty pumped about our new research project, about people's experiences with once-ubiquitous technologies & what happens when they disappear. First up: the landline.
We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate:
www.everyobject.org
We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate:
www.everyobject.org
Every Object an Archive
www.everyobject.org
September 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Pretty pumped about our new research project, about people's experiences with once-ubiquitous technologies & what happens when they disappear. First up: the landline.
We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate:
www.everyobject.org
We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate:
www.everyobject.org
Wrote out some thoughts on those racist arcade games from the other week… I am not terribly thrilled with them.
Gameful Propaganda Comes Home
About those racist Trump arcade games…
joshuafoust.leaflet.pub
September 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Wrote out some thoughts on those racist arcade games from the other week… I am not terribly thrilled with them.
There’s a similar story about college campuses. Recent trends among students have actually been positive, and longer term trends have aligned with the population as a whole and aren’t unique to those attending school. That doesn’t make concern unwarranted, but the doom and gloom is misplaced.
September 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
There’s a similar story about college campuses. Recent trends among students have actually been positive, and longer term trends have aligned with the population as a whole and aren’t unique to those attending school. That doesn’t make concern unwarranted, but the doom and gloom is misplaced.
Not enough of you saw this last night
September 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Not enough of you saw this last night
The way no-AI is defining a segment of video creators is really interesting. They’re selling it as more authentic, more creative, more human. Influencers are increasingly relying on AI to crank out segments, so the longer form creator space toying with the opposite is fascinating.
September 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
The way no-AI is defining a segment of video creators is really interesting. They’re selling it as more authentic, more creative, more human. Influencers are increasingly relying on AI to crank out segments, so the longer form creator space toying with the opposite is fascinating.
The rapid, totalizing embrace of this industry by higher education is absolutely baffling to me.
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”
Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
September 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The rapid, totalizing embrace of this industry by higher education is absolutely baffling to me.
This looks excellent
I gave a talk this morning at Appalachian College Association Summit. It's a substantial departure for me, but one that I've had many conversations about over the years.
September 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
This looks excellent