@amy-calistri.bsky.social
Portfolio manager, poker player, writer, sports freak, and cat shepherd (BOS -> AUS)
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Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere.
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
www.stripes.com
August 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere.
Crypto and AI, the must-have toolkit for scammers.
Artificial intelligence is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found
AI Now Fuels Over Half of Africa’s Cybercrime, Study Finds
Artificial intelligence is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found.
bloom.bg
August 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Crypto and AI, the must-have toolkit for scammers.
Sad to report that Gordo went over the rainbow 🌈 bridge Thursday. Like his namesake, astronaut Gordo Cooper, he died of heart failure - but thankfully wasn’t sick for long. His brother and partner in crime, Gus (Grissom), is understandably heartbroken.
August 1, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Sad to report that Gordo went over the rainbow 🌈 bridge Thursday. Like his namesake, astronaut Gordo Cooper, he died of heart failure - but thankfully wasn’t sick for long. His brother and partner in crime, Gus (Grissom), is understandably heartbroken.
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I wrote about Roku, the origin story it doesn’t talk about, and it’s become so important without getting much attention. https://www.fastcompany.com/91562051/fox-buys-roku
How Roku became way more important than you realize
The soon-to-be arm of Fox spent its early years in search of a business. Then a twist of fate turned it into streaming’s quiet giant.
www.fastcompany.com
June 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I wrote about Roku, the origin story it doesn’t talk about, and it’s become so important without getting much attention. https://www.fastcompany.com/91562051/fox-buys-roku
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New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
www.404media.co
June 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
AI is the Eddie Haskell of technology. Sports has overtaken religion as the opiate of the masses. And a return to physical media is going to encroach on streaming revenues.
OK. I’m done for the week.
OK. I’m done for the week.
April 18, 2026 at 2:41 AM
AI is the Eddie Haskell of technology. Sports has overtaken religion as the opiate of the masses. And a return to physical media is going to encroach on streaming revenues.
OK. I’m done for the week.
OK. I’m done for the week.
Cleaning out my bookcases…
February 28, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Cleaning out my bookcases…
I have always had a large physical audio collection (vinyl + CDs). But over the past couple of years, I’ve tried to collect more movies. I generally buy used. This latest haul is from a thrift auction site.
February 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I have always had a large physical audio collection (vinyl + CDs). But over the past couple of years, I’ve tried to collect more movies. I generally buy used. This latest haul is from a thrift auction site.
Today’s Olympic trivia: The writer John Irving has two grandkids in the Winter Olympics.
February 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Today’s Olympic trivia: The writer John Irving has two grandkids in the Winter Olympics.
I got the perfect book (written by the talented an witty elizmccrack.bsky.social) and the perfect t-shirt to wear while reading.
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I got the perfect book (written by the talented an witty elizmccrack.bsky.social) and the perfect t-shirt to wear while reading.
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The OC Register is McCracken forward. First this interview, which I really enjoyed doing:
www.ocregister.com/2025/12/19/e...
www.ocregister.com/2025/12/19/e...
Elizabeth McCracken recalls being first to read Ann Patchett’s ‘Bel Canto’
The author talks about her terrific new book, ‘A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction.’
www.ocregister.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The OC Register is McCracken forward. First this interview, which I really enjoyed doing:
www.ocregister.com/2025/12/19/e...
www.ocregister.com/2025/12/19/e...
Three doors down. A lot of vintage pieces collected over the years.
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Three doors down. A lot of vintage pieces collected over the years.
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DOD personnel in Germany are receiving reassurance that an inability to pay November rent due to the government shutdown is not grounds for eviction.
But U.S. Army officials are advising tenants to notify German landlords of potential problems with on-time payments to prevent misunderstandings.
But U.S. Army officials are advising tenants to notify German landlords of potential problems with on-time payments to prevent misunderstandings.
Rent delinquency guidance for DOD personnel in Germany posted by Army garrison
U.S. Army legal officials are advising American tenants to notify their German landlords of any potential problems with on-time payments.
www.stripes.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
DOD personnel in Germany are receiving reassurance that an inability to pay November rent due to the government shutdown is not grounds for eviction.
But U.S. Army officials are advising tenants to notify German landlords of potential problems with on-time payments to prevent misunderstandings.
But U.S. Army officials are advising tenants to notify German landlords of potential problems with on-time payments to prevent misunderstandings.
I remember seeing the Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show — feeling, for the first time in my young life, there was a side of life I knew little about. It opened a musical and cultural door. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Brilliant doc on Netflix ‘Sunday Best - The untold story of Ed Sullivan’
Amazing, the amount of black performers he hand picked & broke to largely white, US prime time TV audiences in the 50s & 60s defying network & sponsors
Sad to read that the talented director Sacha Jenkins passed away recently
Amazing, the amount of black performers he hand picked & broke to largely white, US prime time TV audiences in the 50s & 60s defying network & sponsors
Sad to read that the talented director Sacha Jenkins passed away recently
October 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I remember seeing the Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show — feeling, for the first time in my young life, there was a side of life I knew little about. It opened a musical and cultural door. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I should, however, mention that I very much connected with his piece, “The Story Part.” Not surprisingly, I wasn’t the only one who felt like an “outsider” at Columbia back then.
I’m 3 mos behind on the @newyorker.com. But I need to correct Hilton Als. Columbia was not “an all-boys school back then.” The engineering school was part of Columbia. Women engineers stayed at Carman (700 men/26 women) as Barnard wouldn’t let us use their dorms or compete on their sports teams.
October 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I should, however, mention that I very much connected with his piece, “The Story Part.” Not surprisingly, I wasn’t the only one who felt like an “outsider” at Columbia back then.
I’m 3 mos behind on the @newyorker.com. But I need to correct Hilton Als. Columbia was not “an all-boys school back then.” The engineering school was part of Columbia. Women engineers stayed at Carman (700 men/26 women) as Barnard wouldn’t let us use their dorms or compete on their sports teams.
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’m 3 mos behind on the @newyorker.com. But I need to correct Hilton Als. Columbia was not “an all-boys school back then.” The engineering school was part of Columbia. Women engineers stayed at Carman (700 men/26 women) as Barnard wouldn’t let us use their dorms or compete on their sports teams.
I’ve started to collect more physical media. While I sometimes buy individual DVDs, once in awhile I get a used box from shopgoodwill. I keep some and put the rest in our neighborhood lending library. Here’s some of my latest haul.
September 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’ve started to collect more physical media. While I sometimes buy individual DVDs, once in awhile I get a used box from shopgoodwill. I keep some and put the rest in our neighborhood lending library. Here’s some of my latest haul.
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Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, died Friday.
Davey Johnson, who won 2 World Series with Orioles, managed Mets to title, dies at 82
Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, died Friday.
n.pr
September 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, died Friday.
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"Guys and Dolls (1955)" is playing on @tcmtv.bsky.social so I stopped what I was doing & comfortably sat down to witness, what as far as I am concerned, are three of the most fabulous minutes in musical theatre: Stubby Kaye performing "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat".
youtu.be/IhBwRi3p7Fo?...
youtu.be/IhBwRi3p7Fo?...
August 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"Guys and Dolls (1955)" is playing on @tcmtv.bsky.social so I stopped what I was doing & comfortably sat down to witness, what as far as I am concerned, are three of the most fabulous minutes in musical theatre: Stubby Kaye performing "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat".
youtu.be/IhBwRi3p7Fo?...
youtu.be/IhBwRi3p7Fo?...
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Yes. It's not BUILT for the usecase of "successful company"
August 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yes. It's not BUILT for the usecase of "successful company"
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Dream job alert! @wired.com is hiring a features editor to join our team. You’ll work with @harmancipants.bsky.social and her gang of genius storytellers on ambitious reporting, investigations, packages, and more…
Features Editor
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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August 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Dream job alert! @wired.com is hiring a features editor to join our team. You’ll work with @harmancipants.bsky.social and her gang of genius storytellers on ambitious reporting, investigations, packages, and more…
Flying out of Austin today, there were four TSA agents at the gate. They wouldn’t let anyone on the plane without rechecking their IDs and performing random bag searches. No explanation given.
August 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Flying out of Austin today, there were four TSA agents at the gate. They wouldn’t let anyone on the plane without rechecking their IDs and performing random bag searches. No explanation given.