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Andrew Cunningham

@andrewwrites.bsky.social

Writes about consumer tech at Ars Technica, formerly Wirecutter. Podcasts about books at Overdue and sometimes about TV at Appointment Television. Dad, D&D, organized labor. He/him. @arstechnica.bsky.social @overduepod.bsky.social

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i named my fists Windows 8 and Windows 11 because they're both going to give you a bad user experience

01.12.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children

List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

29.11.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3072    πŸ” 718    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 116

obviously i'm making them the night before because pumpkin pie is at its peak after it has been in the fridge for a day or two, i would never eat a pumpkin pie on the same day i made it

27.11.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

did i overfill the pumpkin pies, is it currently making a big mess, yes and yes, but in the end we will still have something to put whipped cream on and eat and this year we'll count it as a win

27.11.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OR clutch the things you care about close to your heart and refuse to give in to the temptation of nihilism (about motion smoothing only - everywhere else make your own calls)

27.11.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!

26.11.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3295    πŸ” 335    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 12
Preview
Missouri Judge Who Wore Elvis Wig in Court Agrees to Resign

"what if one of the goofy recurring judges from The Good Wife but in real life" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

21.11.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump not only take beer; Trump take beer's future.

20.11.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

well maybe it destroyed journalism, and education, and massively fueled global fascism and various genocides, and caused an epidemic of loneliness and collapsing birthrates, but at least companies could sell targeted ads

19.11.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 342    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation

19.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 573    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7

unrelated but it's very funny to watch these Business Geniuses take years to puzzle out "why did people stop liking us after we made everything worse"

19.11.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
inspirational quote poster attributing the quote "Fortnite" to Moe from The Simpsons

inspirational quote poster attributing the quote "Fortnite" to Moe from The Simpsons

17.11.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is impossible to answer this because you’re trying to compare the Steve Jobs of 2011 to some version who would have been subjected to the same 15 years of social media and rich-guy group texts as all of these other people.

15.11.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really do not understand how people don't face consequences.

This isn't some esoteric norm she breeched.

Don't be romantically entangled with a source is journalism 001. It's remedial journalism. That she not only did it but never came forward is maddening.

14.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

lol why is every single manosphere influencer like this

14.11.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like a lot of democrats are engaged in a very big project to make us forget that the Biden administration and Harris 2024 campaign were mostly about fixing bridges

14.11.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 789    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 2

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

13.11.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1529    πŸ” 376    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 16

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

14.11.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1440    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

ICYMI: 4 Conde Nast employees were illegally fired for exercising permitted speech in our workplace. Tonight, NY AG Letitia James will call out this union-busting move by our management. Please attend. Pls also sign our petition to reinstate our fired colleagues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

12.11.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

still wishing good things for the gay man in a dark new orleans bar 1.5 years ago who asked if i was "in [my] twenties"

12.11.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.

12.11.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 581    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

I will believe that these people love Lord of the Rings when I see any evidence that they can read.

11.11.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 700    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

11.11.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13746    πŸ” 2525    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 94

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

10.11.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9325    πŸ” 1532    πŸ’¬ 199    πŸ“Œ 67

This app is not good for my mental health but it's really just because being this informed will make anyone want to lose their fucking mind.

10.11.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

what a starfleet captain-ass bookshelf, just gotta add some dickens or something

10.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

09.11.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 17628    πŸ” 4583    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 120
Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciatesβ€” scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciatesβ€” scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

09.11.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 29236    πŸ” 6375    πŸ’¬ 469    πŸ“Œ 769

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like β€œbet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

08.11.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 13129    πŸ” 4702    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 109

I’m pretty sure winning a slam dunk lawsuit against this criminal extortion would have been cheaper than dropping $60m during a bad budget crunch. They didn’t cave to pressure. They collaborated with the regime and sold out their students and staff.

08.11.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2247    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 7

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