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Andrew C. Smith

@andrewchristophersmith.com

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director of the lab (sf) former director of indexical (santa cruz) composer, curator, arts worker if you ever found yourself thinking “that’s not a gong that’s a tam tam” this account might be for you

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 8d

The Lab is restoring the main auditorium of the San Francisco Labor Temple, built in 1914. Among other things, this is where the 1934 vote to join the longshoremen in a city-wide general strike was held. It will be the largest, longest-running space in the Bay Area dedicated to experimental work.

An image of two beams opening into a large hall with 17 foot ceilings. The wood flooring is covered by linoleum about halfway through the space.

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 1d

What a doofus, looking forward to $18 beers at native american heritage day

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Mayor Lurie ends 20-year partnership with S.F. indigenous group

American Indian Cultural Center says cutting it from Native American Heritage Night "excludes the very community the event is meant to honor."

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 5d

50 years from now someone will make a movie* about a plague of poaster’s madness that infects the country and that, too, will also be about white people’s fear of slave revolts

*documentary lol

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 6d

Love this! It’s been years since I read The Stack but I recall being bemused by Bratton’s impulse to turn to “technology will eventually fix this” every time he hit a contradiction or a sticky issue about finite resources.

And yes last time I opened X, I recall witnessing some poaster’s madness.

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 8d

Some day we’ll learn the true secret to a successful social media platform: never letting the CEO have an account

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 8d

(I felt I needed a new pinned post since so much had happened since the last one!)

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 8d

at least 100,000 gecs detected

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 10d

defund lurie, what an abject failure

at least he got to hang with the “mayor of ocean beach”

Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 10d

For nearly 200 days, a large white police bus sat on one of the busiest transit plazas in San Francisco. And during that time, it cost the Mission District police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, according to Captain Sean Perdomo.

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SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says

For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 10d

demonstrating how low of a bar the democrats have to cross, like at this point daveed diggs could sweep 47 states

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 15d

Cory, and I mean this sincerely, go fuck yourself

Cory, 31, Tenn., white, Republican, construction I believed Trump was focused on lowering drug prices, prescription drug prices. I have a chronic condition. I'm a Type 1 diabetic. And since he has taken office, my medications have tripled in price.
Again, I don't know if that's a correlation to where I live or my insurance but it's gotten to a point where, for a disease I did not cause and do not have any control over, seeing a very high increase in the prices that I'm paying.

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 15d

a functional judiciary would recognize that kitchen cabinets are not a strategic resource

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 15d

yelp is constantly sending me push notifications to either a.) buy a burrito or b.) get a massage, and I'm not sure they've thought this one through

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 16d

My guess is that the internet archive would probably do a deliberate job of archiving everything if that’s of interest. (Maybe even if it’s not!)

It’s such a short timeline so hopefully someone else in this thread can take a first crack even if it’s not a permanent hosting solution.

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 16d

Scrolled too long to have not yet seen Money Jungle so yes Money Jungle (Ellington, Mingus, Roach) youtu.be/6CuMgLM558s?...

Duke Ellington - Money Jungle

YouTube video by JazzTuna

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 18d

having a sense of post-christian whiplash so hard I’m massaging my neck after rereading a bit of kierkegaard only to open up my phone to a new ross douthat bit

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 22d

Gavin Newsom’s son is also named Hunter???? You can’t make this up folks

fledgling conservatives in red states. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, said at a news conference on Tuesday that his 14-year-old son, Hunter, had called him from school the moment he heard that Mr. Kirk had been shot, anxious for news of his condition. He had been an admirer.
Conversations with his son served as "a reminder of how many young people were impacted by this death in a pretty profound way," Mr. Newsom said.

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 22d

I kind of think it’s more just willful collaboration than strategy? Idk might just be me tho. Easier to corral the poors if someone else can be blamed.

Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 22d

It is quite clear that Mayor Lurie’s strategy of silence/appeasement is not working

ICE arrests another 7 at S.F. immigration court — 2 without lawyers

ICE arrested seven individuals at San Francisco’s immigration court on Thursday at 630 Sansome St. Two went unobserved by attorneys.

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 22d

I don’t see any indication that Lurie actually wanted to stop this from happening though? I’m very open to being corrected…

Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 22d

Tone is the knobs you don’t turn

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Patricia Wolf @patriciawolf.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited to play Earthling on Saturday in San Francisco in Golden Gate Park with Salamanda, Green-House, and Night Sea. This is a free daytime show. Hope to see you there!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23d

"grate a pear" is the new "go fuck yourself, nerd"

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 23d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 23d

The San Francisco Arts Commission just released their new grant guidelines, which eliminate the Cultural Equity Initiatives funding for arts organizations. This funding is/was specifically to support marginalized communities.

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 24d

growth hacking “shitty first drafts”

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 24d

I need someone to get me into a study group (or even auditing a grad seminar) for Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. Who’s out there??