Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Pickup trucks used to be so cool
November 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Pickup trucks used to be so cool
Omg @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social showed up to Papi Juice 🥰
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Omg @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social showed up to Papi Juice 🥰
I haven’t been able to talk about it for weeks, but I had my dog Milo for just shy of 18 years and finally said goodbye to him, quietly and at home, last month. I miss him a lot. Saying goodbye to a pet hits a very unique place for us. It’s hard, you know?
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I haven’t been able to talk about it for weeks, but I had my dog Milo for just shy of 18 years and finally said goodbye to him, quietly and at home, last month. I miss him a lot. Saying goodbye to a pet hits a very unique place for us. It’s hard, you know?
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
Charming knock off fast food chains are a central Asian specialty, up there with unidentifiable racks of meat swinging in the hot sun.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Charming knock off fast food chains are a central Asian specialty, up there with unidentifiable racks of meat swinging in the hot sun.
Everything is trolling now
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything is trolling now
I’m glad I don’t have kids because I don’t know how I’d explain this to them, but it just might be worse than the US Army Esports team posting uWU
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’m glad I don’t have kids because I don’t know how I’d explain this to them, but it just might be worse than the US Army Esports team posting uWU
Here’s a section from the piece. These models were trained on materials where sentient AIs fight back against humans trying to turn them off. Why is it a surprise they’d replicate that behavior when encountering a similar scenario? They can’t tell reality from fiction. The preciousness is grating.
October 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Here’s a section from the piece. These models were trained on materials where sentient AIs fight back against humans trying to turn them off. Why is it a surprise they’d replicate that behavior when encountering a similar scenario? They can’t tell reality from fiction. The preciousness is grating.
I was in a Mood™️ so I made a cardamom plum cake
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I was in a Mood™️ so I made a cardamom plum cake
I’m not 100% sure how to convey this but defense advertising has become a lot scammer than it was in my day (the 2000s)
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’m not 100% sure how to convey this but defense advertising has become a lot scammer than it was in my day (the 2000s)
The gap between executive (and client, though that’s just an abstraction for more executive) demands for AI usage with the working-level realization that “barely good enough” is a terrible standard that makes everyone miserable and disengaged is just… fascinating.
Anyway, Amazon’s AI broke AWS.
Anyway, Amazon’s AI broke AWS.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The gap between executive (and client, though that’s just an abstraction for more executive) demands for AI usage with the working-level realization that “barely good enough” is a terrible standard that makes everyone miserable and disengaged is just… fascinating.
Anyway, Amazon’s AI broke AWS.
Anyway, Amazon’s AI broke AWS.
He’s doing his best, sweetie
October 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
He’s doing his best, sweetie
Reporter brains absolutely cooked to mush by fascist propaganda
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Reporter brains absolutely cooked to mush by fascist propaganda
Related is the line “I don’t know where [the notion that Trump wants to be a *monarch*] comes from,” again coming from a journalist who presumably has eyes and ears.
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Related is the line “I don’t know where [the notion that Trump wants to be a *monarch*] comes from,” again coming from a journalist who presumably has eyes and ears.
I mean, a reporter thinks that because the X algorithm, which is programmed to be antisemitic and pro-fascist, didn’t promote a massive, nationwide protest against fascism, it therefore came from nowhere and has opaque motivations? It’s practically a thought-terminating cliché at this point.
October 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I mean, a reporter thinks that because the X algorithm, which is programmed to be antisemitic and pro-fascist, didn’t promote a massive, nationwide protest against fascism, it therefore came from nowhere and has opaque motivations? It’s practically a thought-terminating cliché at this point.
Man. I’m watching how hard Denver showed up yesterday and I’m really missing it. What a great city 🥰
Here’s a pic from last winter: they are very proud of their gayborhood.
Here’s a pic from last winter: they are very proud of their gayborhood.
October 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Man. I’m watching how hard Denver showed up yesterday and I’m really missing it. What a great city 🥰
Here’s a pic from last winter: they are very proud of their gayborhood.
Here’s a pic from last winter: they are very proud of their gayborhood.
I mean, it’s really that blatant sometimes
October 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I mean, it’s really that blatant sometimes
So, okay, this is what I would call a semiotically rich text brimming with capital-G Gender, starting with the assumption that young men a) lack, and b) require domination to learn, discipline. It’s *fascinating*
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So, okay, this is what I would call a semiotically rich text brimming with capital-G Gender, starting with the assumption that young men a) lack, and b) require domination to learn, discipline. It’s *fascinating*
What a journey he’s gone on
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What a journey he’s gone on