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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jul 22, 2026

Replying to @riley@toot.cat

@riley@toot.cat God I hate how plausible that is 😭

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jul 21, 2026

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511 AI is the everything-ruiner

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz

I have to pay increasing attention to what my phone does to pictures it takes. For example, my new Motorola phone includes a super zoom feature that actually uses generative AI to fill in details as it crops in! I turned it off, but others might not notice and upload such digitally created images to iNaturalist, where they'd actually impact scientific research https://petapixel.com/2026/07/20/scientists-warn-wildlife-photographers-ai-enhanced-bird-photos-could-threaten-research/

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jul 16, 2026

🚨 This is an incomprehensibly insane thing for Google to do! 🚨 (Context: I tried to use passkey login, which failed because passkeys always fucking fail, then it disappeared the option to use my Google Authenticator for normal 2FA, then it threw a server error trying to request SMS 2FA, then I got this email.) What the fuck is the *point* of any of this security if you're just going to shut it off the moment someone bangs on the door loudly enough?! #Google #security

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jul 15, 2026

Real solid piece on where we're at in bookish culture these days (and I think this could extend to pretty much all long-form media tbh) https://lithub.com/publishing-has-a-hologram-problem-and-its-growing/

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jul 04, 2026

I've lost track of how many years it's been since a 4th of July where the random neighborhood fireworks actually sounded like *fireworks* (whistlers, fountains, etc.) Now they're just random explosions in single, isolated bursts that shake the ground and reverberate everywhere. Those aren't fireworks; they're just *bombs*. What are we doing?

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jun 30, 2026

Boosted by

Vee @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

God I hate SCOTUS rulings days. Every time, it's another round of "which rights did we lose this time?" 💀

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Jun 27, 2026

Great work, everyone! 🫠

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 24, 2026

Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop @screwturn@mastodon.social I so desperately want to produce some. I've got the ideas, but haven't found the time yet amidst the production work for our 2026 slate. This summer should calm down a bit though, so I'm hoping to have them ready by Worldcon at the very least!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 24, 2026

Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop @screwturn@mastodon.social Oh yeah the dichotomy is real for sure. But we did okay for it being our first market! Folks responded pretty positively to our hopepunk brand, although I will say the despair feels so deeply rooted into our culture at this point that that positive response was almost always moderated with nervous laughter. 🫠

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 24, 2026

Replying to @screwturn@mastodon.social

@screwturn@mastodon.social @susankayequinn@wandering.shop Pretty much!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 23, 2026

Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop @screwturn@mastodon.social Of note (re: the slop being loud), we're out selling at a local market today, and in this environment, literally nobody cares about or is talking about AI. It's such an internet thing! (And yeah, today's sales won't support us for the year or anything, but it's a validating data point nevertheless.)

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 23, 2026

Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop I increasingly believe the only sustainable way forward for creative work is to focus on local first and find ways to afford life without needing to scale much beyond your own community. So much trouble has been caused by the idea that you have to go national/global to be successful. Unfortunately, of course, there are some capitalism things that get in the way of this. 😫

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 12, 2026

Replying to @xgranade@wandering.shop

@xgranade@wandering.shop Yup. For every piece of hardware, and every piece of software, I now find myself doing threat modeling and having an exit plan for when (not if) it inevitably transforms into user-hostile bullshit. This is energy I should not have to spend! I am tired all of the time!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 12, 2026

Replying to @cmconseils@mastodon.social

@cmconseils@mastodon.social Nobody in this picture is having a good time 🙃

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 08, 2026

RE: @nixCraft@mastodon.social

Amazing! It's as if everything every AI exec ever said was a lie!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 07, 2026

RE: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

We've had a farm share for the past seven years running and it's been one of my very favorite parts of our lives. The produce beats the hell out of anything you can buy at the grocery store, in any season.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 04, 2026

Replying to @arclight@oldbytes.space

@arclight @Chase @danluu Array.sort is *right there*! ~dies~

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · May 04, 2026

There's a lot of neat stuff going on here, but in particular, I kind of love what they're doing with their images?!

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 30, 2026

Tech these days: "You have to work from the office so you can have serendipitous interactions with your colleagues that we replaced with the AI that you have to prompt from the office." 🤡

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 27, 2026

RE: @startswithabang@mastodon.social

They're taking the sky from us and I hate it

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 27, 2026

I've been running in circles with this story for a while now, trying to make its various parts work and getting repeatedly lost in the weeds. I finally just started cutting shit. Suddenly, magically, things make sense again! #writing #writersofmastodon

wandering.shop

The Wandering Shop

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @joshsutphin@wandering.shop

Re: The Divine Comedy: the Longfellow translation is the classic, if you like your literature poetic. If you find that unapproachable, though, the Singleton translation is also excellent, with a more accessible prose style! (Also, read the whole thing, not just Inferno. Seriously.)

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 25, 2026

Five books everyone should read once in their lives, in no particular order:

- The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
- The Fifth Sacred Thing - Starhawk
- A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys
- The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

Now let's see your list!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @seachanger@alaskan.social

@seachanger@alaskan.social yesssss 🙏

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026

Solitude, bottomlessness, speed, and teasing: this is a pretty solid framework for tech addiction, and it's remarkable not only for how well it describes social media, but also for how much we see it appearing in #gamedev.

I barely recognize this industry any more.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5776665/surprising-origin-features-superglue-kids-adults-to-screens

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026

I just don't understand how there can be leaf blowers running in my neighborhood *every single day*

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop

@Mimesatwork I worry about this one, tbh: https://www.techpolicy.press/digital-eugenics-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026

The toddler parent brain is making everything about my life so much harder than it needs to be 😭

I love the little dude, but oh my fuck he is chaos these days.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026

My question for our #ai overlords is: what are all these replaced white-collar workers supposed to... do? Because, you see, you have stopped paying them.

When your AI disappears my mortgage debt and makes groceries free, then we can talk.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/23/meta-microsoft-tech-ai-layoffs

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @JonChevreau@mstdn.ca

@JonChevreau @mastodonmigration BS in this case

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @seindal@mastodon.uno

@seindal That is *exactly* what it feels like!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @pmonks@sfba.social

@pmonks @ai6yr Well, it's better to be kind than to be nice, anyway!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social

@lawyersgunsnmoney @mastodonmigration I will try not to disappoint 😅

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @subtl@aus.social

@subtl

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world

@WorldTravelerAll7 haha I know the specific fascist bigot you're talking about 😅 And yeah, fuck that guy.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

@mastodonmigration I do find that Starter Packs somewhat cheapen the follower relationship. I don't even know who all I'm following over there any more, just that it's mostly some mix of folks who showed up on various bookish lists... and then a handful of people I know in person.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@ai6yr It helps!

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @joshsutphin@wandering.shop

TL;DR Mastodon rules, Bluesky drools 😂 4/4

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @joshsutphin@wandering.shop

That followers:following ratio comparison is interesting, too. I'm following way more accounts on Bluesky, mostly because of its Starter Packs feature making that extremely easy to do, and also because there are loads more authors and publishers over there who *aren't* over here. Following people has long been one of the most reliable ways to increase your own follower count, and yet I'm barely seeing that effect at all here! 3/x

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @joshsutphin@wandering.shop

Comparing my accounts makes it even clearer that folks in my Mastodon network are just *way more engaged*: Masto: 280 followers Bluesky: 323 followers Fewer followers, but drastically more interactions! 2/x

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026

I've been cross-posting to both Bluesky and Mastodon for a few months now, and this comparison is pretty emblematic of how that's been going: Masto: 40 total interactions Bluesky: Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Numbers aren't everything, but this is an observable pattern that tells a very different story than the one I keep seeing in "mainstream" discourse. 1/x

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @farah@beige.party

@farah Isn't it so nice to get the photo you actually took instead of the AI-filtered *whatever* that every smartphone spits out nowadays? 🙃 Great photo btw 🙏

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 21, 2026

Not to put it all on tech, but I do wonder how much of the reduction in donations to non-profits Seattle arts organizations is a direct result of so many local tech folks losing their jobs, and with it the disposable income that would've fueled those donations.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/culture/seattle-arts-groups-are-laying-off-staff-what-do-arts-lovers-lose/

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @ancoghlan@mastodon.social

@ancoghlan @aparrish Yeah, but tedious people with no imagination are bored by things that just quietly work, and they've made their boredom with such things everybody else's problem, so we have to do it this stupid way instead 😭

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @xgranade@wandering.shop

@xgranade I'm too exhausted to hate this stupid future as much as it deserves 💀

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @beandreams@friendhole.social

@beandreams This is *amazing*

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @jazzburn@tenforward.social

@jazzburn Pretty much everyone I know (we're all millennials) grew up this way: dads away at work, all the time. I think often about what all of our dads would've done with their lives if all that time had been their own, instead of held hostage by their employers and commutes. So much life stolen to build this fucking dystopia.

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @jonny@neuromatch.social

@jonny @sushee What the jumping Christ is this garbage code, so irritating, this blows, dammit! There, I bypassed their sentiment filter. Who thought this would be even remotely good enough?! 🤡

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @cmconseils@mastodon.social

@cmconseils Instant follow 😂

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin@wandering.shop · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @log@mastodon.sdf.org

@log I want to be optimistic about the future but these bros are *relentless*

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