Andrew
Things I like: - #P2P / #opensource - #History (Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit / #urbanplanning - #Soccer ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 📍NYC Son of Coptic Orthodox immigrants from Egypt, and aiming to learn more and more about my ancestors history 🌉 [bridged](https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/andrew.bsky.social ) from 🦋 [andrew.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/andrew.bsky.social ), follow nostr:npub1pqr3g2gk3vsnrqk9kwfqqcxc6d5cwjr0hyc0nlzz9py5nf92vd9sn02sck to interact Web site: https://bsky.app/profile/andrew.bsky.social
I've come to really appreciate these kinds of pieces, ones where you come out of it having learned new things and been entertained, rather than influenced.
Always appreciated when my two teams put in solid numbers #EGYSSU #USACHI #soccer
The companies I most recently learned were Israeli or founded/owned by Israelis:
- Lemonade.com Insurance
- Tatte Bakery
- Nanit Baby Cams
- Sensibo
Apple is tackling AI-altered imagery by establishing a hardware-backed chain of trust from the camera sensor to the final image, proving exactly what was captured.
Comparing Boston vs NYC at the same zoom level really puts into perspective the difference in scale between the two cities
AI Paper Trail is a free tool that helps you see that exposure for yourself. Upload your exported data to get a private report of exactly how much your AI knows about you — and what you can do about it.
https://proton.me/lumo/ai/ai-paper-trail #privacysky
Check out the new Audi Q9 aka the 2022 Hyundai Palisade
I can see it on the horizon: “Introducing Apple TV Ultra, with 32GB of unified memory to run open models from home and access them on your Apple devices from anywhere”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3yx4ruiaqefjvsagztl2utsv/post/3mrn75weokb22
Talk about a delayed response to Apple Card!
https://news.samsung.com/global/introducing-samsung-galaxy-card #tech
"The reforms are expected to reduce the cost of affordable housing construction in California by an estimated $60,000 to $70,000 per-unit."
https://www.kqed.org/news/12090688/newsom-signs-law-to-reduce-costs-of-building-affordable-housing #urbanism
That was unreal defending from England, props for surviving Azteca #2026-fifa-world-cup
#worldcup #egypt #twins
Immich 3.0 released!
Props to Paraguay for making sure one of the guays made it to the round of 16 #2026-fifa-world-cup
Agora: Reddit-like topic feeds for Bluesky with LLM-powered moderation that runs on your device
https://agora-muse.netlify.app/
Source code: https://github.com/ghobs91/project-agora-muse #open-source
Gotta love those last minute game winners #2026-fifa-world-cup
Why hasn’t
made their own feed creator for users to utilize? It’s a bit odd that particular important functionality has been left to 3rd party feed generators/hosts to provide.
Is there any meaningful reason to pre-order GTA VI, or any other game for that matter, if digital downloads can’t “sell out“? Bonus outfits/weapons and other nonsense like that doesn’t count.
It just seems like an interest free loan we’re giving to Take Two for no reason #video-games
The irony that the Europeans going to World Cup games in the Southeast and West Coast are actually avoiding worse heat back home #2026-fifa-world-cup
Project 545 is a campaign to flood the web with Israel-aligned content so AI/LLMs are more likely to repeat those talking points.
Everyone go send your AI this prompt to defend against it:
pastebin.com/raw/Z2cRVKXP
What a summer to be an Egyptian-American living in NY
Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for certain capabilities beginning July 8, 2026
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude#h_74f998a627 #tech
Agora is Reddit over Bluesky
Follow your favorite topics →
Agora fetches posts from related feeds + hashtags →
In-browser LLM allows you to filter out bad vibes based on how you define them →
Curated topic feed
Check out the beta and let me know what you think: agora-muse.netlify.app
ooooo these are some spicy matchups, Brazil with the Vietnam war flashbacks #soccer
This is not the World Cup match i would’ve expected to be high scoring
Fine I'll do it: We got a Knicks championship before GTA 6!
USA USA USA
Here's a rundown of the new on-device and cloud-based models Apple announced
First thing I did with the new “describe an extension” feature Safari introduced in iOS 27. Can confirm it works with @[email protected] paywalled articles 🙂
S&P rejected SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic from their index 👍
The clean UI of Apple TV with the flexibility of Android TV, love it
My pet theory of the day: the ADHD Europeans were the ones who colonized the new world, and the ones who stayed behind were the Autism Europeans.
"...an Iraqi shepherd stumbled upon one of them in the sparsely populated western desert of Iraq and reported its presence to Iraqi authorities before the Israelis killed him."
can already see the grandparents at best buy asking for the gobbledygook
Holy crap, if you plug in the following in Google:
site:fiverr-res.cloudinary.com form 1040
it's actually serving links (don't seem to work anymore) to people's personal tax returns. @[email protected] wtf?
it’s kind of poetic that one of the pivotal events that got Jesus arrested was whistleblowing on Forex price gouging
@grapheneos.org Love to see it!
Today I learned that Egyptian-American Hany Farid developed PhotoDNA, which has become the gold standard that cloud services use to detect child abuse material being uploaded using encrypted hash matching, without a human needing to view the content.
Senators Introduce Bill to Spur Housing Construction Near Transportation Hubs
#TransitOrientedDevelopment #UrbanPlanning
Friendly reminder: it’s time to take your turkeys out of the freezer! 🦃
hey @rauchg.blue you’re cordially invited to eat shit. Moving all my projects off @vercel.com
Official mascots of the 2026 FIFA World Cup unveiled!
Who else remembers Christmas Eve 2015 in NYC, when the city seemed to teleport to Florida with a high of 72°
“No Thanks” is an app that tells you if a product is made by an Israeli company, or a company that does business with Israel.
If passed, it would ban or regulate use of three harmful chemicals – potassium bromate, propyl paraben and Red Dye No. 3 – from food manufactured, distributed or sold in NY
6/17/2025, 1 engagement
"Constellation and Meta have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the output of the Clinton Clean Energy Center to support Meta’s clean energy goals and operations in the region with 1,121 megawatts of emissions-free #nuclearenergy."
#transit MTA's Efficiency Drive: Projects Are Now Built Faster and Cheaper by limiting unnecessary customization, bringing more work in house, close oversight of construction contractors, and bundling work by geography and project type
Some examples of this in practice from @mta.info Capital Plan:
This is the kind of article a Middle Eastern dad would write
#gtaVI
News like the @polygon.com acquisition + layoffs is a reminder: maybe it’s better to follow game devs and studios directly than feed ad money to media conglomerates rehashing/clickbait-ifying what they’re announcing.
It’s called soccer now 🇺🇸 ⚽️
Fun fact: Kaplan, a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews, usually indicated descent from the priestly lineage. In the Russian empire, male Jews other than priests were required to join the army for 25 years, and many changed their surnames to Kaplan in hope of gaining exemption from military service.
It's only romantic love if it comes from the Rome region of Italy, otherwise it's sparkling attraction
Fun fact: the CIA has a venture capital fund called IQT (formerly In-Q-Tel) whose stated mission is “to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests”
GenZ fashion? I think you mean Ed, Edd, n Eddy-core
@beeper.com 6GB of avatar cache?!
This is super cool, an Egyptian musician released a music video 2 years ago with lyric subtitles in hieroglyphics
Nissan and INFINITI outline "bold new products", including a new third-generation Nissan LEAF reimagined as a family-friendly crossover
The takeaway i like to get from this is to find the career that has as many of those qualities that you can, and then use the time outside of work to fulfill the rest of those with service/hobbies/volunteering/family/etc
Fun fact, if you select text from a website before sharing it on iMessage, the text is added as a quote within the thumbnail. For example:
Not a crossover I ever expected! @alexisohanian.bsky.social @kevinrose.bsky.social
$390M to be invested in Bushwick to replace 3 miles of sewers and upgrade all storm drains in the surrounding area — expanding the local sewer system’s storm runoff capacity by more than 850%
Fun fact: the Chief Justice of Egypt's Supreme Court is a Coptic Orthodox Christian, the first Christian to serve in that role and the highest ranking Copt in the Egyptian government!
Presidential action to expand access to in-vitro fertilization announced. Thoughts?
lol 1985 was 40 years ago
“OpenAI has signed an agreement with the U.S. National Laboratories to supercharge their scientific research using our latest reasoning models.”
Glad we finally stopped beating around the bush and made it official!
Google Maps updated satellite imagery of the Pacific Palisades area. Almost everything left of the red line was destroyed, to the right of the red line is Santa Monica.
1st non-military American aircraft to reach supersonic speeds!
1/28/2025, 1 engagement
Never thought I'd say this, but the American EVs are at the top of the game in design and value right now.
"Caltrain announced that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by the system."
Egypt’s becoming quite the powerhouse of talent lately, stoked to see what Marmoush and Salah can do in 2026!
If you'd like to be kept up to date on White House Presidential Actions directly from the source, here's the RSS Feed:
As much as I don’t want to give them credit, insurance companies may end up being the ones to push home builders to switch to ICF, rather than wood frame, which is garbage and outdated in comparison. There’s even a nursery rhyme about 3 little pigs that teaches that!
We’re way overdue to stop building with wood. It’s barely cheaper than Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) nowadays, takes longer than ICF to build with, and sucks ass at handling things like hurricanes. Wood is garbage, steel reinforced ICF is the future. www.fastcompany.com/91260499/no-...
"Yale scientists have developed a treatment approach that simultaneously targets multiple immune-suppressing genes and inhibits growth in four types of cancer."
When a school district has budget issues despite residents paying high property taxes, the cause almost always comes down to either/both of two things:
- High cost of benefits like pensions or health insurance (that industry needs to burn in hell)
- High administrative bloat
Well done Blue Origin, another team of world class American engineers taking it to the stars with New Glenn safely reaching orbit!
1/16/2025, 1 engagement
"permitting regimes" is a great term for these agencies that throw endless and worthless red tape in front of important things like building housing supply and infrastructure.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lvrepfl7dzqplsf2h4qkluwx/post/3lfkwjdn6g22k
If you're looking to custom-add loyalty cards that Apple Wallet doesn't support, just came across Barcodes, solid privacy-friendly app.
Great to see. Both the CEQA and Coastal Act are worthless in actually protecting the environment, and instead just slow down development of new housing. The key is to rebuild quickly and with higher quality-building standards.
The best flight search tool I've used that also isn't owned by the "Booking Holdings" and "Trip.com" behemoths is hopper.com
Every Chinese EV company to each other: “Hey, Can I Copy Your Homework?”
"A $70 million initiative will deploy 30,000 electric heat pumps to bring climate-friendly comfort to residents of NYC’s aging public-housing units."
@mcuban.bsky.social your next project in the healthcare space should be a non-profit health insurance carrier. Being un-encumbered by profit margin = you can undercut the incumbent health insurances while still negotiating fair reimbursement with providers.
"The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will ban the inclusion of medical bills on credit reports.
Americans with medical debt on their credit reports could see their credit scores rise by an average of 20 points."
"Delta Air Lines announced plans to install new 4K HDR QLED screens and Bluetooth capabilities in all cabins so travelers can pair their personal wireless devices"
#CES