Michael Pusateri

Michael Pusateri

@cruftbox.com

Evil Corporate Exec Former Metaverse Warlord Cycling/Beekeeping/Gaming Smoking Meats/Reading/Tinkering

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Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

I built cruftcast, an app that creates a 10–15 minute podcast about the topics I care about from my RSS feeds. No banter, just a heads-up on what’s worth reading. The code is on GitHub if you want to make your own. cruftbox.com/2026/10/27/c...

cruftbox.comcruftcast: a private morning podcast made from my RSS feedsI like podcasts, but sometimes the hosts can stretch out a story far too long. So I built an app that turns my RSS feeds into a short 10-15 minute private podcast. Hence cruftcast was born. I want a short podcast that provides updates on topics I care about. I don't need a lot of banter, just a…

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Matt Pusateri
@mattpusateri.bsky.social

It's ridiculous that Game 6 of the #WNBA Finals is scheduled for 12:30 pm on Thursday. These playoffs have been so fun and thrilling; it's indefensible to run a potential championship-deciding game in the middle of a workday. The WNBA and its fans deserve far better leadership.

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

My wife has been an election worker at the polls for the last 5+ years. This year, the election workers are being told they need to sign a pledge promising that they will not trade on prediction markets about the elections.

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

If you are someone that patched PHP today from packages someone else built, consider donating to those maintainers. People like Remi Collet carry a lot of water for the interwebs. Look for the Donate button. blog.remirepo.net

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

I remember EA’s first release of M.U.L.E. and how the company was seen as the most innovative and high quality game studio around. How things have changed. Nothing gold can stay.

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

Sysadmins across the world are dealing with the PHP update and waiting on downstream package updates. Stay strong my otherkin. 💪

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

On a whim, built an app that takes my subscribed RSS feeds and makes a ~10 minute audio podcast of the highlights. I called it cruftcast. Let's see if it works for my morning walks.

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

The will to power... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly their most dangerous one. - Hannah Arendt

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

“For a satire to work, the jokes have to be funny. Yet they never are.”

Sacred Wall@sacredwall.bsky.social

'Digger' is a massive swing from both Tom Cruise and Iñárritu. It just never manages to come together

sacredwall.com‘Digger’ ReviewIt’s hard - near impossible, even - to review a film like Digger. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest in a long line of “big swing” features, Digger has been billed as a biting satire with a balls-to-the-wall Tom Cruise performance at the center - arguably the first of its kind since Magnolia in 1999. The film consists of a series of twists that frequently reframe everything we’ve seen before, forcing audiences to recontextualize previous information at breakneck pace.
Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

This exact attack happened to the US Military Commissaries in August. signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-so...

signalandsilence.substack.comI Think the Military Commissary Freezers Were HackedThe frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour
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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses reut.rs/4zlcKW6

reut.rsHackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food lossesHackers forced the temperature of many French supermarket fridges up to 50 degrees Celsius (122°F) overnight, sparking fires and food losses at several hundred ​stores across the country in a major cyberattack.
Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

My prediction for the Apple smart home event. For smart home enthusiasts, it will be underwhelming. Weak Siri AI will flounder at simple tasks. The average person will be indifferent. The smart home ecosystem will remain confusing and difficult for most people.

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

Siri's current functionality starts to approach what was promised in 2024. That was two years ago. The idea that Siri is up to the far more complex tasks of managing physical smart home devices, far beyond basic LLM integration, is serious hopecore stuff.

Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

Coach Jackie J, a great poster about women's sports and reality TV, released the first episode of her new podcast with guest Billie Jean King. Everyone loves women's sports. lnk.to/isshegame

lnk.toIs She Game?Jackie J is the People’s Coach: teaching you all about women’s sports, so you can have the time of your life as a fan of whatever sport catches your eye. In each episode, Jackie breaks down the week’s news in sports and culture, hangs out with special guests, and sets you up with moments to look forward to. From the WNBA to the rec rugby league your mom just joined, Jackie has her finger on the pulse of sports worldwide. She can’t wait to turn you into a women’s sports fan.
Michael Pusateri
@cruftbox.com

Expounding my Digger review. The acting, visual production, & sound design are impressive. It fails everywhere else. It's not a satire. There is no humor. It's a tantrum. Rather that making a point, it just points anger everywhere. It's made for edgy film school students and not many others.