ArtificialBrian

ArtificialBrian

@artificialbrian.com

Dad. Cybersecurity for 20 years. Comics and video games when I have time.

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keep failing the gta 6 mission where u have to drive a cybertruck past an elementary school without kids laughing at u

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What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry - read on for the plan!) gregpak.net/2026/10/15/z...

gregpak.netZINE: What If You See ICE at the Polls? - gregpak.netIndivisible roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out below -- and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Prog...
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."

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What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

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I'm not volunteering this year because work conflicts with the extremely small number of shifts that are not already full*, but if you see something like this, call Election Protection at 866-OUR-VOTE to report it. *actually great that there were so many volunteers that this happened!

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com

Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self

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AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

I read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient Greek history, and the funniest part is where he praises Achilles for seeking glory in Troy even though it means his death. Yeah, Marco, the Iliad is great. What’s Achilles up to in the sequel?

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they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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that elon musk guy, very popular right now, extremely smart move pete it does rule that my favorite defense ventures dipshit has lashed himself to this, hope you like HASC and SASC palmer because they are going to be extremely interested in giving you a colonoscopy live on cspan next year

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I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.

robert j bennett, ceo, results omega@robertjbennett.bsky.social

I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive

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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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ok so... his point is.. hitler believed plenty of regular stuff.. therefore agreeing with hitler about anything.... is value neutral. and she's saying, in agreement... if you think she and history's most prolific rapist are bad.... you're racist against a transphobic nelson mandela she just imagined

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Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵

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No, AI isn’t gonna kill us all in the next 10 years. No, LLMs don’t keep going rogue. No, general AI superintelligence isn’t anywhere close and we’re not even on the path toward it with LLMs. All that shit is ultimately propaganda about how powerful and cool these systems supposedly are.

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O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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I get people on this website don’t believe Republicans exist, but in real life Paxton is focusing an immense amount of energy on attacking Talarico’s extremely consistent and laudable record on trans rights If Talarico loses, the “lesson” is that those attacks work and his votes were a liability

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Good news for those of y'all waiting for the collected DREAM GIRLS miniseries! Barnes & Noble is having a preorder sale, so if you use the code PREORDER25 you can get the hardcover (which includes JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERGALACTIC SPECIAL and the backup stories) for 25% off!

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