Brad

Brad

@bradwanders.bsky.social

Teaching. Writing. Wandering. Democracy matters.

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Old lady in the ChatGPT commercial: "I'm giving a seminar on the history of sound in 30 minutes and I need you to check my dates..." Me EVERY TIME I hear it: "No you fucking aren't." That's a commercial scripted using crappy AI. Nobody has ever uttered that sentence in the history of the world.

I wonder how long it will take businesses (and social media folk) to realize that using obvious AI-created images are hurting their brand. They're not interesting. They're not good. And they send the message that you don't really care about what you're doing. Lazy and ineffective.

People who use AI images to promote their businesses are telling me they are putting as little effort as possible into reaching out to potential customers. I'm happy to respond by putting as little effort as possible into being at all interested in what they are trying to sell me.

ChatGPT got me actually hating little old ladies. I grab for the remote as soon as I hear them. It's like the big AI companies are realizing they've turned off almost the entire population but are hoping to still be able to tap into the same audience that still falls for telephone scammers.

In ten years i hope we look back and wonder why in the hell we put AI in everything. I hope it'll settle into the places it is truly beneficial and everything else will seem like a bizarre dream we had.

The idea of a tax-payer funded slush fund to give payouts to J6ers is awful. But let's be real. That money ends up in Trump's pockets somehow. He's not exactly known for handing out money, you know?

I keep waiting for the rats to start jumping off the sinking Donald Trump ship, but maybe it's better if they all stay on and just go down with the damned thing.

We don't get a quality team until we get a quality coach. And we don't get a quality coach until we get a quality owner. This all starts at the top. No quality coach wants to be associated with MP. #RCTID

It should be illegal for any commercial, television show, or movie to use the sound of a smoke alarm, the beep of a truck backing up, or the high-pitched alarm on an old watch. This message brought to you by my dogs as they nervously hide under things.

History will show that this administration had the smallest penis size per capita of any administration in history. That's the only explanation for all of this.

It only takes about 5 minutes to switch from openai to anthropic's Claude. Feel very much the same. Almost no learning curve. Vote with your money. Goodbye, openai.

I've long had a goal of having less screen time in my life. Wasn't expecting the assistance from right-wing billionaires to make it happen. I guess I'll be adding CNN and HBO to the list of places I won't be spending any more time or money.

I'm a huge fan of the Olympics, but something about watching the opening ceremony celebration of peace and then hearing that they disqualified a Ukrainian athlete for making the "political statement" of wearing images of friends who died in the war on his helmet has me very soured on it this year.

I knew when Trump was re-elected that things were going to have to get really bad before they got better. I had no idea how bad things would get so quickly. I'm starting to think there's no floor for his supporters to wake up to who he really is.

I don't believe in "manifesting" things to happen. It's bullshit. Still, that won't stop me from constantly repeating these four words over and over again in my head for the next 3+ years of my life: ATTORNEY. GENERAL. JACK. SMITH.

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I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.comWhy Is Larry Summers Still Employed?The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.

If you had a president purposely TRYING to get himself impeached and removed from office, I don't know what he'd be doing any different than what Donald Trump is doing. We have a derelict Congress with no spine and no balls.

How many countries and terrorist groups have dreamed of leveling the White House with a bomb? Trump is doing the damage for them for free while the GOP twiddles their thumbs and nods along. Disgusting.

What's the difference between Trump's shit jet video and this image of the East Wing? One is real, one is AI. What is similar? They both reveal his utter disdain for the American people.

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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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