BrenBart

BrenBart

@brenbart.bsky.social

Leftist data nerd, AI Luddite #MIFA - Make Idiocracy Fiction Again

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Don't you hate it when you are listening to an audio book where you're being driven nuts by the reader mispronouncing a word only to discover that it's you and everyone you knew who has been mispronouncing it for your whole life? tonneau cover TUH-no cover Not TAH-no cover

Does he mean deputized as an organization like a govt contractor? Cuz my assumption has been that this is where they've been hanging out already. Maybe this is to get the gravy seals around the arduous physical fitness requirements of 15 pushups and being able to run 1.5 miles in under 15 min?

I'm not sure why Billy Joel has to stop touring just because he has a brain disorder. It hasn't stopped drumph from being president or RFK from trying to destroy HHS.

So I had a thought. I'd love to see a movie starring Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) and Danny Trejo. Then just to check I Googled "Movie with Don Lee and Danny Trejo" Google AI (GAIgle?) boldly and confidently returned the movie 'Renegades'. Which is wrong. Don Lee is not in that movie.

Then I used the same query but used his real name,Ma Dong-seuk, instead of Don Lee. This time it boldly and confidently came up with 'Seven Cemeteries' which is also wrong. I'm so glad we will all be replaced with AI. Oh, and maybe be a tad skeptical of those "AI Overviews".

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I got death threats for joking that Gambit’s fingerless gloves proves that he’s bisexual. DO YOUR JOB, SENATOR.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

It puts me in mind of this not so fresh faced 27 yr old playing a high school junior.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

I continue to be obsessed with this, just at a production level. A children’s book series, best enjoyed aged seven to ten, where almost all your core cast are aged 10 to 11, is going to run *for a decade*? What could go wrong?

Yeah, cuz I'm sure our "Strongman" president forcefully demanded his return or used his famous "art of the deal" skills to work out a deal. I'm guessing it went more like "The supreme Court said I should get him back but feel free to say no."

I wonder if the reason behind these student deportations is to discourage "undesirable" foreign students from attending US universities. Kind of a "not training the enemy" sort of idiocy. Think in the same vein as the great replacement theory . open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

open.substack.comTrump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been ConvictedWhat began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.

Somebody should buy one of the defunct electric vehicle companies and make all of the electronics and engineering designs open source. I want a Linux-mobile.

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After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces.

How do we gauge the impact of the National Economic Blackout? I don't expect it will make any difference in the bottom line of any major retailers. What I'm hoping for is a way to provide a rallying point so as to inspire those of us opposed to the dismantling of our government services.

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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

I think all Sherlock Holmes adaptations should be required to have cameos from the shows that have gone before. Not necessarily big parts, in fact little background parts might be better. Each episode could have an Easter egg.

So, 25% tariffs... I'm guessing prices will go up more like 30%-40%. They'll raise the price for the tariff and then tack on a bit more for some profit to ensure their bonuses and keep the shareholders happy. They'll blame it all on the tariffs when it will really just be more greed-flation.

Hakeem Jeffries used a baseball analogy to say you can’t have press conferences to address every single deranged thing done by the drumph admin. How about a weekly press conf where a report is presented containing this week's lies and their associated fact check? Maybe just read the top 3 lies.