Brian Nelson

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

I got to see this really interesting, wonderful documentary on the brilliant Bea Arthur today. Thank you filmmaker @dancindanw Find info on IG - beaarthurdoc

I saw a guy I know posting about asking Gemini when AI will become profitable, and the response was not soon if at all. Except Gemini has no opinion, it just scrapes up human reporting. When you get an LLM to "testify," you're only showing you are forgetting how to research something yourself.

In that ad where two execs use Copilot to come up with a different strategy from their rest of the team and we hear "Sometimes hunches pay off, maybe with a raise" -- apparently no consequence for sharing company internals with Microsoft who might then share them with any competitor who asks?

Someone tell Malcolm Gladwell maybe there are other reasons it's hard to hire enough police.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

An old report about Cyrus Vance being discussed in my household this week, IYKYK. www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...

Let's be clear, the Brewers absolutely earned their wins. But also, the moment that the Dodgers gave a World Series ring to a certain special boy, some of us have had a pretty strong feeling about how this season was going to end for LA.

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

Voters at theend.fyi, the only listener-centered directory of binge-ready audio fiction, have named AGENT STOKER as a "Fan Favorite!" Many thanks for the recognition!

dude is a natural

Let's be honest, that thing where you pay a fee and get "ordained" so you can do your friends' wedding, that had to have been set up by the Writers Guild of America because it's twenty times more effective to have your characters married by someone they know instead of by an actor you just met.

Third Circuit: AI training of copyrighted material not fair use courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

Thinking back to a year ago, when Ezra Klein did a podcast with Ross Douthat & said that to be competitive Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates in Ohio & Kansas.

Jesus, of course, famously stopped a public execution (stoning) by declaring "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Suspect people like the one quoted below would have no compunction about casting that first stone.

📌When Democrats win the WH in 2028, the arts are going to positively explode into a million colors at the Kennedy Center. You will see some of the greatest shows and artists in history. It will be an ongoing celebration of everything that is still good, decent, and beautiful in this world. ✊🏼

No announcement, however, that any streamer has agreed to carry this. Any company actually carrying this is telling us everything about who they now are.

RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Could someone please ask pilots never to announce excitedly about how they're landing ahead of schedule? There is NEVER a gate ready when they're early.

ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.

Six episodes? Eight?

Warner Bros--now is the time. It's been an awful 2026 and you won't even exist as an independent studio after next month... So, do the right thing, and release HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA: CHAPTER II. It's what the people want. It's what the people deserve.

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-security

Interacting with a flexible, accordion-like kinetic paper sculpture crafted by Chinese artist Li Hongbo using stacked paper sheets in a honeycomb structure. youtube.com/shorts/hLpe9...

Hi friends! Today on The Joy of Baseball podcast @joeposnanski.com and I talk to actor, comedian, and Bluesky-er @andyrichter.co! Andy is very funny. We have a very wholesome conversation about how much we love baseball. Listen for free here: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...

Remember that Trump resisted naming a son after himself "because what if he's a loser?" So even if he doesn't run again (which SCOTUS might let him do as a special boy), he won't endorse any successor. He'll make a big show of "letting them earn it." The only successor he'd ever endorse is Ivanka.

Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.

Here's the Washington Monument surrounded in scaffolding for repairs during the Obama administration. Let's ask Trump, if he deserves his name on the Kennedy Center for repair work, when he will start referring to this as the Obama-Washington Monument.

rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨

This is the other thing I want people to make sure they know. This art center that became a memorial wasn't just built by a couple of rich people donating big chunks. It was families buying Christmas cards. www.kennedy-center.org/memorial/jfk...

Gallego says he supports tearing down Trump's ballroom and arch and explains why

"This is not the first time you've been demoted to YouTube... Why are they so scared of you?" Here is @jimmykimmel.com's online-only sit-down with @jamestalarico.bsky.social youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

What's 2+2? I'll start. 4!

I'm this old *DING!* One missed cue *DING* And every slide after was out of sync until the teacher corrected the kid turning the dial. *DING*

Look. See? “Lie” Is that so goddamn hard?

Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?

I was at protests like this in LA along with people from my congregation. Across the street was a group of self-identified veterans who keyed our cars and accused us of stealing from them the American flag we had brought with us.

I was onstage as the Voice of Puck in a staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream by the Connecticut Ballet, while an impossibly perfect human danced the role a few yards to my right.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Ukrainian artist, Arthur Anokhin

The Lady's Reply to J. Alfred Prufrock Let us go then? Maybe not. The evening is already shot. The sky unconscious etherly Makes not a happy simile. I don't like half deserted streets, And one night cheap hotels aren't sweet. I do admit your necktie's modest, But sorry, Fred -- enjoy your sawdust!

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

We also need to call his little projects out for what they are: MONEY LAUNDERING. Hes done it all his life, steal absolutely every not nailed down, then declare bankruptcy & bail. Exactly what he's doing to us: a reflecting pool here, a border wall there...shit never gets done once the check clears