Cameron Barrett

✅ Brazil ✅ Serbia ☑️ Israel ☑️ United States Two down, two to go. Let's do this!

I've been using Claude to do a lot of deep research. I finally ran some numbers and it's eye-popping. Our public school districts are collectively cutting $7.3B in budget cuts. 👀

Man, Facebook/Meta advertising algorithms are so messed up. I'm getting ads for pet diarrhea medicine (I don't own any pets) and hair products for curly-haired women (I am male and have been bald since my mid-twenties).

What a shitshow Twitter/X has turned into. Nothing but scams and grifting as Elon Musk desperately tries to turn X into a bank. I would stay far, far away from this sketchy shit.

What an exceptional little film about addiction, recovery and the struggle. Highly recommend. www.imdb.com/title/tt3698...

Replacing Prue with Nigella via a Doctor Who telephone box is the most British thing I've ever seen. IYKYK: The Great British Bake Off S17E01.

I know people who forget they're alive, It just slips their mind, I guess. But they keep on going… Maybe waiting for somebody to see them. Maybe hoping to come alive again. I don't know, sometimes people just forget. But I am not one of them. From Swimmers (2005) www.imdb.com/title/tt0384...

I LOL'd at this hard.

I'm no AI cheerleader, but I've found it be pretty useful for data-intensive research and processing tasks. For a few months now I've been using the Claude iOS app on my phone to drive tasks on my M1 Mac at home, while I multitask at work. It feels like the future.

With diesel gas nearing $7/gal I imagine the "Rolling Coal" idiots are suffering a bit. Karma’s a bitch.

👍

Thank you to Gander, Newfoundland for stepping up and showing the world how to act during a national tragedy. The world can never thank you enough for your kind response. Don't worry about the bloviating orange idiot. He will be gone soon. We Americans remember, and we thank you.

Twenty five years later, I’m looking out my window at work and I can only think, “It’s the same blue sky as that horrible day.”

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of when I was supposed to be at a doctor's appointment in Manhattan but inexplicably slept through my alarm. My brother woke me and we watched the towers fall from our rooftop in Brooklyn.

Struck up a conversation with a dude next to me at the casino table last weekend. When he learned I worked in tech he asked, "What's the deal with AI? Is it going to take my job?" We're to the point now where random people are worried. I'm not. AI is useful but it's not the answer to everything.

My prediction stands. Bills all the way!

For those in the know, I am absolutely obsessed with a dinosaur-riding cat named Princess Donut and her boxers-clad sidekick. On to Book 4! Also, Jeff Hays and Soundbooth Theater have dramatically raised the bar for audiobook production and quality. Fantastic!

Headed on a road trip this weekend using MapQuest, wish me luck. At least I know the place labels are in not incorrect.

This is one of my favorite t-shirts. If you're gonna rename the Great lakes, at least be funny about it. www.6dollarshirts.com/products/gre...

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Now that football (NFL) season is about to start, I'm going to say it again. This is the year we have a Detroit Lions vs Buffalo Bills Super Bowl, and the Bills are going to win. It's going to be epic!

I can never guess what things I post will get shared a lot; I’m glad people found this a useful summary of the grim reality of the tech tycoons. I said the other day that people usually think I’m crazy for about ~7 years, then they understand what I meant and get very sad and/or angry.

😭 Literally this old tweet being made real in the US right now...

Long past time to quit X. “Those who continue to post on X — in particular those X users who are not racist psychopaths — are enhancing the site’s usefulness to [Musk] as a propaganda tool by drawing more eyes to the platform… “ [publiccomment.blog]

A person who can say this without believing it is a psychopath. A person who can say this and believe it is psychotic. Either way, he’s beyond unfit for any office of public trust.

This behavior from Trump should really be front and center as we enter election season: people HATE feeling cheated out of stuff and that’s exactly what Trump has done and keeps doing

This is the best thing I've seen all week. Fantastic.

What our government is doing to legal immigrants is wrong, immoral, illegal and horrible.

remarkable that the United States has made it official policy to only accept white refugees and people still think it's up for debate whether or not they're white nationalists

Republicans being in control of Texas for 30 years and running in 2026 on a platform of fixing problems in Texas is funny to me.

We're only 10 years away from John Titor being sent back in time to acquire an IBM 5100 computer. Crazy times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ti...

Look, I don't know who needs to hear this but using AI to turn your car upside down or add a morbidly obese woman in a bikini to your photo is not going to make you sell your shitty car faster on FB Marketplace. Just stop.

Oh look, it's Mitch McConnell Death Announcement Day.

The sitting president of the United States got his accounts closed for money laundering and its barely news 🤯

Author @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social breaks down how surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination are affecting working families right now. Some companies are running experiments to see what the highest price or the lowest wage you'll accept. Watch now 👇

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

I’m glad that movies like this are being made.

Michigan Senate primary 2026 (Tavern Research): Abdul El-Sayed 48% Haley Stevens 37% 7/26-7/27

Just randomly thinking about John Titor and time travel. How’s your Sunday?

"California Solo" is an excellent film from 2012 that spotlights our messed-up immigration system. It's really well-done, with excellent acting and a good story line.

There’s an important lesson here, for those who choose to listen.

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass

One of my hobbies is watching really, really bad movies. I've watched some real stinkers but this one is on a whole new level of bad. Key points: $2000 budget. Current IMDb Rating: 1.2/10.

Sometimes, just for fun, I reply to emails I received 20+ years ago just to see what happens. "Hey, sorry about the delay in replying. I've been swamped."