Chris Williams

I'm going to share this classic from 2019. It was created on that other site by a Wall Street Quant, and from what happened since, it looks to be incredibly accurate. #JeffreyEpstein #Epsteintapes #Republicans

I'm a caregiver for an elderly Parkinson's patient, and the giant organization that just gobbled up the hospital, locked me out of the support website for the past week. Tried to unlock the account, and got this not-at-all-useful response. #enshittification

In the theater to see Klara and The Sun. Excellent air quality!

Wanted to share this BBC interview with the woman in charge of Ukraine's FP-7 ballistic missile program. It's homegrown, locally sourced, inexpensive, devastatingly effective, and has been taking down Russian oil, logistics and data infrastructure. They built a ballistic missile in 2 years.

Here is the worst piece of AI stupidity I've encountered in a little while. It's a video delivered to me by the YouTube algorithm, about a subject that I'm interested in, the very first sentence has a howlingly stupid boner. "The third army crops…" Are these soldiers grown in a field?

I'm aware that there is a tradition of posting pictures of one's meals. I had a breakfast custom made for me, by a Cordon Bleu trained chef. Mexican rice, refried beans, chorizo, stewed plum tomatoes, feta cheese and two sunnyside eggs. Absolutely astounding, and it cost me $5.99.

Have any of you #heatpump #minisplit folks installed an in-wall ERV (energy recovery ventilator) like this gentleman? I'm building my next apartment in a basement, and am concerned with air quality. I know there's plenty of people who want to sell me them, but I'm doing all this on the cheap.

I want to make sure Professor @jeffjarvis.bsky.social sees this. He has been ranting about the #brokentimes for quite a while.

I'm out seeing movies, and this is the air quality in the theater. Theaters, especially ones that have been converted to recliners, have the best air conditioning and air quality. #covid #covidsafe

Just listened to @twit.tv "Intelligent Machines" and Leo mentioned something that I've been using for years - azelastine nasal spray. I saw this study in JAMA Internal Medicine, and combined with being up to date on vaccines and using BLIS K12 lozenges, I've never had a symptomatic case of covid.

I just learned that a friend of more than 50 years, a brilliant doctor, has been struck with dementia and can no longer form sentences. He barely survived Alpha covid back 2020. Please, at a minimum get vaccinated, and consider wearing a respirator.

This is how I stay covid safe while put seeing movies. I go early on the days when no one else is there (retired), keep up to date on vaccinations, wear a @flomask.bsky.social in public areas, and choose theaters that I know have good air exchange. Here's the CO2 level in the theater I'm in:

Dear YouTube, What is it going to take to let you know that I never, ever, under any circumstances, wish to see anybody "react" to anything, ever? Please, take all reaction videos and shove them where the sun doesn't shine. Sincerely, Chris.

There has never been a "bad year for movies", although there have been years with an extraordinary number of great films. When we lived in Chicago, my late wife managed to see 662 films in the theater in a single year. There is always something worth watching.

Assuming this is real, I need to bring this to the attention of Professor @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Well, this is as clear as mud: #covid #vaccine abcnews.com/Health/fda-a...

I want to make sure that professor @jeffjarvis.bsky.social sees this.

Even when Dolly Parton was covering somebody else's song, she made it her own.

Listening to @twit.tv This Week in Tech and @padresj.bsky.social brought up the stealthiness of owls. I was walking home late the other night, and one of the bunnies in my yard just missed being a crunchy snack when this owl swooped over my head. He hung out on my neighbor's overhang for a bit.

"This Week in Tech" The discussion of thwarting AI watermarks by translating text into another language, and then back into the original reminded me of a game bored office workers played in Philip K. Dick's novel "Galactic Pot-Healer." "The Corn is Green" "The cliche is inexperienced." @twit.tv

Now listening to: @pfischer.bsky.social

This is #BandcampFriday. You should check out music by Happy Rhodes. She was my late wife's favorite singer-songwriter, and when we learned she had cancer, she had one wish - that Happy would come to Kansas City and do a show for her. She did, and later ran a GoFundMe to send us to Alaska.

Hey @piperformissouri.bsky.social, do you have some recommendations for voters in Kansas City for tomorrow?

You have to see "I Want Your Sex" @dansavage.bsky.social Twisted and hilarious, with Olivia Wilde as an artist, and Cooper Hoffman as an intern.

I saw the new film The Odyssey by Christopher "Mumbles" Nolan. I enjoyed it quite a lot, but as usual, having a caption unit helped quite a lot. AMC BarryWoods 24 #filmsky #theOdyssey

Last night, I shot a performance by the School of Rock AllStars, the very best musicians from more than 300 locations around the Us and other countries. youtu.be/EZOfoUtWzoM

I'm getting caught up on previous episodes of the who cares about the Rock Hall podcast @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social and was very pleased to hear you bring up Katell Keineg. My late wife played her quite frequently on her radio show.

Here in Kansas City, it's $20 a month for four films a week. If I see all four films in a particular week, that brings each movie down to $1.83.

I just listened to your appearance on @twit.tv "This Week in Tech" @jp2e.bsky.social. I learned so much from you about the smart home and locks.

I'm looking at this as a replacement for my brother's 2000 Ford Ranger which is on its second transmission, and it doesn't do anything except carry appliances and move a ton of gravel occasionally, and has never approached a hundred miles in a day. One I can charge overnight at 3 cents kw/hour.

I just ordered a three month supply of nine different medications from Mark Cuban's Cost Plus drugs for *less* than the copay my insurance company demands! I know some people have issues with him, but realistically this is the best thing any billionaire has ever done for me. @mcuban.bsky.social

A piece of data on the efficacy of hypnosis, @dansavage.bsky.social My late mother delivered me and two of my sisters under hypnosis. No drugs, the osteopath implanted the post-hypnotic suggestion that she would feel no pain and that it would be a beautiful experience. She swore that it was true.

There's a 12-ft tall bridge in Kansas City, that inspired some pretty awesome art:

We need to bring the Japanese film "Exit 8" back, and do a double feature with that and "Backroom".

Listening to the Material podcast, and Andy @ihnatko.bsky.social bemoaned not being able to go in and change all of his past tech predictions. Could be worse! I was working for Forrester Research which memorably titled one of their reports "Amazon.Toast"