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Dave Nuttycombe
Dave Nuttycombe
@nutco.bsky.social
Emmy-winning filmmaker, musician, journalist, amusematist. It was just a local Emmy, so who cares? I do! I care! sigh. nuttycombe.com
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Interested in seeing the MUSK documentary? You can find a theater (hopefully) near you currently playing it via this link to the distributor, Bleeker Street! Go see it and show your support for indie cinema and documentaries. bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/fi...
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❌👑NO KINGS #4 looks different OCTOBER 17 will be a Nationwide Day of Action, with events happening across the country focussed on mobilizing voters to ensure that this election will be TOO BIG TO RIG! Find an event near you 👇
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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
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CHICAGO — Tickets for this spectacular television event on sale now at Programme4.tv
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Hands Around the Kennedy Center Protest on Friday, September 18 @ 6:30 PM to 8 PM @ The Kennedy Center• 2700 F Street NW
MORE EXCITING NEWS: I could be among the “many others”! But the “absolutely hilarious” part is totally true!
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! My new comedy audio is called “The Return of Sno Topp,” and it’ll star Chris Elliott and his real-life daughter Bridey as his fictional daughter. Absolutely hilarious and so great together. It will also co-star Lauren Adams, Jon Hamm, Rhea Seehorn, and many others. 2027.
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hi, it’s bandcampFriday... Downloads of all our albums are $5 each... or it’s 16 bucks total, for all 8 of them. 🙏 ➡️ dotdashdc.bandcamp.com ⬅️ @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social
Yes, you can watch my Emmy-winning doc, “Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM” on your phone with the PBS App. But bigger screens are better. wetaplus.org/show/feast-y...
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Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
There is a possibility that my voice may be heard among the hilarity. Even if not, this will be very funny. IS very funny (I read the script)
Next year, @thesonarnetwork.bsky.social will release a brand-new audio comedy that I wrote to star Chris Elliott about a former white rap star from the early 1990s. In the meantime, if you haven't yet heard Stanland, also from Sonar, would you give it a listen? It's free! www.stanlandseries.com
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This I believe...
My @nytimes.com piece about how the United States has slid into an era of “soft secession” over last dozen years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/o... And by the way: my novel The Breakup, set in 2045 after a violent uprising fully splits America in two, comes out the week after next.
Again, it’s only about money with Trump. “Lose your shirt,” re: windmills, as if the point of energy is making money. NATO is about money to him. Stop asking him questions, start holding him accountable.
Trump: "When I see what's happening to Europe it's very sad to me. They have a problem with immigration. They have a problem with energy. You have windmills all over the place. Windmills, you lose your shirt."
This is useful but also: the Dem response to tyranny is…read a bunch of books? Yes, knowledge is supposedly power, but I’m thinking we’re closer to the torches in the streets moment. (Yes, I’ve protested, yes, I will read the books, but I want more.)
Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. “Democrats cannot just ‘win the midterms’ and go back to life before Donald Trump and his army of tech bros upended our way of life,” writes @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.
"Who's better on..." 🔵Women's Rights: D +18 🔵Environment: D +17 🔵Democratic Norms: D +10 🔵Cost of Living: D +4 🟣Political Violence: Even 🟣Wars/Terrorism: Even 🔴AI: R +1 🔴Corruption: R +1 🔴Guns Control: R +3 🔴Immigration: R +5 🔴Crime: R +14 Ipsos / July 26, 2026
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"The steam drill didn’t want John Henry’s job. Carey Dupont and the Velvet Sundown don’t want mine. They’re just machines. It’s the human beings behind these machines who don’t care about the livelihoods of working people, much less the unfathomable power of music to connect human beings."
This is an article that needed to be written and Owen Lyman-Schmidt took it all the way for @phillymag.com. Fascinating and angering.
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It’s not easy to recognize you’re in a revolutionary moment in the middle of one. The Founders certainly didn’t all at first. Neither did many at the outset of the Civil War. But we’re in one. We have to be willing to embrace big historical change Happy 4th www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
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ICYMI, we announced a compilation of Velocity Girl's early years, including rare 7"s, b-sides, split singles, some unreleased songs, a few covers, the big hit, and much more, going all the way back to the first SLR release. With extensive liner notes & more! slumberlandrecs.lsnto.me/velocity-gir...
Great musician, great guy, great outcome. Should never have happened.
Trump’s regime tried to sue a jazz drummer for $1 million because his conscience wouldn't let him perform under Trump's name. A judge just threw the case out and ordered the regime to pay HIS legal bills instead. Read this incredible victory: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...
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"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/
Nick Bilton is the guy who gloated about not having a pen and now runs 60 Minutes. www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/f...
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