Kyle Brickman
@kylebrickman.bsky.social
UI Engineer at Netflix (all opinions are mine) out of Brentwood, CA. Has far too much Lego and knows far too much about Star Trek.
Agreed, noneuclidean furniture really belongs in something more like The Langoliers.
Oh Jesus - @letterboxd.social can you help us get this AI slop away from our series?
@mikeflanaganfilm.com @letterboxd.social pls do something about this bs 😭
October 5, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Agreed, noneuclidean furniture really belongs in something more like The Langoliers.
Presumably, Pike said “lol beam my horse to the barn,” but Star Trek hasn’t explored how animals experience the transporter. Does the horse materialize in their stable and just be chill and eat some alfalfa, or are they like “What in the ever-loving fuck?!” and just flip out? Do they get used to it?
Um, hello? Chris? HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO?
Where the hell are you? One minute you were talking to a dude on a shuttle and the nex—oh no.
OH NO.
Where the hell are you? One minute you were talking to a dude on a shuttle and the nex—oh no.
OH NO.
July 23, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Presumably, Pike said “lol beam my horse to the barn,” but Star Trek hasn’t explored how animals experience the transporter. Does the horse materialize in their stable and just be chill and eat some alfalfa, or are they like “What in the ever-loving fuck?!” and just flip out? Do they get used to it?
Remember, THIS is what’s poisoning the brains of employers everywhere.
![A screenshot of the AT&T customer support chat, which wouldn’t have been possible before designers invented rounded corners during Web 2.0.
I ask the following question:
“The phone associated with [OMITTED] has been broken beyond repair. I am trying to set up an eSIM for that number on the replacement phone. However, it is texting a verification code to the broken phone.”
The response from Andi, AT&T’s AI assistant, is prefaced with an ominous “Some responses may be generated by AI.” warning. It proceeds to point me to their “battery and power help page”, offer me a link to “improve the battery life of [my] device”, and suggests to start an insurance claim for a “damaged or defective battery” if I’m covered by “AT&T Protect Advantage”, which sounds like a scam antimalware malware from 2004. It concludes by reminding me that Apple no longer ships chargers with their devices, but you can buy one from AT&T.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pdzjwkxx3shfxulqmajowb2/bafkreicqus3oz3n3ds5vdoz4njvg2646zkmdjlfsjspon7fxen5qon65n4)
July 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Remember, THIS is what’s poisoning the brains of employers everywhere.
“The reports even assiduously avoid identifying the judge by gender, proving that even conservative judges can figure out how pronouns work with minimal effort.”
May 29, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“The reports even assiduously avoid identifying the judge by gender, proving that even conservative judges can figure out how pronouns work with minimal effort.”
The _fuck_ it will. My browser tabs are proof that I’m human, dammit.
Safari 27 will use AI to automatically group your browser tabs
Likely debuting at WWDC, Safari users will soon find it will be easier to create groups of tabs, with a test version of the browser for the 27 operating systems using AI to group them for you.
appleinsider.com
May 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The _fuck_ it will. My browser tabs are proof that I’m human, dammit.
Reposted by Kyle Brickman
Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company?
(With apologies to Dan Olson)
(With apologies to Dan Olson)
April 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company?
(With apologies to Dan Olson)
(With apologies to Dan Olson)
Reposted by Kyle Brickman
@gruber.foo - interestingly given your recent musings on F1 AVP content, I noticed that the Lapz AVP app that got shuttered in late 2024 got updated on TestFlight a month ago. Did they resolve the complaints from F1 and just not get picked up by the news cycle, or is this a new development?
March 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM
@gruber.foo - interestingly given your recent musings on F1 AVP content, I noticed that the Lapz AVP app that got shuttered in late 2024 got updated on TestFlight a month ago. Did they resolve the complaints from F1 and just not get picked up by the news cycle, or is this a new development?
My son is playing the new “Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown” strategy game, and as someone who is terrible at those kind of games, to me it’s making a compelling case that everyone who thought the franchise should have emphasized resource gathering and repair were dead wrong.
February 28, 2026 at 11:50 PM
My son is playing the new “Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown” strategy game, and as someone who is terrible at those kind of games, to me it’s making a compelling case that everyone who thought the franchise should have emphasized resource gathering and repair were dead wrong.
“MAHA™” really sums it up, doesn’t it?
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef:
"Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
"Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
February 28, 2026 at 6:19 AM
“MAHA™” really sums it up, doesn’t it?
Age verification? I literally wrote a post celebrating CANYON.MID yesterday.
Age verification? I can whistle a 2400 baud modem off.
Age verification? My first computer was a brand-new Commodore 64. (I was 6.)
February 10, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Age verification? I literally wrote a post celebrating CANYON.MID yesterday.
If I won this contest it would bankrupt the company.
February 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
If I won this contest it would bankrupt the company.
Some days, you wake up with a song in your heart. And if you’re very, *very* lucky, that song is CANYON.MID.
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Some days, you wake up with a song in your heart. And if you’re very, *very* lucky, that song is CANYON.MID.
When I did computer repair, there was a particular model of circa 2000 HP computer case that would draw blood every time I worked on one.
The 1990 behemoths that weighed as much as a car? Nope? This asshole? It *hungers*.
The 1990 behemoths that weighed as much as a car? Nope? This asshole? It *hungers*.
![A Hewlett-Packard Pavilion PC case from ~2000, featuring the “fuck it here’s some translucent plastic since everyone loves iMacs” and “we’ve put a custom round bubble plastic button over the optical and floppy drive buttons so that you’ll never be able to replace them successfully” design aesthetic of the time. A badge proudly declares that it was designed for Windows Me, and includes a Pentium III processor.
The case is also covered in stickers declaring its features and functionality like it’s a store display unit but it almost certainly came out of a factory-sealed box looking like this. Apparently “record[ing] your own music CD’s” is “Fun and Easy!”, and kids today will never know how much that sentence is a lie.
Also if I worked on this particular one there’s probably trace DNA from when it cut the back of my hand open or something.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pdzjwkxx3shfxulqmajowb2/bafkreicrxhjrzkauho3q75w3m2urahdbcn2xp6d5ctosdf7y4f44s5dxza)
January 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
When I did computer repair, there was a particular model of circa 2000 HP computer case that would draw blood every time I worked on one.
The 1990 behemoths that weighed as much as a car? Nope? This asshole? It *hungers*.
The 1990 behemoths that weighed as much as a car? Nope? This asshole? It *hungers*.
I cannot think of a better encapsulation of personal computers in 1994.
December 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I cannot think of a better encapsulation of personal computers in 1994.
make a Bond movie academic
Die Another Day: Use of cubic crystalline allotropic carbon in focused solar energy production and de-sequestration of glacial freshwater for non-motorized oceanic wave-based transportation.
Die Another Day: Use of cubic crystalline allotropic carbon in focused solar energy production and de-sequestration of glacial freshwater for non-motorized oceanic wave-based transportation.
make a Bond movie academic
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
make a Bond movie academic
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
make a Bond movie academic
Die Another Day: Use of cubic crystalline allotropic carbon in focused solar energy production and de-sequestration of glacial freshwater for non-motorized oceanic wave-based transportation.
Die Another Day: Use of cubic crystalline allotropic carbon in focused solar energy production and de-sequestration of glacial freshwater for non-motorized oceanic wave-based transportation.
If you’ve ever got imposter syndrome, just remember that Bari Weiss let dozens of opportunities to spike the CECOT story pass her by, only to elect to do so at almost the worst possible moment and all for naught because Canada aired it anyway.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If you’ve ever got imposter syndrome, just remember that Bari Weiss let dozens of opportunities to spike the CECOT story pass her by, only to elect to do so at almost the worst possible moment and all for naught because Canada aired it anyway.
Bari Weiss proving she’s never heard of Betteridge’s Law.
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Bari Weiss proving she’s never heard of Betteridge’s Law.
Trust me GitHub, it is *not* this easy.
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Trust me GitHub, it is *not* this easy.
My seventeen year old son just referred to a comma as a “lower case apostrophe,” if you want to know how parenting is going.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
My seventeen year old son just referred to a comma as a “lower case apostrophe,” if you want to know how parenting is going.
It’s right up there with “signing up for a Disney+ free trial means you give up the right to sue Disney for killing your relative due to negligent handling of food allergens at their theme park.”
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It’s right up there with “signing up for a Disney+ free trial means you give up the right to sue Disney for killing your relative due to negligent handling of food allergens at their theme park.”
This is like if Phillip Morris printed “you may not contract cancer while using this product” inside the bottom flap of a pack of cigarettes and then arguing that indemnifies them against claims that cigarettes give you cancer.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is like if Phillip Morris printed “you may not contract cancer while using this product” inside the bottom flap of a pack of cigarettes and then arguing that indemnifies them against claims that cigarettes give you cancer.
This is probably all because someone important made fun of the “from Earth” tweet location but and now he’s trying to impress them or something.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This is probably all because someone important made fun of the “from Earth” tweet location but and now he’s trying to impress them or something.
Gemini’s about to learn a whole lot about fake PayPal receipts for purchasing Etherium and FREE HOME DEPOT GIFT CARDS.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Gemini’s about to learn a whole lot about fake PayPal receipts for purchasing Etherium and FREE HOME DEPOT GIFT CARDS.
Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development but for Pier 1 home decor.
There's a curious combination of familiar objects in Dr. Timicin's quarters in #StarTrekTNG's "Half a Life": ⬆️: Inside one of the bowls that held the meal worms for the alien parasites in "Consipracy"➡️ is the blue Edo ball that got Wesley into lots of trouble on Rubicun III in "Justice"⬅️ . ;-)
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development but for Pier 1 home decor.