brian f
@misanthropitron.bsky.social
bad at social media, self-promotion, and profile descriptions. pretty good at self-deprecation.
👾game developer
🎸guitar noodler
🐈cat butler
he/him
👾game developer
🎸guitar noodler
🐈cat butler
he/him
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Asking your AI chat bot to “please roast” your perceived adversary is the most Loser Shit in the entire recorded history of humanity
Elon Musk is using his company's AI chatbot, Grok, to attack Billie Eilish for living in a society, I guess.
August 29, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Asking your AI chat bot to “please roast” your perceived adversary is the most Loser Shit in the entire recorded history of humanity
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August 3, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Is anyone more cartoonishly pathetic than the weak little babies yelling at Fauci
The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else
The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else
July 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Is anyone more cartoonishly pathetic than the weak little babies yelling at Fauci
The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else
The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else
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Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
July 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
July 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
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Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.
April 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.
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this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
April 26, 2026 at 12:41 PM
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.
April 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.
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Just an absolute vacuum cleaner, sucking cash out of the company while leaving its creative teams and executives begging for scraps. Zero added value to one of the greatest brands in Hollywood history.
For his part in failing to reduce WBD's debt before selling to Paramount, WBD CEO David Zaslav is hoping for a $886 million payment package.
www.avclub.com/david-zaslav...
www.avclub.com/david-zaslav...
Watchdog recommends David Zaslav not receive a near-billion-dollar payday from Hollywood consolidation
Watchdog recommends David Zaslav not receive a near-billion-dollar payday from Hollywood consolidation
www.avclub.com
April 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Just an absolute vacuum cleaner, sucking cash out of the company while leaving its creative teams and executives begging for scraps. Zero added value to one of the greatest brands in Hollywood history.
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Potentially unsalvageable country.
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside.
On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.
She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.
She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
March 21, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Potentially unsalvageable country.
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hey senators here’s your chance to do something really funny today
March 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
hey senators here’s your chance to do something really funny today
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Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.
March 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.
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The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit
Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"
March 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit
i’m so tired of the world being run by dumb assholes.
March 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
i’m so tired of the world being run by dumb assholes.
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“In any normal administration this merger would be a non-starter. In this one, the corruption & capitulation of the Ellison family is the selling point," @notaaroncraig.bsky.social says about Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros, which would give the Trump-friendly Ellisons control of both CBS & CNN.
Paramount Skydance’s Takeover of Warner Bros. Is Bad News for Workers, Consumers and Free Expression
The idea that Paramount should be allowed to control CBS and CNN should be unthinkable, especially given its track record of turning the Tiffany Network into a trash heap.
www.freepress.net
February 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“In any normal administration this merger would be a non-starter. In this one, the corruption & capitulation of the Ellison family is the selling point," @notaaroncraig.bsky.social says about Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros, which would give the Trump-friendly Ellisons control of both CBS & CNN.
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I know the US has done a ton of atrocities globally, but it’s really something to get so mad about one *good* thing we were doing that you turn it into a new atrocity. They KILLED MILLIONS OF CHILDREN with a keystroke and a grin, not a second thought. Unimaginable evil. Vought/Musk Hague 2027 Tour
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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February 17, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I know the US has done a ton of atrocities globally, but it’s really something to get so mad about one *good* thing we were doing that you turn it into a new atrocity. They KILLED MILLIONS OF CHILDREN with a keystroke and a grin, not a second thought. Unimaginable evil. Vought/Musk Hague 2027 Tour
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
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Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
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A national general strike is needed not just to protest the violence, but to acknowledge the absurdity that we’re all just supposed to carry on with our stupid little daily lives amidst the ambient terrorism of an unchecked state militia executing innocent people in the streets of our country.
January 24, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A national general strike is needed not just to protest the violence, but to acknowledge the absurdity that we’re all just supposed to carry on with our stupid little daily lives amidst the ambient terrorism of an unchecked state militia executing innocent people in the streets of our country.
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He died exercising his First Amendment rights. He was a lawful gun owner. Anyone with eyes can see he was holding nothing more than a phone. He was executed while restrained by five men. These are crimes against humanity.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM
He died exercising his First Amendment rights. He was a lawful gun owner. Anyone with eyes can see he was holding nothing more than a phone. He was executed while restrained by five men. These are crimes against humanity.
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tired of everything being so terrible, and also of everything being so stupid
January 15, 2026 at 9:43 PM
tired of everything being so terrible, and also of everything being so stupid
This is truly embarrassing, CNN
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This is truly embarrassing, CNN