Brian Wallace

I like this analogy, and I'm going to try to figure out how to expand it to encompass the fact that at volumes greater than a sip—a novel, a movie, even a three-minute video clip—AI turns inevitably to bilgewater.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

🎵🧵This is a great question: what are the songs performed on SNL with longest duration between recording and performance?

(Not including songs performed by an artist's previous bands, no so Paul Simon doing Simon & Garfunkel or Jagger doing Stones or McCartney doing Beatles or Wings.)

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You should resign.

Mewgenics (2026)

It’s outrageous how good this game is.

Except AI didn’t do that. It just gave you garbage that was vaguely shaped like what you wanted and you decided to print it.

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street.…

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

Now, justice on the doers!

The Sickos baby saying yes… goo goo ga ga… yes and kicking 2025 out)

(art by @wardsutton.bsky.social)

Whoville is a late-stage brainwashed cult.
They wake up, and don’t even seem to notice their ransacked houses. Not a single one asks “uh guys where’s all our food?”

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Been using Firefox for as long as I can remember. Transitioned to Waterfox today because of this.

This is exactly why I’m on bluesky and not X or tiktok or meta any other platform. It’s really nice to be out of the algorithm.

Flowchart of the study

In Beasley's classic paper on the risk of liver cancer from hep B:

He followed up thousands of people in Taiwan with hepatitis B surface antigen, and found they had a 223x higher risk of developing primary hepatocellular carcinoma (95% CI: 28-1497x)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The Children of New York City Deserve Universal Daylighting - Streetsblog New York City Daylighting is common sense: drivers and pedestrians shouldn’t be invisible to one another. And in most other places, they aren’t.

"As mothers, our worst nightmare is a car killing a child just for trying to cross the street," write @powers4queens.bsky.social and @cmjuliewon.bsky.social . "Kids are the city’s most vulnerable residents, and the status quo endangers them ... They deserve universal daylighting." buff.ly/yUjASQ0

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

Just looking at this is making my knees howl in pain

HELLGATE HAS SEEN ENOUGH

The second best thing about election night is the @hellgatenyc.com live stream.

Dunno if you have a kid who's allowed Spotify and thought that setting it so explicit content is blocked would, you know, block explicit content. But OH MY GOD, no.

I've tested it and it will offer literal porn audiobooks (with porn images), podcasts about self-harm and explicit sexual themes 1/4

Yes all of this and it’s astonishing what they push to the home page- which cannot be customized to remove content types.

We switched to Tidal for this very reason, very happy with the change.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Facts enhance animals, they don’t ruin them.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

www.404media.co/openais-sora...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...