brianstorms.bsky.social
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Author, THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon, 2017) http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6
In Santa Fe NM
New Writing Project in 2025
Music: https://confusionboats.bandcamp.com
Fmr startup founder/CEO
LBXD: https://letterboxd.com/brianstorms_
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Where have I seen the Dutch Tilt camera angle used before . . . where was it . . . oh yeah! The old BATMAN TV series
Has there ever been a better way to display criminals on screen?
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That's worth a LOL.
I mean, considering most cyclists demonstrate at every intersection they encounter, their utter disregard for safety or right-of-way. 🤷♂️
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I do plan to watch this somehow, but I hope the actual film doesn't rely on cheap AI imagery as much as the trailer does. AI imagery does not lend credence to anything, particularly serious documentaries.
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Reason 238746 why I prefer driving, even if 2000 miles
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Same old story as DotCom era from 25 years ago. Nothing's changed.
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And now we have optimized, maximized Private Equity operatives essentially doing the same thing to the US Government. Doubt it'll even need 5 years.
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Note how propagandists exploit social media platforms (which from a link generate a box containing a clickable headline, article snippet, and article's main image) make sure that that main image is maximum propaganda. Thousands/millions then see that propaganda image. Virus biology 101.
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Hence why I said "feels funded" not "was funded"
And gee, where have I seen that red light before ...
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Feels funded by the AI industry: just let us completely mine every aspect of your life, and we'll sell you back your own memories.
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Still have never watched a single episode of that show.
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Where's the effort to restrict ALEC-authored legislation?
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Full transcript here:
data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Docum...
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Here is the actual report:
www.ntsb.gov/investigatio...
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Binged the rest of the series last night. Superb cast, acting, script, scenery, story, everything came together -- just a great overall show, the best I've seen on Netflix in a long, long time.
And of course now, the question is: how long until Season 2? 😎
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Always with the middlemen.
Old-time business model.
Nothing new under the sun.
I don't want an assistant.
I don't want a company "assisting" me.
I don't want another company in-between me and the Internet. Got too many of those as it is.
Screw OpenAI.
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Ever heard of "Rip, Mix, Burn"? It was a little slogan by a company called, um . . . what were they called . . . um . . .
Oh yeah.
Apple.
One sets up a NAS. One makes backups. So, fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, other natural disaster? Bring it on, when you got backups. 😎
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Not physically owning the DVDs or Blu-rays but instead getting to "rent" them from the cloud, for as long as Apple feels like it until the day Apple decides they suddenly are no longer be available ("sorry, yeah, we know you technically bought them"), well that's not that great a Movie Deal imho 🤷♂️
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You wanna bet there is compelling data that in two weeks after some announcement of "two weeks," 80% or more of the media and the public have completely forgotten about what the public figure had said would happen in two weeks, so, public figures know to always say "two weeks" -- hey, it works! 🤷♂️
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I dunno. Investing in cryptocurrency still strikes me as investing in a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" so I will continue to avoid. 28% of Amurkun adults investing in crypto seems insane, but then that's about how many voted for the fraudster/conman/psychopath-in-chief so... kinda fits? 🤷♂️
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This feels like 1999 dot-com marketing. "Hey kids, be the first to pick four movie titles for no reason other than um we like to display things in groups of four."
I want to love LBXD but this kind of thing is you being timid not bold. C'mon LBXD, be bold: put a dent in the movie universe.
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Then it should die.
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Or, spend several years researching the setting, the institutions, the processes, the vibe, the history, the culture of the places featured in the story, and strive to get it at least pretty right, all the while working on characters and plot and themes and complete one spec script in 3-4 years :-)
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Yep, 100%.
Bad script. Phoned in. But they knew there'd be huge money even so. So they didn't care.
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I'm so f'in tired of journalists dutifully sharing and spreading every goddamn bit of nonsense Trump ever posts online.
You guys are being played. This is not news. Everything Trump says is lies. So WHY must you repeat them, spread them, amplify them? JFC it is so f'in obvious. Stop empowering him!
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Nah, just time to unfollow
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Or add a ($) style indicator immediately following the hyperlink. Something.
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There is no device or gadget that OpenAI or Ive could ever design, build, or sell, that I would ever use. I am so done with the very notion of "AI companions" before it even takes off.
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A taste of what's coming -- whole newspapers, magazines, books, music, movies, and then also whole "social networks," chat rooms, and web forums where everyone, everything you see is AI-generated.
The idea that AI will free humans to be creative? BS. AI wants it all. Humans are just in the way.
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Yes! THIS!
It is astonishing how EASILY the media is played by these cons. Year after year, decade after decade. At some point, it's not even accurate to say the media is being played. At some point, and we're long past it, the media is in on the con.
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In America, automaker marketing messages to the contrary, cars have always represented freewheeling dream profit machines for the community, connection, and shared purposes (read: control, power) of the Oil and Gas industry and their captured politicians.
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Mileage, it doth vary. 😉 This sounds like the kind of thing the feds play at top volume at Guantanamo (or, say, El Salvador) nonstop for days on end, as torture for the "detainees." 🤷♂️
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Squirming at the thought of sitting in a cinema at such an extreme angle 😱
#CenterSeatWayUpFrontOrForgetIt #moviegoer #movies
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Nah, this guy knows that 1000s of people (even on Bsky) will copy, amplify, and spread screen-shots of his idiotic, virally infectious postings, further wearing down society's immune systems that normally protect against stupidity, ignorance, chaos, entropy, and anarchy. Trump knows what he's doing.
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I hope and pray that it's discovered that dolphins communicate in a deeply encrypted, impenetrable format to protect themselves from the pesky humans.
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So THAT'S how they make leis in Hawai'i!
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It also reminds us that the streaming industry killed off DVDs and BluRay, so now theatres, desperate for something good to fill seats, are dredging up old films and attracting audiences to films that aren't always conveniently accessible by streaming anymore. Cinemas as DVD players.
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Five Guys should rename themselves Five Fives, since that's about what it costs to get a burger, fries, and soda there these days.
(Then again, way things are going, it's going to be Six Fives before long.)
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"Bracing for" movies: a rare moment when LATimes is accurate. We're long past "eagerly looking forward to seeing" movies.
Here it is May 16th, and the movies opening in cinemas today are generally . . . dreck. And in the coming weeks, a lot more Hollywood dreck: mostly rehashed re-dos and sequels.
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In case you're not fully cooked yet by Apple News' takeover of new-article-sharing on social media, here's the real link to the story, free of any Apple News meddling:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Staggering. Who would have thought so many people would be so easily duped, so freely willing, EAGER even, to simply and without hesitation SURRENDER the last of their agency, their humanity, away to The Machines. JFC, what idiots.
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I watched it, sure, in a cinema even, but that doesn't mean I liked it.
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How much you wanna bet any day now there's going to be a graph soon showing--surprise!--a corresponding drop in general human intelligence, media literacy, BS-detection, and general cluefulness? Also, how much you wanna bet nobody pays attention?
Idiocracy is here.