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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 30/09/2026

Capitalism is a prison that we could collectively imagine ourselves out of if so many people weren't busy trying to become the warden.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 26/09/2026

I've been building some CX Operations tools. All open source. Go try 'em out. Use them to improve your Support team operations.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 25/09/2026

If I ever interview you for a job, please be aware that you are required to have a beverage with you at all times. Instant disqualification for not showing up hydrated.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/09/2026

Today is a Meathook Seed kinda day.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 21/09/2026

Pay an artist this week.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 20/09/2026

Hot take: Jev is pretty cool.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 19/09/2026

Gen is amazing to work with. Highly recommend.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 14/09/2026

We don't need to all act like a bunch of unpaid social critics. You can just live your life.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 12/09/2026

Say what you want about whether it's "really Sleep" or not, but I think Hempispheres is a great album.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 03/09/2026

Sometimes I get really annoyed with Claude's voice. The tone and the verbosity. Super aggravating. Then I remember how annoying some people are.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 03/09/2026

The difference between how people sound when they talk about Joy Division and how Joy Division sounds led me to believe for many years that there were two bands called Joy Division and I’d only ever heard the boring shitty one.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 01/09/2026

Technology was a mistake. We should have stopped at fire.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 27/08/2026

When Master Shake said "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this" I really felt that.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 27/08/2026

The vibes on the internet used to be fun. I don't know if people remember that or can even imagine that.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/08/2026

Anyone have any opinions about AI? Just curious.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A creature wearing a woman's body becomes a lonely man's girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot... "Not Like Other Girls" by @ghoulpus.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by A.W. Sommers Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

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Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 05/08/2026

Like the moon, I have also seen better days.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 05/08/2026

I am tired of nuance and "grey areas" and all that crap.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 04/08/2026

The world is a rich tapestry of the worst people you can imagine.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 17/07/2026

Is solipsism real? Impossible to know for sure.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 16/07/2026

Seems like a lot of the tech drama still happens over on X, the Everything App. Good.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 14/07/2026

Communism is when you provide services to the constituents whose taxes pay your salary.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 07/07/2026

What's even the point of stuff, you know?

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 29/05/2026

A lot of AI "analysis", both for and against, are best read as fantasy stories. They're fun. Some of them are compelling and thought provoking. Sometimes we cheer and sometimes we boo. There are protagonists and antagonists. But most of it is fiction and we should accept that.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 04/07/2026

Me reaping: "Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck?" Me sowing: "Well this fucking sucks, too. What the fuck?"

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 02/07/2026

Facts of Life melody: “You take the good / You take the bad / You add them up / It’s mostly bad”

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 29/06/2026

Pi coding agent with ornith:35b running locally via Ollama on my Macbook Air M4 with 32G of RAM is shockingly good. Not as fast as Claude Pro, for sure. But for most of what I'm doing, it's kinda great so far.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/06/2026

Just want to be clear that I'm not making fun of AI. I'm making fun of companies and capitalism. And probably you.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/06/2026

This just in. AI company says the best way to do your job is to use AI at all times for everything, consuming tokens around the clock. Guess that's what we have to do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 16/06/2026

This week's Bad Job Bingo is one of my favorites. Good lines, good rants, and good analysis, as usual. You won't regret subscribing.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 14/06/2026

"This AI art isn't real!" Surprise, assholes. Nothing is real.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 13/06/2026

My 3-year old asked me, “Daddy? Why does the sky taste sad?” I looked down at his sweet little face. All plump cheeks and bright, inquisitive eyes. So many eyes. Then my wife walked in and asked why I was crying and talking to the trash can. We don’t have kids. Weed didn’t used to be this strong.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 07/06/2026

There should be more public art. In general, and everywhere. Sculptures, music, poetry readings, you name it. In cities and suburbs and along highways and footpaths. And we should pay for it all with our taxes.

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Zach Holman @hol.mn · 05/06/2026

Every developer should volunteer for a non-profit on the side these days. There’s unlimited things to do, a magic tool for your knowledge that accomplishes things in minutes, and you learn a *ton* about a huge undervalued chunk of the world.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 01/06/2026

These are frustrating times to believe in prison abolition and not believe in hell.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 01/06/2026

It's fun to make fun of Microsoft and GitHub for Copilot pricing changes. But if you've ever worked for a tech company as they went through a pricing change, you know that the volume of complaints online have zero correlation to people's continued payments and the future health of the product.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 29/05/2026

Bootleg videos of mildly popular 90s bands past their prime is the best use of YouTube. Always has been.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 29/05/2026

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 28/05/2026

That feeling when someone's comment on one of your posts is so idiotic that you WISH they had used chatgpt or gemini to write it. Not copilot, though. Never that.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 26/05/2026

Buncha philosphers argued for centuries about what a mind is and what consciousness is and what even is a person? Well y'all better get us those answers quick. The global economy depends on it.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 24/05/2026

Everyone who likes AI has psychosis. Everyone who doesn't like AI also has psychosis. Nobody is in between. I will not be taking questions.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 23/05/2026

What do y'all usually do with the leftover beans after you drink all the goo out of the can? I usually toss them out, but that feels like a waste. Any good recipes?

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/05/2026

If I say something snarky online and you're worried that I'm talking about you, don't worry. I was absolutely talking about you.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/05/2026

Sometimes I look around and see the way people talk to each other and think, "Damn. Good thing they're all robots."

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 09/05/2026

I love pasta with garlic and sardines. One of my favorite lunches. But I hate the way it makes my burps taste for the next six hours. The universe has a way of keeping balance.

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Brian Levine @balevine.com · 22/04/2026

Bosses and landlords are symptoms of a failed society. Change my mind.

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