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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 2h

The irony is, the way this false statement is written, it certainly sounds like it was created by an AI. If they were going to fake a Le Guin quote, the least they could have done was ask the machine to write something that sounded like her.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Times is politically stuck in 2008. They have exactly no idea what most Americans are thinking or feeling right now.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The same thing they recommended on so many issues in 2024 and all that did was allow PACs on the right to imply that Kamala held a position even if she'd never spoken about it. All you do by not saying anything is create a vacuum and Elon and his PAC buddies are going to swoop into fill it.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Later, when Talarico is still trying to convince people he’s against those darn trans people as much as Paxton is, he’s going to wish he answered like this. With compassion and logic.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is also a good response when asked “what’s your position on boys in girls sports?”

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Among the many strategic mistakes of 2024 was the abandonment of the “they’re just weird” line of attack.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Take a little solace in the fact that Imagination Library has so many people trying to donate right now that the donation page has crashed.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

www.wired.com/story/silico... At some point someone somewhere in tech will realize that Tweeting is not the same as actually talking to people. I really think they believe they are being open and transparent because they’re on X all the time and think that’s how people communicate.

wired.com

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The solution is to find a way to convince our press that they don’t need to be willing lapdogs of every conservative extremist attempt to turn isolated cases into major national crises. See trans women in sports in the US.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This isn’t just about AI, it’s about a move away from teaching critical thinking and creativity. An overemphasis on STEM as the only education that matters. AI has exacerbated the issue, but the trend began long before ChatGPT was launched.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As demonstrated right here in this app: The European mind cannot comprehend a half time show.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Come on. The article doesn’t mention the increases in housing stock in Emeryville and surrounding cities until the very end. Isn’t making housing more affordable in the Bay Area part of what we’re going for? Home values have been artificially inflated by lack of housing for too long.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Mamdani has fixed everything!

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Letting the consultants push the mute button on Walz was a huge own goal. They needed a humorous attack dog and ended up with two versions of the same canned politician.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The market has become so disconnected from most Americans’ experience of the economy that it’s a useless indicator for any other than corporate health. And that was true during Biden as well, it’s why people kept talking about a recovery that people didn’t feel they were living.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Actively taking steps to make our kids dumber and then wondering why test scores keep going down.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

When people talk about quality of life getting worse, it’s not just the price of eggs, it’s shit like this. Things that used to be fun, developmental, and community oriented eaten by investors. Youth sports killed by profit margin. www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

usatoday.com

Lord of the Rinks. Meet the hockey CEO cashing in on your kid's team

Murry Gunty and Black Bear Sports built a hockey empire, turning the youth sport into a profit machine for wealthy investors.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

For the life of me, I don’t understand why you and other media keep covering things like this from him. It doesn’t hurt him, it emboldens others, and it suggests that anyone should give a shit about the random cultural opinions of business guy.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Seriously, why are you covering this? How is this news? Tech guy's opinion on movie casting is important, why? "Guy who has said racist, anti-trans things before does so again." No duh. At least, if you're going to cover it, be direct in the headline.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Steyer gives what is — BY FAR — the best answer by a Dem on trans athletes. Refuse the BS premise of the question and focus on the impact. The first step to turning the tide on anti-trans bigotry is to remind everyone that human beings are dying because of it.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I’m weirdly obsessed by reading about how shitty life on the high seas is. So, I feel like I can say with authority that the last thing these guys on the oil tankers — from the Philippines, India, Indonesia most often — need to hear is “man up and sail through the mines!”

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Trump wears campaign baseball cap during ceremony honoring fallen soldiers would have been better.

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Josh Petri (he/him) @joshpetri.bsky.team · 05/03/2026

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

And thus the tried and true Newsom tale continues. “Oh, people like that now? Yeah, me too, always have. Yeah.”

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Oh god no. The closest he got was through the filter of Verhoeven.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It’s not just a lack of philosophy, they don’t read anything that doesn’t reinforce their narrow world view. Le Guin, for example, is a sci-fi/fantasy author with a perspective radically different than these bozos.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This always ends well for us 20-30 years later.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I love all the people who haven't had to live with Gavin for years suddenly learning who Gavin actually is. Learn from those of us who went through this almost 20 years ago.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Our neurodivergent kid's fifth grade teacher recommended they use ChatGPT as part of their writing practice. Not to do the writing, but to ask questions that could help them make the essays stronger. Essentially, write the essay and tell it to ask questions that will help you flesh ideas out.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A luxury brand with more integrity and morales than the people who buy their products.

One of the Epstein emails where he is informed that Hermes is refusing his donation to their charity event.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Europe has done more, yes. Enough? I don’t believe anyone has yet. Maybe none of it ends up being necessary. Fine, even then we end up with a strong safety net for everyone.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We already have what? And yeah, I agree, that’s a possibility. But I’d prefer we also plan for the potential of a more basic change occurring.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Sure. But what's the regulation look like? Is it directed at implementation? Development? Does it come in the form of enshrined labor protections? We can either start working through this now or wait until the impact is obvious. Like we did with privacy on the web after Meta already had all our data

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Yeah, but Tim, regardless of whether or not this ends up being a big financial bubble, there's utility in planning for the possibility of impacts. You and I might not see this as a revolution, but a handful of CEOs viewing it that way fundamentally changes the landscape of employment in the US.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

That's true right now! Yes. So we should start planning for this to continue or accelerate. You don't have to believe the hype yourself to see that there are already impacts and we should start building plans for the possible ways this goes from here.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We need to plan for all of those scenarios. How do you start empowering labor to respond? What's are the changes needed in education? Etc. Etc. What if it's all just a market bubble? You can start planning for possible outcomes which usually helps blunt the impact when they arrive.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

But the point of the original message is that, whether it's worth it or not, we should have a plan B. Maybe this is all hype and the bubble pops? What then. Maybe some of it's true and a few jobs get disrupted? What then. Maybe a lot of it's true and everything gets blown up. What then?

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The more that comes out of the Epstein files the more it seems like Specter. Only worse. Bond never had to protect a bunch of kids from the decrepit old rich guys.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A friend and I were talking about the inescapable presence of gambling in the US right now. He asked what would change it and I said the first thing that came to mind, “Moms. At some point they’ll get sit of their sons losing all this money and they’ll rally together to fight it.”

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

How much joy can we take in one night? Bad Bunny bringing so much beauty and fun and love to halftime. The evil Patriots getting crushed. USA winning team gold. Amazon unintentionally making everyone aware of the dangers of AI and Ring surveillance cameras. Don’t know if I can take more.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Huh. I guess Ezra Klein and Matty Y are not in fact that average American voter.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Name them. Name them. Name them.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm starting to think that all those wild sci-fi stories warning us about oligarchs owning the most important parts of society were onto something.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A three skeet run destined for ignominy in the history books. Just a perfect encapsulation of a total failure to rise to the moment and lead. @schumer.senate.gov

Three Tweets from Senator Chuck Schumer recounting violence committed by ICE and then outlining the completely toothless reforms he is advocating for.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The moral contrast between the community actions in Minneapolis and Portland, and everything coming out of DC tonight could not make it clearer that it’s not a cliche, it’s a core truth. Power corrupts and great power corrupts absolutely.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Hard disagree. Both are great, but Bowie’s original will always be the best.

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Brandon Borrman @borrman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How many of us need to die before the democratic leadership moves to this instead of “I introduced a bill to require better training and badges for the guys out there murdering citizens”?

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