Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 13mNot to defend Rudy G but that was a very silly but slightly more defensible case of "announced a press conference at the Four Seasons before checking if it was available and then had to figure something out". This is so much dumber. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shit, that guy is Aella-adjacent? i think I remember reading some of his stuff 010
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Or they're just different photos. Not saying there isn't something dumb going on but I don't think they artificially changed the entire photo 001
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Not angry and I have seen this myself from a number of iphone users 🤷♂️ 002
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Idk, "will other people be impressed by it?" isn't the main question I ask myself when buying a phone but I get the impression iPhone users are more socially influenced on this kind of thing. 100
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every camera app including Apple's is doing significant digital processing on your photos. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Guessing conversations are a small percentage compared to scrolling 120
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026it sounds like you really didn't understand the criticism then 0450
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Yo dawg we heard you like distractionsstatic.klipy.comYo Dawg Xzibit LaughingALT: Yo Dawg Xzibit Laughing 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026AI detectors are snake oil, Max. They don't and can't work. 120
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026So what? It's not a thing basically anyone heard about and literally nobody experienced it. Normies who weren't following crypto hype didn't see those announcements and they definitely didn't log into prime to do some shopping and get pushed to try an NFT marketplace. 100
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Interesting! I thought it was in case one was messed up they still had twelve to sell. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And actually I gave you credit you extra undeserved credit on "Amazon was working on minting NFTs". I don't see any evidence it ever even launched. 100
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Like if you think what you listed are examples of "Big Tech pushing crypto" we are just going to have to agree to disagree. That's not pushing, that's following with the very babiest of steps. 100
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Do you see where my first post here says that Zuck was big on that stuff? Try harder. 100
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This was the frustrating thing about being a software guy in that period and since. Most real tech workers were not big on crypto and especially web3 because it obviously didn't make sense if you know how software works, but people seem to lump anything 'tech' into one big group. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Yeah, basically nobody in Bit Tech proper was gung ho about it except Zuck because he was casting about for something to make FB relevant. Everyone else very cautiously trailed the hype train, because it largely didn't make sense. 100
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026So, more Facebook, something it looks like Amazon released two years after the crypto hype peak and basically no one even heard about, an incredibly minor Twitter feature, and something Musk claimed X was going to do but hasn't. 110
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026E-bikes, cheap solar, and electric cars are kind of a big deal though! 060
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026You would certainly have seen a whole lot of crypto hype on social media but Big Tech specifically largely stayed away from it. Like, the biggest pushers of NFTs and meme coins were probably some of your classmates along with randos on twitter. 080
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think there's a kernel of truth here but it's real messy. If you're 25 you probably used Google for 10 years or more before genAI was added. Your first experience with Meta was almost certainly Instagram, which young people still like along with TikTok, which they *love*. 1180
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I don't know how young people experience it but it's just factually untrue that Big Tech pushed crypto and metaverse. Big Tech largely stayed out of crypto and Metaverse was entirely Zuckerberg, although how many people even experienced it? 210
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's simultaneously true that: 1) the average guy struggling to attract women will do better if he puts on some muscle 2) that's not the only way to do better 3) many women will not care 4) even for the women who are into there's a point where it's less attractive 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026If I'm understanding this right, no, it's not just a query. It can't just query previous visit records and see if anyone checked the aspiration risk box, it's looking at notes fields for things that could be worded a bunch of different ways. Not possible without flexible natural language processing. 240
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Original Moana: also bangers. They hired some other writers for 2 and it's got the same overall vibe but just doesn't work as well. 040
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Are you suggesting the major trends in tech have been what TLDs were popular? 120
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A student struggling to understand something in a textbook can ask an AI tool to explain it a different way. Completing the work isn't the only thing you can ask an AI tool to do. 110
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026(completing the work is not the only thing you can ask an AI tool to do) 010
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It can explain ideas in different ways to a student having trouble understanding something 110
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yeah just the kinda thing that seems 🤦♂️ in retrospect but hadn't at all occurred to me 050
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ooh, an opportunity to share a cover that got lodged in my brain recently youtube.com/shorts/53VWB...youtube.comWhat goes around comes around… (full version on IG)YouTube video by jessegoldmusic 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Also I feel like Newsom's greatest hits were from his social media team and Ossoff's are actually on camera 020
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The point of the OP is lots of people point to cyclists sometimes breaking rules as reasons to oppose creating bike infrastructure. Your replies in this thread make it appear that you might agree with that position. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Do bike lanes somehow make pedestrians less safe? Your arguments here aren't making any sense to me. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Bicycles are unquestionably safer for everyone than cars, though. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Not sure I'm on board with "physiognomy, but leftistly" 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Can you provide examples of people saying that anyone who drives to the grocery store is a "bloodthirsty murderer"? 020
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"cars are dangerous" and "all drivers are murderers" feel like rather different statements to me but your, uh, mileage may vary I guess 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Is he AI-paranoid to the point that he's assuming it's in documentaries because he hasn't noticed the advances in nature photography over the last 20 years? The Attenborough line is weird. 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"That’s an argument that needs to be sold then" is how you communicate that you're questioning your assumptions and willing to learn more? 110
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Well, it turns out they can cause anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide, although that's relatively rare and shows up very quickly rather than years down the line (ask me how I know!) 010
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026They've started doing some in Minneapolis that are basically just a different color of sidewalk. Lots of people are completely oblivious to it and wander in and out of the bike path. It's pretty bad. 150
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Also I did a teeny bit of research and that guy is completely full of shit about the highest IQ thing 010
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Buddy, *I* didn't really go to house parties in high school (probably not cool enough), but let me tell you about the shit we did on weeknights in my twenties... 010
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm sure this is part of it but I *have* actually seen people I know on Threads and some various internet celebrity (blogger, etc) accounts I know there. I think it may actually be on its way to the default normie text-based social media app (even if that means smaller numbers than old twitter) 000
Morgan @brawnvivant.bsky.social · 10/08/2026And I really don't care because I'm already over it. No Way Home (which I watched on an airplane rather than in a theater) was a hot mess of a script where essentially none of the major plot points made sense. 000
