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@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social According to IMDB, this is the full “cast” of the documentary MUSK. I truly hope this is an incomplete list. Kara? Cory? Why tech talking heads? What are *they* doing here? A nearly 4hr movie with no Tesla employees, owners interviewed? No VCs, ex-board members? 🤷‍♂️

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Poor little Apple just became a FIVE-TRILLION-DOLLAR company. Maybe now they can afford to fix their completely broken iOS Music app. [Who am I kidding, being unable to play MP3s that you OWN is a FEATURE to this company, not a bug…🤷‍♂️]

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A rare rainbow in the north-north-west this morning.

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Sometimes I wonder if CNN sells one or more slots in its “cnnmoney premarket” stock list to loser penny stock companies lookin’ for a, er, boost

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Awful crowded in the Pacific

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BoxOfficeMojo is always a little slow with the data, but still... it they say it just opened in the US on Friday and did $4.3M. And yeah, I never heard of it either.

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Fewer than 1000 people in the US, with a population of over 340 million, have paid to see this film in a cinema. That’s 0.000247% of the population. Pretty good flick. I dare ya to defy the odds and go see it: THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD.

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Wait—animal-style *fries*? Since In-n-Out refuses to open any stores in New Mexico (one can only guess why), the nearest In-n-Outs are all over 400+ miles away and so months, even years go by between visits—but I never heard of animal-style *fries*. Burgers, sure, but fries? Must investigate! 😎

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Molly I’ve so far listened to over 2/3 of your excellent, wonderfully-told episodes of the WLG podcast, and having recently finished reading Gil’s excellent NERD REICH, I keep wondering at what point these two threads merge to become Weird Little Nerds? 😎 @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @gilduran.com

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TIL that not a single pair of Meta‘s creepy, privacy-invading AI spy-glasses has sold at Walmart’s eyewear department here in Santa Fe, but that customers are buying them at Walmarts in Albuquerque.

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What IS it about movies featuring humans and dogs as main characters, where every five minutes there must be yet another scene of the dog slobbering its tongue all over the face and mouth of the human? Or show the human drinking from a water bottle the dog *just* licked? HEART OF THE BEAST, man. 🤷‍♂️

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Theory: These days, Apple uses its Mac and iOS operating system software updates as a gambit by which the company has a chance to once again re-set all the AI, iCloud, Siri, and other mothership settings back to whatever default states most benefit Apple, overriding users' wishes.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@gilduran.com only seems to acknowledge a NERD REICH post if you include the book cover so maybe this will help. 😎 Sure would love to get a response to the question posted above about climate vs nerd reich.... Just finished your book yesterday, loved it, much food for thought.

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Almost had me fooled there, fake-Paypal scammers, but, oops, your fake mailing address generator-script seems to have broken, lol 😂

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I mean, does *anyone* take Netflix’s recommendations seriously? A random-number generator written in BASIC on an Apple II could have come up with these suggestions. But I fear Netflix required a data center the size of Delaware, powered by the nukes at Three Mile Island. Blues Brothers? Pompeii?!

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE WEIGHT was good. Worth seeing. A rare action-adventure that feels like SORCEROR meets DELIVERANCE. It’s easy to imagine Eastwood or McQueen in Hawke’s role if this were a 70s film. Good directing, good script (couple of nice red herrings), good cast, good lensing. Good flick!

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RESIDENT EVIL is a misnomer. RAMPANT STUPIDITY would be a better title. If there’s one thing I can’t stand is fumbling, incompetent protagonists. This is based on a VIDEO game? (Never played.) It’s a remake of other R.E. movies?! (Never seen.) Zach Cregger’s worst movie yet, by far. Pure garbage.

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I assume you have seen the Icelandic film LAMB

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As will New Mexico's beloved oil and gas industry and state dependence on their money.

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So let me get this straight: In order for AI to work, and in order to justify 2000 Bluffdales‘ worth of data centers, every human on the planet, and ALL their personal info MUST be hoovered up into the AI maw. Gates is pledging $1B to grab people living outside AI’s grasp. For “equality.” Riight.😵‍💫

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

$4.85 TRILLION company so intent on telling its own customers to f*ck off if they dare try to own their own music rather than stream it, it refuses to fix such a wide swath of bugs on iPhone and in MacOS that it's now virtually impossible to even add music or a playlist to a phone, or do much else 🤬

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Seen this morning on the back of a pickup truck in Santa Fe. (Bigger question: would Jesus really drive a gas-guzzler with a planet-killing exhaust pipe like that?)

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AMERICAN DOCTOR - powerful, devastating, infuriating documentary on the genocide of Gaza. Find a screening. Go. See it.

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sometimes a paywall is a blessing, so you’re spared having to read how dreck like “reality tv” would ever be worth understanding or appreciating.

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

HOPE is the wildest, most insane, action-packed, exciting, thrilling, bonkers movie I have seen in A LONG TIME. Bigger than JAWS + CLOSE ENCOUNTERS + PREDATOR + JURASSIC PARK and very very Spielbergian. LOVED IT. SEE IT.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dog detective, with a nose for crime!