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@bront.rodeo
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less cyber, more punk. aspiring retiree. writing at blog.bront.rodeo

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brent @bront.rodeo · 23/09/2026
misunderstanding where something is on the cartesian plane and its orientation (like the teeth here) is a big one - also standard vibecode tells like color and font choice. most of that could probably be fixed with a few extra prompts, though!
a claude monster, its triangular teeth are oriented the wrong way
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brent @bront.rodeo · 20/09/2026
”no trespassing” would have gotten the message across just fine i think
sign reading: this property is protected by a United States Marine who is seriously lacking in negotiating skills, but is an absolute terror in combat. if you do not belong here, please leave. negotiations are over
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brent @bront.rodeo · 10/09/2026
a modest proposal
sign at toronto pearson that says “please ensure mba is chained and secured when not in use”
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brent @bront.rodeo · 04/09/2026
still think this doodle i did on my phone 3 years ago is probably the best artwork ive ever made
an ouroboros eating his own tail and saying “i’m going to show this asshole”
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brent @bront.rodeo · 04/08/2026
unfortunately the W goes to my haters today. congratulations to my haters
me wearing a mask and giving a thumbs up with a bloody and bandaged thumb
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brent @bront.rodeo · 02/08/2026
spent two weeks in southern africa without a computer and all i got was this lousy newfound appreciation for nature’s majesty
vic falls with a rainbowherd of elephants wading through a river a lion sleeping and looking incredibly comfortablea bunch of penguins walking out of the water
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brent @bront.rodeo · 15/07/2026
he is sulking because i won’t let him eat ant poison
a cat cuddling a blanket and looking sad
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brent @bront.rodeo · 12/07/2026
one step closer to going captain haddock mode
me hanging off a sailboat in the hudson giving a thumbs upme skippering the boatme and another guy on the boat
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brent @bront.rodeo · 08/07/2026
thinking about him :(
Greetings. I am a time traveler from the year 2036. I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975. My "time" machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two, top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid. I will be happy to post pictures of the unit.
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brent @bront.rodeo · 02/07/2026
mfw i have a vision of a better social web
sculpture of oedipus gouging his eye out
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brent @bront.rodeo · 29/06/2026
i took very few photos in berlin but here’s our hotel for time traveling perverts from the 70s
a very shagadelic hotel room
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brent @bront.rodeo · 24/06/2026
you think this means you have a message? you think you can get it to go away by checking your messages in the app? you fool. you fucking idiot. it means something else entirely and i will not tell you what it is
the slack app with a red notification bubble
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brent @bront.rodeo · 09/06/2026
met the cutest stray cat think im gonna adopt her
a foxalso a fox
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brent @bront.rodeo · 19/05/2026
i walked into this store by accident and now i can’t figure out how to get out
store with a big VIM sign
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brent @bront.rodeo · 16/05/2026
i was so stoked for the 10 seconds i thought i got followed by an app that actually tracks cetaceans. rugpulled again ☹️
“whale signals” app account that tracks crypto trades
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brent @bront.rodeo · 13/05/2026
"Mr. Andreessen has told friends a story about a confrontation he had about a decade ago with David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, at the headquarters of Condé Nast, which owns the magazine. Mr. Remnick’s team argued that the tech elite were out of touch, a person who heard Mr. Andreessen’s version of the story said, but when the investor saw how well appointed the Condé Nast offices and bathrooms were, he concluded that it was the media elite who were out of touch."spider-man pointing at spider-man meme
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brent @bront.rodeo · 11/05/2026
miss you, mom.
me, my brother, and my mom in asheville in 2018
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brent @bront.rodeo · 11/05/2026
here’s mine
da rockwilder - method man & redman (1999)
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brent @bront.rodeo · 09/05/2026
reddit comment: “the only time i ever use AI is for roleplay sex chats with Farnese or Morda. Aside from that, I really hate everything about AI”
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brent @bront.rodeo · 07/05/2026
i cannot resist a gadget (feat @themountaingoats.bsky.social)
xteink e-reader with Devil House on it
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brent @bront.rodeo · 01/05/2026
little guy update
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brent @bront.rodeo · 28/04/2026
if you are forming your opinions based on a profile with these labels it is the same as getting them from an LLM, to me. you cannot live like this without becoming a stochastic parrot
“‘made over 50 replies yesterday”
“posts over 20 times per day on average”
“replies over 20 times per day on average”
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brent @bront.rodeo · 27/04/2026
i agree. as we all know, there is exactly one canon star wars movie
poster for ewoks: the battle for endor
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brent @bront.rodeo · 24/04/2026
new deepseek
xi jinping with a huge chad chin
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brent @bront.rodeo · 05/04/2026
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brent @bront.rodeo · 04/04/2026
does anyone on here know anything about wiring pachinko machines? i have inherited a Project
a dusty old pachinko machine that is still in pretty good shape
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brent @bront.rodeo · 03/04/2026
good
a white cat sitting in between my legs blinking at the sun
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brent @bront.rodeo · 01/04/2026
my brother asked me to roast his new haircut
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brent @bront.rodeo · 01/04/2026
seeing an uptick in “fake event invite” phishing emails like this that appear to be working on relatively tech-savvy people, since they’re coming from emails i recognize. luckily i know to assume i am never invited to anything. stay safe out there!
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brent @bront.rodeo · 20/02/2026
not falling for this one. what i do not read cannot hurt me
NYT headline reading "The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver"
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brent @bront.rodeo · 12/02/2026
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brent @bront.rodeo · 10/02/2026
red pill scene from the matrix:
morpheus: I got us some drugs
neo: Thats Interesting because I take drugs
morpheus: And me. That's why I got two.
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brent @bront.rodeo · 06/02/2026
this is tomorrow!
crying soyjak says "only the present moment exists" while a time worm of a chad says "I am eternal"
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brent @bront.rodeo · 05/02/2026
look at that subtle pronoun placement. the tastefully nonspecific sexuality. oh my god. it even has a self diagnosis
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brent @bront.rodeo · 04/02/2026
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brent @bront.rodeo · 03/02/2026
Mr. Neil Security
darth vader statue chained to a tree with a wooden sign saying “mr. neil security”
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brent @bront.rodeo · 03/02/2026
been reading up on japanese folklore and it tickled me to learn that overly long isekai titles have a rich history that dates back nearly as far as the written word
excerpt from royall tyler's Japanese Tales reading "Although nearly every tale has a title in the original, I made up all the titles in this book. The old ones sound like this: "How Retired Emperor Uda Revealed the Ghost of Minister of the Left Toru, of Riverside Palace" (no. 190), and this: "How the Fox of Koya River Changed into a Woman and Rode on the Croups of Horses" (no. 207). Old-fashioned titles like these are usefully descriptive, but they seem awfully poker-faced.?
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brent @bront.rodeo · 30/01/2026
if you don't know of him, joseph redmon is the creator of YOLO, the first one-shot object detection network. he was one of the biggest rising stars in ML and probably could have gotten any job he wanted. instead he quit CV entirely because he saw this coming
twitter screenshot:
@pjreddie • Follow
"We shouldn't have to think about the societal impact of our work because it's hard and other people can do it for us" is a really bad argument.
Roger Grosse
@RogerGrosse
Replying to @kevin_zakka and @hardmaru
To be clear, I don't think this is a positive step. Societal impacts of Al is a tough field, and there are researchers and organizations that study it professionally. Most authors do not have expertise in the area and won't do good enough scholarship to say something meaningful.
Joseph Redmon
@pjreddie • Follow
I stopped doing CV research because I saw the impact my work was having. I loved the work but the military applications and privacy concerns eventually became impossible to ignore.
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Roger Grosse
@RogerGrosse
Replying to @skoularidou
What's an example of a situation where you think someone should decide not to submit their paper due to Broader Impacts reasons?
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brent @bront.rodeo · 27/01/2026
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brent @bront.rodeo · 27/01/2026
accidentally became deeply curious about what happened to the guy from the hikikomori wikipedia page
a japanese guy sitting with a katana in a dirty room. the caption reads "a young japanese man living as a hikikomori in 2004"
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brent @bront.rodeo · 27/01/2026
when everything is markdown
gohan reaching super saiyan 2 in the hyperbolic time chamber
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brent @bront.rodeo · 24/01/2026
thanks for this, brennan.
$100 donation to the women's foundation of minnesota
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brent @bront.rodeo · 22/01/2026
been thinking a lot about this bit from Debt lately
All of this helps explain why the Church had been so uncompromising in its attitude toward usury. It was not just a philosophical question; it was a matter of moral rivalry. Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand, and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison. For the debtor, the world is reduced to a collection of potential dangers, potential tools, and potential merchandise. Even human relations become a matter of cost-benefit calculation. Clearly this is the way the conquistadors viewed the worlds that they set out to conquer. (p. 319)
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brent @bront.rodeo · 13/01/2026
little guy report
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brent @bront.rodeo · 13/01/2026
Also
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brent @bront.rodeo · 13/01/2026
You already listed most of my favorite moments but I did love running into the person in the giant Snorlax suit as it got increasingly dirtier over the course of three days (filth not pictured)
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brent @bront.rodeo · 10/01/2026
Smoking that shit that turn you into Mr. Beast
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brent @bront.rodeo · 07/01/2026
Page from Great Teacher Onizuka reading:

"Education means a better edge for Japan's youth; a better edge for Japan's youth means better future computer engineers;
better future
computer engineers means better
advancement in the field of internet science; better advancement in the field of internet science means better porn sites. You catch my drift?"
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brent @bront.rodeo · 02/01/2026
deactivated my account for two weeks while i was in st croix and all i got was these lousy memories
chester, one of st croix’s world-famous beer-drinking pigs, with a bunch of froth on his snout a neat piece of coral with a brain-like patternme in front of the Very Long Baseline Array satellite telescopeme playing Balatro at Point Udall, the easternmost point of the United States
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brent @bront.rodeo · 13/12/2025
walked by your favorite restaurant last night
a sign saying “number 1 japenis restaurant”
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