Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Suspect that there's no such thing as "people that put this out" - it's just algorithms off the leash all the way down. No one watching, no one caring, no one deciding. The important thing is content go brrrrrr, money go up. 020
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This - was going to say that Point Roberts establishes the precedent. 001
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's been interesting watching Mo's arc - he started out doing an AI skeptic bit, then morphed into a depressed developer circling the drain, now he's marketing his own tools. Not sure if this journey is real or if it's just a long con. 030
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Great song, really takes me back. Used to good effect in the movie Donnie Darko. I recall Steve Kilby has written a bit somewhere about how he and his then girlfriend wrote it. 020
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just another variation on "Whatever Happens to Musicians Happens to Everybody" 010
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I sprinkled water on a fence lizard - does that count? 110
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In college my roomie and I did spring break in N. AZ and hit up the Meteor Crater just on the day before they filmed that helicopter scene. There were dozens of rented choppers lined up in the desert around the crater. We had no idea what was going on until the movie came out. 030
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That's an easy one: Anything that the D's want to do is inherently suspect and/or wrong, while anything the R's do is right and proper and must be pushed through ASAP. See also Obama's SCOTUS appointments. The hypocrisy is a feature. 030
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The news about LG's shenanigans is pretty validating. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I've been working my way through the series lately and *every damned one* of those books is full of gems like that. 150
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Having worked in RF and audio for my entire career, I was skeptical of your harsh judgement of the decibel. Then I read your critique and realized it's Stockholm Syndrome. Being in an abusive relationship with a measurement system is quite a feel. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Let me guess - it requires you install an app and it sends all the pix to Dyson servers. 010
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Love cicadas. Haven't heard as many of them in Arizona lately. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I can remember a huge banner with one hanging in the lodge at Heuston Woods State Park in southwestern Ohio back in the 1970s. Haven't been back since then so no idea what happened to it. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026That's what I did - got a cheap HP T620 from ebay (about $30), put Linux on it and set up a little file server. It's not a speed demon, but it's small and quiet and does the job with no fuss. 230
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I wonder if this place down the street is in danger. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026That wide-angle shot makes it look like they're dumping her out in the desert. Drone shots in the full video (linked elsewhere here) show that it's really a mudflat on a shore with plenty of water and tall vegetation. Hope she does well! 1222
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026His "Strange Cargo" series of solo electronica is in my regular rotation. Great stuff. 180
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yeah - we've done that twice. It was the same dealer and same salesman both times. Process was easy. Took a couple hours waiting for the paperwork, but otherwise no unpleasantness of any kind. The dude who did the final paperwork checklist reminded me of Henry Rollins - same look and intensity. 020
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'm in the Phoenix area, pretty far inside the suburbs and we get a lot of bird action in the yard. Mostly doves, thrashers and mockingbirds. Lots of lizards and bugs too - it's pretty fascinating to keep track of all their shennanigans. 110
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I watched that Stewart/Doctorow thing and yeah - they weren't claiming any link between LLMs & Uber tricks. It was a wide-ranging discussion of all the crap going on. A cornucopia of tech-bro shenanigans. 030
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thom...en.wikipedia.org33 Thomas Street - Wikipedia 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Arizonan here - you can pry MST from our hot, dead hands. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I did a little Euro module with one of those 64x32 white OLEDs and designed a 7-segment font for it that looks similar to VFD. Would be even nicer w/ better resolution and proper color. 100
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So sorry you're going through this. The thing that mystifies me is what motivates this other JB to hijack your ID? Is there some financial or reputational benefit? 140
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Yep - long ago some relatives had a Honda Civic hybrid that would shut the A/C off every time you came to a stop sign. That's pretty annoying in the Arizona summertime. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This is kind of like that Monty Hall "switch the door when he reveals" statistic - extra information biases the result. 010
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026That little disc flipping down off the structure around 0:19 was freaky first time I saw it in my peripheral vision. 000
Eric Brombaugh @emeb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Reminds me of the time our girl caught a cicada. She carried it around the house in her mouth with pride as it buzzed furiously. She was angry with us when we took it from her and let it fly away outside. 020
