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Jamie Hardt

@jamie.squad51.us
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Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer. He/him. CAS–MPSE–IATSE. MSP→LA. Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs. Avatar: Кругозор face. Banner: Delia Derbyshire working tapes Links: squad51.us

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 7h
With all due respect to this take, "Idiocracy" predicts a world where the smartest person in the world's first instinct is to help others and not exploit them, and the President and society support him. Everyone is 'dumb' but are also basically honest and can turn good intentions into good deeds.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 11h
The Stanford AI people are starting from a position of not knowing what consciousness or intelligence is, and very much wanting to invent a machine the proves they’re empirical and testable things, and so invent a machine that talks and sounds exactly like them.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 11h
We don’t have a consistent account of natural general intelligence either; these are speculative ideas or metaphysical concepts that some people believe will be made more concrete or scientific if they can make a machine to model it.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 12h
30 minutes is an insane amount of forbearance when LAFD response times average about 7 minutes.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 12h
We’re really partying like it’s 1349.
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Engadget @engadget.com · 12h
Immersive sound doesn't have to break the bank.
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This is one of the cheapest ways to add Dolby Atmos to your TV - Engadget
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 22h
It’s the Gell-Mann Amnesia Machine
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
Screenshot of a word-search on the article for "union" and it is not found.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
$5 says this thread ends with him demanding the A-10 be put back in active service.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Slap Shot Hanson Brothers
ALT: Slap Shot Hanson Brothers
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
It's very cute how these two get along.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
The Golden Ticket was designed to be a test of a child's character, invented by a madman who hated children.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
The Difference Engine just does a Taylor Series of the function in question the most annoying way possible.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
I have been known to mutter under my breath “at least I’ve got chicken” to the confusion those nearby.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
This movie stars in my favorite Feakazoid Fanboy rant.
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Fanboy Drops Disney Knowledge
YouTube video by TURBoBISON
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/10/2026
The parade of successes in Eisenhower’s term with coups and limited wars cooked the brains of the foreign policy establishment and set unsustainable expectations.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Congress: Pass the Bipartisan Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act (MPTERA). Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Pass the Bipartisan Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act (MPTERA)
Film and TV Production has been moving overseas, and American workers are paying the price. The bipartisan Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act would change all that, imm...
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
They had to let it run for a week to make sure.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
The Internet is good, the World Wide Web was a mistake.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
Real Kremlinology here
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
The doom loop widens daily, into a great doom gyre.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
Love to A/B test the news.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
They have to give the villains increasingly crazy outfits so you don’t notice every episode is (1) stealing something, usually money, (2) engaging in a chase, usually with cars on the same mountain road in Redlands, (3) shooting guns out car windows, (4) massive crash
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
The current protocol is to give the condemned midazolam (aka Versed) until they die, they avoid ever mentioning the drug because it’s also the standard sedative for a lot of outpatient procedures. Basically they try to execute people with the drug you got when you had your wisdom teeth out.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
Commando Cody?
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 01/10/2026
The look on his face, “what? Who me?”
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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Flanderization - TV Tropes
The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character. Most always, the trait/act...
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
Needs to retake the semester on non-excludable goods.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
I’m for making platforms pay rights holders but we also need to avoid the situation with, say, music, where the entire industry has cartelized around Spotify.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
Wallace Beery as Director Preysing, Greta Garbo as Gruzinskaya, and Jack Holt as the Noel Skum, the American AI Merchant who comes to the Grand Hotel to entrap her soul for eternity.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
A correspondent has been proud to note that we’ve found NNs forming half-adders and other combinations logic blocks as a result of RL and all I can say in response is congratulations on finding the most expensive way to add two numbers yet devised.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jami...
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
Here’s one, just because I’m enjoying doing psychic damage to people: George W. Bush was President when “Iron Man” was released.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
It was so long ago Avi Arad(!) was running Marvel.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
You are further away from the release of “Ghost Rider” than “Ghost Rider” is from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
I was at Sony when they were mixing this! I’d just fished working on “Hurt Locker” and couldn’t get a job on “Ghost Rider” (I knew the supervisor but they were crewed up) so I ended up getting a gig at a new company that was doing “High School Musical 3”
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
I’m sure it cleared just after the first week’s box office was reported… now let me just drink this big gulp of coffee when I look up how long ago “Ghost Rider” was released 💀
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
Poor things
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
I got an email from a company in an odd conversational register (I suspect it was just somebody’s Agent) pitching me on turning my LinkedIn page into a podcast (?). I ignored it as spam but 3 days later I got another email in the same tone giving me “one more chance to jump on the opportunity.”
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
At trial the evidence was incredibly thin: allegedly she killed dozens of women but it was always some girl with no last name from a remote town no one had met; her servants’ testimony was extracted through torture; nobles claimed she had murdered nieces and granddaughters that may not have existed.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
I thought the thing about Bathory was that her entire murder rap, as such, was a myth concocted by the Habsburgs so they could annex her county by forfeiture, and a bunch of locals and petty aristocrats went along with it because she was a woman and a Protestant.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
hmmm…. Two incorporated cities with a population greater than 250k each and seated no more than 10 miles apart.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026
Can a cultural epoch have Main Character Syndrome? Like, more than any other cultural epoch?
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
Two hours trying different bitmasks for chmod .ssh.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
I dunno, it sounds like a lot of hagiographies! Origen and Augustine weren’t winning congeniality contests either. The premise though is all his bad acts and offenses against his loved ones are worth it because the art is so good, it’s all His Process—is it worth it though? Is it REALLY his process?
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
The Rabbinate of California, Nevada State Gaming Commission and the College Board have certified this film.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
See also: the sad decline of the THX System.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
I’m not sure exactly what we’re encouraged to think about Fosse re Palmer/Verdon, we’re certainly not getting the whole story. There’s being confessional and then there’s getting ahead of the allegations, one man’s self-criticism could be in another context a limited hangout.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
Hmm unless he’s a masochist; I love this movie and Fosse is very hard on himself but he also does center himself. The movie literally ends when he dies: imagine how harsher it would be to hear John Lithgow or Leland Palmer’s characters talking about him the day after.
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 29/09/2026
All modern airships in use are semi-rigid airships, where the envelope has a minimal structure to maintain the shape of the envelope and support the empennage, but the structure cannot maintain the shape of the envelope without positive pressure from the lifting gas.
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