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Rep: Artistic Talent LA SAG-AFTRA actor Improv Comedy Performer Writer Reseller Californian * Subversive Hollywood * Los Angeles MarkRomanEmpire.com

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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's not The Terminator. It's The Big Short and Erin Brockovich. #AI
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“a previously unknown security vulnerability” is the new “mistakes were made” but with much less accountability
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reading “Enshittification”, which just referenced “Technofeudalism”, my last read. As an expelled student editor I can’t escape the feeling that having any normal human reaction is exceptionally dangerous. #literacy
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hi! I'm a union screen actor living in Hollywood. On set this week. Last time was November. For years I averaged at least 2 days a month of work. Any major studio's stock in your 401k or IRA is my moral authority to boldly ask: venmo.com/u/theMarkRoman
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When I see your Starbucks cup I immediately think: 1. you cross picket lines 2. you own a Tesla. Still. 3. you believe your large language model is Tricia Helfer
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Tricia Helfer Battlestar Galactica
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
David Ferris Ellison managed to murder 60 Minutes in mere months. What's next? Motherhood and apple pie?
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Matthew Broderick's 'Ouch Sheesh' Reaction
ALT: Matthew Broderick's 'Ouch Sheesh' Reaction
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I trust Erin Brochovich. Not Jim Cramer. #datacenters
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today's Word is DEFLECT. Thank you Jeff Bezos for your . . . inspiration! #deflect youtu.be/_uDOVm4of18?...
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Today’s Word: DEFLECT
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
About your AI usage. Look what you made me do. #word www.youtube.com/watch?v=geW4...
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Today’s Word: WORD
YouTube video by Mark Roman Empire
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Dear eBay: When Down Detector consistently contradicts your own “all green” system status page, it is a large Vegas neon billboard on the 405 screaming to buyers and sellers that eBay is ripe for some snot-nosed Diet Elon Musk, Jr. to sullenly attempt a patently absurd hostile takeover #eBayDown
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Is this limited to music? Or does modern American culture utterly and structurally hate any artist who fails the wealth or celebrity audition? #artistlife www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJr...
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Why Only Rich Kids Make It In Music Today
YouTube video by Rick Beato
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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eBay acknowledges ‘technical issues’ after users report outage
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Spikes in last 24 hours of users reporting their ebay, Microsoft Outlook, GitHub, ADP, Chase, AT&T, Spectrum, Verizon & T-Mobile are down. But journalists can't be bothered. Nothing to see here! #journalism downdetector.com
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Downdetector - Check real-time service problems and outages - US
Check if services are down based on real-time user reports. Downdetector shows live status updates and outages people are experiencing.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/04/2026
Incredible things happening at OpenAI per @theinformation.com. Sam Altman is rushing the company toward IPO despite his CFO’s concerns about compute spend and revenue growth. Now Sam Altman is leaving her out of financial planning for compute. Perfect! www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
The Takeaway
→ OpenAl is committing billions of dollars years in advance to help finance data centers.
→ Friar last year began reporting to the head of applications instead of to Altman.
→ Altman has excluded her from some conversations related to financial plans.
I Powered by Deep ResearchThose people said Altman has excluded her from some conversations related to the company's financial plans. For instance, in recent months he left Friar out of a conversation about server spending with leaders at one of OpenAl's top investors, one of these people said. Her absence was noticeable and awkward,
given that a previous conversation on the same topic included her, according to an attendee.
A different person who attended a senior-level meeting at OpenAI with Altman earlier this year said it was unusual that Friar was not invited, as it involved a discussion of major financial decisions.She told some colleagues earlier this year that she didn't believe the company would be ready to go public in 2026, because of the procedural and organizational work needed and the risks from its spending commitments, according to a person who spoke to her. She said she wasn't sure yet whether OpenAI would need to pour so much money into obtaining AI servers in the coming years or whether its revenue growth, which has been slowing, would support the commitments, said the person who spoke to her.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Feel a moral obligation to watch an episode of For All Mankind tonight #artemis2
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I bathe in the tears of Republicans not quite sure which Marvel character William F. Buckley, Jr. is #idiocracy
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Any moment now we’ll learn Mr. Beast is Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair #EndTimes
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Someone you'd be surprised to find in a Depeche Mode concert audience. Alex, Who is Eddie Pepitone #SundayFundayJeopardy
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Is My City Gone? #Hollywood #actorslife markromanempire.beehiiv.com/p/is-my-city...
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Is My City Gone?
A Day in the Life of an Alleged Artist in Hollywood
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
How do I remove ANY & ALL eBay Live from my ebay experience? Asking for a friend . . . #ebay
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
How do I know your #alogrithm is overpriced bat guano - sans nutrients? I follow Learnmore Jonasi and your intrepid cylon suggests I follow the kid that rhymes with Flat Housewife.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Are you truly a badass free speech attorney? I do not believe you. Not until Learnmore Jonasi reports you've reached out.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Spent 1.5 hours of my Sunday trying to communicate with the company I pay for . . . communication. Had to fight #AI to talk to a human. 3rd human was in the US. 4th human will fwd my concerns to management. Does #TMobile care? @tmobilesupport.bsky.social #CustomerService #profits #plan
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Guess who doesn’t want you to read Sarah’s book? I just finished it. #meta #facebook www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company
Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You mean it's as shitty as agentic "customer service"? Wow. Who knew? p.dw.com/p/528zp
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New study shows widespread AI misinformation – DW – 10/22/2025
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion. That's according to a major new study from 22 international public broadcasters, incl...
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Why such a fragile snowflake, Bill Burr? You can always become a dental hygienist and move to Idaho. I hear the Saudis are building an Air Force base there. Who says you can never go home?
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As an expelled student editor on the FBI’s Subversive’s List, I’ll never forgive anyone who took Saudi GOVERNMENT money to blow dry the regime that kidnapped, tortured and murdered the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi. Especially days after Redford died. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...
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@BioAnnie2 📎 @mauimom.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Linus writing “dear great pumpkin. Please do something about your evil cousin”
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Canada vs. America
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Motion to start referring to tariffs as "the war on Christmas"
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In light of #RiyadhComedyFestival I find myself even more curious about the late Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I just added this to my #WatchNext: youtu.be/BYKLXx8YB8U?...
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Kingdom of Silence (2020) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME Documentary Film
YouTube video by SHOWTIME
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Crazy how I can't seem to find any names from the #RiyadhComedyFestival lineup on the #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment Solidarity Wall www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com
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Committee for the First Amendment
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Tesla angry honking at the bus I’m on. #OnBrand
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Christopher Hitchens believed religion ruins everything. #AI is jealous, it would seem. Here's the latest example of what @edzitron.com calls the #RotEconomy: #Amazon #CustomerService
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
What would Robert Redford do? Bill Burr clearly doesn’t give a shit.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487
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Leia BlueSkywalker @blueskye2025.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/05/2025
Texas Bans Being Different Around Children theonion.com/texas-b...
Texas Bans Being Different Around Children
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I wrote this 3 months ago. Since then, many more aircraft "mishaps". And #Newark. Oh, and a 3rd fighter jet "fell" off an aircraft carrier. I'm sure it will all get better in another 3 months. Right? markromanempire.beehiiv.com/p/trains-not...
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Trains Not Planes
Establishing Artist Boundaries in the Idiocracy
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them. www.thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of...
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A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How To Teach Them.
48 million adults in the US read at or below the third-grade level. Some educators think it’s not possible to teach them. They’re wrong, writes Larissa Phillips.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Doug the Head? An unlicensed boxer from a Guy Ritchie film? Why is either Redcoat "defending" our border? #TomHoman www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...
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Homan defends deporting US citizen children | CNN Politics
White House border czar Tom Homan defended the Trump administration’s move to deport three US citizen children last week. Homan told CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez the children’s parents, who were in the US ...
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Consumers reported being less likely to patronize companies using: AI customer service representatives (50%) studyfinds.org/ai-making-am...
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Is Anything Real Anymore? AI Making Americans Suspicious Of Everything Online
The survey of 2,000 adults by Talker Research paints a concerning picture. Americans believe only 41% of online content is accurate, factual, and made by humans.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/24/h...
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42% of Americans under 30 say they're 'barely getting by' financially, Harvard survey finds
With student debt and everyday costs adding up, young adults say they’re struggling to cover the basics.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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The Industry Exodus Isn't Just Bad for L.A. -- It's Hurting the Environment, Too — The Hollywood Reporter
With Hollywood projects now often shooting outside of California, above-the-line talent are flying between their sets and SoCal homes on weekends and increasing their carbon footprints as a result.
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How do you celebrate Earth Day? Do you order food on an app that discourages walking & public transit? Or do you get curious about greener, mutually respectful delivery options? #sustainable #FoodDelivery #OurManMark #EarthDay www.instagram.com/reel/DIhsyyb...
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Mark Roman @markroman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"Don't be a victim" is code for "Don't be curious about the evidence that implicates me"
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