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Patrick Brennan

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Apprentice Greybeard. Aspiring Playwright. Wannabe Gamedev.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is so cool!
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
his name already tells you everything, right
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this morherfucker belongs in jail for all the suffering he has caused
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
wow! elon can break the first law of thermodynamics! we're all saved!
My Tesla somehow has computed that in the last ten minutes of driving (when it was definitely not charging!) it actually gained energy. I have no idea how that could happen or not be flagged by a competently designed system as possibly indicating a faulty sensor or the like. Anyway I was amused by seeing this.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a great documentary! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...
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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
you know folks, maybe peter thiel isn't as smart as he thinks he is
from page 85 of THE NERD REICH by Gil Durán : 

"At the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where Thiel first lived after his parents immigrated to the United States, Thiel delivered a tech-themed speech that, echoing Yarvin and Srinivasan, depicted the nation as a broken product in need of restoration. 'Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks,' he said. 'Our newest fighter jets can’t even fly in the rain. And it would be kind to say the government’s software works poorly, because much of the time it doesn’t even work at all. This is a staggering decline for the country that completed the Manhattan Project. 

**We don’t accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government.**

**Tonight, I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald Trump,**' he concluded, to thundering applause."

(emphasis mine)
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
five thousand bucks! Oh boy! what are YOU gonna do with YOUR "trump dividend"???
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.
campaign-trails.ghost.io
Denouncing Extremists
One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As a non-productive resident of Friscorp, perhaps Curtis Yarvin should have been converted into biodeisel?
Page 67 of THE NERD REICH, by Gil Duran. Curtis Yarvin is recounting his financial failure before Peter Thiel became his benefactor, i.e. before he stopped being a parasite on his wife and started become a parasite on Thiel : "And by like 2011 or 2010, I had two kids and was completely out of money ... And I also was depending on the kindness of my wife and my mother, neither of whom was rich. My wife just had a day job as a tech writer. And they basically were like, ‘Hey, you gotta actually fund this and make this a thing, or get a fucking job,’ because they were basically, like, here I was for the last ten years, as a parent with kids, basically no income to speak of, no savings. And what am I doing? I’m doing these insane fucking projects. One of them is just this weird-ass blog, right?"
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I guess orbiting data centers have one upside: no noise pollution
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
surely this is worth giving up on clean air and water and healthcare and safe food and living with some dignity right? infiniteslop.ai
infiniteslop.ai
Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai
An endless AI-generated TV channel where the chat decides what airs next.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think in the end the societal/economic impact of LLMs will be less than GPS* but more than the CueCat * which is a lot more than most people realize
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Five Guys and Six Fingers Burgers
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

OUR MILITARY EATS THE BEST!

Nobody feeds our brave troops better th me. The food is AMAZING--the best mil food EVER! Other countries wish they c feed their soldiers this well.

TOTAL WIN!

Picture of a service member with six fingers eating a huge burger with a tray of food in front of him.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
After bush, I didn't think it was possible that the republicans could find and support a stupider, crueler, and more awful human as president, but here we are. Just look at the shit-stain that inhabits the white house. I shudder to think of what they'll come up with next.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
yes, we know. carbuzz.com/study-links-...
carbuzz.com
Psychopaths And Sadists Like Loud Exhausts, Says Study
A new study from a Canadian university reveals that those who like loud combustion noises may have
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
100% on brand arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
didn't try to fire ozzy, is what we learned
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An old cult classic, which will remind you of J.G. Ballard, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg. TETSUO: THE IRON MAN www.kanopy.com/en/redwoodci...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff says he does not want his young daughters "to grow up in a world defined by the values of Donald J. Trump"
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
greatest deal maker ever
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JoanKay @joankay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
there's a difference these days?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Urbana Days: a new computer learns how to sing, and dreams of the day it may be installed in a space ship and travel the solar system.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I used to like Sonos, but man have they ever shit the bed. Their latest app updates are just an enormous fuck you to their customers. Bye Sonos.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I fixed a minor bug in this many years ago, possibly my single most enduring contribution to the western canon
Splash screen for the Atari 7800 port of CHOPLIFTER! noting that the port was implemented by ibidinc.
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 14/07/2026
Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’
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Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Slept in my Bad Religion shirt and now I Want to Conquer the World
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I find it hard to believe this music video of "Common People" made entirely of clips from Star Trek: The Original Series has been around for 15 years, and yet I only stumbled across it tonight. How is that possible? But — nicely done! youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs
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"Fan" Star Trek Original Series Clip to "Common People" by William Shatner
YouTube video by LordRicco666
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
futurism.com
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif.
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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I want companies that have profited from contracts with ICE to go out of business. I want companies that have gone all in on AI to go out of business. I want companies that cause nationwide diarrhea outbreaks to go out of business. I want companies that give money to fascists to go out of business.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A World of Empire open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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A World of Empire
Lecture two of my new lecture series: "Hitler and Stalin Today."
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"The new Starlink satellites burned up in the atmosphere roughly 20 minutes after deployment, as Starship still isn’t capable of reaching Earth orbit." Am I missing something? Because this sounds pretty pointless. techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/s...
techcrunch.com
SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure | TechCrunch
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
LOL, as if David Fucking Brooks has something worthwhile to say about AI. Or, really, about anything. @theatlantic.com
Pitch for an article in the Atlantic: 

The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

By David Brooks

What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I've lost count. Are we in Gulf War 4 or 5?
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I think this is exactly correct. Take note, now, of who the decent ones are, and remember. Take note of the others, too, and don't forget.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If this asshole was a black guy, exactly how many minutes do you think would pass before he was in prison? www.propublica.org/article/mark...
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"get the point across"
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
we now return you to our regularly scheduled murder spree by fascist government thugs in masks, already in progress
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Platner's new first name is Whatabout
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Does anyone remember the Amazon phone? I used to work for Amazon and I don't even remember what they called it. A few people will buy Elon's XPhone, I'm sure; probably a lot of the same people who bought Cybertrucks.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
on behalf of my dog, I sincerely hope I am listening to the sound of some dumbass's fingers getting blown off
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th of July!
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
what a bunch of total losers
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A reminder that as you see photos of those Patriot Front douchebags today, they are marching on a holiday because none of them have anywhere else to be. None of them have friends or family who want them around on a holiday. No one is missing them today. They're already with their only friends.
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Patrick Brennan @patrickmbrennan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"comedy is legal again"
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