Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Impressed my coworkers with my use of Sharepoint. #KMwinstatic.klipy.comPaul Rudd Ant-Man: Sassy CelebrationALT: Paul Rudd Ant-Man: Sassy Celebration 010
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I still wonder how my kids don't get goosebumps while listening to music. I get them every time with songs like this. open.spotify.com/track/5QVASS...open.spotify.comI'm All Fired UpPinar Toprak · Captain Marvel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · Song · 2019 010
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I still wonder how my kids don't get goosebumps while listening to music. I get them every time with songs like this. open.spotify.com/track/5QVASS...open.spotify.comI'm All Fired UpPinar Toprak · Captain Marvel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · Song · 2019 010
Reposted by Brian McCannKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 30/09/2026A St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data centers could bring to the region. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)kcur.orgA Missouri scientist explains how data center noise is different from regular noise pollutionA St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data ce 0104
Reposted by Brian McCannRad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026If you want to know how stupid everyone is being in ireland right now 45121
Reposted by Brian McCannThe Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026now with alt-text 010151
Reposted by Brian McCannDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇levernews.comAI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc... 17478205
Reposted by Brian McCannRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all. 21833041500
Reposted by Brian McCannKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 24/09/2026Missouri legislators passed a law in 2022 making it a crime for school employees to provide students with what was defined as explicit sexual material. Last year, a judge ruled the law unconstitutional. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)kcur.orgMissouri Supreme Court to decide legality of statute that prompted removal of school library booksMissouri legislators passed a law in 2022 making it a crime for school employees to provide students with what was defin 042
Reposted by Brian McCann404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas.404media.coWatch Body Cam of Man Arrested for Just Cussing at a County MeetingCops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. 12293145
Reposted by Brian McCann404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’404media.coWoman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock CamerasCitizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’ 919476
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just saw a neighbor walking two three-legged dogs. Some good people out there. 010
Reposted by Brian McCannKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 16/09/2026The lawsuit, filed Friday in Cole County Circuit Court, asks a judge to allow the plaintiffs to represent approximately 162,000 registered Missouri voters whose signatures on the referendum petition were verified by local election authorities. (@missouriindependent.com)kcur.orgMissouri voters sue Denny Hoskins for $80 million over congressional map referendumAt the center of the case is a Missouri law that says the secretary of state must pay between $100 and $500 to an aggrie 185
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh, so a bribe. From a source that doesn't make revenue. This is what happens when corruption meets stupidity. 001
Reposted by Brian McCannRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One of the biggest legacies of 9/11 was the rapid growth of mass surveillance. Whether it's the PATRIOT Act, Palantir, or Flock cameras, Americans don't want more erosions of our civil liberties in the name of "security." 13442251285
Reposted by Brian McCannJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 461285797
Reposted by Brian McCannBetty - play 🌌AstraX🌌 please @neutronio.games · 07/09/2026The thing with AI is much like when Radium☢️ was discovered in 1898. It was used in paint, glass, advertised as healthy, without care or knowledge of the actual costs it came with. Historically, capitalists jumped into trends to sell a fancy new technology thing that just happen to kill you 10476169
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thinking of this great piece about the valuable work of trash collecting. youtu.be/iEQhuCzvYWg?...youtu.beI Tried Garbage CollectionYouTube video by Michelle Khare 000
Reposted by Brian McCannNerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sony claims digital games aren't really owned by players. nerdist.comSony's Response to Class-Action Lawsuit Sparks Controversy 032
Reposted by Brian McCannRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Rest in piece Pierre Damas Bel, another victim of Trump and ICE's sadistic cruelty. 401767672
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Another generational divide--I remember when cars had 2 keys. 1 for the door, 1 for the engine. Now it's just 1, but it's why we say car keyS (plural).static.klipy.comDr. Leonard McCoy: Yes, I rememberALT: Dr. Leonard McCoy: Yes, I remember 020
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Today my focus was at 0% until this beautiful piece: Danzon #2. open.spotify.com/track/7M89hB...open.spotify.comDanzón No. 2 - Live At Centro de Acción Social por la Música, Sala Simón Bolivar, Caracas / 2008Arturo Márquez, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel · Discoveries · Song · 2012 000
Reposted by Brian McCannRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead. 23379042764
Reposted by Brian McCannKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 02/09/2026“There should be protection of Jewish students, but there can't be a Palestinian exception to the First Amendment,” said attorney Bill Freivogel. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)kcur.orgIn Missouri schools, new law targeting antisemitism raises First Amendment concernsCritics say a new Missouri law requiring schools and universities to define and report antisemitic behavior is too ambig 062
Reposted by Brian McCannKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 01/09/2026State officials can’t spend billions in federal funding to connect remote areas to the internet until the Trump administration provides information on how to use the money.kcur.orgFederal delays are holding up $21 billion for rural internet projects, as states wait for guidanceState officials can’t spend billions in federal funding to connect remote areas to the internet until the Trump administ 143
Reposted by Brian McCannParanormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is hanging by my door. I think a lot of us need him by the door 151556522
Reposted by Brian McCannBrian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Post your getaway vehicle.static.klipy.comDelorean: Back to the Future Time TravelALT: Delorean: Back to the Future Time Travel 031
Reposted by Brian McCannThe Bard @joshuamneff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Post your getaway vehicle.static.klipy.comTegan Jovanka Upset at TARDIS ConsoleALT: Tegan Jovanka Upset at TARDIS Console 2132
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Post your getaway vehicle.static.klipy.comDelorean: Back to the Future Time TravelALT: Delorean: Back to the Future Time Travel 031
Reposted by Brian McCannCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“AI systems are made of multiple layers and never learned what a human is — they learned what humans statistically look like in millions of training images. A ‘person,’ for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics — and that is exactly its weakness.” 312558
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If the only person who could out perform you was Ian McKellan, you are a treasure. 040
Reposted by Brian McCannElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/08/2026“A lot of these companies are pre-IPO, so they’re focused on three things. They’re focused on market penetration, they’re focused on product differentiation, and they’re focused on valuation. And valuation includes the data that they own,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @kcdefender.bsky.social.kansascitydefender.comWhile Cutting Buses for the Poor, KCATA Signed a Secret Deal to Harvest Their Faces for a Private Company's AIA secret contract. No policy protecting riders' data. The Defender obtained the deal KCATA signed to harvest bus riders' faces for AI. 19447
Reposted by Brian McCannField of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The total public cost of a Royals deal is likely closer to $2B than the reported $1.14B — making the $1.9B stadium effectively a free gift to owner John Sherman. And it's a cost taxpayers will never recoup via new taxes from moving the Royals across town.fieldofschemes.comRoyals mega-TIF could see Missouri taxpayers covering John Sherman’s entire $1.9B stadium tabAlso on Friday, the Kansas City TIF Commission issued its Downtown Stadium TIF Plan, spelling out in a bit more detail — though still far from complete detail — what public money will be going to a ne... 02314
Reposted by Brian McCannRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Just 10 billionaires have already poured nearly $670 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money. 18044151859
Reposted by Brian McCannGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...newrepublic.comTrump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. 5829721563
Reposted by Brian McCannunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/08/2026ICYMI— A Chicago ICE agent has been identified as the man who pointed his gun in a Virginia driver's face last week in videos that went viral. We found members of his team involved in a slew of violent incidents recorded across several states in the last year. They're still active in Chicago:unraveledpress.comChicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to VirginiaA federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in a Virginia woman’s face on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been doc... 12643334
Reposted by Brian McCannSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.forever-wars.comThe Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBPRape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026 9243452036
Reposted by Brian McCann404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a... 5727831764
Reposted by Brian McCannKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 16/08/2026The city's existing plan would give $20 million toward a downtown Royals ballpark and direct the city manager to finalize agreements with the Royals, developers and incentive agencies to build the stadium.kcur.orgKansas City officials delay Royals stadium decision, while giving out little info about funding planA city council committee pushed back discussions on bonds and lease agreements for a downtown Royals stadium. Critics sa 011
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Listening to James Horner on what would have been his birthday. I can't imagine Star Trek or so many other movies without him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.wikipedia.orgList of compositions by James Horner - Wikipedia 120
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Book Jockeys won at pub trivia for the 2nd time! 010
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"A Talking Cat?!" is an amazing movie. 10 out of 10 every time. @rifftrax.comstatic.klipy.comJohnny Whittaker: What's Your Deal, Cat!?ALT: Johnny Whittaker: What's Your Deal, Cat!? 010
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Speaking to a room of 100 people--fun! Emailing a group of 30 people--anxiety fountain. Why??static.klipy.comPiper Chapman: I Don't Know What's Wrong With MeALT: Piper Chapman: I Don't Know What's Wrong With Me 020
Reposted by Brian McCannKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026Fascists lie all the time not to make the lies matter but to remove weight from the truth. In this way, sincerity is a weapon against fascism. It is how we embrace the heft of truth. 215953
Reposted by Brian McCanntallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers 2531021240
Reposted by Brian McCannBucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 09/08/2026Bucks County Courier Times’ Corporate Owner Enlists Palantir to Uncover ‘Actionable Intelligence’ on Readers | USA Today Co will use controversial defense contractor’s AI-powered tools in an attempt to squeeze out more profits & reverse declining readership. This should alarm readers & subscribers.buckscountybeacon.comBucks County Courier Times’ Corporate Owner Enlists Palantir to Uncover ‘Actionable Intelligence’ on Readers - Bucks County BeaconUSA Today Co. will use the controversial defense contractor’s AI-powered tools in an attempt to squeeze out more profits and reverse declining readership. This should alarm readers and subscribers, wr... 16202112
Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This is my first full Sunday at home in a month. Looking forward to a whole lot of getting nothing done today.static.klipy.comGood Morning Coffee with Pudgy PenguinALT: Good Morning Coffee with Pudgy Penguin 000