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Brian McCann

@writerbrarian.bsky.social
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Writer/Librarian. Legal KM, UX. Rugged Maniac. DnD game master. Spending summers with the Athena Cabin.

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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Impressed my coworkers with my use of Sharepoint. #KMwin
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Paul Rudd Ant-Man: Sassy Celebration
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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...
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I'm All Fired Up
Pinar Toprak · Captain Marvel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · Song · 2019
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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...
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I'm All Fired Up
Pinar Toprak · Captain Marvel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · Song · 2019
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 30/09/2026
A 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)
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A Missouri scientist explains how data center noise is different from regular noise pollution
A St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data ce
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
If you want to know how stupid everyone is being in ireland right now
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh hell no, Spotify.
Spotify option screen for contextual suggestions.
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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
now with alt-text
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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David 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👇
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AI 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...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump 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.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 24/09/2026
Missouri 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)
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Missouri Supreme Court to decide legality of statute that prompted removal of school library books
Missouri legislators passed a law in 2022 making it a crime for school employees to provide students with what was defin
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas.
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Watch Body Cam of Man Arrested for Just Cussing at a County Meeting
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
Citizens 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.’
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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Citizens 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.’
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just saw a neighbor walking two three-legged dogs. Some good people out there.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 16/09/2026
The 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)
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Missouri voters sue Denny Hoskins for $80 million over congressional map referendum
At the center of the case is a Missouri law that says the secretary of state must pay between $100 and $500 to an aggrie
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh, so a bribe. From a source that doesn't make revenue. This is what happens when corruption meets stupidity.
News clip of Trump offering every citizen a $5k payment if republicans win elections. He says the money might come from "terrific revenue".
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One 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."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: 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-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 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.
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Betty - play 🌌AstraX🌌 please @neutronio.games · 07/09/2026
The 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
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thinking of this great piece about the valuable work of trash collecting. youtu.be/iEQhuCzvYWg?...
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I Tried Garbage Collection
YouTube video by Michelle Khare
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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sony claims digital games aren't really owned by players.
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Sony's Response to Class-Action Lawsuit Sparks Controversy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rest in piece Pierre Damas Bel, another victim of Trump and ICE's sadistic cruelty.
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another 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).
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Dr. Leonard McCoy: Yes, I remember
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today my focus was at 0% until this beautiful piece: Danzon #2. open.spotify.com/track/7M89hB...
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Danzón No. 2 - Live At Centro de Acción Social por la Música, Sala Simón Bolivar, Caracas / 2008
Arturo Márquez, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel · Discoveries · Song · 2012
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Never 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.
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KCUR (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)
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In Missouri schools, new law targeting antisemitism raises First Amendment concerns
Critics say a new Missouri law requiring schools and universities to define and report antisemitic behavior is too ambig
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 01/09/2026
State 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.
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Federal delays are holding up $21 billion for rural internet projects, as states wait for guidance
State officials can’t spend billions in federal funding to connect remote areas to the internet until the Trump administ
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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is hanging by my door. I think a lot of us need him by the door
I am not in trouble and no one is mad at me
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle.
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Delorean: Back to the Future Time Travel
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The Bard @joshuamneff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle.
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Tegan Jovanka Upset at TARDIS Console
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle.
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Delorean: Back to the Future Time Travel
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Citizen.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.”
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If the only person who could out perform you was Ian McKellan, you are a treasure.
In 1980, Curry formed part of the original cast in the Broadway show Amadeus, playing the title character, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Curry was nominated for his first Tony Award (Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play) for this role but lost out to his co-star Ian McKellen, who played Antonio Salieri.
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Electronic 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.
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While Cutting Buses for the Poor, KCATA Signed a Secret Deal to Harvest Their Faces for a Private Company's AI
A secret contract. No policy protecting riders' data. The Defender obtained the deal KCATA signed to harvest bus riders' faces for AI.
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Quote. We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
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Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The 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.
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Royals mega-TIF could see Missouri taxpayers covering John Sherman’s entire $1.9B stadium tab
Also 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...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just 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.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump'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...
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Trump’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.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/08/2026
ICYMI— 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:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A 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...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 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...
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 16/08/2026
The 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.
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Kansas City officials delay Royals stadium decision, while giving out little info about funding plan
A city council committee pushed back discussions on bonds and lease agreements for a downtown Royals stadium. Critics sa
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Listening 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...
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List of compositions by James Horner - Wikipedia
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Book Jockeys won at pub trivia for the 2nd time!
Scoreboard showing team called Book Jockeys in 1st place.
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"A Talking Cat?!" is an amazing movie. 10 out of 10 every time. @rifftrax.com
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Johnny Whittaker: What's Your Deal, Cat!?
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Speaking to a room of 100 people--fun! Emailing a group of 30 people--anxiety fountain. Why??
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Piper Chapman: I Don't Know What's Wrong With Me
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026
Fascists 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.
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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers
Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 09/08/2026
Bucks 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.
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Bucks County Courier Times’ Corporate Owner Enlists Palantir to Uncover ‘Actionable Intelligence’ on Readers - Bucks County Beacon
USA 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...
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Brian McCann @writerbrarian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is my first full Sunday at home in a month. Looking forward to a whole lot of getting nothing done today.
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Good Morning Coffee with Pudgy Penguin
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