Brian Dear

@brianstorms.bsky.social

Author, THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon, 2017): http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6 Fmr. tech startup founder/CEO. Anti-AI. In Santa Fe NM. Writer, Musician. Music: https://confusionboats.bandcamp.com Film nut: https://letterboxd.com/brianstorms_

Find the road sign in this picture. Welcome to Santa Fe County, where nobody cares about maintaining road signs, including, you know, visibility. This is extremely common all over Santa Fe.

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I now call this site MuteSky, since I have like over 100 words and phrases muted now, more piling on every week. Have never understood the Godzilla fetish and choose to remain not understanding it. I still blame ComicCon for ruining the American movie industry.

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@premarcu.bsky.social WHY did you add me to the “AI Builders” list?! Please, take me off that at once. I fucking loathe AI and AI companies, and I have absolutely fucking nothing to do with AI or AI companies other than deep distrust and hatred so I have zero fucking business being on that list.😡

Glad to see Santa Fe is pissed off at its public school system’s embrace of yet more edtech vendor crap. Infuriating how gullible and clueless (bribable?) school administrators always seem to be when it comes to edtech vendors/hustlers. Flyer, seen on the bulletin board at a coffee shop in town:

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Exhibit 832746 for "Why Google Is The #1 Customer Avoidance Company In The World" 1. Tell me to fill out a long support ticket. 2. Send me a "KNOWLEDGE TEST" to test my knowledge of my own account to confirm it's me. 3. The email address they sent from: "noreply" 4. I reply anyway, but it bounces.🤷‍♂️

Classic July day in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the birthplace of all those epic 500-mile-wide summer thunderstorms which, unfortunately, leave New Mexico mostly (or entirely) dry, but manage to skoot over to wreaking apocalyptic havoc on Kansas and/or Nebraska on their way to Minneapolis or Chicago.

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If you love British Invasion rock and pop of the 60s plus the LA music scene of 70s, run, don’t walk, to your nearest cinema showing PETER ASHER: EVERYWHERE MAN, a really well-done documentary with stories galore.

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Robert Towne, screenwriter of CHINATOWN, on John Huston’s central role of the evil patriarch Noah Cross in the film. Noah Cross, put in this light, sounds exactly like Trump and so many Trumpists: real-life, selfish, lying psychopaths who chose the path of nothing but evil.

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U.S. film distributors seem to have once again buried a deserving, timely, important documentary from being released wide in the U.S. Absolute cowards! ASK E. JEAN? You can’t see it in America, because fascism. Who knew FASCISM would end global warming, what with all its chilling effects? 🤷‍♂️

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Of the 2,800 likes to this latest Bluesky-a-rama on the damn Cybertruck, I sure wonder how many of those likers have exhaust pipes sticking out of their own vehicles. I wonder if the feel-good social-media hatred on EVs is a guilt-driven, public, coping performance to justify keeping fossil cars.

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🧵THREAD: Bluesky's Age Verification Fiasco. So this is the situation as I see it. 1. Bluesky started blocking users from accessing the service because of a very bad Texas law. /1

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Well, I have my THE ODYSSEY ticket for tomorrow. But know that I go into ODYSSEY arguing that everybody should see the 2024 film THE RETURN. And until and only if ODYSSEY proves otherwise, I will argue RETURN is the better film. We shall see.

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