Brian Richardson
@siliconchef.bsky.social
Professional nerd, video producer, homebound world traveler. As seen on DragonConTV. NerdSteading on YouTube & siliconchef on 📷.
Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.
I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
The Ellison Credibility Crisis
The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...
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They didn’t lose it - they threw it away
Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 22h agoGOP senators have lost the plot.
THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h agoBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
oregonlive.com
Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie
RIP to all the method actors who had background parts in The Oddessey as 'ship's crew'. Y'all should have stuck with traditional acting techniques. 💀🪦
Signal boost for any of my friends attending both @dragoncon.org and The Dragon Awards. I'd offer to do this but... (a) I can't guarantee I'm available at that time due to my con schedule being perpetually TBD, and (2) I can't guarantee her speech won't make me cry like her stories often do.
Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · yesterdayHey is anyone going to DragonCon who would be willing to accept the Eugie Foster Award and read my speech if I should be lucky enough to win?
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Will this #SharkWeek be better? In the past, researchers were not impressed and found:
Beware of ‘Shark Week’: Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male ‘experts’ named Mike
A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
theconversation.com
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
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I saw an IMAX film once, and I had to keep turning my head to see bits of it. Like, you spent all that money making the film - why am I panning?