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Brian Dear
@brianstorms.bsky.social
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@[email protected] Author, THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon, 2017) http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6 In Santa Fe NM New Writing Project in 2025 Music: https://confusionboats.bandcamp.com Fmr startup founder/CEO LBXD: https://letterboxd.com/brianstorms_
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1h
good for Ron
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1h
(the agents probably handed the money to someone else, and THAT person gave it to him, so yeah technically, he did not take money from the agents)
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1h
Theory: advertisers hate that kind of content, do editors and publishers do too

Another theory: editor sraff at major news outlets have been secretly fascists for years and they see an opportunity to finally be fascist publicly

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 3h
Fantastic film. Great script! Time to watch it again.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 3h
Hey New Mexico, why aren’t you in this?
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 4h
Right out of the Tesla notebook, where, in an effort to avoid accountability, the company goes to great lengths to filter what questions can be asked to the executives during the quarterly conference calls and at annual shareholder meetings, resulting in zero-info, pep-rally cheerleading-fests. 🤷‍♂️
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 4h
I'm suddenly reminded of a scene late in Netflix's ADOLESCENCE mini-series, that involved a bucket of blue paint, and what was done with it.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 5h
There was a lot I hated about school when I was in school but there is NOTHING I valued and appreciated more, and in hindsight, am now grateful for, than the handful of enthusiastic, curious, deeply wise, and thoughtful teachers who encouraged and supported students and their learning.

Say NO to AI
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 7h
Indeed.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 7h
Completely agree. Tesla is now utterly untrustworthy.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 16h
Seen in Santa Fe, New Mexico today. (Now I’m wondering what the sticker said underneath.)
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 22h
I look forward to Mr. Balko and other journalists soon achieving an awareness where they finally see that these guys are outright *fascists*, that all they do is lie and commit whatever fraud they need to commit to get more power.

Aghast postings of every utterance of theirs: it doesn’t help.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
What the billionaires don’t seem to grasp is that in these dire times, the world insists on being there to witness the *their* “conclusion.”
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
Pure folly.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
He wants 'em moved to red states. This is just mobster vengeance, but money is money, and bidness is bidness.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
Not all people.

But too many are way too gullible. Too many are easily fooled by AI slop. As are media. Never fails to astound me.

Just say NO to AI companies.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
Very cool. Love that movie! Saw it when it came out at the 70mm cinerama Uptown Theatre in DC… vividly remember it. In some ways I liked it more than ALIEN since this was a scifi western, not space horror. The headline of TIME mag’s review back then—never forgot it, sooo perfect: “High Moon”
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
I’m willing to attend the local event.
I’m wanting to attend the local event.
I’m waiting to attend the local event.

But there’s no way in hell I’m going to attend the local event. No way. Too high a chance that easily-triggered crazies will trash my car. Will not risk it. So I’m there in spirit. 👊
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
This is some really shitty trickery, Sky Cinemas #SantaFe. If I’d known this was an effing #NETFLIX movie I wouldn’t have paid you $ to see it! But your movie poster MAKES NO MENTION of Netflix or anything else one expects to see in a movie poster.

Compare with an alternative poster.

#newmexico
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d
Sad to see PBS run a story in this propaganda framing. There is no honor here. This is just more lies and fraud, and once again, we see journalists and news orgs played like a fiddle, incapable of telling it like it is in an age of fascism. Thanks for enabling this further, PBS.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d
“Meal Team Six” 😂
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d
The coming collapse of the AI bubble will be sudden and widespread.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d
There was a semi-famous techie I once heard give a lecture, and one of his tips for success was everyone should include an “Enemies” section in their resume. He shared his own resume as an example. It was… creepy.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d
Sometimes a review serves as a public service announcement, a Nutrition Facts label for movies, a Surgeon General's warning label, detailing what's really inside. This is one of those reviews. A grateful nation salutes you.
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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting how many animal shelters and humane society locations seem to have pit bulls and such. Is there an over-abundance of them? Are they the most frequently abandoned/given away breed? Perhaps due to their reputation?