Brandon Downey
@bdowney.bsky.social
Infosec professional, photographer, math enthusiast, occasional augmented reality warlord. Peculiar but refined tastes in triangles, cinema, and cocktails. Some skill with Azad.
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Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Signal: bdowney.23
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Seems like you're saying Woke 2 is about Reconstruction.
Or, another thought I had: Exorcism.
Or, another thought I had: Exorcism.
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Seems like you're saying Woke 2 is about Reconstruction.
Or, another thought I had: Exorcism.
Or, another thought I had: Exorcism.
The water thing is easy to understand as a harm, but the other stuff is hard and requires a lot of thought on how to deal with it. Also maybe some fairly new harms we're just coming to terms with.
And also on the non-water-harm side, you have the existential risk people.
:|
And also on the non-water-harm side, you have the existential risk people.
:|
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The water thing is easy to understand as a harm, but the other stuff is hard and requires a lot of thought on how to deal with it. Also maybe some fairly new harms we're just coming to terms with.
And also on the non-water-harm side, you have the existential risk people.
:|
And also on the non-water-harm side, you have the existential risk people.
:|
When people complain about me doing this, I just nod solemnly.
The Sisko is _of_ Bajor.
The Sisko is _of_ Bajor.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When people complain about me doing this, I just nod solemnly.
The Sisko is _of_ Bajor.
The Sisko is _of_ Bajor.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but Domestic ... now.
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but Domestic ... now.
Related: I suggested the "Elvish Room" as a less offensive thought experiment than the Chinese Room.
![[Ben Garrison comic about the evils of searle's chinese room argument for AI, except instead of Searle's Chinese Room, it is Searle's Elvish Room.]
The left hand room has a wizard saying "I don't speak Elvish, I just follow the rules", and the right side is the "Deep State Data Center", where a robot eeds elvish writing onto a conveyor belt that says "Big tech AI Narrative". Also, somehow the robot is projecting a hologram of an older elf (Cirdan the Shipwright maybe?).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6vdgoinf4xl7teq4quvhtf5y/bafkreiavpd4vf7jupygbdwjhef2lfyujl7itth4hiicp2lsodpjgndqh6e@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Related: I suggested the "Elvish Room" as a less offensive thought experiment than the Chinese Room.
Can't wait for anti-pope to set up shop on Sand Hill Road (or is it Miami?)
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Can't wait for anti-pope to set up shop on Sand Hill Road (or is it Miami?)
Is that ... Lumpy Space Princess leading the exercise?
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Is that ... Lumpy Space Princess leading the exercise?
Damn I need that on a shirt.
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Damn I need that on a shirt.
For readers who don't know, Jack Chick is an ardent fundamentalist religious tract writer who lived in Southern California. I think his heyday was in the 80s, and I had family members passing them out then.
Most famous (for many) such tract:
www.chick.com/products/tra...
Most famous (for many) such tract:
www.chick.com/products/tra...
Chick.com: Dark Dungeons
Debbie thought playing Dungeons and Dragons was fun...until it destroyed her friend.
www.chick.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
For readers who don't know, Jack Chick is an ardent fundamentalist religious tract writer who lived in Southern California. I think his heyday was in the 80s, and I had family members passing them out then.
Most famous (for many) such tract:
www.chick.com/products/tra...
Most famous (for many) such tract:
www.chick.com/products/tra...
I think Nano Banana Pro soft launched in the last week or so, because it suddenly leapt ahead of ChatGPT 5.1's image generation (surpising since I thought it was about photo alteration). As I discovered teasing @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com, it has almost "solved" Chick tracts.
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I think Nano Banana Pro soft launched in the last week or so, because it suddenly leapt ahead of ChatGPT 5.1's image generation (surpising since I thought it was about photo alteration). As I discovered teasing @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com, it has almost "solved" Chick tracts.
Are you saying he's an... LLM?!?
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Are you saying he's an... LLM?!?
Krell machine but for memes.
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Krell machine but for memes.
Perhaps those people are confused by the fog of lies spewing from the lips of the likes of RFK.Jr. and rationalized by institutional media.
Not that it happened this week or anything.
Not that it happened this week or anything.
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Perhaps those people are confused by the fog of lies spewing from the lips of the likes of RFK.Jr. and rationalized by institutional media.
Not that it happened this week or anything.
Not that it happened this week or anything.
My god what is wrong with you.
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My god what is wrong with you.
I never forgive him for not shooting Nikon.
But no in my head he was borrowing it from the school newspaper.
But no in my head he was borrowing it from the school newspaper.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I never forgive him for not shooting Nikon.
But no in my head he was borrowing it from the school newspaper.
But no in my head he was borrowing it from the school newspaper.
We were on a trip to Europe, and my wife started binging it next to me. I got some sort of mutant food poisoning and was throwing up the whole flight; I couldn't focus so all I could do was watch the Pitt with subtitles. Kept thinking how smart Carter was to start a new life in PA.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We were on a trip to Europe, and my wife started binging it next to me. I got some sort of mutant food poisoning and was throwing up the whole flight; I couldn't focus so all I could do was watch the Pitt with subtitles. Kept thinking how smart Carter was to start a new life in PA.