Kent Brewster
@kentbrew.com
Web Guy, WebMD, Yahoo!, Netflix, Pinterest, Eldera, and Coconut Wireless.
Ping me before your Kaua'i trip and I'll save you a bunch of time, money, and heartache.
If you look me up on Wikipedia you'll find an SF writer by the same name. This is also me.
Ping me before your Kaua'i trip and I'll save you a bunch of time, money, and heartache.
If you look me up on Wikipedia you'll find an SF writer by the same name. This is also me.
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Kent Brewster
@kentbrew.com
· Jan 29
a man in an office cubicle is talking about energy vampires
ALT: a man in an office cubicle is talking about energy vampires
media.tenor.com
Colonize them. Meaning: reply only with the phrase "Okay, Colin" and a choice Colin Robinson Energy Vampire gif. If they block you, you win!
Nerding out over Pluribus with Ryan, who is visiting for Turkey Day. Mesh networks and ping times just came up. <3
Here he is 19 years ago at the original Yahoo! Hack Day; these days he's building interesting things for Big Finance.
www.flickr.com/photos/rcrow...
Here he is 19 years ago at the original Yahoo! Hack Day; these days he's building interesting things for Big Finance.
www.flickr.com/photos/rcrow...
The Littlest Hacker
www.flickr.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Nerding out over Pluribus with Ryan, who is visiting for Turkey Day. Mesh networks and ping times just came up. <3
Here he is 19 years ago at the original Yahoo! Hack Day; these days he's building interesting things for Big Finance.
www.flickr.com/photos/rcrow...
Here he is 19 years ago at the original Yahoo! Hack Day; these days he's building interesting things for Big Finance.
www.flickr.com/photos/rcrow...
ICE raid out our way scooped up a bunch of people working for a guy who was stealing their wages for years. I'm wondering now if he made the call himself rather than paying what he owed....
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/07/i...
More background here:
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/07/i...
More background here:
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
Immigration raid targets cleaning company employees months after wage settlement
Experts say the labor department investigation likely put the company on federal radar for immigration investigators.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
ICE raid out our way scooped up a bunch of people working for a guy who was stealing their wages for years. I'm wondering now if he made the call himself rather than paying what he owed....
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/07/i...
More background here:
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/07/i...
More background here:
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
This right here is why @laughingsquid.com is a national treasure that must be protected at all costs. (Do not neglect the Related Posts, which link to Bill Nye cha-cha-ing to "Weird Science" on Dancing with the Stars.)
The 1994 "Momentum" episode of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" featured a science parody of the Morrissey song "The More You Ignore Me". laughingsquid.com/bill-nye-sci...
A Clever Science Parody of Morrissey's 'The More You Ignore Me' by 'Bill Nye the Science Guy'
The 1994 "Momentum" episode of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" featured a science parody of the Morrissey song "The More You Ignore Me".
laughingsquid.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This right here is why @laughingsquid.com is a national treasure that must be protected at all costs. (Do not neglect the Related Posts, which link to Bill Nye cha-cha-ing to "Weird Science" on Dancing with the Stars.)
"These are the basic rules if you want to critique the billionaire class: you cannot be wealthy yourself ... you could give 100% of your money away, but if you said something and the world listened, you would still have the privilege of a platform." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires | Zoe Williams
The singer is giving away millions – but the parameters for criticising the super-rich are very narrow, and hardly anyone qualifies, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"These are the basic rules if you want to critique the billionaire class: you cannot be wealthy yourself ... you could give 100% of your money away, but if you said something and the world listened, you would still have the privilege of a platform." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Kent Brewster
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
"Doublespeed cofounder Zuhair Lakhani also said on the Discord that users can target their posts to specific cities and that the service currently only targets TikTok but that it has internal demos for Instagram and Reddit. Lakhani said Doublespeed doesn’t support “political efforts.”"
A new startup, called Doublespeed, is being backed by one of biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
The new venture "is pitching an astroturfing AI-powered bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major social media platforms."
The new venture "is pitching an astroturfing AI-powered bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major social media platforms."
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
www.404media.co
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"Doublespeed cofounder Zuhair Lakhani also said on the Discord that users can target their posts to specific cities and that the service currently only targets TikTok but that it has internal demos for Instagram and Reddit. Lakhani said Doublespeed doesn’t support “political efforts.”"
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
And now, the saddest thing. www.planetary.org/articles/400...
4,000 gone: Inside NASA’s brain drain
In exclusive interviews, ex-NASA scientists speak out on the impact of the agency's mass departures.
www.planetary.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
And now, the saddest thing. www.planetary.org/articles/400...
This is the way.
The House of Representatives should have 750 members and there should be at least 15 justices on the Supreme Court.
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is the way.
"Fascist American Party" has a better acronym.
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"Fascist American Party" has a better acronym.
This is either a content management system failure or elite-level Trump-trolling from El Universidad De California. #nobel
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...
UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record
These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
October 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is either a content management system failure or elite-level Trump-trolling from El Universidad De California. #nobel
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...
"Since the invention of the remake, there have only been five remakes that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...
The Princess Bride Home Movie FULL
YouTube video by Jenna
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"Since the invention of the remake, there have only been five remakes that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...
Honestly surprised we haven't yet heard about a harebrained Elon Musk scheme where every aircraft must carry a Starlink uplink and Grok will run the whole shebang.
Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Honestly surprised we haven't yet heard about a harebrained Elon Musk scheme where every aircraft must carry a Starlink uplink and Grok will run the whole shebang.
Love the way @grahamformaine.bsky.social talks to a mixed crowd. This guy can beat Susan Collins.
People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.
The answer is empathy and compassion.
The answer is empathy and compassion.
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Love the way @grahamformaine.bsky.social talks to a mixed crowd. This guy can beat Susan Collins.
Reposted by Kent Brewster
The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators
Now getting scary messages from Apple that I'm running out of space in iCloud. All I use it for is to sync messages; what's taking up most of the space is video attachments I've sent or received. What's the easy way to delete attachments, please?
October 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Now getting scary messages from Apple that I'm running out of space in iCloud. All I use it for is to sync messages; what's taking up most of the space is video attachments I've sent or received. What's the easy way to delete attachments, please?
Reposted by Kent Brewster
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Here's a pretty thing: messenger.abeto.co
Messenger
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
messenger.abeto.co
October 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Here's a pretty thing: messenger.abeto.co
Here's a very good explainer for the at:// protocol, a core component of bsky:
overreacted.io/where-its-at/
#nerding
overreacted.io/where-its-at/
#nerding
Where It's at:// — overreacted
From handles to hosting.
overreacted.io
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Here's a very good explainer for the at:// protocol, a core component of bsky:
overreacted.io/where-its-at/
#nerding
overreacted.io/where-its-at/
#nerding
Reposted by Kent Brewster
If you think the right-wing meltdown over Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show isn’t racist—you might be racist.
October 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If you think the right-wing meltdown over Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show isn’t racist—you might be racist.
Well ... if you click AI Mode on Google Search and ask whether Trump is showing signs of dementia versus whether Biden is showing signs of dementia, you get a full AI opinion for Biden and a list of links for Trump, most of which are about whether Google is hiding their AI summary.
October 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Well ... if you click AI Mode on Google Search and ask whether Trump is showing signs of dementia versus whether Biden is showing signs of dementia, you get a full AI opinion for Biden and a list of links for Trump, most of which are about whether Google is hiding their AI summary.
Reposted by Kent Brewster
the fact they have the ability to allow opt out means they're capable of matching rights holders to works, so so much for their theory that the machine is dumb and they can't tell what it is generating.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
the fact they have the ability to allow opt out means they're capable of matching rights holders to works, so so much for their theory that the machine is dumb and they can't tell what it is generating.
Q. What should I do between now and the assembly?
A. Prayerfully examine your values and your options and the consequences for you and your family. Immediately identify, retain, and consult competent counsel ... Assume the worst.
www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...
A. Prayerfully examine your values and your options and the consequences for you and your family. Immediately identify, retain, and consult competent counsel ... Assume the worst.
www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...
FAQ for Senior Military Officers at Hegseth's Quantico Meeting
Military justice expert Eugene Fidell answers crucial questions ahead of next week's senior military meeting with Secretary Hegseth.
www.justsecurity.org
September 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Q. What should I do between now and the assembly?
A. Prayerfully examine your values and your options and the consequences for you and your family. Immediately identify, retain, and consult competent counsel ... Assume the worst.
www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...
A. Prayerfully examine your values and your options and the consequences for you and your family. Immediately identify, retain, and consult competent counsel ... Assume the worst.
www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...
Now saying the Star Wars Prayer for the new Anaconda movie. ("Please don't let this suck. Please don't let this suck. Please don't let this suck....") #anaconda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=az8M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=az8M...
ANACONDA – Official Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Now saying the Star Wars Prayer for the new Anaconda movie. ("Please don't let this suck. Please don't let this suck. Please don't let this suck....") #anaconda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=az8M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=az8M...