bart
@bartsmith.bsky.social
On twitter, I had an underscore in my name. Here, I don’t. Everything else is basically the same
📍 Carrboro, North Carolina
📍 Carrboro, North Carolina
Attention Durham/Chapel Hill, your last chance to see the Melania documentary in theaters is tomorrow's 1:15 show at the AMC Southpoint
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Attention Durham/Chapel Hill, your last chance to see the Melania documentary in theaters is tomorrow's 1:15 show at the AMC Southpoint
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shop the look
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM
shop the look
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sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 AM
sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
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I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”
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They still can cook on X The Everything App
February 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
They still can cook on X The Everything App
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these Wicked sequels keep getting worse
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
these Wicked sequels keep getting worse
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a society losing the plot in real time
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
a society losing the plot in real time
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Me watching figure skating: Wow he skates so pretty!
Johnny Weir as soon as the music stops: A disgraceful performance. Horrible. I'm going to have nightmares about it for years.
Johnny Weir as soon as the music stops: A disgraceful performance. Horrible. I'm going to have nightmares about it for years.
February 8, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Me watching figure skating: Wow he skates so pretty!
Johnny Weir as soon as the music stops: A disgraceful performance. Horrible. I'm going to have nightmares about it for years.
Johnny Weir as soon as the music stops: A disgraceful performance. Horrible. I'm going to have nightmares about it for years.
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Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
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www.foundrycommercial.com/property/reg...?
this is the office space in cary, nc
feel free to contact foundry commercial and let them know what you think
this is the office space in cary, nc
feel free to contact foundry commercial and let them know what you think
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
www.foundrycommercial.com/property/reg...?
this is the office space in cary, nc
feel free to contact foundry commercial and let them know what you think
this is the office space in cary, nc
feel free to contact foundry commercial and let them know what you think
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"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work
This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same
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wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
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The 2020 Super Bowl half-time show was led by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, joined by a Spanish-language guest rapper named... Bad Bunny. Less political content (no LatAm flags) but you did not see this RW influencer "how dare these people invade OUR sport" reaction.
Honestly, if you told me this was an SNL sketch, I’d say, “Wow. When did they get funny writers?”
Megyn Kelly: Bad Bunny performing his Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish was “a middle finger to the rest of America”
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
The 2020 Super Bowl half-time show was led by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, joined by a Spanish-language guest rapper named... Bad Bunny. Less political content (no LatAm flags) but you did not see this RW influencer "how dare these people invade OUR sport" reaction.
they should just hold the mummy 4 another year and release it on Friday May 6, 2029 which would be 30 years to the day from the first movie
‘The Mummy 4’ With Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Gets May 2028 Release Date
Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz return as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell in a fourth "Mummy" movie, set for May 2028 release.
variety.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
they should just hold the mummy 4 another year and release it on Friday May 6, 2029 which would be 30 years to the day from the first movie
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Lmao come on man. This is B tier Columbo villain stuff
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Lmao come on man. This is B tier Columbo villain stuff
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me, interacting with every tech product I must use daily now:
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
me, interacting with every tech product I must use daily now:
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i've seen british men wearing jacksonville jaguars jerseys. the *jaguars*
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
i've seen british men wearing jacksonville jaguars jerseys. the *jaguars*
republicans are getting very mad about the content of the songs which they did not understand the lyrics to
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction'
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."During a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, Alford told the hosts that he and other House Repu...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
republicans are getting very mad about the content of the songs which they did not understand the lyrics to
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All right I’ll say it: that’s too many times
NEW: Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin tells Axios in an interview.
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
All right I’ll say it: that’s too many times
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...