Brian M Rosen
@bmrosen.bsky.social
Spent 25 years at Pixar, now at Google X. Enjoys making music, theater, technology, or some mixture of the three. Was @musicvstheater on the bird app.
A reluctant moral realist for pragmatic purposes but a post structuralist at heart.
A reluctant moral realist for pragmatic purposes but a post structuralist at heart.
I so wanna respond with "figeon is my pission".
June 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I so wanna respond with "figeon is my pission".
How much of whatever @caseynewton.bsky.social or @kevinroose.com put together for tomorrow's episode of Hard Fork is being scrapped now?
June 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
How much of whatever @caseynewton.bsky.social or @kevinroose.com put together for tomorrow's episode of Hard Fork is being scrapped now?
Is it just general knowledge that Marshall McLuhan wrote about the singularity 80 years ago? I mean… this guy…
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Is it just general knowledge that Marshall McLuhan wrote about the singularity 80 years ago? I mean… this guy…
Has anyone else noticed a complete absence of Butterfingers and Whoppers this entire Halloween? Nowhere to be seen!
November 1, 2023 at 3:23 AM
Has anyone else noticed a complete absence of Butterfingers and Whoppers this entire Halloween? Nowhere to be seen!
Curious… has the Trump era triggered any revisiting of PT Barnum’s legacy? At the very least I can’t think of the musical in the same way.
October 29, 2023 at 9:21 PM
Curious… has the Trump era triggered any revisiting of PT Barnum’s legacy? At the very least I can’t think of the musical in the same way.
Great appearance by @kenwhite.bsky.social on this week’s Ezra Klein Show. Highly recommended for a clear-eyed and law-literate overview of the Trump suits.
The Ezra Klein Show: Two Attorneys Rank the Severity of Trump’s Indictments on Apple Podcasts
Show The Ezra Klein Show, Ep Two Attorneys Rank the Severity of Trump’s Indictments - Sep 26, 2023
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September 28, 2023 at 9:51 PM
Great appearance by @kenwhite.bsky.social on this week’s Ezra Klein Show. Highly recommended for a clear-eyed and law-literate overview of the Trump suits.
Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” is just NIN’s “Closer” with a thin veneer of entendre.
September 17, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” is just NIN’s “Closer” with a thin veneer of entendre.
Ronnie G Newcat is the best cat.
August 17, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Ronnie G Newcat is the best cat.
This is a great podcast. It will make you a better musician.
I wrote on @boingboing.bsky.social about Kirk Hamilton's amazing podcast STRONG SONGS.
If you love music, you'll love this podcast, and then you'll love music even more.
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/29/great-music-podcast-strong-songs-starts-its-fifth-season.html @kirkhamilton.bsky.social
If you love music, you'll love this podcast, and then you'll love music even more.
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/29/great-music-podcast-strong-songs-starts-its-fifth-season.html @kirkhamilton.bsky.social
Great music podcast "Strong Songs" starts its fifth season | Boing Boing
One of my favorite podcasts, “Strong Songs,” created by Kirk Hamilton, started its fifth season, and on Friday posted an episode about “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” a…
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July 29, 2023 at 9:56 PM
This is a great podcast. It will make you a better musician.
Why isn’t Marc Benioff on Bluesky yet? I’ve always considered him the anti-Musk.
July 26, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Why isn’t Marc Benioff on Bluesky yet? I’ve always considered him the anti-Musk.
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July 15, 2023 at 5:31 PM
I’d estimate that the percentage of skeets on my feed that I can remotely comprehend without googling for context is… maybe 30%?
July 12, 2023 at 5:10 PM
I’d estimate that the percentage of skeets on my feed that I can remotely comprehend without googling for context is… maybe 30%?
Hey! Did you know that “Ton sti on” is a palindrome?
July 4, 2023 at 1:44 AM
Hey! Did you know that “Ton sti on” is a palindrome?
Thanks to Bilge Ebiri for admitting he cried like a baby during Asteroid City. Glad I’m not alone.
Wes Anderson Has Gone Mad
His new movie, Asteroid City, brings a necessary madness to the meticulous director’s method, and it amounts to a masterpiece.
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July 2, 2023 at 8:51 AM
Thanks to Bilge Ebiri for admitting he cried like a baby during Asteroid City. Glad I’m not alone.
So according to my inner 12 year old, there is a 65% chance of Newark skeeting all over Paterson.
June 25, 2023 at 5:48 PM
So according to my inner 12 year old, there is a 65% chance of Newark skeeting all over Paterson.
The Sonic Sphere in Hudson Yards is a neat venue, but it’s also ridiculously photogenic.
June 23, 2023 at 11:43 PM
The Sonic Sphere in Hudson Yards is a neat venue, but it’s also ridiculously photogenic.
If B. B. King is acting a bit distant lately, that’s a thrill issue.
if ur pickles are a little sour thats a dill issue
if your propane tank is empty that’s a grill issue
June 23, 2023 at 5:11 PM
If B. B. King is acting a bit distant lately, that’s a thrill issue.
A reggae version of “Take Five” is playing at Shopsin’s. It’s in four.
June 23, 2023 at 4:41 PM
A reggae version of “Take Five” is playing at Shopsin’s. It’s in four.
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Alan Turing was born exactly 111 years ago today! Please everyone make wishes and be extra gay on your computer today, to honour him 🏳️🌈
June 23, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Alan Turing was born exactly 111 years ago today! Please everyone make wishes and be extra gay on your computer today, to honour him 🏳️🌈
Hump Day is dead. Long live the Weequinox.
June 22, 2023 at 1:22 AM
Hump Day is dead. Long live the Weequinox.
This aged pretty well.
June 22, 2023 at 12:38 AM
This aged pretty well.
Curation IS Creation: 8 years ago I used Google Translate to cycle a Yeats poem through dozens of languages and back to English. Most of what came out was gibberish, but 0.1% of the time an interesting phrase would show up. I CURATED those phrases and CREATED a new poem. (And then set it to music).
All The Heart
All the heart is part of The Google Variations, a series of choral settings that take well known poems and transforms them using Google Translate technology. The original text is translated into a ser
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June 20, 2023 at 6:35 AM
Curation IS Creation: 8 years ago I used Google Translate to cycle a Yeats poem through dozens of languages and back to English. Most of what came out was gibberish, but 0.1% of the time an interesting phrase would show up. I CURATED those phrases and CREATED a new poem. (And then set it to music).
This is the longest shot in Toy Story. The floor is a single large plane with an entirely procedural shader I wrote. It couldn’t be played back at full res, so there was no way of knowing if it would alias before seeing it with the whole crew at film dailies. I was 23.
June 20, 2023 at 6:12 AM
This is the longest shot in Toy Story. The floor is a single large plane with an entirely procedural shader I wrote. It couldn’t be played back at full res, so there was no way of knowing if it would alias before seeing it with the whole crew at film dailies. I was 23.