Brent Walker
@brentwalkertv.bsky.social
Motion design, animation, maker both physical & digital, cool cars, dumb puns, outdoor adventure, fuck trump
www.brentwalker.tv
www.brentwalker.tv
Did anyone else read this in a Werner Herzog voice?
February 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Did anyone else read this in a Werner Herzog voice?
Hell yeah! As being significantly stupider would make life much more enjoyable in times like these, I'm just waiting for him to put the lead back in gas so I can truly be happy.
Trump clears the way for power plants to dump more mercury into the atmosphere.
US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports
The Trump administration plans to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants this week, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, the New York Times reported on Wednesda...
www.reuters.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Hell yeah! As being significantly stupider would make life much more enjoyable in times like these, I'm just waiting for him to put the lead back in gas so I can truly be happy.
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So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.
February 18, 2026 at 5:34 AM
So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.
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“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
February 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe"
—Le Guin
—Le Guin
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 4:08 AM
"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe"
—Le Guin
—Le Guin
RIP to a controversial king. He had his issues, but there's one thing everyone can agree on: He Skied Free.
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
RIP to a controversial king. He had his issues, but there's one thing everyone can agree on: He Skied Free.
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It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
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February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
You're welcome.
February 17, 2026 at 1:46 AM
You're welcome.
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This is why I find it annoying when people debate whether it's better for the ultra rich to pay taxes or do philanthropy. Most are doing neither!!
February 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This is why I find it annoying when people debate whether it's better for the ultra rich to pay taxes or do philanthropy. Most are doing neither!!
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Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett.
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett.
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:
Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600
Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.
www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
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holy shit. hell of an analysis
February 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
holy shit. hell of an analysis
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The question is always, if this company is worth a trillion dollars what trillion dollar problem is it fixing and the only possible answer to that question in the instance of A.I. is “wages.”
AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"
February 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The question is always, if this company is worth a trillion dollars what trillion dollar problem is it fixing and the only possible answer to that question in the instance of A.I. is “wages.”
"you are not pigs, pigs are intelligent" lololol
February 16, 2026 at 3:36 AM
"you are not pigs, pigs are intelligent" lololol
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kebab is actually short for kerobert
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 AM
kebab is actually short for kerobert
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SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.
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In a functioning society, this evil company would be put out of business.
New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok.
The chatbot still produces sexualized images —
even when told the subjects don’t consent.
even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation.
even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
The chatbot still produces sexualized images —
even when told the subjects don’t consent.
even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation.
even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
Exclusive: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent
Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
In a functioning society, this evil company would be put out of business.
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Exactly this. "I'll vote for whichever candidate has a D next to their name no matter what their actual policy positions are!" sends a message to the politicians that they don't need to care about what you want at all. It's wild that people keep volunteering their unconditional support.
It's like sitting down in a negotiation and telling the person you're trying to get something out of that you're going to agree to the deal, regardless of what they put on the table. Even if that were true, it is obviously a bad idea to tell them that!
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Exactly this. "I'll vote for whichever candidate has a D next to their name no matter what their actual policy positions are!" sends a message to the politicians that they don't need to care about what you want at all. It's wild that people keep volunteering their unconditional support.
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Not to mention that HIS OWN CAMPAIGN FINANCE DIRECTOR RESIGNED BECAUSE SHE SAID HE WAS LYING ABOUT NOT KNOWING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TATTOO.
February 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Not to mention that HIS OWN CAMPAIGN FINANCE DIRECTOR RESIGNED BECAUSE SHE SAID HE WAS LYING ABOUT NOT KNOWING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TATTOO.
Read this whole thread
Since Tattoo Boy is in the news again, a reminder that the Nazi tattoo wasn't just a "Jolly Roger" pirate flag or some obscure symbol as Platner breezily shrugged it off. It wasn't the icon used for toxic/poisonous chemicals. It wasn't the logo of Yale University's "Scull & Bones" society. 1/
This is just an absolutely ridiculous piece of text. This writer ignores known evidence while bending over backwards to excuse Nazi symbols and racism.
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Read this whole thread
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medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
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“.. QuitGPT is the first true consumer-driven, social-political movement against AI .. it is a first sign of a crack developing in the AI race.”
- Fed Watch Advisors
@markruffalo.bsky.social
quitgpt.org
- Fed Watch Advisors
@markruffalo.bsky.social
quitgpt.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
“.. QuitGPT is the first true consumer-driven, social-political movement against AI .. it is a first sign of a crack developing in the AI race.”
- Fed Watch Advisors
@markruffalo.bsky.social
quitgpt.org
- Fed Watch Advisors
@markruffalo.bsky.social
quitgpt.org
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Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events