Brian T. Rice
@briantrice.bsky.social
Mad computer scientist; electric motorcycle hacker; software architect; data viz whatever? Former nuclear tech, always NB. They/them. https://signal.me/#eu/5U6AQo_peWVxKPh5raxwBKUp8UxZm4iwfIb-21fgVSVQFRgfXn1DF42nvXiWSNfu
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Brian T. Rice
@briantrice.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Proof of life on my electric motorcycle streamlining kit. We just had to rework the wheels which were giving us trouble due to maintenance issues.
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Michelle Haas did not seek to bring her case to the Texas Supreme Court. That's the end of the road. We won.
In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Michelle Haas did not seek to bring her case to the Texas Supreme Court. That's the end of the road. We won.
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One of the great myths of our society is that really rich people are rich because they are smart.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
It’s also virtually impossible to become a billionaire without choosing immorality many, many times.
There is no such thing as a self-made billionaire.
February 16, 2026 at 1:11 AM
One of the great myths of our society is that really rich people are rich because they are smart.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
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if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words
February 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words
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Remains to be seen whether humans can invent any kind of countermeasure to dealing with actors in the workplace that make a mistake from time to time.
This is also why agentic LLMs will never live up the hype. Error rates (ie hallucinations, bc those are errors) multiply.
Ex: if you chain two LLMs that individually have 80% success rates, the total success rate is 64%!
Chained 4 times? 41%
😳🫠🤷🏽♂️
Ex: if you chain two LLMs that individually have 80% success rates, the total success rate is 64%!
Chained 4 times? 41%
😳🫠🤷🏽♂️
February 16, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Remains to be seen whether humans can invent any kind of countermeasure to dealing with actors in the workplace that make a mistake from time to time.
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Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
February 16, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
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Beg to differ! This 1850 report is from the height of the sanitary panic in Britain, which led to severe overestimation of the dangers of corpse smells/contamination. It sounds cool but doesn’t align closely w/ modern germ theories of disease. (Live people are far more dangerous than most corpses!)
Were the Brontës killed by living near a graveyard? “The long-term exposure to harmful bacteria would have made the Brontës weaker, shorter, and more susceptible to other diseases.”
Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water.
It is a well known and oft-romanticized fact that the Brontë sisters—and the Brontë brother, for that matter—all died young, one after the other, leaving moody, moor-y masterpieces in their wake. O…
buff.ly
February 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Beg to differ! This 1850 report is from the height of the sanitary panic in Britain, which led to severe overestimation of the dangers of corpse smells/contamination. It sounds cool but doesn’t align closely w/ modern germ theories of disease. (Live people are far more dangerous than most corpses!)
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ICE is using a Navy war-fighting contract (WEXMAC TITUS) to turn warehouses into detention sites in the US.
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
ICE is using a Navy war-fighting contract (WEXMAC TITUS) to turn warehouses into detention sites in the US.
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in Pre-UFO History - Mysterious Light
February 16, 1885 — Sullivan County,PA
1/Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York.
Today in Pre-UFO History - Mysterious Light
February 16, 1885 — Sullivan County,PA
1/Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York.
February 16, 2026 at 2:24 AM
#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in Pre-UFO History - Mysterious Light
February 16, 1885 — Sullivan County,PA
1/Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York.
Today in Pre-UFO History - Mysterious Light
February 16, 1885 — Sullivan County,PA
1/Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York.
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not looking to start a fight with any particular accounts but when reposting a post with alt text check if it's fake, filled in gibberish or few word empty garbage like "a tweet" to fool everyone into thinking they give a shit about people. I block em because it's even more enraging than no alt text
alt text I've seen lately:
.
(just a period so the alt label will show!)
photo
(yep the word photo)
article
(people if it's your screenshot copy/paste the text and if it isn't google free OCR you don't have to retype it or some bsky app versions let you select text from a pic)
alt text
😡
lol
👎
.
(just a period so the alt label will show!)
photo
(yep the word photo)
article
(people if it's your screenshot copy/paste the text and if it isn't google free OCR you don't have to retype it or some bsky app versions let you select text from a pic)
alt text
😡
lol
👎
More people are realizing folks won't share without alt text so they're putting pretty useless stuff in alt text for shares. Please click and check
February 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
not looking to start a fight with any particular accounts but when reposting a post with alt text check if it's fake, filled in gibberish or few word empty garbage like "a tweet" to fool everyone into thinking they give a shit about people. I block em because it's even more enraging than no alt text
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Sometimes people do a pun over this screenshot of Rodney Dangerfield. Rodney did not do corny puns. This shows a clear lack of respect for Rodney and his work
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Sometimes people do a pun over this screenshot of Rodney Dangerfield. Rodney did not do corny puns. This shows a clear lack of respect for Rodney and his work
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that she tried so hard for so long to be mistaken for Asian is not the worst thing she’s ever done but it is still galactically annoying
It really annoys me this idiot white lady’s last name is Wu
Interesting
February 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
that she tried so hard for so long to be mistaken for Asian is not the worst thing she’s ever done but it is still galactically annoying
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"Invisible whips directing invisible labor." This really gives the game away.The agent-orati are getting a dopamine hit from the power over automation, docile bodies.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
February 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"Invisible whips directing invisible labor." This really gives the game away.The agent-orati are getting a dopamine hit from the power over automation, docile bodies.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
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With sundown towns, census figures indicated that racial terrorism had taken place. We'll see a similar story related to the current atrocities.
February 16, 2026 at 3:03 AM
With sundown towns, census figures indicated that racial terrorism had taken place. We'll see a similar story related to the current atrocities.
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Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.
Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states
The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.
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*sigh* People that know nothing about criminal justice reform, police, or Black people, just on here declaring as fact things that are absolutely not true.
There is no harm that ICE is doing that is not currently being done by cops at between 10X to 100x the scale.
Shootings. False detention.
There is no harm that ICE is doing that is not currently being done by cops at between 10X to 100x the scale.
Shootings. False detention.
If ICE was a local police department they would be on the verge of being dropped by their malpractice insurance
February 15, 2026 at 10:34 PM
*sigh* People that know nothing about criminal justice reform, police, or Black people, just on here declaring as fact things that are absolutely not true.
There is no harm that ICE is doing that is not currently being done by cops at between 10X to 100x the scale.
Shootings. False detention.
There is no harm that ICE is doing that is not currently being done by cops at between 10X to 100x the scale.
Shootings. False detention.
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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According to the WIRED report, ICE is leasing space in two Orange County cities — at an office park in Irvine and at the federal building in Santa Ana.
"This is news to me," Irvine Mayor Larry Agran" We try to maintain some channels of communication with DHS...They're not very cooperative at all"
"This is news to me," Irvine Mayor Larry Agran" We try to maintain some channels of communication with DHS...They're not very cooperative at all"
February 16, 2026 at 2:35 AM
According to the WIRED report, ICE is leasing space in two Orange County cities — at an office park in Irvine and at the federal building in Santa Ana.
"This is news to me," Irvine Mayor Larry Agran" We try to maintain some channels of communication with DHS...They're not very cooperative at all"
"This is news to me," Irvine Mayor Larry Agran" We try to maintain some channels of communication with DHS...They're not very cooperative at all"
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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
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This is exactly it: LLM coding only really works when coupled with tests (and ideally type systems) to evaluate their code against. The magic is in the agentic loop, in the iterative convergence towards correctness, not the first oneshot output.
This not how things work. A system that is 80% accurate, run multiple times, can achieve 100% accuracy on tasks for which valid test criteria exist. So then for a multi step task with valid test criteria each step is gated on passing tests, and the error does not compound.
This is also why agentic LLMs will never live up the hype. Error rates (ie hallucinations, bc those are errors) multiply.
Ex: if you chain two LLMs that individually have 80% success rates, the total success rate is 64%!
Chained 4 times? 41%
😳🫠🤷🏽♂️
Ex: if you chain two LLMs that individually have 80% success rates, the total success rate is 64%!
Chained 4 times? 41%
😳🫠🤷🏽♂️
February 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
This is exactly it: LLM coding only really works when coupled with tests (and ideally type systems) to evaluate their code against. The magic is in the agentic loop, in the iterative convergence towards correctness, not the first oneshot output.
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And like, Gavin Newsom? That creep is the exact opposite of what this moment needs. The man can’t WAIT to sell you out, he’s not subtle about it. He should be pelted with rotten fruit and garbage whenever he walks in a door.
February 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
And like, Gavin Newsom? That creep is the exact opposite of what this moment needs. The man can’t WAIT to sell you out, he’s not subtle about it. He should be pelted with rotten fruit and garbage whenever he walks in a door.
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I hate to Schumerpost, it’s hacky in its own way. But he and any Democrat like him really need to be steamrolled into oblivion. They’re constantly underselling the dangers of the moment and trying to get us back to the “Republicans Are My Friend, Let’s Give Another Trillion Dollars to Israel” vibe.
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I hate to Schumerpost, it’s hacky in its own way. But he and any Democrat like him really need to be steamrolled into oblivion. They’re constantly underselling the dangers of the moment and trying to get us back to the “Republicans Are My Friend, Let’s Give Another Trillion Dollars to Israel” vibe.
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Daily bunny no.3231 will get well soon
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Daily bunny no.3231 will get well soon
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80 autistic schoolkids recreated the massive Army computer, which debuted in 1946
They talked w/ ENIAC historian Brian Stuart and worked w/ Dag Spicer of the Computer History Museum. They had "astounding access to original patent drawings, Army documentation, and detailed photographs," Burick says
They talked w/ ENIAC historian Brian Stuart and worked w/ Dag Spicer of the Computer History Museum. They had "astounding access to original patent drawings, Army documentation, and detailed photographs," Burick says
February 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
80 autistic schoolkids recreated the massive Army computer, which debuted in 1946
They talked w/ ENIAC historian Brian Stuart and worked w/ Dag Spicer of the Computer History Museum. They had "astounding access to original patent drawings, Army documentation, and detailed photographs," Burick says
They talked w/ ENIAC historian Brian Stuart and worked w/ Dag Spicer of the Computer History Museum. They had "astounding access to original patent drawings, Army documentation, and detailed photographs," Burick says
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