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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Curling Beef sounds like a bad molecular gastronomy dish
The big Canada-Sweden curling beef, explained: defector.com/the-big-cana...
The Big Canada-Sweden Curling Beef, Explained | Defector
As a sport most people pay intense attention to for two weeks every four years and then not at all the rest of the time, curling can be slightly impenetrable to the casual viewer; its intricacies and ...
defector.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Curling Beef sounds like a bad molecular gastronomy dish
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shoe house, wacky golf, north myrtle beach, south carolina, 1979
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
shoe house, wacky golf, north myrtle beach, south carolina, 1979
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i hope this serves as a nail in the coffin for those stupid “trust the audience score, tomameter is useless” arguments
February 15, 2026 at 6:46 PM
i hope this serves as a nail in the coffin for those stupid “trust the audience score, tomameter is useless” arguments
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When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture
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broke: charlie brown had hoes
woke: charlie brown has OpenHoe, a tool for managing his recursively generated swarms of hoes
woke: charlie brown has OpenHoe, a tool for managing his recursively generated swarms of hoes
February 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
broke: charlie brown had hoes
woke: charlie brown has OpenHoe, a tool for managing his recursively generated swarms of hoes
woke: charlie brown has OpenHoe, a tool for managing his recursively generated swarms of hoes
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fuck this guy forever
February 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
fuck this guy forever
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yes yes yes AI bad AI low status point and laugh, whatever. This is nothing, I've lost friends to heroin, if we can hold compassion for people deep in opiate addiction we can hold compassion for people who don't know how to stop talking about gastown
February 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
yes yes yes AI bad AI low status point and laugh, whatever. This is nothing, I've lost friends to heroin, if we can hold compassion for people deep in opiate addiction we can hold compassion for people who don't know how to stop talking about gastown
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Trump wasn’t a glitch in American politics. He’s a symptom, not the disease.
He figured out that there’s about a 40% base of voters that supports white supremacy, add anti-LGBT backlash + tax cuts and you’re near 50%.
The masks are off. They’re not going back on.
He figured out that there’s about a 40% base of voters that supports white supremacy, add anti-LGBT backlash + tax cuts and you’re near 50%.
The masks are off. They’re not going back on.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Trump wasn’t a glitch in American politics. He’s a symptom, not the disease.
He figured out that there’s about a 40% base of voters that supports white supremacy, add anti-LGBT backlash + tax cuts and you’re near 50%.
The masks are off. They’re not going back on.
He figured out that there’s about a 40% base of voters that supports white supremacy, add anti-LGBT backlash + tax cuts and you’re near 50%.
The masks are off. They’re not going back on.
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Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
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I was thinking about how LLMs are functionally like a highly interactive, high variety (in the cybernetics sense) tarot deck. And it turns out that that kind of thing is actually really useful and compelling to a lot of people, for very legitimate and understandable reasons.
February 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I was thinking about how LLMs are functionally like a highly interactive, high variety (in the cybernetics sense) tarot deck. And it turns out that that kind of thing is actually really useful and compelling to a lot of people, for very legitimate and understandable reasons.
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man today’s topic du jour really reminded me never to give a Silicon Valley type the benefit of the doubt for even a second lol. I was sympathetic to the Main Character and I was proven a fool almost instantly for doing so
February 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
man today’s topic du jour really reminded me never to give a Silicon Valley type the benefit of the doubt for even a second lol. I was sympathetic to the Main Character and I was proven a fool almost instantly for doing so
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I just read Wuthering Heights for the first time + this sums up all my texts to my buddies about it
February 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I just read Wuthering Heights for the first time + this sums up all my texts to my buddies about it
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"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is.
February 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is.
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Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
www.thebanner.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
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The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
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Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 14, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
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*pinches nose*
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
*pinches nose*
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
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“Children are property of their parents” is a view that southern conservative Christians continue to hold and no joke it is a residuum of the slave power
He would be the first to tell you it’s a thought which was not original to him, but Kermit Roosevelt III’s The Nation that Never Was (arguing that there is no founding but the Second Founding and Lincoln is its prophet) really drove home the point that a very large portion of American slavery was…
February 15, 2026 at 12:03 AM
“Children are property of their parents” is a view that southern conservative Christians continue to hold and no joke it is a residuum of the slave power
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slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
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the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
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i can’t stop laughing
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
i can’t stop laughing
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roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
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The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.
Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory — Jessica Kant
When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint glimmer of what was to come.The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous ye...
jessk.org
February 15, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.