Kyle K
@kylekurtzeborn.bsky.social
He/Him. Media server programmer for live entertainment. Co-host of Audio Judo podcast. Parking lot critic. Any likeness to any real person living or dead is completely inconsequential.
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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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The SFWA is asking for folks to fill out a survey on "A.i." I highly recommend telling them exactly how you feel about this pernicious product.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The SFWA is asking for folks to fill out a survey on "A.i." I highly recommend telling them exactly how you feel about this pernicious product.
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I was wondering if they were going to fuck up the redaction because nobody remaining at DOJ knows how to tie their shoelaces and, well
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I was wondering if they were going to fuck up the redaction because nobody remaining at DOJ knows how to tie their shoelaces and, well
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Please share. Thanks
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My quote of the day
Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My quote of the day
Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen
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I’m sure many friends will be busy this week - and in and out on the Sky. All the best of the season, kids! Be nice to each other!
a cartoon of batman and robin in the snow
ALT: a cartoon of batman and robin in the snow
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m sure many friends will be busy this week - and in and out on the Sky. All the best of the season, kids! Be nice to each other!
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
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Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news
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Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
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The American College Theatre Festival has suspended its long-standing affiliation with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing a misalignment of values, while confirming its national and regional programs will continue
December 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The American College Theatre Festival has suspended its long-standing affiliation with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing a misalignment of values, while confirming its national and regional programs will continue
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I like that I was overseas when the first avatar movie came out and I read breathless descriptions of a movie so beautiful it was causing movie goers deep psychosis when they left the movie and couldn’t live in it, finally saw what it looked like and it was “racist final fantasy X made by Canadians”
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I like that I was overseas when the first avatar movie came out and I read breathless descriptions of a movie so beautiful it was causing movie goers deep psychosis when they left the movie and couldn’t live in it, finally saw what it looked like and it was “racist final fantasy X made by Canadians”
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NEW #VentureBros holiday song from @jacksonpublick.bsky.social & @doc-hammer.bsky.social!
For 2025, Dragoon and Red Mantle dug deep into the holiday songbook for a Guild Gala performance of “I Like Life”!
Go get it (& all the rest) at bit.ly/venturebrosholiday
For 2025, Dragoon and Red Mantle dug deep into the holiday songbook for a Guild Gala performance of “I Like Life”!
Go get it (& all the rest) at bit.ly/venturebrosholiday
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
NEW #VentureBros holiday song from @jacksonpublick.bsky.social & @doc-hammer.bsky.social!
For 2025, Dragoon and Red Mantle dug deep into the holiday songbook for a Guild Gala performance of “I Like Life”!
Go get it (& all the rest) at bit.ly/venturebrosholiday
For 2025, Dragoon and Red Mantle dug deep into the holiday songbook for a Guild Gala performance of “I Like Life”!
Go get it (& all the rest) at bit.ly/venturebrosholiday
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Just learned that musician Jim Stringer, who contributed to the Centron shorts seen on many episodes of MST3K, has passed away.
His family has commented that they plan to celebrate his life with music and laughter. Let's honor Jim by following their lead.
His family has commented that they plan to celebrate his life with music and laughter. Let's honor Jim by following their lead.
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Just learned that musician Jim Stringer, who contributed to the Centron shorts seen on many episodes of MST3K, has passed away.
His family has commented that they plan to celebrate his life with music and laughter. Let's honor Jim by following their lead.
His family has commented that they plan to celebrate his life with music and laughter. Let's honor Jim by following their lead.
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you should def direct your $$ away from major media orgs bending the knee but i do not know the way around the problem that we actually need major media orgs with resources and scale. doesn't mean it should be the existing ones, but there's no indie way to spend months reporting out one CECOT story
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
you should def direct your $$ away from major media orgs bending the knee but i do not know the way around the problem that we actually need major media orgs with resources and scale. doesn't mean it should be the existing ones, but there's no indie way to spend months reporting out one CECOT story
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It’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
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God bless our most fun living actor. Legend.
December 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
God bless our most fun living actor. Legend.
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My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.
So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.