Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
@radobrien.myatproto.social
I am very much alive and intend to stay that way
Philly 📍
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I feel like it's a good time to restate that my rapist was never prosecuted by the Republican DA at the time for Tarrant County in Texas, who served for 3 decades. In fact he had some of the lowest prosecution rates for SA and rape cases. Republicans have always defended rapists and predators.
The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them
February 13, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I feel like it's a good time to restate that my rapist was never prosecuted by the Republican DA at the time for Tarrant County in Texas, who served for 3 decades. In fact he had some of the lowest prosecution rates for SA and rape cases. Republicans have always defended rapists and predators.
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Fuck Grok
In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked
In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
www.404media.co
February 19, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Fuck Grok
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As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems.
They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.
They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.
“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”
February 19, 2026 at 2:09 PM
As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems.
They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.
They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.
Damn they arrested a royal finally
February 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Damn they arrested a royal finally
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I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
www.bbc.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Australia should send Tom Cardy to Eurovision
I’m better friends with my barber than you are friends with your barber
YouTube video by Tom Cardy
youtu.be
February 19, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Australia should send Tom Cardy to Eurovision
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This one goes out to all my buckaroos on Lunar New Year
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
This one goes out to all my buckaroos on Lunar New Year
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New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!
We won our FOIA lawsuit for body cam footage of DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace
The judge ruled DC Metropolitan Police must share all un-redacted footage from the March 2025 raid.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!
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Your blue state Board of Regents wants to do everything that Texas universities are doing and would do so in an instant if they thought they had enough political cover.
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
February 19, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Your blue state Board of Regents wants to do everything that Texas universities are doing and would do so in an instant if they thought they had enough political cover.
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Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.
February 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.
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We could have walkable libraries for all if we didn’t have capitalists
February 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We could have walkable libraries for all if we didn’t have capitalists
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Here’s to a solemn and contemplative Lenten period for those who partake. Ramadan Mubarak as well for those who partake. For all you secular people out, a happy start to the “Mark Wahlburg 40 Day Challenge”
February 18, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Here’s to a solemn and contemplative Lenten period for those who partake. Ramadan Mubarak as well for those who partake. For all you secular people out, a happy start to the “Mark Wahlburg 40 Day Challenge”
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I have asked ICE and DHS why this migrant was hooded and partially straitjacketed today. Will let you know if I hear back.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
🧊✈️ Wrapped & Hooded ⛓️😲
In Seattle, ICE goons escort a shackled & hooded man on to this GlobalX jet for transport south to Texas 👀
In Seattle, ICE goons escort a shackled & hooded man on to this GlobalX jet for transport south to Texas 👀
February 18, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I have asked ICE and DHS why this migrant was hooded and partially straitjacketed today. Will let you know if I hear back.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
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This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
February 18, 2026 at 2:40 AM
This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
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NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
www.thehandbasket.co
February 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation.
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
February 18, 2026 at 1:23 AM
You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation.
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
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I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.
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This is a fundamentally unserious administration
February 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This is a fundamentally unserious administration
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Reading this morning that the FBI won’t give evidence from the various ICE shootings to Minnesota or anybody else and I want to point out again that as a person that has studied Jim Crow violence- simply refusing to hand over evidence is a favorite tactic of segregationists.
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Reading this morning that the FBI won’t give evidence from the various ICE shootings to Minnesota or anybody else and I want to point out again that as a person that has studied Jim Crow violence- simply refusing to hand over evidence is a favorite tactic of segregationists.
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I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
February 17, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
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I sometimes share my favorite poem here and today it feels appropriate ✨️
June 2, 2024 at 1:52 AM
I sometimes share my favorite poem here and today it feels appropriate ✨️
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On the brink of potentially astonishing breakthroughs in immune therapy, up to and including curing cancer, and instead we’re going to re-litigate germ theory and vaccination. Unreal, world-changing levels of stupidity
"Kennedy, in a bestselling 2021 book, explicitly rejected germ theory...in favor of 'miasma theory,' which pediatrician and vaccine inventor Paul Offit describes as 'a long-abandoned medical theory that holds that diseases are caused by poisonous vapors.'" 👇
Remember RFK Jr.'s remark about how he was "not scared of a germ" because he "used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats"?
Funny thing about that: Of *course* he's not scared of a germ. Because he doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease.
Really. Literally.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-robert...
Funny thing about that: Of *course* he's not scared of a germ. Because he doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease.
Really. Literally.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-robert...
February 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
On the brink of potentially astonishing breakthroughs in immune therapy, up to and including curing cancer, and instead we’re going to re-litigate germ theory and vaccination. Unreal, world-changing levels of stupidity
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In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees. A lifetime of direct action and protest regardless of who was in power.
Rest in peace
Rest in peace
February 18, 2026 at 1:11 AM
In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees. A lifetime of direct action and protest regardless of who was in power.
Rest in peace
Rest in peace