Tom Durack
@tomdurack.bsky.social
New Yorker from Michigan, lover of nature, books, music, movies, science, dogs, cats, chess, and the wild blue yonder. Marlene's fella. Music mixing and mastering engineer.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
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A new history of rock makes the case for the long-overlooked drummer—and the great mystery of the instrument, James Parker writes.
Respect the Drummer
A new history of rock, told through its overlooked heroes
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A new history of rock makes the case for the long-overlooked drummer—and the great mystery of the instrument, James Parker writes.
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
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A New York mayor who governs in practical terms as a socialist, guided by a consistent and genuine promise to always consider and address the basic needs and hopes of everyday New Yorkers? Crazy, surreal shit.
But Fiorello LaGuardia is smiling somewhere tonight.
But Fiorello LaGuardia is smiling somewhere tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A New York mayor who governs in practical terms as a socialist, guided by a consistent and genuine promise to always consider and address the basic needs and hopes of everyday New Yorkers? Crazy, surreal shit.
But Fiorello LaGuardia is smiling somewhere tonight.
But Fiorello LaGuardia is smiling somewhere tonight.
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So powerful...
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So powerful...
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Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.
One of my faves.
DONNIE DARKO was released 24 years ago this week. A cult classic that launched the career of Jake Gyllenhaal as a Hollywood star, the making of story is as out there as talking rabbit…
1/36
1/36
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
One of my faves.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Uncanny.
I will never for a moment wonder again how it could have happened. I see exactly how it happened. You just need one malignant narcissist and then a whole lot of ordinary, stupid people to give themselves over to either raw hate or determined indifference. It rides again.
I will never for a moment wonder again how it could have happened. I see exactly how it happened. You just need one malignant narcissist and then a whole lot of ordinary, stupid people to give themselves over to either raw hate or determined indifference. It rides again.
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Uncanny.
I will never for a moment wonder again how it could have happened. I see exactly how it happened. You just need one malignant narcissist and then a whole lot of ordinary, stupid people to give themselves over to either raw hate or determined indifference. It rides again.
I will never for a moment wonder again how it could have happened. I see exactly how it happened. You just need one malignant narcissist and then a whole lot of ordinary, stupid people to give themselves over to either raw hate or determined indifference. It rides again.
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A timely reminder:
I WANT YOU TO STOP
BEING AFRAID:
of other Americans
of other religions
of other classes
of other nations
of speaking out.
You’re Americans.
Act like it!
If you don’t get it,
ask an American who does.
I WANT YOU TO STOP
BEING AFRAID:
of other Americans
of other religions
of other classes
of other nations
of speaking out.
You’re Americans.
Act like it!
If you don’t get it,
ask an American who does.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A timely reminder:
I WANT YOU TO STOP
BEING AFRAID:
of other Americans
of other religions
of other classes
of other nations
of speaking out.
You’re Americans.
Act like it!
If you don’t get it,
ask an American who does.
I WANT YOU TO STOP
BEING AFRAID:
of other Americans
of other religions
of other classes
of other nations
of speaking out.
You’re Americans.
Act like it!
If you don’t get it,
ask an American who does.
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I hate anti-intellectualism. Not only does it make us look like a hopelessly stupid country, it's going to kill us all.
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I hate anti-intellectualism. Not only does it make us look like a hopelessly stupid country, it's going to kill us all.
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They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.
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Poetry by Boots, Louisville
September 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Poetry by Boots, Louisville
This, all day long.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This, all day long.