Chris Ostertag
@videograndpa.bsky.social
Media CTO in Austin, though here I speak only for myself. Used to run Video TechOps at IGN. One time I went to Timbuktu. When I'm not building media systems, I enjoy #cooking, #3DPrinting, #music, #cats, and sleeping. he/him
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Chris Ostertag
@videograndpa.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Remember, doing lots of things all at once is designed to overwhelm. Don’t let it. Take care of yourself. Focus on small things you can do.
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
In an hour you'll wanna tune in for our Queens of the Stone Age live stream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj5G...
Live From Austin City Limits - An ACL Taping with Queens of the Stone Age
YouTube video by Austin City Limits
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
In an hour you'll wanna tune in for our Queens of the Stone Age live stream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj5G...
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TONIGHT. We’re rehearsing now. Gonna be cool.
If you’re into Queens of the Stone Age, we’re live streaming their taping on Tuesday. #music #austin acltv.com/2025/11/14/q...
Rock Icons Queens of the Stone Age Bring Their Celebrated 'Alive in the Catacombs' to Austin City Limits for Rare Livestream - Austin City Limits
ACL is thrilled to present a worldwide livestream event featuring rock superstars Queens of the Stone Age on November 18.
acltv.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
TONIGHT. We’re rehearsing now. Gonna be cool.
I am, in fact, tired of winning
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I am, in fact, tired of winning
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Key context from the Texas Tribune: www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Key context from the Texas Tribune: www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
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The journalist who asked is Mary Bruce.
Kudos to her for asking.
Kudos to her for asking.
Reporter: Is it appropriate for your family to do business with Saudi Arabia while you’re president? The us intelligence concluded you orchestrated the murder of a journalist…
Trump: Who are you with?
Reporter: ABC News
Trump: Who are you with?
Reporter: ABC News
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The journalist who asked is Mary Bruce.
Kudos to her for asking.
Kudos to her for asking.
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You're, unfortunately, right. I've heard the approach called "writing for the 2nd screen;" assuming the audience is only half paying attention while they work, game, browse, etc.
Some writers are being urged to do it, in the name of casual viewer retention. Repeat things, as-you-know a lot, etc.
Some writers are being urged to do it, in the name of casual viewer retention. Repeat things, as-you-know a lot, etc.
Okay but am I the only one noticing that more and more movies/shows are doing this whole lazy schtick more often? Entirely because movies are being made DUMBER with the assumption you're also folding laundry or on your phone?
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You're, unfortunately, right. I've heard the approach called "writing for the 2nd screen;" assuming the audience is only half paying attention while they work, game, browse, etc.
Some writers are being urged to do it, in the name of casual viewer retention. Repeat things, as-you-know a lot, etc.
Some writers are being urged to do it, in the name of casual viewer retention. Repeat things, as-you-know a lot, etc.
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Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Don't do any of this.
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Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total
Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total
Tesla reported three more crashes involving its Robotaxis in Austin, Texas – now bringing the total to 7 incidents despite low mileage and in-car supervisors preventing more accidents.
more…
electrek.co
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
If you’re into Queens of the Stone Age, we’re live streaming their taping on Tuesday. #music #austin acltv.com/2025/11/14/q...
Rock Icons Queens of the Stone Age Bring Their Celebrated 'Alive in the Catacombs' to Austin City Limits for Rare Livestream - Austin City Limits
ACL is thrilled to present a worldwide livestream event featuring rock superstars Queens of the Stone Age on November 18.
acltv.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
If you’re into Queens of the Stone Age, we’re live streaming their taping on Tuesday. #music #austin acltv.com/2025/11/14/q...
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I'm never gonna use an AI generator to make my own TV shows. I want my shows made the old fashioned way - crews of tired, stressed people fueled by passion and caffeine sweating details no one will notice while forging deep personal connections with one another that will last a lifetime or not.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm never gonna use an AI generator to make my own TV shows. I want my shows made the old fashioned way - crews of tired, stressed people fueled by passion and caffeine sweating details no one will notice while forging deep personal connections with one another that will last a lifetime or not.
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
Just got home from a Veterans Day performance at the child's school.
Music teacher: This is a serious performance to honor those who've served.
<kid dressed as One Piece files on stage>
Music teacher: This is a serious performance to honor those who've served.
<kid dressed as One Piece files on stage>
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just got home from a Veterans Day performance at the child's school.
Music teacher: This is a serious performance to honor those who've served.
<kid dressed as One Piece files on stage>
Music teacher: This is a serious performance to honor those who've served.
<kid dressed as One Piece files on stage>
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Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
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ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs
ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs
CHICAGO—His heart racing with terror as he found himself completely surrounded, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent conducting a raid on a Chicago elementary school reportedly fell into panic...
theonion.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs
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In the 1940s my grandmother gave birth to a baby who died within two days from hemolytic disease of the newborn. When my twins had the same complication after being born in 2015 the doctors just popped them under some bilirubin lights for 24 hours and then they were fine.
This is especially true for medical care. Virtually any - any - type of cancer was a death sentence. The 5y survival rate for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1960 was roughly 14%. Today it is roughly 95%.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In the 1940s my grandmother gave birth to a baby who died within two days from hemolytic disease of the newborn. When my twins had the same complication after being born in 2015 the doctors just popped them under some bilirubin lights for 24 hours and then they were fine.
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Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Technology js not strategy.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Technology js not strategy.
"It is National Stress Awareness Day" YES RADIO I AM ACUTELY AWARE OF IT
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"It is National Stress Awareness Day" YES RADIO I AM ACUTELY AWARE OF IT