Adrian Kerrison
@adokerrison.bsky.social
Conversation analyst studying all the different ways crowds of strangers manage to say the same thing, in the same way, at the same time. He/him
Funny how executives talk about AI like the guys in Superbad talk about sex: "Oh yeah it's amazing, everyone's doing it, and so you *know* we're also doing it. What exactly are we doing? Oh, you know, the things. We do the things that make the- uh, that the ladies love."
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Funny how executives talk about AI like the guys in Superbad talk about sex: "Oh yeah it's amazing, everyone's doing it, and so you *know* we're also doing it. What exactly are we doing? Oh, you know, the things. We do the things that make the- uh, that the ladies love."
Something I found fascinating from YouTube reactors watching Andor was how sure they were that villains would do a face-turn and become good rebels. So I guess it's not surprising to see twee "MTG, welcome to the resistance" stuff. Enjoy the wilderness, you earned it, is the only proper outcome.
This lady is not your friend.
@atrupar.com need to post this one here too
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Something I found fascinating from YouTube reactors watching Andor was how sure they were that villains would do a face-turn and become good rebels. So I guess it's not surprising to see twee "MTG, welcome to the resistance" stuff. Enjoy the wilderness, you earned it, is the only proper outcome.
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They've taken over 4 sections now and they're now booing everyone on the jumbotron who doesn't have their shirt off 😂
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
They've taken over 4 sections now and they're now booing everyone on the jumbotron who doesn't have their shirt off 😂
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Is it even college football in 2025 without a section of half-naked men?🧐
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Is it even college football in 2025 without a section of half-naked men?🧐
Blessing myself at warp speed to let my deceased parents know that it's going to be okay, the tech geniuses have finally invented remembering people
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Blessing myself at warp speed to let my deceased parents know that it's going to be okay, the tech geniuses have finally invented remembering people
No more "networking". We're back to friends. No more 4D opportunity chess. Your character is officially reflected in whom you surround yourself with again. This late capitalism "every individual is a storefront and everyone else a potential customer to be courted" social rot is in the bin.
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
No more "networking". We're back to friends. No more 4D opportunity chess. Your character is officially reflected in whom you surround yourself with again. This late capitalism "every individual is a storefront and everyone else a potential customer to be courted" social rot is in the bin.
Put this in the history textbooks next to 2025 Democratic Leadership
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Put this in the history textbooks next to 2025 Democratic Leadership
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Humans create make-believe. We draw arbitrary lines. We say you need to grab this object and get a foot inside the lines before going out. Generations pass, learning and perfecting new ways to accomplish that goal and to prevent it from happening. And such genuinely impressive things happen.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Humans create make-believe. We draw arbitrary lines. We say you need to grab this object and get a foot inside the lines before going out. Generations pass, learning and perfecting new ways to accomplish that goal and to prevent it from happening. And such genuinely impressive things happen.
Poetry. Unbelievable!
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Poetry. Unbelievable!
Congrats to "preening" for its positive rebrand to "aura farming"
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Congrats to "preening" for its positive rebrand to "aura farming"
A nice thing about Conversation Analysis is going to a data session after a long downtime and getting that comforting pick-up sports sensation of "alright, I can still play"
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A nice thing about Conversation Analysis is going to a data session after a long downtime and getting that comforting pick-up sports sensation of "alright, I can still play"
Had a Ratatouille-style flashback to giving a conference presentation over Zoom and finding out that the software was helpfully filtering out all the "backround noise" of the crowds cheering in my crowd cheering data 😅
"But SURELY you can just autotranscribe your data"
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Had a Ratatouille-style flashback to giving a conference presentation over Zoom and finding out that the software was helpfully filtering out all the "backround noise" of the crowds cheering in my crowd cheering data 😅
I often think of Chaplin's line: "the misery now upon is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress". Especially on hopeful days when the news frantically pumps a dousing from the gullet of any scared, bitter man it can find, out of concern for greed's safety.
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I often think of Chaplin's line: "the misery now upon is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress". Especially on hopeful days when the news frantically pumps a dousing from the gullet of any scared, bitter man it can find, out of concern for greed's safety.
Absolutely brutal
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Absolutely brutal
People who show their whole ass like this tend to try and rescue it as "ah, but see, I MEANT to be wrong, to show that YOU are the fool!" And we need to be better at saying, even if it were true, that means you suck at talking, and you should improve at talking and stop wasting everyone else's time.
"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
People who show their whole ass like this tend to try and rescue it as "ah, but see, I MEANT to be wrong, to show that YOU are the fool!" And we need to be better at saying, even if it were true, that means you suck at talking, and you should improve at talking and stop wasting everyone else's time.
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ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
Happy Halloween all you ghosts and ghouls 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy Halloween all you ghosts and ghouls 🎃
About 12 years ago I was taking a train from Dublin and some teens fired up a bluetooth speaker. An American tourist next to me, who had already elected herself our police chief, piped up to confront them and tried to give me a commiserating look. I just laughed and said: "oh, you're about to *die*"
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Why do some people play their phones out loud on buses & trains?
New social norms and behaviour are behind the rise of headphone dodgers on public transport showing zero consideration for those around them
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October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
About 12 years ago I was taking a train from Dublin and some teens fired up a bluetooth speaker. An American tourist next to me, who had already elected herself our police chief, piped up to confront them and tried to give me a commiserating look. I just laughed and said: "oh, you're about to *die*"
A handy solution is not letting any of them have titles
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A handy solution is not letting any of them have titles
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When I unchecked "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" it automatically trasferred me back to the regular settings tab, so I had to navigate *back* to advanced settings to also uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality" right below it.
Popular services always try to MAXIMIZE friction, right?
Popular services always try to MAXIMIZE friction, right?
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When I unchecked "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" it automatically trasferred me back to the regular settings tab, so I had to navigate *back* to advanced settings to also uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality" right below it.
Popular services always try to MAXIMIZE friction, right?
Popular services always try to MAXIMIZE friction, right?
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This is a big part of what people warned about with “AI”: being able to delegate life and death decisions to an unaccountable black box algorithm… that they can program to do whatever they want
I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?
What?
What?
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is a big part of what people warned about with “AI”: being able to delegate life and death decisions to an unaccountable black box algorithm… that they can program to do whatever they want
Just found out that Space Cadet Pinball is available for linux, in case you were looking for that final push to get off the conveyor-belt dragging you into the Windows 11 panopticon
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Just found out that Space Cadet Pinball is available for linux, in case you were looking for that final push to get off the conveyor-belt dragging you into the Windows 11 panopticon