🇺🇦 Brian Drell 🇺🇦
@bd.grog.bar
Working on Watch software at Apple. Former high energy physicist. Originally Louisianan. Living in the redwoods. Maintainer of @recipes.grog.bar. Cooking. Playing some games. Raising two boys with my favorite person.
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Watch this channel, you’ll be glad you did. youtube.com/@artofdrink?...
Art of Drink
If you want to learn about drinks, this is the place for you. Art of Drink is all about cocktails, soda, wine, beer, distilling and even water. If it's liquid and you can drink it, I'll eventually get...
youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Watch this channel, you’ll be glad you did. youtube.com/@artofdrink?...
Blackened chicken jambalaya.
a basketball player for the orlando magic jumps in the air to dunk the ball
ALT: a basketball player for the orlando magic jumps in the air to dunk the ball
media.tenor.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Blackened chicken jambalaya.
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Y’all, today we got an email from WWOZ General Manager Beth Arroyo Utterback. Thanks to shitty Trump and the shitty GOP they’re going to lose about $400,000 in CPB funding.
This is the greatest radio station in the Universe & a HUGE source of joy. We need to help them out more than ever.
This is the greatest radio station in the Universe & a HUGE source of joy. We need to help them out more than ever.
July 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Y’all, today we got an email from WWOZ General Manager Beth Arroyo Utterback. Thanks to shitty Trump and the shitty GOP they’re going to lose about $400,000 in CPB funding.
This is the greatest radio station in the Universe & a HUGE source of joy. We need to help them out more than ever.
This is the greatest radio station in the Universe & a HUGE source of joy. We need to help them out more than ever.
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"air-conditioning is more than a convenience; in certain conditions, it’s a safety measure. That should be an easy enough concept to grasp....in many parts of the world we expect access to heating in the name of safety. Nobody wants to freeze to death."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
In defense of air-conditioning
Why air-conditioning is the wrong climate villain.
www.technologyreview.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"air-conditioning is more than a convenience; in certain conditions, it’s a safety measure. That should be an easy enough concept to grasp....in many parts of the world we expect access to heating in the name of safety. Nobody wants to freeze to death."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
Does it bother anybody else that Superman, with his x-ray vision, is constantly exposing anybody he looks at to high doses of ionizing radiation?
July 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Does it bother anybody else that Superman, with his x-ray vision, is constantly exposing anybody he looks at to high doses of ionizing radiation?
@ranchogordo.bsky.social Finally got around to making the bag of Ayocote Negro beans we had in the pantry. Delicious! Do you plan on having these in stock again at some point?
June 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@ranchogordo.bsky.social Finally got around to making the bag of Ayocote Negro beans we had in the pantry. Delicious! Do you plan on having these in stock again at some point?
*opens Bluesky*
Shit.
*closes Bluesky*
Shit.
*closes Bluesky*
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
*opens Bluesky*
Shit.
*closes Bluesky*
Shit.
*closes Bluesky*
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Sorry, it’s been a while!
Feeling better but need some good photos. Delicious cocktail recipe incoming.
I’m also tasting some 16 y.o. Isautier from Réunion. Will post about that soon.
Cheers.
Feeling better but need some good photos. Delicious cocktail recipe incoming.
I’m also tasting some 16 y.o. Isautier from Réunion. Will post about that soon.
Cheers.
June 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Sorry, it’s been a while!
Feeling better but need some good photos. Delicious cocktail recipe incoming.
I’m also tasting some 16 y.o. Isautier from Réunion. Will post about that soon.
Cheers.
Feeling better but need some good photos. Delicious cocktail recipe incoming.
I’m also tasting some 16 y.o. Isautier from Réunion. Will post about that soon.
Cheers.
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
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Found North Batch 11. I continue to be impressed with how good Canadian whisky can be. whiskeyjar.blog/2025/06/07/t...
Tasting Notes: Found North Batch 11
Given that Whiskey Jar had its 8th Birthday on Wednesday, I decided to review a bottle I have been sitting on for a couple of weeks, Found North’s Batch 11. It is a $170 bottle of whisky, so …
whiskeyjar.blog
June 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Found North Batch 11. I continue to be impressed with how good Canadian whisky can be. whiskeyjar.blog/2025/06/07/t...
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tetris for tricorder
May 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
tetris for tricorder
The first Malört Pope. But the important question: Cubs or Sox?
May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The first Malört Pope. But the important question: Cubs or Sox?
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Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
More Everything Forever
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
A fart can travel halfway around the world before the scent of a flower is pulling its boots on.
May 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A fart can travel halfway around the world before the scent of a flower is pulling its boots on.
The ocean is mostly fish pee.
May 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The ocean is mostly fish pee.
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Two years ago I went on TV and said exactly this: The AI panic cycle was a marketing campaign by known billionaire failures, ultimately an excuse to revenge-fire workers with no immediate replacement.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
April 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Two years ago I went on TV and said exactly this: The AI panic cycle was a marketing campaign by known billionaire failures, ultimately an excuse to revenge-fire workers with no immediate replacement.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
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every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet
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I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy.
Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."
Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."
April 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy.
Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."
Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."
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Pretty much everything is fucked, but here is some beautiful and exciting science from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and colleagues.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Pretty much everything is fucked, but here is some beautiful and exciting science from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and colleagues.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
I’m going out on a limb and saying today was a good day on balance.
April 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I’m going out on a limb and saying today was a good day on balance.
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Speech is protected for all in the US, not just citizens. Revoking visas for protected speech is illegal.
Speech is protected for all in the US, not just citizens. Revoking visas for protected speech is illegal.
March 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Speech is protected for all in the US, not just citizens. Revoking visas for protected speech is illegal.
Speech is protected for all in the US, not just citizens. Revoking visas for protected speech is illegal.
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Yup. The US Digital Service was formed from Big Tech SREs. Top level SREs really are elite level problem solvers and trouble makers of the highest order.
Many are trans, queer, or at the very least, care about LGBTQIA people, and will end you if you talk disrespectfully about them.
Many are trans, queer, or at the very least, care about LGBTQIA people, and will end you if you talk disrespectfully about them.
March 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yup. The US Digital Service was formed from Big Tech SREs. Top level SREs really are elite level problem solvers and trouble makers of the highest order.
Many are trans, queer, or at the very least, care about LGBTQIA people, and will end you if you talk disrespectfully about them.
Many are trans, queer, or at the very least, care about LGBTQIA people, and will end you if you talk disrespectfully about them.
What the fuckus is a ruckus, and why does it warrant immediate detention and deportation?
March 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What the fuckus is a ruckus, and why does it warrant immediate detention and deportation?