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Jamie Hardt
@jamie.squad51.us
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Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer. He/him. MPSE • CAS • IATSE

Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.

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I’ve discovered a use of ElevenLabs I don’t hate

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Barren Planet (Full Episode) - Sopranos: The Next Generation (Star Trek Sopranos Mashup Edit)
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November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Still image from “Robocop 2” featuring the first failed prototype.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Screenshot of Tweets that say: "Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up. My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people who profess to like it."
February 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The One Ring is a torment nexus, and every king of Middle Earth is like “but I’m different.”
grungehamster.bsky.social Grungehamster @grungehamster.bsky.social · 2d
Have had this one quote rattling around in my head for months. Significant chunk of the narrative is corrupting mankind to see mortality as a curse not a gift leading to their fall and Peter "name every product after LOTR" Thiel says "of course, but what if we could escape the curse of mortality?"
Yes, Thiel said, perking up. "There are all these ways where trying to live unnaturally long lives go haywire" in Tolkien's works. But you also have the elves. "And then there are are sort of all these questionable and, you know: How ar the elves different from the humans in Tolkien? And they're basically — I think the main difference is just, they're humans that don't die." "Why can't we be elves?" he said.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“British Bake-off” has been on the air for like 15 years and it sounds like they’re still using all the music composed for season 1.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Follow of the Beast.
Image of my profile Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us 666 followers 781 following 3.1K posts Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer. He/him. MPSE • CAS • IATSE Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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More than half of Americans use subtitles because audio is 'muddled,' survey finds
Mumbling actors, multi-layered soundtracks and big TVs with little speakers are driving viewers to subtitles.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Had to do something in a hurry the other day.
Pro Tools Markers from Resolve CSV Markers
Just a little sketch of this; it’s very easy to whip something like this up in a few minutes with py-ptsl. import csv import sys, re import ptsl from ptsl import PTSL_pb2 as pt def create_marker(clien...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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We need many more trains.
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict:

“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….

“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…

Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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OMG
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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This movie also had a thorough recreation of the Tammany machine in the form of a mustelid named “Honest John” complete with the dead vote counting and immigrant block voting.
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7d
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The Far Side comic where the guy paints "the house" on the house, "the dog" on the "dog", and so forth, and says "Now!... That should clear up a few things around here!"
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In my head I can hear the clients on Zoom pointing out each truck and calling out how they're constantly off-model, and if it were a real ad they'd send it back to the vendor to redo, but apparently all the copywriters and creative leads who usually make these calls are muzzled on this one?
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 9d
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial is AI-generated again

The company used even fewer people to make it this year

“We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope … The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in"

(via THR)
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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asoundeffect.bsky.social
Looking for an #audiojob? 18 jobs are still available in last week's highlight, at Walt Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros. Discovery, Frontier, B&O, Boom Post, Google, Altitude Games & more - good luck! #gamejobs #filmjobs #work #employment #jobs #audiopost #postproduction #gamedevelopment #gameaudio
20 great new audio jobs at Walt Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros. Discovery, Frontier, UFC GYM, Bang & Olufsen, Boom Post, Google DeepMind, Altitude Games, Pigs Will Fly, Pulse Middle East, Slate + Ash, Sleepiest, Sonatune, SoundPath, Technical University of Denmark, Forever Audio, Konami Gaming, KU Leuven, Meta, and POSTRED - Soundlister.com
Wanted: Graduate Audio Designer, Audio Designer, Technical Sound Designer, Sound Designer I, Lead Audio Engineer, Senior Sound Editor Mixer, Senior Audio Software Developer, Kids Audio Production Manager, Audio Editor, Program Manager, Postdoc in Room Acoustics, Sound Designer & Mixer, Acoustics Design Engineer, Junior Mix Technician, Audio Producer, Research Scientist, Sound Designer II, PhD in Domain-Aware Audio, Research Scientist, ML Spatial Audio Processing, and Junior Game Sound Designer
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November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I’ve been super busy. But here’s some x files stuff for spooky season.

#thexfiles #txf
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Hollywood in 1946: Rita Hayworth is livid when she finds out she's been painted on the side of an atom bomb (for the Bikini Atoll tests) and her husband Orson Welles has to talk her down because her first instinct is that it's all a publicity stunt by Harry Cohn:
While Gilda was in release, it was widely reported that an atomic bomb that was scheduled to be tested at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands would bear an image of Hayworth, a reference to her bombshell status. Although the gesture was undoubtedly meant as a compliment, Hayworth was deeply offended. Orson Welles, then married to Hayworth, recalled her anger in an interview with biographer Barbara Leaming: "Rita used to fly into terrible rages all the time, but the angriest was when she found out that they'd put her on the atom bomb. Rita almost went insane, she was so angry.... She wanted to go to Washington to hold a press conference, but Harry Cohn wouldn't let her because it would be unpatriotic." Welles tried to persuade Hayworth that the whole business was not a publicity stunt on Cohn's part, that it was simply homage to her from the flight crew.
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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My dad once hosted a fundraiser for a Minnesota House rep that Hubert Humphrey attended (I have some nice pictures of them hanging out in our basement rec room) and so I can pretty much connect myself to anyone in Democratic politics and entertainment from 1940 to 1980 in 3.
hilzoy.bsky.social hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 11d
I can get to CALVIN COOLIDGE in three hops, and I only thought about this for about 30 seconds.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11d
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make

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November 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Perhaps the real Torment Nexus is the friends we made along the way?
November 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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On the eve of the Dodgers winning the World Series 😉, LA Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez introduced a resolution urging Metro to officially reject the Dodger Stadium gondola project.

It's signed by representatives of CD1, CD14, and CD13, all districts directly impacted by Dodger Stadium traffic
WHEREAS, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines, the Gondola was required to undergo an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) due to its potentially significant environmental effects on the surrounding area; and WHEREAS, under the California Public Utilities Code and CEQA, the Los Angeles County (County) Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) serves as the designated lead agency responsible for reviewing mass transit projects in the County, including approving all plans related to the design, construction, and implementation of the project; and WHEREAS, the project would permanently remove more than 160 trees, eliminate 9,320 square feet of tree canopy cover and 2,195 square feet of public park property, and disturb local natural habitats, causing permanent environmental degradation in one of the City’s most park-poor neighborhoods; and WHEREAS, the proposed Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit (LA ART) project, commonly referred to as the “Gondola,” is a private, unfunded. $500 million aerial transportation project initiated in 2018 and spearheaded by Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and current part- owner of the stadium's parking lot, aimed to connect Dodger Stadium to Union Station along a 1.2 mile route passing through Chinatown and the Los Angeles State Historic Park, located primarily in Council District 1; and WHEREAS, the proposed project consists of overhead cables, three passenger stations, a non-passenger junction, multiple towers, and gondola cabins that would encroach upon public open space, fly as low as 40 feet above homes and businesses in Chinatown and 26 feet above the State Historic Park, and significantly alter the quality of life of residents; and WHEREAS, according to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the majority of the census tracts within the project footprint area are ranked among the top 5% of areas in the State with the highest pollution burden and exposu… WHEREAS, the FEIR inadequately addressed the construction noise impacts and failed to consult with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, but was nonetheless certified by Metro on February 22. 2024; and WHEREAS, on March 25. 2024, the Los Angeles Park Alliance filed a lawsuit challenging Metro’s approval of the EIR and called for the California State Court of Appeals to reverse certification of the LA ART’s EIR; and WHEREAS, on May 1, 2025, the California State Court of Appeals challenged Metro's approval of the environmental review, reaffirming the public’s concerns over the FEIR and requiring a supplemental EIR; and WHEREAS, following the close of the public comment period on November 13, 2025, the Metro Board will consider the DSEIR and determine whether to certify the Final EIR based on the findings contained in the supplemental report; WHEREAS, on April 5, 2024, the Council adopted a Motion (Hernandez - Soto-Martinez - Rodriguez), Council File 24-0011-S4, authorizing the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) to commission a comprehensive traffic assessment of the “community impact zones” around Dodger Stadium and to preclude the City from issuing permit clearances, entitlements, land use changes, or general plan amendments for the LA ART project until completion of the study; and WHEREAS, on August 13, 2025, the Council adopted a Resolution (Hernandez - Jurado), Council File 25-0002-S31, opposing Section 3 of Senate Bill 71 (Wiener), which sought to extend CEQA exemptions for qualifying transportation projects, including the LA ART project, and to limit any legal challenge under state and local law to a 12-month period; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that by adoption of this Resolution, the City of Los Angeles hereby OPPOSES the Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit (LA ART) project, and URGES the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), in its consideration of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the LA AR…
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons telling his parents "two vast and trunkless legs of stone were in the desert and I saw their shattered visage and the visage told me to look upon its works and despair"
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM