Getting caught up with @twit.tv "Macbreak Weekly". Why didn't Apple have Todd Rundgren as a musical guest? He's been an Apple developer right from the very start, having written the first paint system for the Apple ][, as well as the incredibly popular Flofazer screensaver? @ihnatko.bsky.social

In the venue to see the Ukrainian band Yagódy at Johnson County Community College.

The video game & movie industry has totally lied to you about brothers who plumb. I was helping my brother this morning, replacing a piece of 100-year-old pipe that had clogged down to the size of a nickel. No princesses, damn few gold coins #superMariogalaxy

I have sobbed uncontrollably to this song from the soundtrack to the film Grace of My Heart, thinking about the loss of my wife.

I'm Covid careful, and see movies in the theater. I'm lucky enough to be retired, which means I can see films weekdays and early in the day. Here's the carbon dioxide meter reading for the theater I'm in right now. AMC air quality kicks ass!

Don't forget this news report from 2019, when the FBI opened Epstein's safe, and left all the hard drives sitting on top while they went off to get a warrant, and came back to find them all in a suitcase belonging to one of the lawyers. www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...

Seeing The Wellermen tonight at Knucklehead's Garage!

There's a 50% off flash sale going on with my favorite respirator! You can get the adult mask for only $44.99! No code necessary, but move quickly if you've been thinking about getting one. (I'd buy one except that I already have three.) @flomask.bsky.social www.flomask.com/collections/...

One of my favorite podcasts is "The Director's Cut" by the Director's Guild. Features one director talking to another, and doesn't have any ads. At all. pca.st/episode/7847...

I got my ticket for Monday's Early Access screening of #ProjectHailMary! I had to create a Fandango account, and I thought I would have to be paying full price right up into the very end, but I was able to use my AMC A*List. Not at my favorite theater, but I can walk home from this one.

I can hardly wait for #projecthailMary. I love what this critic said: "The awe of Kubrick, the wonder and whimsy of Spielberg, the focus and intensity of Interstellar meets the technical prowess of Gravity to blend all of our modern sci-fi, and to add humanity to it."

Best pair of posts:

Why does this remind me of this Onion classic? theonion.com/4-copy-edito...

I am curious whether any young people who discovered Kate Bush via "Stranger Things" have explored the rest of her catalog, and if so, what they think? I've been a Kate fan since 1979, and met my wife of 41 years via Kate's music. #KateBush #StrangerThings #RunningUpThatHill

I need to make sure @jeffjarvis.bsky.social sees this.

This is who runs this account. (It really is impossible to overstate just how weird my childhood was.)

Seeing The Henhouse Prowlers tonight at Knucklehead's Garage in Kansas City. #bluegrass

Just watched this interview by New Yorker editor David Remnick of Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown about the Epstein files. Highly recommended! @jkbjournalist.bsky.social youtu.be/ySTt2AeeWQw?...

Hey @paris.nyc, I shared your Consumer Reports "Lead in Protein Powder" article with a bodybuilding friend, who had just been told he has stage 2 liver disease. It turns out his favorite snack has a California Prop 65, and that might be the thing damaging his liver. Thanks so much for your work!

At Kansas City's Knucklehead's Garage seeing The Last Revel, an Indie-Folk band from Minneapolis.

Hot damn! I want to make sure this is covered on @twit.tv "This Week in Tech" and "Intelligent Machines" @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @paris.nyc

I don't have a lot of followers, but I wish all of them would read what @padresj.bsky.social has to say.

Hey paris.nyc, I just finished @twit.tv "Intelligent Machines" and loved your positive take on the later Matrix films. My late wife was a huge fan, and met Lana Wachowski when she was at Chicago's Music Box theater to present Sense8. She started talking to Lana's mom, who introduced them.

Listening to @twit.tv "Intelligent Machines". @scottmanley.bsky.social did the math about data centers in space, and from what I understand, unless there's been a breakthrough in the physics of heat transfer, it just doesn't make sense. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @paris.nyc youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI?...

What if Epstein files scandal reaches eventually every world leader at some point? Royalty is shaky and democrazies tremble. What kind of system would be transparent enough to prevent Epstein files never again? What kind of system prevents all the victims? I wonder.

Thank you for bringing up the Transit app on @twit.tv "Macbreak Weekly" @shelly.brisbin.net I used it today, and was curious if it was accessible for those with low or no vision. I wish they were more active here on BlueSky. I can confirm that they have responded to my corrections about Chicago.

Best approach I've ever encountered for a band or musician to protect themselves from avaricious forces of the music business. From Dave Stewart's autobiography "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: A Life In Music" 2 managers auditing each other to get that last 5%. #music #business #managers #agents

Listening to @twit.tv "Macbreak Weekly" even though I own no Apple products other than a couple of broken laptops. No, I'm there for Andy's @ihnatko.bsky.social cultural deep cuts, like VHS tape rewinders shaped like sports cars!

In April 2025, Trump threatened 5 law firms w/the threat of executive orders. The firms agreed to provide a total of $600 million in free legal services to Trump. ... He's literally using the Office of the President to blackmail & threaten us into compliance. apnews.com/article/trum...

It LOOKS like the raving of a lunatic, but this is Trump's REASONED way of forcing everyone to stop reporting on his poor leadership. He can't win in court, but he can make it costly to hurt his feelings. ... And he used the office of the President to do it. www.alternet.org/smartnews/tr...

This gentleman has made a point that I'd like to see shared more widely.

In the movie Casualties of War a group of Vietman soldiers kidnap and rape a Vietnamese teenager. The leader MAKES his subordinates do it so they can't tell on him. It's the same thing.

surprised no one in media has described the child rape as a mutual transgression designed to BIND these people. its a contract in blood that allows them to trust each other in the pursuit of future crimes.

Suffering a bit of food poisoning, and I have to once again acknowledge that my Toto Washlet bidet toilet seat has proven to be the greatest improvement in the quality of my life. The seat is warm, the water is warm, and it even blows warm air to dry me. I can't imagine living without one.

Just finished listening to @twit.tv "Intelligent Machines". Baird created a video recorder for his mechanical TV, but couldn't play it back at the time. Scottish Computer engineer Don McLean recovered the signal from 78 RPM records and made video from it. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @paris.nyc

Just to give people something other than reading about thugs murdering people… I replaced the igniter and sparker in a Southbend range for a good friend of mine who owns the best Indian restaurant in town. I trade out for food, and I am happy to do so.

I wanted to thank @therialtoreport.bsky.social for the interview with Stewart Dell. Fascinating to finally learn something about Rene Bond beyond the stark facts in her Wikipedia article…she was always so sweet, with a beautiful smile, like an American version of Cicciolina.

Hey @paris.nyc! My nephew sent me this link about an abusive AI system for the home called "Hup". Just wanted to make sure you knew about this for @twit.tv "Intelligent Machines": www.tiktok.com/@lukewithhup...

Fascinating thread. For several years I was traveling twice a week between Kansas City and Chicago via Megabus. Because I figured out when they started selling them, I managed to take every single trip for $1. Kansas City to Chicago every Friday night. Chicago to Kansas City every Sunday.

Hey @padresj.bsky.social! At St Thomas More in Kansas City Missouri webcasting a Mass for a friend.

I want to praise my bank, nbkc.com. Just this morning, they deposited my Social Security 5 days early! When was the last time a bank gave you a 5-day loan for free? Not only do they not charge fees for a checking account, it's a Money Market account that pays 2.96%. The best bank I've ever used.

No great artist dies as long as young people learn to perform their music. This is one of my all-time favorite School of Rock performances…Tyler Thenstead with Team Seven of the 2016 School of Rock All Stars performing David Bowie's Heroes. #DavidBowie #SchoolofRock youtu.be/c-LuTq-7ZGk?...

Virtually all "3D" movies are shot 2D and rotoscoped to be 3D. Avatar, Hobbit, Life of Pi, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Hugo and a couple of others are the only ones shot with a 3D pair of cameras.

Here's what people are pooping out in my neighborhood…high levels of influenza A, RSV and human Metapneumovirus. I don't want any of those things, which is why I'm masking (along with maybe 10% of the staff here at the hospital I'm visiting.)

Also, mRNA technology doesn't require growing the flu vaccine in chicken eggs; you can just grow it in a bioreactor. And of course, they could vaccinate all the egg laying hens against bird flu, and not have to destroy millions of them like they do in sane countries.

I just want to put this out there: The lifetime "Plex Pass" I bought back in 2012 is the single best software investment I've ever made. #plex

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

If you're looking for some Christmas music, Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Victoria Williams and Mary Margaret O'Hara performed a lovely evening of it in Toronto. My late wife put it up on a YouTube channel youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Remember folks, it's not officially Christmas Eve until @dansavage.bsky.social and his husband Terry sing "Fairytale of New York" youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?...

My covid protection habits: High quality respirator from @flomask.bsky.social 4 billion units of BLIS K12 S. Salivarius last thing at night. Azelestine nasal spray first thing in the morning. I have not had a cold or flu, or symptomatic covid since 2020. References follow. #SARS-CoV-2