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

Hey @transit.app, the app is giving incorrect directions. The transfer from the Kansas City streetcar to the #50 bus needs to happen at the Plaza stop, not the UMKC one.

I just started watching Ari Melber's report on today's New York Times story about Epstein and Trump, and remember thinking as it started playing, "He needs to have Julie K Brown on!" …and my wish came true! @jkbjournalist.bsky.social @ms.now youtu.be/gvd18Y_ndOA?...

Did you know there is a particularly nasty strain of flu out there, that does not match the vaccine that a handful of us received several months back? Yeah, I'm going to keep masking. @flomask.bsky.social

Listening to @twit.tv This Week in Tech and @iainthomson.bsky.social told me something that I had not known…the Australian gun restrictions were effective. The Bondi Beach murderers could only get a shotgun and a non semi-automatic rifle. Which is how hero Ahmed al-Ahmed successfully disarmed one.

Hey @padresj.bsky.social, am I right to be concerned about this security warning that LastPass gave me about a bank app? I'm on Android, and I suspect that is is a Progressive Web App rather than native. Is this vulnerable to a man in the middle attack? How freaked out should I be? Thanks!

At the Squirrel Nut Zippers at Knuckleheads Garage!

I upgraded to a new phone, and when I tried to save the password for my bank app (I suspect it's actually a progressive web app) LastPass gave me this warning. Is this vulnerable to a man in the middle attack @padresj.bsky.social ?

Yet another astounding podcast from the Rialto Report. I was blown away at the 30 minute mark, when it turned out that she had been nanny to the sons of one of my favorite musicians, Todd Rundgren and worked on one of my all-time favorite tours BEFORE adult film! @therialtoreport.bsky.social

I'd like to make a case for Happy Rhodes. She has a genuine 4 octave range, sounding like a duet between Kate Bush and David Bowie. My late wife was her biggest fan, and when we found she had cancer, her wish was for Happy to play a concert. She did. #bandcampfriday happyrhodes7d.bandcamp.com

Just wasted an entire day waiting for a delivery from UPS. I despise this company! If you're going to ship my product with them, why not just feed it into a wood chipper instead?

The most valuable thing my late wife added to her car was front and rear cameras. Somebody sideswiped us in a McDonald's parking lot, and tried to claim it was our fault. youtu.be/NJSX_AW6Dvk?...

I'm a huge fan of my @flomask.bsky.social respirator, which I've modified with a @sipmask.bsky.social port so I can have a drink while I'm out seeing live music. Flomask is currently running a 25% off Black Friday sale. Use the code FLO25OFF. Sipmask has Buy 4, Get 2 FREE sale.

Seeing Thomas Dolby tonight! Staying safe with my @flomask.bsky.social respirator equipped with a @sipmask.bsky.social port so I can have a drink.

I just listened to @twit.tv "This Week In Tech" with @padresj.bsky.social. Just want to make sure people know about Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs. I get a 3-month supply of 6 different meds for $49.66 plus shipping. www.costplusdrugs.com

Any suggestions @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social?

A friend survived covid, and he's having new symptoms. It doesn't appear to be POTS because it's not related to posture, but he can be lying down, get brain fog, skin flush and excessive salivation. Also, weakness and confusion afterwards. #covid #POTS Any suggestions? His doctors are lost.

This interview with psychologist John Gartner of Duty To Warn about the President's cognitive state is one of the most amazing things I've seen. youtu.be/9OtO-cypKmY?...

Here's the carbon dioxide level at the Dolby Cinema auditorium at my local AMC. This is honestly better air quality than most hospitals I've visited.

Getting caught up on @twit.tv "Macbreak Weekly" episodes. And as always, Andy @ihnatko.bsky.social delivers the Boomer culture deep cuts. Where else are you going to hear a Euell Gibbons "Ever eat a pine tree?" reference?

I just saw the new trailer for Project Hail Mary, and I'm sitting here in tears. I can't express how much I wish my late wife of 41 years was still alive to see this film.

Just want to make sure more people see this. If you're not familiar with the name, @padresj.bsky.social is the Digital Jesuit, and a regular attendee of computer hacking conferences like @blackhatevents.bsky.social If you think those things are contradictory, you don't know many Jesuits.

So glad to hear that @paris.nyc is reading The Soul of a New Machine on @twit.tv Intelligent Machines. It doesn't matter how obsolete the hardware, if the story is told this well. "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

I hope @pbs.org fixes their app soon. For the past week, it hangs and never logs in. Very frustrating!

This is my current read, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social via Libby.

I'm listening to the @twit.tv podcast "MacBreak Weekly" and I'm giggling at the thought of every one of the Lakers compelled by Apple to wear a Vision Pro headset throughout the game, and rendered as feckless as perennial Harlem Globetrotters opponents the Washington Generals. @ihnatko.bsky.social

Just wanted to make sure that @dansavage.bsky.social sees this.

Please don't post about AMC if you're not familiar with their A*List program. Here in Kansas city, I pay $20 a month and see four movies a week…which works out to $1.25 a film. And that includes all of their IMAX, 3D, Dolby Cinema and Prime screenings.

Cosentino's Price Chopper here in Kansas City had a really tasty tilapia and shrimp dish in their hot foods bar. One of the few good things that came out of Katrina was an exodus of talented cooks to the rest of the country.

This is an option @alexlindsay.bsky.social 1/4-20 a.co/d/gN4g4Fl

I'm curious to see discussion about the tiny little indie film "Good Boy" but searches on the phrase yields a whole bunch of gay puppy play. Which is fine for those who are into it, but not what I was looking for.

I am "Big Macs were wrapped in paper, surrounded by a cardboard ring, inside of a cardboard box" years old.

Since retirement, I go out to see movies on weekdays. I'm the only one in the theater, and the air quality is better than most hospitals. AMC has MERV13 filters, individual HVAC systems for each auditorium and brings in outside air. @flomask.bsky.social

As @dansavage.bsky.social has been pointing out for decades: "If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by youth pastors it would be illegal to take your kids to the circus." #YouthPastorWatch

Sharing another of the School of Rock videos that my late wife and I shot over a decade. Here's the team four of the 2018 School of Rock All Stars with Dreams by Van Halen. The young lady on vocals is astounding. #SchoolofRock #VanHalen youtu.be/g67EIwaHPow?...

Want to make sure that @jeffjarvis.bsky.social sees this discussion.

Has anybody managed to get vaccinated with the 2025-2026 version of Novavax? Does anybody from that company follow this account @novavax.bsky.social?

I listen to @twit.tv "MacBreak Weekly" despite owning no Apple products, or having any desire to own any Apple products. No, I'm there for Andy Ihnatko's cultural deep cuts, like Johnny LaRue's Christmas wish for a crane shot. @ihnatko.bsky.social #sctv youtu.be/rbt-ENPORZw?...