1/8 I just published a manifesto on the future of #AI and why it belongs in your hands, not in the cloud. No hype, no robot overlords. Practical. Local. Private. medium.com/@brian.ragle...

" #AI is just hype" "wilted digital lettuce" "It's a #bubble" "It's a #scam" 🤔🤨🧐 apple.news/AwiQfmQryTUa...

I'm not a prude but it's almost a little embarrasing for me to watch Prince and his guitar like that. I feel like I have accidentally stumbled into a room where two people are making passionate love. My southern upbringing makes me reflexively avert my eyes, but the beauty of it all draws them back.

My new iPhone app 'Credit Reality Check' is officially live on the App Store. One-time purchase. $4.99. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No upsells. Just a clean, simple tool built to give you clarity about your credit and loan decisions. 1/4

Well, this just happened. Formal announcement tomorrow! #AppStore #Apple #Dev #SoftwareDevelopment #AmIADevNow

🔥 New post is live. The Panic Is Old, The Technology Is New How anti AI rhetoric is just recycled creationist and culture war panic. Read it here: medium.com/@brian.ragle... #AI #TechPanic #MoralPanic #CultureWar #AIFuture #TechEthics #DigitalCulture #MediumWriters

This is your reminder to check your HVAC filters and vents to make sure dust and pollen aren't building up and bypassing their usefulness. My eyes are watery and red right now and I just know it's time to change the filter. Anyhoo, check out this cute video.

Just submitted my first #app to #Apple for review! Once it goes live, I will make a formal announcement here!

NGL, I could listen to the #CivilizationVI theme all day long. youtu.be/6j2s4EkR36A?...

An early #Caturday post to show the progress from today’s #CatHouse build. This will be a warm box shelter for the neighborhood ferals that we serve food to every night. More to come as I had to really…really…over-engineer this sucker. It’s ready for a #MontanaWinter in #Tennessee.

“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, a million miles away Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, written in the stars".” 1M miles won’t even get you to a single star from Earth. It barely gets you past the moon’s orbit, relatively speaking. #badastronomy #songlyrics youtu.be/YgFyi74DVjc

What Perfect Album came out the year you turned 16? 1991. JFC, can you even imagine? "Nevermind" "Achtung Baby" "Ten" "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" "Metallica" "Temple of the Dog" "Use Your Illusion I & II" "Girlfriend" "We Can't Dance" "Diamond and Pearls" "Cypress Hill"

Hello, police, I'd like to report an avunculicide. (Yes, I know the paternal uncle Latin would make it 'patruicide', but bite me, nerd.)

So, to be clear, this is a direct admission from them the tariffs were being paid by American consumers. But will the MAGA crowd understand this?

Democrats are conservatives from a bygone era. The Republicans are, of course, actual fascists now. So, if you want to compare things to Nazis and Germany, the Democrats are closer to the followers of Papen, Hugenberg, and the Weimar government in general: weak, ineffectual, naive.

If Republican men are able to get their Gilead founded and enslave women as their breeder-harems, Megyn Kelly will be one of the Aunt Lydia holding women's legs open.

I'm left handed. Cursive, for me, was a punishment because no one cared that I had to do everything backwards or that my hand got all dirty and smudged and that my handwriting was abysmal. I switched to engineer-printing minus the blocky capital letters in everything and learned to type 120 wpm.

You know, as a fellow wage-slave to Lottie, this guy is pretty pass-aggro about my time off. Like dude, I'm a CONTRACTOR. I don't depend on Lottie. I have almost a billion bells in the bank, bucko. I'll take as much time as I want.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Just checked my #AnimalCrossing save after reading more about the new free update coming. Given all the stuff I have hoarded and how long it took me to find/scrounge/buy it, I will *not* be starting my island over again. No way.

📌 Major development: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of SCOTUS issued an administrative stay of a district-court order that had required full November SNAP payments to ~42 million Americans during the government shutdown.  www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The road to Stamps Cemetery winds like a thought you can’t quite let go of. Tennessee hills, old stones, and a man who keeps the veil tended. 🕯️ Faith, Fear, and Limestone A Southern story of faith, folklore, and the dead who never quite leave us. #SouthernGothic #Tennessee #Folklore #Appalachia

I guess I'm GPU middle-class?

Wow, the denoise function in the latest #Lightroom is....actually good. The auto-culling function works, I guess. I'm going to have to play with it a bit longer.

No, seriously. I have been to both places. NYC wins hands down and I am not even wealthy, especially not wealthy enough to really enjoy that city. Dallas is a pit, a layover from hell.

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now." I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce. Watch/share/subscribe to Zeteo: zeteo.com/subscribe

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Good morning, Bluesky

On the ballot today: -NYC: Mayor -Minneapolis: Mayor -VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House -NJ: Governor -PA: State Supreme Court -GA: Public Service Commission -TX: TX-18 U.S. House -CA: Prop 50 This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.

Hope he enjoys his place in Hell right next to Henry Kissinger, Rush Limbaugh, and Pat Robertson.

I'm very proud of this piece. It was a bit more personal than I usually write, but this area is dear to me. Unfortunately, the photography for the newspaper didn't come through nearly as much. #graveyardstories #history #localnewspapers #writers www.herald-citizen.com/features/sta...

The Gilded Age Redux.

Oh, the answer is one word: slaves. Capitalism requires it and, just like the meat production industry, the product only becomes palatable the further consumers are away from the source of it. So, meat comes from grocery stores and your racial minority slave is just a white-ish android.

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"Sir...sir...excuse me, sir. You have an arrow in your head. Yes, just there. An arrow. In your head." My brother decided to drop by and fight pillagers in #Minecraft. Also, my Norby seems to be rusting away.

1/3 Saw this world within my world while waiting on my dog to do his business in the rainy, early morning hours: a spider's web beneath the porch railing, lit by the twinkle lights of the back yard. #MacroPhotography #Spider #Photobomb #NatureAbstract #Bokeh #LightAndTexture #Photography

OMG. Copper golem in #Minecraft. 😻

Getting back into #Minecraft after a number of years away and pleasantly surprised at the improvements while unpleasantly reminded that Notch was and is a reactionary nutjob who preaches about "white genocide" and, oh yeah, that's why the Villagers are Jewish caricatures. *sigh*

You know, I have said it before and I will say it again, the 2025 DNC is practically indistinguishable from the 1985 Reagan Republicans. Which mainly shows how far fascist the GOP has lurched as a White Rage reaction to Obama.

As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to pretend it was a friend of mine and what my list of favorite songs on Apple Music would tell them about me or how they would use that list to describe me to a potential girlfriend. There is an essay in here about the kind of sycophantic responses of AI.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Who wants to bet he is going to tear down the whole White House? Just, like, the entire thing, decamp to Mar a Largo for the rest of his life, and rule from his Southern Trash Palace?

So, Safari for Windows will live on with OpenAI? Anyhoo, my current browser is a smartass, just like me.

I recently attended a county fair in Tennessee, in the heart of the state, and wrote stories on the dairy and beef cow shows that are a staple of such yearly events. The dairy farmers aren't doing great, for a lot of reasons. But the beef farmers are doing just fine. More below. 1/4

Quick question: does this apply to China as well and what are the proposed mechanisms for enforcement? Because if it doesn't, there's a new term you need to learn: Prisoner's Dilemma futurism.com/artificial-i...

Remember that time that JD "Jimmy Bowman" Vance made excuses to the white MAGA base over being married to a brown woman? newrepublic.com/maz/post/202...

Vibes are off. Pull out and post your duck pics. 🪶