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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 8d

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 12d

What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.

Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · 12d

By the way, his record was broken 2 years later by an ex-Google exec nerd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eu...

Alan Eustace - Wikipedia

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · 12d

Ah yes, like it's not guns that kill people.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · 19d

Hang a plant there so it can flower in Summer

Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, they should own stock like in the US.

Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Sep 20

Trishul and Om? Hindu symbols.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 13

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Sep 11

I was going to react with a smug "As a European, I am baffled that this is even a topic of debate..." until I noticed this is in fact in Europe. 🤐

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Sep 11

Interesting concept! I can imagine "sunk cost phallacy" type thinking would also be a strong psychological driver for path dependence.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 10

A revival of HBO’s Silicon Valley would go hard right about now.

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Sep 2

👀🤑💰🏊‍♂️🌊👋

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Sep 2

1. Monday was a landmark day in one of the most brazen political and economic grifts in history.

It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION.

Follow this thread for details.

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Trump's Labor Day payday

Yesterday, millions of Americans took the day off to celebrate Labor Day, a holiday that honors the achievements of organized labor.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 2

Please, we’re so close.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · Aug 29

Nothing to see here, just a totally normally shaped electoral district.

Very strangely shaped electoral district in Texas

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Aug 22

The main concern the industry seems to have is that internet connection and OEM clouds tend to be flaky. But perhaps this is outweighed by the convenience of not having to have some box installed in your house...

Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Aug 22

Interesting! Sounds like a pure cloud-based solution, no hardware box required?

Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Aug 14

Beg for a GIF, this does

a close up of a statue of yoda with the words `` believe it i do '' written on it .

ALT: a close up of a statue of yoda with the words `` believe it i do '' written on it .

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Aug 13

Won't that impact the current flexibility business models in the medium term?

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · Aug 7

cc @garymarcus.bsky.social

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Aug 1

maybe because "heed the moment" didn't have the same ring to it?

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · Jul 23

Drag force on peloton compared to a lone cyclist - from www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... with data from www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Jul 23

It's got my vote!

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samᴮᴼᴼᴼ @samgavin.com · Jul 20

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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Bram @bramvm.bsky.social · Jul 18

WEDNESDAY: CBS tells Colbert they cancel the show.