Brian T. Rice
@briantrice.bsky.social
Mad computer scientist; electric motorcycle hacker; software architect; data viz whatever? Former nuclear tech, always NB. They/them. https://signal.me/#eu/5U6AQo_peWVxKPh5raxwBKUp8UxZm4iwfIb-21fgVSVQFRgfXn1DF42nvXiWSNfu
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Brian T. Rice
@briantrice.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Proof of life on my electric motorcycle streamlining kit. We just had to rework the wheels which were giving us trouble due to maintenance issues.
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As we celebrate Awareness Month, please share this if you know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
As we celebrate Awareness Month, please share this if you know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone.
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This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.
Social Security wants about 15 million fewer visits in its field offices
The new goal to cut the number of field office visits comes as the agency’s frontline locations have lost thousands of employees.
www.nextgov.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.
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When I talk about crowdsourcing bigotry, this is what I mean. The OU case is an anti-trans campaign, full-stop. Confected outrage generated by a well-funded group of elites (far-right GOP) applying pressure to other elites (university admin).
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When I talk about crowdsourcing bigotry, this is what I mean. The OU case is an anti-trans campaign, full-stop. Confected outrage generated by a well-funded group of elites (far-right GOP) applying pressure to other elites (university admin).
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The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
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This guy is a useless coward.
Bring it up, make them vote it down on record. Fucking hell. If your only option is to be performative then BE. PERFORMATIVE.
Republicans spend decades doing completely performative shit, and it led us here. Fucking do it.
Bring it up, make them vote it down on record. Fucking hell. If your only option is to be performative then BE. PERFORMATIVE.
Republicans spend decades doing completely performative shit, and it led us here. Fucking do it.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This guy is a useless coward.
Bring it up, make them vote it down on record. Fucking hell. If your only option is to be performative then BE. PERFORMATIVE.
Republicans spend decades doing completely performative shit, and it led us here. Fucking do it.
Bring it up, make them vote it down on record. Fucking hell. If your only option is to be performative then BE. PERFORMATIVE.
Republicans spend decades doing completely performative shit, and it led us here. Fucking do it.
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not only is this man not beating the allegations he fucking loves the allegations he wants to be inside the allegations he wants to meet the allegations parents and start an allegation family
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
not only is this man not beating the allegations he fucking loves the allegations he wants to be inside the allegations he wants to meet the allegations parents and start an allegation family
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*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.
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You all are mocking this, but this house is great because you can actually do the Cialis commercial with the two bathtubs thing in the combo mud room/laundry that has neither direct outside access nor any laundry facilities. bsky.app/profile/wind...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
You all are mocking this, but this house is great because you can actually do the Cialis commercial with the two bathtubs thing in the combo mud room/laundry that has neither direct outside access nor any laundry facilities. bsky.app/profile/wind...
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Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”
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Poster art by Marc Thorpe for Robot Wars (1993)
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Poster art by Marc Thorpe for Robot Wars (1993)
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From: Tchou-Tchou (1972), dir. Co Hoedeman, National Film Board of Canada
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
From: Tchou-Tchou (1972), dir. Co Hoedeman, National Film Board of Canada
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Good piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net. I think there is something to be said for distinguishing fascism proper from merely illiberal right-populism. And there's no plausible narrow and precise definition of "fascist" that Musk doesn't very obviously meet.
Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
www.theunpopulist.net
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Good piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net. I think there is something to be said for distinguishing fascism proper from merely illiberal right-populism. And there's no plausible narrow and precise definition of "fascist" that Musk doesn't very obviously meet.
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Tech Tip
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December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tech Tip
Ever wondered how to password-protect a document? No problem! Here's a tech tip that will keep your confidential information secure from prying eyes 👍
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“yeah our network downtime was getting to be a problem until we told the bot it was wearing programmer socks. we’ve got a whole team trying to figure out which fursonas work better for QA”
"we found a Type Of Guy who represents a particularly helpful corner of the latent space" is easily my favorite type of positive LLM posting.
Our Discord support agent was kind of annoying, so I asked it to pretend to be a 58-year old systems administrator from Ohio that wrote on forums a lot.
Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better.
Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better.
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“yeah our network downtime was getting to be a problem until we told the bot it was wearing programmer socks. we’ve got a whole team trying to figure out which fursonas work better for QA”
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"we found a Type Of Guy who represents a particularly helpful corner of the latent space" is easily my favorite type of positive LLM posting.
Our Discord support agent was kind of annoying, so I asked it to pretend to be a 58-year old systems administrator from Ohio that wrote on forums a lot.
Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better.
Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better.
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"we found a Type Of Guy who represents a particularly helpful corner of the latent space" is easily my favorite type of positive LLM posting.
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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Yeah the Knights of Labor ethnically cleansed Seattle while the IWW organized Chinese workers, a set of facts that is almost impossible to ignore for a labor historian but Erik Loomis isn't a labor historian he's an anti-anarchist racist
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
The Knights were anti-chinese pogromists, in contrast to the IWW, which was co-created by anarchists and other socialists, inspired in part by the Haymarket anarchists. If more (racist) workers were interested in the Knights than the anarchists, that's a bad thing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yeah the Knights of Labor ethnically cleansed Seattle while the IWW organized Chinese workers, a set of facts that is almost impossible to ignore for a labor historian but Erik Loomis isn't a labor historian he's an anti-anarchist racist
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Some folks across the pond are realizing saying "you're being a weird asshole" to weird assholes is actually a very good fundraising technique.
The more the right attack Zack Polanski, the more campaign money the Greens raise
flip.it/FBktKU
Ha ha. They must be absolutely bloody fuming!
#GreenSurge
#BackZack
flip.it/FBktKU
Ha ha. They must be absolutely bloody fuming!
#GreenSurge
#BackZack
The more the right attack Zack Polanski, the more campaign money the Greens raise
The establishment are shaking in their unreasonably priced boots over Zack Polanski winning hearts and minds
flip.it
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Some folks across the pond are realizing saying "you're being a weird asshole" to weird assholes is actually a very good fundraising technique.
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It's so fucking infuriating to see the effect that AI is having on artists' ability to make a living.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I'm really gutted about this. I spent over ten years building my website, it's what launched my writing career. But between AI hijacking all my traffic, literally, traffic from searches is almost 0 now, and my host raising fees to be hundreds of dollars for the year, I just can't anymore.
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's so fucking infuriating to see the effect that AI is having on artists' ability to make a living.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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Blue Prince (2025)
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Blue Prince (2025)
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one of my hotter takes is that i don’t think RFK, jr. believes in his anti-vax shit in a way that any of us would understand the word “believes”. he understands that flogging it gives him power and notoriety, and that’s all he believes in.
confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, but lizza’s stupid update today characterizes RFK, jr. in exactly the ways i have always suspected him to be, like, with a shocking degree of accuracy
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
one of my hotter takes is that i don’t think RFK, jr. believes in his anti-vax shit in a way that any of us would understand the word “believes”. he understands that flogging it gives him power and notoriety, and that’s all he believes in.
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The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
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Re-upping this both because the previous link didn't load well for people due to a bug, and also to show off opengraph images!
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Re-upping this both because the previous link didn't load well for people due to a bug, and also to show off opengraph images!
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
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Dear Tennessee district 7:
Please vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow. She is wonderful and also it will make Donald Trump very sad.
Please vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow. She is wonderful and also it will make Donald Trump very sad.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Dear Tennessee district 7:
Please vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow. She is wonderful and also it will make Donald Trump very sad.
Please vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow. She is wonderful and also it will make Donald Trump very sad.