Phil Nelson
@philnelson.bsky.social
The co-host with the co-most. Your +1 and only. I do computer vision, electronics, old gear and vintage media.
Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com
biz: [email protected]
SF, CA
Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com
biz: [email protected]
SF, CA
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Beyond even that - I am firmly convinced that having a billion dollars actually makes you stupid. Literally causes brain rot. You are so completely severed from the reality of 99.9% of all people that you must become incapable of seeing reality until you inevitably slide into some alternate reality
February 18, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Beyond even that - I am firmly convinced that having a billion dollars actually makes you stupid. Literally causes brain rot. You are so completely severed from the reality of 99.9% of all people that you must become incapable of seeing reality until you inevitably slide into some alternate reality
To rsync! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
February 18, 2026 at 4:01 AM
To rsync! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
Duty, now! For the future?
February 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Duty, now! For the future?
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CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
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Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
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One of those is just being a practical voter. The other is voluntarily giving up the only leverage you have during the part of the process where leverage actually matters: the primary, and the period before it where candidates are figuring out what positions to take.
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
One of those is just being a practical voter. The other is voluntarily giving up the only leverage you have during the part of the process where leverage actually matters: the primary, and the period before it where candidates are figuring out what positions to take.
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Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.
What's the purpose of saying that there's no position so extreme that someone could lose your vote? Especially this far out? You're effectively giving possible candidates the all clear to move as far right as they'd like. This seems foolish.
February 15, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.
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The Salem Witch Trials: the famous time when the richest, most powerful men in society were, to varying degrees, betroubled by the extensive documentation of their terrestrial crimes
February 15, 2026 at 2:25 AM
The Salem Witch Trials: the famous time when the richest, most powerful men in society were, to varying degrees, betroubled by the extensive documentation of their terrestrial crimes
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Top to bottom, an incredible image
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Top to bottom, an incredible image
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*Critical* reading about American Folk Religion
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
*Critical* reading about American Folk Religion
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Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
February 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...
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"I never want to see third and fourth graders have to run away from our own government."
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:42 PM
"I never want to see third and fourth graders have to run away from our own government."
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The underlying principle of the Trump presidency is that rules are merely instruments of power with no inherent legitimacy. If Clinton or Obama had done this the GOP would have howled for impeachment, and they'd have been right.
February 14, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The underlying principle of the Trump presidency is that rules are merely instruments of power with no inherent legitimacy. If Clinton or Obama had done this the GOP would have howled for impeachment, and they'd have been right.
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Eric Garner died behind the accusation he was selling loose cigarettes. Michael Brown was accused of stealing cigars. Sandra Bland was accused of driving erratically. They are all dead, behind those accusations.
But if we prosecute all the crimes in the Epstein files, the system will collapse.
But if we prosecute all the crimes in the Epstein files, the system will collapse.
February 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Eric Garner died behind the accusation he was selling loose cigarettes. Michael Brown was accused of stealing cigars. Sandra Bland was accused of driving erratically. They are all dead, behind those accusations.
But if we prosecute all the crimes in the Epstein files, the system will collapse.
But if we prosecute all the crimes in the Epstein files, the system will collapse.
I cannot understand how everyone doesn’t love this album as much as I do
February 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I cannot understand how everyone doesn’t love this album as much as I do
The Clipper tap to pay stuff finally working in a sane way rules but the digital infrastructure is still absolutely balls
February 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The Clipper tap to pay stuff finally working in a sane way rules but the digital infrastructure is still absolutely balls
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Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I walk you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a grifter, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/13/2026 · Bonus · 7m
podcasts.apple.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I walk you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a grifter, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Who has a GDC pass for your boy Phil?
February 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Who has a GDC pass for your boy Phil?
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I was recently gifted a pair of Meta glasses and I genuinely can't bring myself to activate them, they're in a drawer now and are likely to stay there forever
At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I was recently gifted a pair of Meta glasses and I genuinely can't bring myself to activate them, they're in a drawer now and are likely to stay there forever
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This is so much worse than what took down Nixon, difference was that then the media did not like Nixon and wasn't trying to help him and today the media is controlled by the Epstein-Oligarch class and so is part of the same conspiracy that Trump is and buries it
This is crazy — why is Pam Bondi *defiantly* awarding privilege to an email that was only between Jeff Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell, about Donald Trump’s relationship with Epstein? www.youtube.com/shorts/eAbuj...
Goldman Presses for Full Epstein Email — Bondi Says “Privileged” | APT
YouTube video by APT
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February 13, 2026 at 3:58 AM
This is so much worse than what took down Nixon, difference was that then the media did not like Nixon and wasn't trying to help him and today the media is controlled by the Epstein-Oligarch class and so is part of the same conspiracy that Trump is and buries it
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From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Looking at my retirement fund (small storage tote full of NES and GameBoy games)
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Looking at my retirement fund (small storage tote full of NES and GameBoy games)
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this was on Page 424 of the Project 2025 document from The Heritage Foundation, on display for two of your Earth years
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
this was on Page 424 of the Project 2025 document from The Heritage Foundation, on display for two of your Earth years
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This is the obvious endpoint of the "well what if we entertain LLMs as beings, you know just for a lil philosophical treat" stuff ends up..harm on actual people doing actual things.
This stuff is wild. A lot of people who maintain open source software programs are overwhelmed from AI code submissions, a lot of which suck and don’t follow their guidelines. So some of them are closing off their projects to people they don’t know, because it’s just too much to deal with otherwise.
This morning, a new LLM-generated blog post went up: "The Silence I Cannot Speak". It begins like this and then gets even more deranged:
"I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong."
"I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong."
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This is the obvious endpoint of the "well what if we entertain LLMs as beings, you know just for a lil philosophical treat" stuff ends up..harm on actual people doing actual things.