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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 8h

Hey congrats on the job!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8h

UPDATE: Newsom has signed SB 79 into law!!

This is a great day for anyone who cares about ending California's housing and homelessness crisis, getting the state to net zero emissions, and recovering American democracy.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

publiccomment.blog

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

This isn't true, so you should block this person

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 1d

Is this gonna be one of those things where it turns on "city" vs "metropolitan statistical area"

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 2d

Semi famous tattoo cover up where a guy stick-and-poked a shabby Pikachu tattoo, t then later got a real tattoo all around it where a nicely done Pikachu is seated and now painting the original tattoo on a canvas on an easel. Painter Pikachu looks buzzed and has a beer sitting next to him.

Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 3d

Screenshot of my fantasy football app ("sleeper") showing league awards for the week, cropped to just me winning "most efficient manager" where the best my team could do in terms of shuffling starter-vs-bench roles around was 109.67 points and I scored 109.67 points. That's a terrible score, my opponent cleared 200 (league best this week but still)

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 3d

AMD but yes

AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs

AMD and OpenAI have announced a multi-year partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, beginning with 1 gigawatt in 2026, to power OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure and accelerate...

openai.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3d

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 3d

"Blue Ruin" is a perfect movie. Just had a rewatch. It does a great job of pointing you to you exactly what you need to note, and then rolling the dice on whether that pays off two, ten, twenty, forty minutes later. You see bullet holes in the Pontiac at minute three.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d

I got some lemon caper fettuccini last night that was so fucking rich so tonight I thought I'd take the leftovers and mix it with a new big pot of dry ass linguini to sort of "dilute" the whole operation. Turns out that doesn't work. That's not a thing.

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

thread (conclusion)

caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 4d

so in short - I am skeptical on AI replacing Hollywood in product capability, but I am absolutely befuddled as to how anyone makes Ai Feature Film in the next 3-5 years commercially viable purely from a “who in the fuck will you get to watch this at the scale that makes you money off of it”

Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

(ok i looked it up and "cf." does not mean "hey lookit this")

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

possibly marketing in general is just completely borked, and so this doesn't matter, but that's not really down to sora. cf @caylen.bsky.social

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

I'm not ruling this sea change out, but: a huge share of the expense of making a movie, is marketing the movie. (not that long ago, 25-35% of the total expenditures, easy.) if nobody's in the movie, who's going to promote it? (best case scenario, someone without traditional levels of charisma.)

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of you won't believe me. But as an insider, I don't see how Hollywood survives tools like Sora. There is just no way to compete.

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

that groyper frog riff though: how nature says, do not touch

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

Haven't heard anything about nostr for, I wanna say, a year

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4d

birdhouse

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

i thought the panda express orange sauce would be a lock but it actually has some red pepper flakes floating around in there that i can't even register. my kids will get there someday but for now we have a whole second, milder orange sauce.

Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

I don't know about you guys buy my fridge is overflowing with sauce because we have to keep binary searching the right level of spiciness/intensity of e.g. hoisin that young elementary schoolers can enjoy

Why America’s Fridges Are Overflowing With Sauce

The pandemic is over, but households are still stocked up on fancy ketchups and chili crisp like the world could end tomorrow.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

in terms of my extremely casual job hunting, this risk has also introduced a bunch of market-for-lemons style sand in the gears. (sorry for this preview image but the post is good.)

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 4d

Wrote a newsletter on Friday about a pervasive risk to your software supply chain that you may not have considered, which is also something I can help with:

buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

What Do You Do When a Piece of Your Stack Goes Bad?

Here we consider a software supply chain risk particularly salient in our particular (geo)political milieu.

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

we did a diaper composting service and they were very very clear in the intro materials: "for cholera reasons, we can turn this into mulch for office park planters and basically nothing else." and i haven't chewed on a single piece of office park mulch since.

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

Highlight for me was the out-of-nowhere dancerly grace the skateboarders have leaping across rooftops. Love to watch stuff move at the movies.

Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 4d

Saw the 11PM Metreon IMAX of this last night, and everyone's right: it's really good, it never stops moving, it doesn't feel three hours long. So just imagine how crazy the 2:15 cut woulda been!!

Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 7d

Glad everyone's enjoying One Battle After Another; can't wait to see it myself. Zero chance the movie of the decade is over 150 minutes long.

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