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John Bruni

@johnpbruni.bsky.social

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Country-rock songwriter/Lecturer in Communication Theory and Digital Studies/Revising a book-length project on the unreleased and released versions of John Cassavetes's Husbands. Take it easy. But take it. He/Him/His

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 5h

There are two significant SF films in 1976-77, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Star Wars. One film is about planet-destroying technology and bad, helmet-wearing dudes. The other involves cute robots.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 8h

If you haven't seen this film already, check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privile...

Privilege (film) - Wikipedia

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 8h

Great quote. Also this one: "The question of ‘how did we get here’ is an earnest one. The exhaustion comes when white questioners refuse to listen to the people who have already lived under the boot of authoritarianism."

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1d

One of the albums that speaks to me the most right now is Steely Dan, The Royal Scam (1976). It's a brutal portrait of burnout city, built by a country that was not all that great to begin with. Walter Becker, now the absent half of the Dan, remarked: "Not much of a decade." And the beat goes on.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1d

How I interpret their ltop 5: 1. Blues Hammer 2. Blues Hammer 3. Blues Hammer 4. Blues Hammer 5. Blues Hammer

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1d

21. What is one perfect country song, to you? The grand tour by George Jones

Sure can't argue with that answer!

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1d

"There's no compelling reason to think that they're not just lying to achieve their desired end": so, conservative students or AI?

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1d

Doctored evidence has led to a war before.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1d

Always a really good idea to check and see how much time there is between sending the album to the CD manufacturer and when you'll get the CDs. Because who knows how many delays you're gonna have while you're trying to finish the album?

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 3d

"Any Major Dude Will Tell You" would've fit well with One Battle After Another.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 3d

One of the songs on my band's new record gets a Roxy Music ending: overdriven guitar and Moog squiggles, sonic bliss.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 3d

Instead of calling AI "human," we should be calling any soulless person we run into, "AI."

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 3d

An A.I. chatbot that plays peekaboo would destroy Silicon Valley minds.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 3d

This is the thing to watch today, I think. There are many gifts one can possess in life, but few of them are as powerful as Jane Goodall's gift of perspective.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when bars didn't have a dozen televisions ?!?

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Fred Neil & Joni Mitchell backstage at The Last Waltz, 1976. The Band asked Fred to come out and play but he wouldn't do it.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 4d

All I can say is "harsh realm – bummer." Remember when the NYT got pranked by made-up grunge-speak? They never fuckin' learn.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 4d

I have thought that some of this stuff shows up in early-70s Bowie: "It was in Pretty Things – between the catchy melody of 'driving your mamas and papas insane'– that Bowie's obsession with nihilism and its inevitable links to fascist concepts made itself known." badfaithtimes.com/desire-contr...

Optimization, Nostalgia, Fascism, And The Root Of All Bad Faith

It's when nostalgia is combined with the absurd notion of optimizing one's life that we get the most potent kind of bad faith.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 4d

Instead of calling AI "human," we should be calling any soulless person we run into, "AI."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 6d

Pamela Zoline is best known for her mind-bending SF story, "The Heat Death of the Universe." But "The Holland of the Mind" and "Instructions for Exiting the Building in Case of Fire" are also stunners. I'll bet you think these stories are about you. They might be.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 7d

And now, "ocean waves," said by the be-cool,-but-care sensei (Benicio del Toro), is lodged in my brain.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, keeping your head down is the most efficient way to lick them boots.

John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 7d

What a powerful ending: "[W]e will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize.Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again."

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