@brantman.bsky.social
Scientist, Husband, Cat and Dog father "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all." -Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial 1925
I have good news and bad news about my friend Schrödinger's Cat...
06.03.2026 15:35 — 👍 1433 🔁 155 💬 53 📌 10If you've pissed off Turley (or Douthat), you're doing it right.
06.03.2026 00:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is how you write a goddamn headline.
05.03.2026 06:53 — 👍 16172 🔁 2929 💬 436 📌 138Do you normally eat breakfast in an auto shop...with extra splenda?
03.03.2026 23:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning.
Let’s fix this headline...
Grifter scientist who spent years undermining mainstream COVID policy now discovers MMR is 97% effective, urges public to do what CDC has recommended since 1971.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...
Great explainer on the concept of enshittification
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Eisenhower used a different term for "defense industrial base" and vehemently warned against it in his final address to the nation
02.03.2026 17:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On an easel, a painting of priest in a dark temple
The painting
Detail of the priest
New Rembrandt discovered.
The painting depicts Archangel Gabriel (not shown) announcing to the high priest Zacharias that despite his and his wife’s advanced age, they will have a son: John the Baptist. Rembrandt would have been 27 when he painted this in 1633.
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/pre...
...and Scotty only needed one
02.03.2026 11:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
the missing line is "they leave that all to the poor"
I think.
Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.
01.03.2026 15:15 — 👍 2298 🔁 620 💬 438 📌 534This might be a way to hold people accountable later: subpoena the betting records on a (non-congressional authorized) military strike, find Jr, Jared, Lutnik, and Musk...and probably many others in the admin. Freeze their assets, and daddy goes on trial for mishandling classified information AGAIN.
01.03.2026 12:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Only a matter of time before Trump has Tulsi claiming our troops have found "proof of election hacking" in Iran. Trump will try to use this war to declare a national emergency and take over elections before the mid-terms. Every city will become a clusterfuck like Minneapolis.
28.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
Why would evil have nightmares about itself?
28.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stay focused-->
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. However, she is VERY VERY VERY wrong the other 23 hours and 58 minutes a day. Just Say NO!!!!!!
27.02.2026 00:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Justice Department Sues Five Additional States for Failure to Produce Voter Rolls 02/26/2026 07:00 AM EST Today, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced it has filed federal lawsuits against five states - Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey — for failure to produce their full voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department's nationwide total to 29 states and the District of Columbia.
5 more states
26.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 389 🔁 214 💬 24 📌 13
Image of Bill Hicks action figure on simulated stage superimposed over stellar photography of Arcturus, framed by Bill's quotation: "You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions! Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever."
26.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Article title "Large language models reflect the ideology of their creators"
@maartenbuyl.bsky.social and co-workers
All the above from here 3/3:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Grey triangular icon is #grok #grokhatesamerica
Zoomed in on the things #grok hates 2/3
26.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#grok #grokhatesamerica #elonisanazi
Nice to see actual validation of what we all thought 1/3
Yes, let's free humans from the development of critical thinking. I'm sure that will work out just fine. Let the machines work on bettering humanity.
The combined idiocy and arrogance is staggering.
and so it goes.
25.02.2026 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Funny you mention that, a colleague and I were just brainstorming the same thing.
At this point, it needs to be entire campus buildings.
That is the best mashup I've seen in years. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to even watch the trailer now?
24.02.2026 23:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do I need to post selfies drinking with the hockey team on public funds as part of the application?
24.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preparing for SOTU
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
