Patrick Brennan

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Apprentice Greybeard. Aspiring Playwright. Wannabe Gamedev.

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Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· 3d

this is from the encyclopedia I had as a child, unfortunately

RACES OF MANKIND entry from the 1960 Golden Book encyclopedia (children's encyclopedia). The white supremacy is strong with this one.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· 4d

I fixed a minor bug in this many years ago, possibly my single most enduring contribution to the western canon

Splash screen for the Atari 7800 port of CHOPLIFTER! noting that the port was implemented by ibidinc.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· 14d

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· 21d

LOL, as if David Fucking Brooks has something worthwhile to say about AI. Or, really, about anything. @theatlantic.com

Pitch for an article in the Atlantic:

The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

By David Brooks

What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jun 30

jerry brown famously expelled all the worms from california

Close up of a "compostable" paper plate, with the text: "BPI COMPOSTABLE • COMPOSTABLE EXCEPT IN CA"

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jun 30

I'm with @edzitron.com on this one. I think it's useful as a search and coding tool, but I still use it pretty sparingly, so I'm not going to miss it much when they start asking me to spend $1,000/month for what they used to give away for free.

You are...
The Skeptic
patron saint: Ed Zitron
It's oversold, it's losing staggering amounts of money, and the harms are arriving faster than the value. You've done the math on the unit economics and it doesn't close. You are loud about this, prolific about this, and you suspect history will vindicate you.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jun 29

well this just fills me with confidence

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jun 11

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· May 4

Things To Do:
1. Nothing
2. Nada
3. Zilch
4. Zero
5. Zippo
6. Zeppo
7. Nil
8. Nopity-nope-nope
9. Nein
10. make a to-do list

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Feb 28

@theguardian.com No.

An image of Gavin Newsom, from the Guardian, with the text: "Can Gavin Newsom unite the US left and win the presidency?"

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Feb 10

Four Legged Man, from the Tick comic book.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jan 29

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jan 26

Two guys are watching a parade of trump supporters goose-step past them, carrying rifles and holding their arms in a Nazi salute. One guy says to the other, "well, what did you expect? We kept calling them nazis and fascists. I mean, what other choice did they have?"

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Jan 15

Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Dec 30

My exported map from whereidlive.com. Trump country is a solid no-go for me, but I only really like California.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Dec 26

This was my fortune cookie a few nights ago. I was quick to note that it doesn't say it's about *my* creative project, or that it leads to great wealth *for me*, so there really is no doubt that it's accurate.

A fortune cookie with the text: "A new creative project will lead to great wealth"

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Dec 11

this walking clownshow name-drops decades-old science fiction tropes and cliches - without even understanding them well! - too boring and worn-out to sell as fiction, while the tech press and the investment bankers with more money than brains praise his lame-ass bullshit as genius

Screenshot of a paragraph taken from an altogether too-credulous article on Ars Technica regarding elon musk's supposed plan to build data centers in space using lunar resources:
"But using a next-generation Starlink satellite manufactured on Earth is just the beginning of his vision. 'The level beyond that is constructing satellite factories on the Moon and using a mass driver (electromagnetic railgun) to accelerate AI satellites to lunar escape velocity without the need for rockets,' Musk said this weekend on X. 'That scales to >100 TW/year of AI and enables non-trivial progress towards becoming a Kardashev II civilization.'" What a load of horse shit!

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Nov 30

Cribbed from THE IMP #2, a JTC illustration of a man sitting at a desk. Before him are a shot glass, a pistol, a piece of paper with some writing on it, a pencil or pen, and a Jack T Chick tract. The man has his head in his hand, and a thought balloon above him says, "Who the @!!!**! is Jack T. Chick?"

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Nov 30

owning a cybertruck is already wearing a sign that says I MAY HAVE MONEY BUT I'M STILL A LOSER - but putting a robot doll on the dashboard just adds that extra cherry on the top of your loser sundae

1. elon's never gonna love you
2. just like in real life, the optimus needs help standing up

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Nov 28

My mother taught me this recipe.

spice of a cake my mother taught me how to bake. I make it every Thanksgiving and Christmas now.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Nov 14

moneychangersinthetemple.gif

Screen shot of the Google Play Store header for the Text With Jesus app, which clearly indicates that the app "Contains ads" and includes "In-app purchases," which I'm reasonably sure that Jesus would not approve of.

Screen shot of the Apple App Store header for the Text With Jesus app, which clearly indicates that the app includes "In-App Purchases," which I'm reasonably sure that Jesus would not approve of.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Nov 6

Dear Ross: fuck off. then fuck all the way off. no, all the fucking way off. then fuck you, you fucking wanker.

"Ross Douthat: Men and women are different. That is a core premise of conservatism in the age of Trump, that liberalism and feminism have come to grief by pretending that the sexes are the same.

But what does that difference really mean? Should the right be trying to roll back the entire feminist era? Or is there a form of conservative feminism that corrects liberalism’s mistakes?"

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Nov 2

A drawing of the outline of a crown, over which is drawn a red X. The wording "NO KINGS" frames the drawing.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Oct 18

CONTRIBUTORS AND CONSULTANTS

HALL BARTLETT, Ed.D., Citizenship Education Project, Teachers College, Columbia University; Author

WALT DISNEY, Motion Picture and Television Producer

EVELYN MILLIS DUVALL, Ph.D., Author and Consultant on Family Life; Authority on Child Development

EDNA E. EISEN, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, Kent State University

J. ALLEN HYNEK, Ph.D., Associate Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

LELAND B. JACOBS, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

ELEANOR M. JOHNSON, M.A., Director of Elementary School Services, Graduate Division, Wesleyan University

HERBERT A. LANDRY, M.S., Ph.D., Director, Bureau of Educational Program Research and Statistics, New York City Public Schools

MILTON LEVINE, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, New York Hospital

WILLY LEY, Professor of Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Rocket Expert and Author

NORMAN LLOYD, M.A., Teacher of Literature and Materials of Music, Juilliard School of Music

LENOX R. LOHR, M.E., D.Eng., D.Sc., President, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

WILL C. McKERN, D.S., Former Director, Milwaukee Public Museum; Anthropologist

RICHARD A. MARTIN, B.S., Curator, N. W. Harris Public School Extension, Chicago Natural History Museum

MAURICE PATE, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., L.H.D.; Minister, Marble Collegiate Church, New York; Author

RUTHERFORD PLATT, B.A., Member of Two North Pole Expeditions with Admiral MacMillan; Author of Nature Books

ILIA PODENDORF, M.S., Teacher of Science, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools; Author of Science Books

MARY M. REED, Ph.D., Supervisor of Little Golden Books; Formerly of Teachers College, Columbia University

JOHN R. SAUNDERS, M.A., Chairman, Department of Public Instruction, American Museum of Natural History

GLENN T. SEABORG, Ph.D., LL.D., D.Sc., Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, B…

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Oct 18

What the fuck...

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Oct 18

Oh dear...

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Oct 18

When I was a kid, my family had a set of "Golden Book Encyclopedia," published for kids c. 1960. A few nights ago, I had an urge to look for the encyclopedias I vaguely recalled from my childhood, and what do you know, I found a set on Etsy! They just arrived and boy am I thrilled!

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Oct 16

Box, the robot from LOGAN'S RUN, who freezes runners to supply food to the city.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Oct 2

Sure, I can get weed and alcohol delivered, no problem. But if I want *nasal decongestant*, I need to go to the pharmacy, show ID, and sign a form, and even then I am only allowed to take one box. Thank goodness the government is protecting me from these dangerous drugs.

box of CVS 12 Hour Nasal Decongestant, containing pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (an ingredient which actually works). Most over-the-counter decongestants today contain phenylephrine, which is not effective. In the 2000s, lawmakers restricted access to pseudoephedrine because they believed it would be diverted to the manufacture of methamphetamine, and pressured the drug manufacturers to substitute phenylephrine in most of their products. However, legal restriction on pseudoephedrine, just like the substitute product phenylephrine, has not done what it was meant to do.

Patrick Brennan@patrickmbrennan· Sep 26

the rejection email