Brian T. Rice

@briantrice.bsky.social

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Mad computer scientist; electric motorcycle hacker; software architect; data viz whatever? Former nuclear tech

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We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...

I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AIwww.404media.co Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

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I looked into the classic claim "JavaScript was made in just 10 days". The truth is... sorta? It's complicated. buttondown.email/hillelwayne/...

Was Javascript really made in 10 days?buttondown.email I once heard that Javascript has so many warts because the first version was made in just ten days. I was curious 1) if this is true, and 2) if it explains...

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So you just joined Bluesky & you want to know how stuff works here. Good job. Us too. We're screaming like possum at our own asses while speedrunning social internet stuff from '93 to 2021 as fast as possible while denying our mortality & convincing ourselves we haven't seen the things we've seen.

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One of the biggest gaps in US history as its usually taught is the portrayal of McCarthyism and the Red Scare as narrowly focused on "communism" when the working definition of "communism" being used included Black civil rights activists, labor organizers, and queer people.

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there is always a Dril tweet

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v0.4 of bsky.tel is live, now with the ability to load threads from timelines! when you're going through a home timeline, just press "C" for context; it'll load the thread in reverse order

fire up your terminal and telnet into `bsky.tel`, the telnet bluesky client, which is now live! obviously this is really early on, but it should work well for modern machines all the way back to the Commodore 64 and Apple II (pictured here) plz send bug reports + feedback my way!

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