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Posts by Brian Bowen

Oklahoma Safety Council circa 1970 was not messing around!

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My “smart” TV suddenly wouldn’t connect to WiFi. It made me download an app to troubleshoot. The app took me through a 3-screen “diagnostic” that consisted of unplugging it and plugging it back in.

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What is “time” anyway?

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Gotta increase that CAGR, my friend. Those are rookie numbers.

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*clap* [weird interval of time] *clap* [even weirder] *clap*

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Cartoon of a businessman at a campfire in a cave saying, “Yes the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders.

Cartoon of a businessman at a campfire in a cave saying, “Yes the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders.

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For adrenaline junkies only

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Apple Health screenshot showing steps trend down for 17 weeks

Apple Health screenshot showing steps trend down for 17 weeks

Attention Apple Health dev team: In Chicago, we call this phenomenon “winter”.

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Partial Team USA hockey roster

Partial Team USA hockey roster

Hockey players really have some hockey-playing-ass names.

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Watched the Counting Crows doc. Dreamworks must have lawyered up because there’s nary a Shrek reference. During the Adam-dates-the-full-cast-of-Friends era, one of the guys describes him as handsome but ogre-like and the director does NOT jump cut to “Accidentally in Love”? Missed opportunity!

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'Severance' acquired by Apple for $70 million, expect a 4-season run and spinoffs Apple Studios is now the owner of "Severance," with the original owners, Fifth Season, sticking around as executive producers, and there are plans to expand the IP's universe.

YOUNG MILCHICK is going to be so, so weird appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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It’s gonna be cold, cold, cold. Gonna be cold.

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Real "It's a banana, Michael, how much could it cost? $10?" energy

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The Green Planet | Tropical Worlds | Episode 1 | Documentary with David Attenborough Sir David Attenborough takes a plants-eye view of life in a rainforest.

Just watched the first episode of the Green Planet. It features one of those. Genuinely creepy. www.pbs.org/video/tropic...

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Exclusive | Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse Actor plans to use trademarks of himself saying ‘Alright, alright, alright’ and staring at a camera to combat AI fakes in court.

“Say man, you got a license to use my IP?”
“Uhhhh, no not on me man.”
“It’d be a lot cooler if you did.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/matt...

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Transportation isn’t something that can just be “solved” with AI. It takes real human effort and investment. (And compared to AI capex, this isn’t that much to spend.) Appreciate this ambitious vision and look forward to checking out the full report.

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My Fully Optimized Life Allows Me Ample Time to Optimize Yours I rise blissfully at 4:30 a.m., thanks to my Tibetan singing bowl alarm clock. After twenty minutes of alternate nostril breathing, I start my day ...

Starting the New Year off right! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-...

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If you’re old enough to buy your own groceries and haven’t picked a milk by now, you gotta step aside. Egg aisle? Different story.

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Ready, fire, aim!

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Beck Odelay

Beck Odelay

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Prairie Anne was an American Girl doll, right? Right??

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R.E.M. Setlist at The Rathskeller, Boston Get the R.E.M. Setlist of the concert at The Rathskeller, Boston, MA, USA on March 23, 1984 and other R.E.M. Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

No idea if this is accurate but looks like it was an all covers set and they played the Orpheum just a few months later. www.setlist.fm/setlist/rem/...

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Shoulda walked away

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What the

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You think the third plank down said “dancing” then they let their guard down a little?

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Artfully left off the parenthetical from Spiders so as not to alarm the parents

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Consumer Reports Survey Finds Majority of Americans Want Better Fuel Economy and Support Standards That Deliver Thousands in Fuel Savings - CR Advocacy Washington, D.C. — A new nationally representative survey from Consumer Reports finds that fuel economy continues to be important to most Americans, and a majority…

96% of consumers say fuel economy is an important factor in their choice of vehicle - and it’s the single most desired improvement on their current vehicles. Which is why they’re going to love this CAFE standards rollback! advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_releas...

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The part about advanced students prompting AI for ideas about how to refreeze the glaciers it melted lolsob

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