K Brandon Bell

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Digital scenic designer, father, husband. Love art, music, comedy, film.
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Published in 1945, this is a distressingly precise description of a certain US political movement in 2023. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/31/spotting-and-fighting-fascism-in-america
Spotting and Fighting Fascism in America

Link to: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-29-2023

Daring Fireball
Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.
@Deglassco Darn is putting it mildly.
@Richard_Littler I had no idea he died! What a loss.
#NowPlaying Ahmad Jamal (who died a couple of days ago) live at the 1971 Montreux Jazz Festival. His performance was split over two albums: Freeflight and Outertimeinnerspace.
#jazz #ahmadjamal

What if I told you...

...you can use ChatGPT to create playlists, with natural language input, for any artist, vibe, or historical context you want..

...and save those playlists in Apple's Music app?

Yep: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-to-connect-openais-chatgpt-with-native-features-of-apples-operating-systems/

Introducing S-GPT, A Shortcut to Connect OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Native Features of Apple’s Operating Systems

Update, April 13: I’ve updated S-GPT to version 1.0.2. You can read the full changelog here. All download links have been updated. Update, April 13: For Club MacStories+ and Premier members, I’ve published Part 1 of an extensive ‘Making Of’ series about S-GPT. This is a technical deep dive for my Automation Academy series. You

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
~ Isaac Asimov
To understand the horrendous volume of mass shootings in the U.S., it is imperative to appreciate how the expiration of the last federal assault weapons ban freed gun manufacturers to push AR-15s into common usage. Here’s gift access to recent reporting on this, published in today’s Washington Post before the episode in #Nashville. https://wapo.st/40lZWh4 1/ (short thread) #GunViolence #GunIndustry
How the AR-15 became a powerful political, cultural symbol in America

The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the firearms industry and its allies.

The Washington Post
At a friend's lake house...How in the world do you get Alexa to "play The Necks" without it just playing the next song in the queue??
@Juju Not to be facetious, but it really does just kinda taste like yellow.