Btrinen

https://social.seattle.wa.us/@btrinen

I live in Seattle. I make music. I record music. I bake bread. I read a lot of Science Fiction. I have two cats and I am not too proud to use them in a cheap ploy to get engagement.

Location: Seattle
Pronouns: He/Him
My Music Site: https://briantrinenmusic.bandzoogle.com/home
My Other Music: https://cooperpointrd.com/

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btrinen_at_social.seattle.wa.us@momostr.pink

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2026-02-28 04:08:24 UTC

Sam Altman saying OpenAI had found a way to work on classified Defense operations without violating their principles sounds a lot like Lando Calrissian saying “I just made a deal that’ll keep the Empire out of here forever.”

2026-01-08 19:02:44 UTC

This story from Cascade PBS covers an old-fashioned case of requirements tailoring for a government contract to favor one company over another, but in this case the staffer doing it used a chatbot to commit the fraud without having to work so hard. So chatbots do improve productivity — in government corruption.
https://www.cascadepbs.org/all/2026/01/bellingham-staffer-asked-chatgpt-to-exclude-vendor-from-city-contract/

2025-12-23 02:37:14 UTC

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The sad thing was that the web devs all knew this to be true but nobody listened to them, so they had to ask my team to measure it and show the people who listened to us. All that tracking code stuff is super customer hateful. It say “we’re going to use your computer and slow it the heck down, to collect data for us that your probably don’t want is to have”.
Collect data server side.

2025-12-23 02:29:53 UTC

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Once some years ago, as the head of a Data Analytics team at a large fashion retailer, I was able to demonstrate to to the VPs the website speed cost of all the third party tagging and cookies on the website. It kicked off a project to get rid of all that crap from “partners” and dramatically improved page load times. That was fun.

2025-12-15 15:53:03 UTC

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This is a game changer. I’m throwing out my fingers.

2025-11-02 14:14:10 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-19 17:19:04 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-11 00:57:11 UTC

I saw and ad for Apple’s newest iPhone and the selling point tagline was “thinest iPhone ever”. Why would that be something I need? Is phone thickness an issue people are having? I can barely hold on to mine as it is. I need a big case just to have something to hold onto so I’m not dropping it all the time. I think we need thicker phones. Apple is working toward a thin slippery sheet of glass.
#OldManRanting

2025-09-22 03:27:54 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-08-17 05:04:35 UTC

A view from Hatcher Peak this morning looking south toward the Knik Arm, which leads in to Anchorage.
#Alaska
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2025-08-15 20:16:45 UTC

One of a large number of bears I saw eating fish in the Brooks river this past week.
#Bear #Salmon #Katmai
#Alaska
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2025-05-16 22:17:16 UTC

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He’s upset that we have to give immigrants due process. I’m upset that we had to give him due process. We’re all upset, but due process, that’s the deal.

2025-04-11 17:27:58 UTC

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The administration clearly has no intent to comply with the court or really show any respect at all. It’s pretty scary.

2025-01-21 17:09:59 UTC

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I feel like the recipes I’ve seen in papers like nytimes and the Post are often more about style and food-photography than they are about actual great food.

2025-01-15 20:27:37 UTC

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And they didn’t really do a good job of it.

2025-01-15 20:23:47 UTC

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It’s hard to imagine a permanent end to the war without some entity other than Hamas in control of Gaza, and without a change in political leadership in Israel. Are not the right-wing in Israel and Hamas each dedicated to the destruction of the other?

2025-01-12 17:54:00 UTC

I heard mention of a seven and Seven cocktail on NPR this morning and I looked that up on Wikipedia and found this awesome text. Apparently some articles don’t get as much attention as others.
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2024-12-31 15:21:14 UTC

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When Aaron Brown was still a local anchor in Seattle he gave a lecture for my college journalism class. Some student complained about the poor quality of local TV news and he told us ‘TV news is not the news, it’s a TV show about the news. If you want the news, read a newspaper’. And of course he was right about that.

2024-11-22 19:47:23 UTC

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I had this with my covid shot last week. I had to ask my guy if he really got me.

2024-11-05 13:44:59 UTC

#thicktrunktuesday
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2024-10-31 17:43:10 UTC

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I love this owl photo! Please bring it back out in January on Superb Owl Sunday.

2024-10-18 18:37:51 UTC

Found this awesome moss and mushroom covered tree-trunk a year ago near the mouth of the Hoh river.
#mosstodon
#FungiFriday
#PNW
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2024-09-28 21:08:21 UTC

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I did not previously know about the Chemnitzer. Thanks.

2024-09-28 19:01:52 UTC

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Somehow melodeon players have infiltrated these concertina bands!

2024-08-23 19:04:42 UTC

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In an honest system this brain-wormed clown would never have run.

2024-08-18 17:46:18 UTC

#SilentSunday
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