Brett Forman

Emerging Tech, Privacy, Personal Data and Politics/Regulation Reporter, Editor, Researcher | Bandleader/Guitarist @TheExCaminos | Comedy and Satire Writer

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Virtual Reality Lab for Public Safety Launched https://t.co/hfKLRPzUER

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@StefanMolyneux 80% of divorced men w/kids play no role in their kids’ lives but a financial one, despite years of trying, because common illegal-but-un-enforced parental alienation weaponizes children against fathers; & when kids get their own lawyers & choice of home, parenting is impossible.

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@BrianMorrisrun There’s a war on fathers and fatherhood in America, especially non-white fathers. Everything said here about the absurdity and welfare-for-lawyers that is family court is true. If you’re a father, you’re guilty until proven innocent, period, in family court.

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There’s nowhere like “now” and “here.”

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If technology didn’t create barriers, increase inequality & cultivate “friction” among people & economic classes, it wouldn’t be possible for corporations to monetize or profit from it.

That lets them put out the fire they started, like a protection racket, or US healthcare.

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You’re joking, right? Technology breeds crime that fuels a price-tiered security industry. Technology creates the barriers you must pay extra to clear. When technology is monetized, the crime it breeds justifies policing & security industries where you get what you pay for.

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@Mogil411 @omgsidewalks That's the bigger issue. Tech should reduce friction, not create new barriers.

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@VeerBha55383325 @omgsidewalks The worst part is these municipalities sell your data without your permission, orprofit sharing, or paying corporate or gift taxes on any of it, and then they use that data to shape and limits what you see online and irl. Your data isn’t yours, and your privacy isn’t private.

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I’m all about patience. When I have time for it.

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In 2026, the safest rule of thumb is this:

Don’t dress better than your interviewer.

Your Sunday Finest may be your Monday-to-Friday Worst if you dress better than your potential boss.

That’s why I dress like a clown in job interviews.

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@vangoghvibes No one comes to America hoping to impose Sharia. They come here to flee Sharia, esp. when it’s obviously distorted and tailored to each country that practices it, often making it even harsher. Assimilation is so much more popular than marginalization, ostracism & extremism.

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Trump is ethnically cleansing Haitian immigrants who are here legally, which is a war crime, & he’s giving those who don’t self-deport scarlet-letter-type ankle monitors—why not just give them yellow stars and throw them in work camps? Trump is the opposite of American values.

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@vangoghvibes When you wake up daily, do you say to yourself, “Who should I hate today?” If you’re a Christian, do you say, “Who would Jesus hate today?” And tell me something — name me one religion that is _not_ a death cult, that has no eschatological end of times crucial to its beliefs?

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@mattvanswol With AI fraud, you won’t know what’s real and what’s a perfect clone online and off very soon. It’s already happening with the elderly and digitally illiterate.

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“Thank you Congress for being so spineless, you gave yourselves and all US citizens the same amount of privacy as former Soviet Union citizens enjoyed—which was none at all. Thank you for using corporate socialism to coerce us into equality by making us all 2nd class citizens.”

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Why does the GOP detest individual privacy, unless they themselves are surveilled? Are they just infantile, shameless, grotesque hypocrites?

They’re doing it to Biden, too, by seizing the audio recordings he made for his memoirs. They violate the 4th & 14th Amendments w/glee.

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GOP leaders are cruel and unusual public shamers, high-tech peeping toms & elder abusers of 85-year-olds.

Fauci’s phone was not on a government server; if it’s his own phone, this proves GOP leaders are enemies of privacy & human rights for all Americans — unless it’s theirs.

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I don’t know if I agree. Who wouldn’t go to a “Dispirited Airlines“ party?

Gen Z Is Testing the Limit of How Weird Parties Can Get - The Atlantic https://t.co/jOD28DQxgv

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@AmoneyResists This is why Americans can’t afford to start families or have kids: So people like Lutnick can have more money than he can spend in his remaining lifetime. Still, it’s better to have thieves in power than dictators and despots. Thieves just want our money. Despots want everything.

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“Why are so few young people finding love?” Bc they’re broke, there’s no predictable future & Boomers blew Pax Americana & its winnings on themselves & stuck their grandkids w/ the bill, & when they see the bill, their grandkids are suddenly “communists.” https://t.co/3LnYfIiRLc?

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For more clues about Bowie’s _intentions_ for the lyrics—in the ad, Meta says “while technology changes, the intentions behind them never do” (except for respecting privacy, apparently)—look at Bowie’s next Album, “Diamond Dogs,” about an Orwellian, apocalyptic, dystopian future.

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Is this the definition of cognitive dissonance? “Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending.”

It’s my favorite song from my favorite album and it’s great. The album’s closing song is “Rock & Roll Suicide.” Why so many Armageddon vibes? https://t.co/RQzFZff3Ig

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“https://t.co/W6gvttStWT also quotes … drummer Mick Woodmansey: “Well, we chatted about it, and we knew it was about the end of the world and pretty depressing,” Woodmansey said … “I remember when we recorded it, he was … in tears. He was doing the vocal and he was … crying.”