Brad Collins

expat, futurist, serial entrepreneur, ukulele strummer and emacs hacker... Chenla Institute cofounder.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

Logged on to keep account active. I guess I am now a TUINO Twitter User In Name Only

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

@Payoneer_Help Why is it so difficult to contact Payoneer? I spent over an hour to report a phishing attempt. There are no subject categories for this and when you do submit you get a automatic email that doesn't reach a human being either!

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

Despite the headline, the article ended up sounding like the reverse of Monty Python's "What Did The Romans Ever Do For Us?" sketch. https://t.co/BpTk8kGmNb

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

@longnow https://t.co/4GFKsntNiE

When and where can we see the documentary?

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

@GeorgetownLaw @YasmeenSerhan @oneillinstitute @LawrenceGostin @TheAtlantic Been an expat nearly 35 years. "The policy of the United States is not to help citizens abroad," that was from the #2 person at the US embassy in Beijing when my life was in extreme danger in 2001. Not much has changed since then.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

@kernelcdub OUTRAGE! I DEMAND Red Hat to remove ALL code in RedHat Linux that has directly or indirectly touched by Richard Stallman; including all software under GPL licence. Then we MUST PURGE the Stallman STAIN from OSX, Android & roll back Internet to Windows3 #RedHatRemoveStallmanStain

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

"Vegan Butter" is Margarine. Duh.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

“Contemporary history teaches us that all you need is one mentally sick individual, two ideologues and three hundred murderous thugs in order to take power and gag millions of people.” — Kazimierz Brandys (as quoted by Simon Leys).

[Jay Raman @ramanjr]

I can't conceive of a Phnom Penh without Zeppelin Bar. #Legend

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

Two words: Phylogenetic Trees. Got it? It will be on the quiz.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

Essay Question: Why read Robinson Crusoe, when you can watch Swiss Family Robinson and why watch Swiss Family Robinson when you can watch Lost in Space?

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

@blender_org @Microsoft Microsoft is no friend to the 3D community. Don't forget what they did to Silicon Graphics. After buying Softimage, did a crappy port to NT, dropped the price and stopped selling upgrades to IRIX users. They sold off Softimage while the corpse of SGI was still smoking.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

Woodsy Owl Says: To our brothers and sisters protesting in America we salute, but please don't loot.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

One of my reasons for settling in India was to avoid wearing socks. Sixty years in socks is enough.
— J.B.S. Haldane
#QOTD

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

When he talks about "firing that loony" he reminds me of a robin attacking its image in a hubcap. -- John McCarthy (1985) #qotd

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

@marknutter You clearly have no clue how the world perceives Trump and the US. With no coherent international policy and disregard for human rights, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Philippines et al. feel free to do what they please without fear of US reprisals. Trump is seen as a clown.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the
inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cuthulhu. #QOTD

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

I don't understand the impulse to punch holes in the soft tissue of your head to hang decorative objects. But that's just me.

[Brad Collins @deerpig]

Today was a day of days that confirmed a long held suspicion that anyone who takes life even the least bit serious is utterly fucked. #pitythedoomed