Johnny Rico

Just trying to do my part
Pseudonym used due to disallowed political thought.

[Johnny Rico @kinpatu]

@SoveyX @DavidPiccinini2 So true. Anyone in North America who is normal weight is perceived to be anorexic.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Matrix took its name from a 1984 novel written on a manual typewriter by a man who didn't own a computer. 42 years later, that novel finally gets its own screen.

William Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable. He coined "cyberspace" before he'd ever logged onto anything. The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in the same year, the only novel ever to take all three.

Then Hollywood spent four decades strip-mining it while calling it unfilmable. The Wachowskis lifted the matrix, the jacked-in hackers, the AI pulling strings behind a corporate veil. Every razor-girl assassin in sci-fi traces back to Molly. Johnny Mnemonic, an actual Gibson adaptation, flopped so hard in 1995 that studios treated his work as radioactive for a generation.

At least five directors attached and detached over the years. Chris Cunningham in 2000. Vincenzo Natali in 2010. Tim Miller at Fox in 2017. Each attempt died the same death. By the time the technology existed to film Neuromancer, audiences had watched its ideas in a dozen movies that borrowed them first.

The original became unfilmable because it looked like a copy of its own copies.

Now the timing loops back on itself. A story about a rogue AI maneuvering to escape its corporate constraints, written before the web existed, lands in January 2027 as the least speculative thing on television.

And one detail makes the whole arc perfect. When Neuromancer royalties came in, Gibson bought his first computer, an Apple IIc. Four decades later, Apple is the company putting his book on screen.

[Johnny Rico @kinpatu]

@SoveyX I used to engage with these callers and spam texts with the intent of wasting their time, but that just drove more calls and SMS, with no apparent upper bound. Got unmanageable.

[Naoko Yamazaki 山崎直子 @Astro_Naoko]

Congratulations!
今回のスターシップ 第13回目の飛行試験にて、スターリンク衛星20機の展開に成功🛰️
スターシップ は、アルテミス計画における有人月面着陸機として選定されていますが、衛星打上げや将来的な高速二地点移動への用途も注目です

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Back then she was a young 55 year old with crazy ideas

[Johnny Rico @kinpatu]

@ethanjweiss They’ll never stop until the ad revenue dries up. The surprising part to me has been that the financial incentive must be significant enough to keep up this grift. For people who have no other job skills, that’s expected, but these are ostensibly professionals.

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

The Hamming distance between two bit vectors is the number of places where they differ.

[Johnny Rico @kinpatu]

@ethanjweiss It makes a lot more sense when you accept that there’s no bottom.

[Johnny Rico @kinpatu]

@ethanjweiss Why does February only have 28 days? Biggest workaround in the history of mankind.

[Marion Maréchal @MarionMarechal]

Pas d’excuse de minorité pour les barbares qui ont lynché à mort Louis.

Pour ses parents qui affrontent la plus douloureuse des épreuves, comme pour tous les parents de France qui constatent que la société ne protège plus les enfants, nous attendons une Justice impitoyable.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

I understand and agree with the anger against the police in the case of Henry Nowak.

But they didn’t act in a vacuum.

Their practices reflected policies at the highest levels of power.

In fact, they were upholding the two-tier law as it currently stands!

[TMK @themagaking]

After watching Henry Nowak bleed to death while in handcuffs, while his murderer was treated as the victim, I can honestly say I have never witnessed a greater betrayal by a nation of its own people. Cowards and traitors, all of them. Shame on Britain.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Conservative Primary Voters Excited To Choose Which Politician Will Betray Them Next https://t.co/hGKCpMCZiH

[The Earthshot Prize @EarthshotPrize]

Happy 100th Birthday to our very first Prize Council Member, Sir David Attenborough.

You’ve inspired generations to turn hope into action for our planet.

From all of us at The Earthshot Prize, thank you for igniting a movement of planet protectors.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Woman Terrified Of White Men Leaves Africa For Minnesota https://t.co/gADxzRuzPj

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

This is absolutely mind blowing!

When Karin Bass was in Ghana as Los Angeles burned, the deputy mayor she left in charge was at home on house arrest.

For phoning in a bomb threat.

We are indeed governed by criminals.

From @spencerpratt on @joerogan

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Cole Allen didn’t need to go down a fringe rabbit hole to become radicalized. He just needed to believe the MSM’s inflammatory rhetoric, lies, and hoaxes about Trump.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Remember this

[Johnny Rico @kinpatu]

@ethanjweiss Don’t be dissuaded. Keto / low-carb has been transformational for many. Being an LDL denier is a choice, independent of dietary choice.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

In shocking news, calling your political opponents Nazis makes crazy people want to kill them. Who could have predicted this?