Aaron Read

@aaronread1.bsky.social

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Based in Providence, RI. FT Electrical Engineer at RTX. Also providing radio broadcasting engineering via www.landrbs.com

Azeem Banetwalla's joke about breaking "ALL the laws"
Patton: you magnificent bastard, I salute you.
OpenAI Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025 2025 — OpenAI Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
Mad Max Fury Road's Immortan Joe, in the style of the old "Hope" Obama posters, with the title "MEDIOCRE".
The aggression with which AI boosters and executives act toward those who aren’t impressed suggests a genuine intellectual and moral weakness. Nobody who’s this insistent, aggressive and violative with their language of “it’s here and if you don’t adopt it you’re stupid and dead” has ever been right about anything. Nobody this desperate, insistent and forceful has ever had good intentions, good vibes or brought good omens — they are always bearers of some kind of con.
"It just doesn't work." (from Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
During the pandemic, many companies, the Globe included, began hiring people from all over the country and did not require them to relocate. That allowed firms to recruit and retain the best talent. Larry became a beneficiary of that policy. He moved to upstate New York to be closer to his grandchildren, and he got to stay at the Globe. We and our readers are better for it. While I appreciate Larry’s hot take on return-to-office – by the way, Jon agrees with him – what we need now is not to go back to the way things were. We need to adapt and find new ways to connect and collaborate that actually work for a modern workforce.
Special Hans from "Peep Show": People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy.
Croft isn’t your typical private school. It’s for-profit, fast-growing, with the vibe of an idealistic startup out to change the world. The board members are also all investors, and none of them have children at the school. Many parents only learned the school was for-profit after Given’s alleged misconduct.
Brian from Family Guy, screaming "LEAFERS!" in terror.
Google search - verbatim mode
John St is in Mattapoisett, MA, which is next door to Marion MA.
Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time you are dying.
Trashy Howard Stern's trashy movie about a trashy career, a trashy hairstyle, and being trash.
Commonwealth Landing businesses notice traffic backups People like Holmgren understand those concerns. It’s still annoying, though. “I know the end result will be worth it, because what they’ve already done is beautiful,” she said. “It just kind of stinks.” She said Barrett’s Waterfront has noticed a little dip in restaurant sales.
“I don’t think there is a place for a union that uses these tactics at a tiny journalism nonprofit, whether it’s in Vermont or across the country,” Ellis said.
A larger DPW snowplow truck.
Minority Report: Agatha in the "temple" saying "mur-der" in an eerie voice as she receives a pre-vision.
Matt Damon in The Martian, eating a potato dipped in crushed vicodin, saying with a just-squeaking-out tinge of black despair: "it has been seven days since I ran out of ketchup."
I found this image on the web - it's not mine - but there's an example of the Hurricane Bob patch in the upper right.
Realdoll logo (the company that makes sex dolls that are as close to a woman these chuds will ever have sex with and that's ok because they should procreate anyways)
Predator: "Do you remember Afghanistan?" "Still trying to forget it!"
Deadpool: "Ripley! From Alien three!" Negasonic Teenage Warhead: "Fuck, you're old."
Mooninite Panic in Boston
Austin Powers, annoyed and exasperated, yells WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!?
Star Trek DS9 "By the Pale Moonlight", Elim Garak telling Sisko: I don't know about you, but I'd call that a **bargain.**"
"Six years ago, when I started this, our local paper, The Providence Journal, was something that many or most Rhode Islanders read...certainly all influencers read [it]. [The Providence Journal] It's a shadow of its former self ... I think they're down to 16 reporters, so you can't rely on that."
MEDIOCRE
Providence Gothic - You leave Fox Point and get on 195 to head north on 95. You drive for days. For weeks. Your eyes are heavy and burn. In desperation, you look for an exit. You see the sign for "State Offices." You have traveled half a mile in four hours. You scream. Your passengers scream. The governor screams. The girls at the Foxy Lady scream. - You leave for the winter to drive to Florida. You crave caffeine and stop at a Dunkin Donuts. You say "extra extra". The clerk looks confused. "Extra extra?" you say. The clerk looks scared. "Extra extra!" you shout. The nice men come with a soft jacket for you to wear. It is only New Rochelle and you'll miss the shuffleboard tournament if you can't get to Richmond by tonight. - You ask for a cabinet. The entire coffee shop stares. The faint sound of a sword leaving a scabbard is heard. It is less than 200ft over the border into Connecticut. - You walk outside. It is snowing. You walk back inside. Someone elbows you in the ribs and says something about "seventy-eight". The blood proves hard to remove from the carpet. - While scrubbing the blood, the temperature reaches 95F and several people drop dead on the street, boiling away until they look like lobster claws. It has been five minutes. It begins to snow again. - You walk up College Hill. You will die of old age or a heart attack before you reach RISD. - You are on 95 in Cranston. There are five lanes of traffic and you are in 95 in Cranston. It is tomorrow and you are still on 95 in Cranston. Are there five lanes? Are there two lanes? Are there zero lanes? It doesn't matter. You are in the lane someone else must be in. You are in the lane someone else must be in even if it means you and your small children must die in a fiery rollover crash. There is no reason. God has decreed it. Ha ha ha. There is no God. You were in the wrong lane, anyways.
POLLAN: And I didn't go in that store again for many, many months. Another rule is, don't eat any food that won't eventually rot. I had a Twinkie for two years. I owned a Twinkie that I... POUNDSTONE: Oh, you did not. ROCCA: Really? POLLAN: I did. I have it. I didn't bring it with me. I have it on my shelf in my office. And I would give it a squeeze every couple of weeks to see how it was doing. POUNDSTONE: Aww. ROCCA: Like Mr. Whipple. POLLAN: And... POUNDSTONE: That's not good for them. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) ROCCA: You bruised your Twinkie.
ANXIOUS CHIT-CHAT. OPENING BELL. ADRENALINE RUSHING. CLOSING BELL. NPR Takes You There. Listen to national public radio's morning edition, and let us take you from certainty to speculation. From anxiety to exhaustion. Stay tuned to NPR and discover news that intrigues, music that enchant and talk the challenges. Go to where the sound shapes the story. And change the way you experience everything.
NPR "takes you there" magazine ad campaign from the early 2000's
RW: What trend in terms of technology do you think is going to have the greatest impact in radio in 2026? Read: This is more technology-adjacent, but deregulation. It blows my mind that it is still being flogged as the “sole savior” of an industry that “cannot compete” with “big tech.” Saying radio cannot compete with social media, but should because they both involve advertising, is like saying Alaska Airlines cannot compete with snowglobe manufacturers, but they should because they both involve snow. Radio is about building a relationship with their audience. Social media is about exploiting their audience.
We already know that students fled in the aftermath, likely leading to increases at other Kansas institutions. Hush and his cronies have hailed a recent increase in enrollment, but even a dead cat will bounce off the pavement when dropped from a great height. ESU’s enrollment is still down more than 17% over the past five years.
In Bruges: YOU'RE an inanimate fucking object!
Three of the "four founding mothers of NPR", Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer and Cokie Roberts in 1979. Not shown: Susan Stamberg.
Jurassic Park: that is one big pile of shit.
ELBA: (As President of the United States) We need a minute. INSKEEP: He's on the phone with other people, and he says, I need a minute. And everybody else - there's only two minutes left. BIGELOW: (Laughter). INSKEEP: And he needs one of those to think, but you would need that. You would need it desperately. BIGELOW: Oh, you'd need it desperately. We spoke with a former chief of staff and asked, OK, so how often do you rehearse this? And he said almost never. They're too busy doing too many other things. Whereas STRATCOM, they rehearse over 400 times a year, so they're very dialed in. But the president, who has to make the ultimate decision, is less so. INSKEEP: You wanted the details to be right then. BIGELOW: Oh, we were really focused on the reality of it. We also had three- and four-star retired generals who were working with us on a daily basis. We also had the former director of the White House Situation Room. The actors were free to consult with them for major aspects of their performance or just details, like Tracy Letts, who plays the - General Brady in STRATCOM. Can I ask for coffee and as much sugar as I want? INSKEEP: (Laughter).
2012 monk watches a mega-tsunami destroy everything