J. Brandt Buckley

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Engineer. He/him. Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my current or former employers.

Screenshot of a Google Trends page showing web searches for the leading candidates in the 2026 US Senate race in Texas: James Talarico, Jasmine Crockett, John Cornyn (incumbent), and Ken Paxton. The chart shows a huge jump in searches for "James Talarico" in the past 24 hours. Context: Last night, CBS lawyers directed The Late Show with Stephen Colbert not to broadcast his interview due to recent FCC threats. On Feb 7, the FCC opened an investigation into ABC for Talarico's Feb 2 appearance on 'The View'.
Screenshot of VS Code where the line being written says "TODO: Refactor" followed by an AI suggested autocompletion, "this monstrous method into smaller pieces."
Screenshot from 2025 Polish presidential candidate debate. Candidate Krzysztof Stanowski dressed in black looking like Superman II's General Zod.
A Google Search blocked by a CAPTCHA that instructs the user to 'Select all images that match the label: "undefined"' with 9 completely random images. Google Search can't even find what it wants anymore...
Trump as Nero, fiddling away as the NYSE burns. An AI-generated image of a Renaissance-style painting. (Created with ChatGPT with some manual retouching.)
Larry David on the grassy knoll.
Google Trends graphs showing a big spike in searches for "jury nullification" following the shooting of the UHA CEO. The next highest peak is in Fall 2022 from the trial of the Waukesha Christmas Parade Attacker, a sovcit who wanted to argue for jury nullification. Those are the two highest spikes shown since 2004. The most recent data is shown with a dashed line as it is still tentative.