Andrew Brandt / is on Nostr

(He/him)

Andrew Brandt is a computer security researcher and journalist running for a seat on the Boulder Valley School District board of directors in the November, 2023 election

His work-related account is @threatresearch

If you support a progressive, science-focused, non-reactionary in elected office, please donate to my campaign. Even $5 matters. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/brandt-for-bvsd

#ElectMoreHackers

#schoolboard #BVSD #Boulder #infosec

Last Notes

2024-07-12 19:06:40

Looks like a perfect 100° day for a #Boulder #wildfire up near the #NCAR Mesa Lab up Table Mesa. Photo taken from the parking lot at King Soopers. #DinosaurFire #BoulderODM https://boulderodm.gov/avoid-trails-west-of-ncar-dinosaur-fire-111-p-m/
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2024-03-11 18:49:28

Could it have been a case of a broken clock? The New York Times *is* failing - it is failing its readership by behaving egregiously in-the-bag for Trump, and seeking out any petty reason to print negative stories about Biden.
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/05/there-is-something-at-the-new-york-times/
Of course, I've been saying this since they breathlessly repeated every "but her emails" story in 2016 and other thoroughly discredited nonsense. What an embarrassment to journalism.

2023-09-20 13:59:37

“I’m a proud member of [actors’ union] SAG-AFTRA. As you know, we’ve been on strike for three months now. And one of the burning issues is #AI,” Fry said before playing a clip of his voice narrating a historical documentary. Only it wasn’t Fry’s voice. It was an AI #replication of his voice.
“I said not one word of that — it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” Fry said. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the ‘Harry Potter’ books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created, and it made that new narration.”
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/stephen-fry-ai-stole-voice-harry-potter-audiobooks-1235727795/

2023-08-30 05:05:39

One of the most clear-headed analyses of the current political environment and the ongoing campaign for 2024, from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"What we are building toward on Nov. 5, 2024, might have the outward trappings of an election, but it is really a show of force. What we call the Republican Party is barely a political party in any sense of the word, but a dangerous antisocial movement that has embraced many of the tenets of fascism, from calls for violence to its dehumanizing of “others” — from desperate refugees at the border to transgender youth."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html

2023-08-30 05:05:39