Dan Davis
Formerly lots of things including teacher, graphic artist, linguist, and software architect. Currently a luthier. Inveterate AI skeptic.
DO. NOT. COMPLY!
- important tribute from adam sandler to morris, the alligator from happy gilmore who just passed away at 80+ years old. rip.
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- There's a thread on Twitter that purports to show that AI can save money by producing visual effects better than Hollywood. And it's just identical shots that wouldn't exist without straight plagiarism of the source material. It might be the dumbest thread I've ever seen.
- I've got an amazing story about this one. Let me tell you all about how "If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about" almost got me charged with unlawful possession of a minigun. 1/?
As a reminder, this is a permanent resident, in the US since she was seven, high school valedictorian www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...- New court filing tonight shows that Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who participated in pro-Palestine protests, was named alongside Mahmoud Khalil in Secretary Rubio's letter terminating their status as legal permanent residents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Republican mayor of Omaha Nebraska, who campaigned heavily on anti-trans bathroom bullshit, going down in flames you love to see it
- look at that. just like all the available evidence has plainly shown for…7 years now?
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- I had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash
- BREAKING: A Montana court just struck down a ban on health care for trans youth, finding the law violates the state constitution.
- Sean Duffy will be out later to insist that Joe Biden set the work schedule before he left office.
- (NYT) - As few as three air traffic controllers were scheduled to work on Monday evening at the facility guiding planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said, far fewer than the target of 14 controllers .. #EWR www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...
- How long until Sean Duffy tries to blame Buttigieg and Biden for this?
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- The Trumpster takeover attempt of LOC would put the executive branch in charge of our legislative research. Pretty obvious problem. Good news: when Trumpsters showed up at LOC to take over, Library staff refused. That took guts. Librarians rule!
- BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
- The Rayburn Building is on fire with protest. People are swarming the halls during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security can’t contain it — because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back. This isn’t chaos. This is a reckoning. (1/)
- This isn’t just about Medicaid. It’s about decades of policies that punish the struggling while the rich get tax breaks and subsidies. And now, people are saying enough. This is what resistance looks like in real time. (2/)
- If Donold doesn’t think it’s his job to uphold the Constitution, maybe someone else should have the job.
- In my opinion? Absolutely. Taney brought us the disastrous Dred Scott, but Roberts has delivered horrible rulings on a wide variety of issues — Citizens United, Heller, Shelby County, Brnovich, Dobbs, and of course Trump v US.
- Roberts’s very particular vision of himself as a wise steward of the republic, juxtaposed with his actual record, is going to be a running gag for decades.
- But not the gag in a funny sort of way like a whoopee cushion. The other kind of gag.
- Historians will *absolutely* make a point of contrasting his solemn promise that he would just be a simple umpire "calling balls and strikes" as fairly as he could with his actual record of deeply reckless and thoroughly activist decisions.
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- the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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- Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
- Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
- WHO DID THIS?!?!
- ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer
- Sean Combs Asks For Quick Trial So He Can Get To Part Where Trump Pardons Him
- Geophysicist and seismologist Inge Lehmann was born #OTD in 1888. In 1936 she discovered the existence of a solid core at the center of the Earth, based on a careful analysis of global seismic records from a 1929 earthquake near New Zealand. 🧪 👩🔬 Image: Royal Danish Library
- The emoluments clause of the Constitution makes no specific mention of Qatar or the Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, so it's hard to understand why the Democrat Party is denouncing this incredible gift to our president. by Jonathan Turley
- Now that they got me addicted to pope news I can’t even talk to my family anymore
- this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!
- WTH man? Real World bro also serving as Transportation Sec Sean Duffy reportedly changed his wife's flight to avoid Newark and then went on TV to broadcast it's safe to fly in and out of Newark. @paleofuture.bsky.social w the details. ↘️
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- This should be today’s headline. The question is: why are so many business leaders, journalists and politicos pretending they don’t know this?
- The Dems saw that David Hogg was anti-gerontocracy and said his PAC might primary currently seated Dems (something a majority of Dem voters agree on rn) and they said "Fuck off forever" almost immediately, and got rid of him in a way almost custom designed to lose voters and empower the right lol.
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View full threadWe have a rep whose staff hid her mental health problems as she tried to kill herself TWO SEPARATE TIMES in the last year and now they're whining about how they've been treated. coloradosun.com/2025/05/01/y...
- This party is becoming an Elephant Graveyard, a place people go when they know their time is up and they want to die. It's more mausoleum than political project at this point.
- Not even a fan of Hogg, but "They saw he threatened their seats and immediately excluded him on diversity grounds demonstrating the entire party is a nursing home" is like the kind of thing Republicans get erect over.
- they Bernied the generically liberal white boy who survived a school shooting
- Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement
- AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
- If shorts have messages of positivity on them are they Raisy Dukes?
- NEW: ICE persuaded a magistrate judge that Columbia was violating 8 USC § 1324 by "harboring aliens" — i.e., students Yunseo Chung and Ranjani Srinivasan — by refusing to invite ICE onto its private campus to capture them, per the newly unsealed application. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- true story! Jeri Ryan was previously married to 2004 Republican senate candidate Jack Ryan during the senate campaign, the Tribune got their custody records unsealed and it turns out Jack was a huge sex creep, leading him to withdraw Obama trounced Alan Keyes and the rest is history
