Dan Turner v.26
@ddt.bsky.social
Same ddt. Working in service design for govtech. Bikes, books, cats. But I get out. All content here is personal.
If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.
If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.
I do like checking how my boring index fund investment is showing a 2x to 3x return advantage to the Coindesk indices.
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I do like checking how my boring index fund investment is showing a 2x to 3x return advantage to the Coindesk indices.
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This is awesome. University of California employees — Your retirement is invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund!
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
February 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
This is awesome. University of California employees — Your retirement is invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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pretty stunning chart
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
pretty stunning chart
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The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week” is such a strange sentence to read.
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
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I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
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This brief and trenchant opinion piece by Claudio Nastruzzi describes the lexical and intellectual flattening resulting from applying LLM tools to prose, due to their tendency to return everything to the statistical mean of their training data.
www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...
www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...
Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous
opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring
www.theregister.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This brief and trenchant opinion piece by Claudio Nastruzzi describes the lexical and intellectual flattening resulting from applying LLM tools to prose, due to their tendency to return everything to the statistical mean of their training data.
www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...
www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...
What beat do you hear at a potato rave?
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February 16, 2026 at 3:14 AM
What beat do you hear at a potato rave?
Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz
Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns
There's ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
Proposal: if Elon Musk wants praise, sir, you could learn how to apologize sincerely.
February 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Proposal: if Elon Musk wants praise, sir, you could learn how to apologize sincerely.
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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Become ungovernable
February 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Become ungovernable
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What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Again, I think it says more about the "systems around the rich ensure they cannot fail" than "Epstein gave good advice"
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...
The Many Faces of Jeffrey Epstein - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ezra Klein interviews Anand Giridharadas and covers all the things I’ve been thinking I want to put into a post (gift link). If I have time, I’ll work through some of the points in detail in future po...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Again, I think it says more about the "systems around the rich ensure they cannot fail" than "Epstein gave good advice"
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...
I don't think they do that in Dark (to the point where I need to go to check a wiki), aside from one point where they try to explain it to someone and her reaction goes from "you're putting me on" to "YOU ARE ALL INSANE".
February 14, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I don't think they do that in Dark (to the point where I need to go to check a wiki), aside from one point where they try to explain it to someone and her reaction goes from "you're putting me on" to "YOU ARE ALL INSANE".
Still thinking about Exit 8. At a point, I thought the story was getting too obvious, and I'd have to settle for the extremely clever shot composition, but it got me in the end.
February 14, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Still thinking about Exit 8. At a point, I thought the story was getting too obvious, and I'd have to settle for the extremely clever shot composition, but it got me in the end.
No reports of billionaires leaving the local area
Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
February 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
No reports of billionaires leaving the local area
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Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
www.eff.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Tomorrow, 14 February, is one of my favorite holidays: National Library Lovers Day
February 14, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Tomorrow, 14 February, is one of my favorite holidays: National Library Lovers Day
Interesting to learn that Rivian designed their new truck to meet European pedestrian safety standards. Doesn't seem like it's a heavy lift, and I'd encourage others to follow.
February 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Interesting to learn that Rivian designed their new truck to meet European pedestrian safety standards. Doesn't seem like it's a heavy lift, and I'd encourage others to follow.
Just had a project wrap meeting with a freelance client and the best part was hearing her say, "I'm kind of an amateur web designer and I really enjoyed learning a lot from working with you."
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Just had a project wrap meeting with a freelance client and the best part was hearing her say, "I'm kind of an amateur web designer and I really enjoyed learning a lot from working with you."
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
You know, they could pretty much solve the autonomy tech debt by adding rails to the "dedicated guideways". Call it.. dunno, a tram?
electrek.co/2026/02/13/g...
electrek.co/2026/02/13/g...
Glydways looks to 'redefine mass transit' with autonomous electric vehicles on dedicated guideways [Video]
Glydways is marking two significant milestones in bringing its Automated Transit Network (ATN) of autonomous vehicles to the masses.
electrek.co
February 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
You know, they could pretty much solve the autonomy tech debt by adding rails to the "dedicated guideways". Call it.. dunno, a tram?
electrek.co/2026/02/13/g...
electrek.co/2026/02/13/g...