Dan Ryan
@djjrjr.bsky.social
Multidisciplinarian thinking about technology, democracy, AI, institutions, fiction and art. Teaching professor at JHU CS. Baltimore/Toronto/Oakland.
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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It’s not lost on me that the people celebrating masked agents enforcing curfews and checkpoints were the same people losing their shit when they were asked to stay home and wear a mask for their own safety
August 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s not lost on me that the people celebrating masked agents enforcing curfews and checkpoints were the same people losing their shit when they were asked to stay home and wear a mask for their own safety
Did I hear the researchers on NPR right? Fifty dollars a week bought 1.something more days of school attendance per semester. And this is big impact? I'm sure I missed something.
August 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Did I hear the researchers on NPR right? Fifty dollars a week bought 1.something more days of school attendance per semester. And this is big impact? I'm sure I missed something.
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As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
July 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
Yet another intellectual trying for a clever anti-AI take. And failing. Basic social science error: sampling on the dependent variable. Easy to find unimpressive examples if you hang out in spaces populated by folks not doing interesting stuff.
People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”
I’ve never had someone in real life tell me how amazing ChatGPT has been for them with a concrete example but I’m hearing more and more stories of people’s lives being significantly disrupted by it in a bad way (ex from this morning: a friend of a friend’s dad is “dating” ChatGPT)
July 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Yet another intellectual trying for a clever anti-AI take. And failing. Basic social science error: sampling on the dependent variable. Easy to find unimpressive examples if you hang out in spaces populated by folks not doing interesting stuff.
Well done.
July 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Well done.
Has the Trump administration started any prosecutions of the employers where these undocumented immigrants were working? 8 U.S.C. § 1324a Unlawful Employment of Aliens calls for civil fines, criminal penalties, or debarment from government contracts. Hallo, Pam Bondi.
July 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Has the Trump administration started any prosecutions of the employers where these undocumented immigrants were working? 8 U.S.C. § 1324a Unlawful Employment of Aliens calls for civil fines, criminal penalties, or debarment from government contracts. Hallo, Pam Bondi.
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA):
"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"
"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA):
"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"
"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"
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Martha Stewart went to prison for far less than what Trump did today. And he did it out in the open. On social media. He's installed his own people at the head of all regulatory commissions. Nobody to hold him accountable. Laws no longer apply to him. Pisses me off.
April 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Martha Stewart went to prison for far less than what Trump did today. And he did it out in the open. On social media. He's installed his own people at the head of all regulatory commissions. Nobody to hold him accountable. Laws no longer apply to him. Pisses me off.
If nobody in the house or SEC has the spine to call him out on this, we are doomed. Were I one of the many people currently in jail for insider trading and related crimes, I'd be pretty pissed off.
Is he allowed to do this? I mean he sent this just before 10am and then pause the tariffs lots of people makes money after??!?
April 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
If nobody in the house or SEC has the spine to call him out on this, we are doomed. Were I one of the many people currently in jail for insider trading and related crimes, I'd be pretty pissed off.
I was learning about bond market with Claude when I should have been insider trading with Don today. What I call "Play Lennon to my McCartney" style learning with LLMs is very powerful. Re-upped my very rusty appreciation of tensor math yesterday. innoeduvation.org/danryan/dev/...
https://innoeduvation.org/danryan/dev/ob…
April 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I was learning about bond market with Claude when I should have been insider trading with Don today. What I call "Play Lennon to my McCartney" style learning with LLMs is very powerful. Re-upped my very rusty appreciation of tensor math yesterday. innoeduvation.org/danryan/dev/...
Certainly seeing the argument that social security should be replaced by index fund accounts for all Americans. Then president could hold whole country hostage.
April 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Certainly seeing the argument that social security should be replaced by index fund accounts for all Americans. Then president could hold whole country hostage.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
Well, Trump got some big crowds today.
April 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Well, Trump got some big crowds today.
I really wish Bluesky would figure out the interaction thing. Conversations here have so little back and forth AFAICT. Twitter remains superior for engagement. Is this hard to fix?
April 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I really wish Bluesky would figure out the interaction thing. Conversations here have so little back and forth AFAICT. Twitter remains superior for engagement. Is this hard to fix?
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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
April 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
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In case you forgot, I’m reminding you with a link here and another link on the next attached post.
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Trump Tariff Aid To Farmers Cost More Than U.S. Nuclear Forces
The $28 billion for farmers raises questions about using taxpayer money to shield policymakers from the consequences of tariff increases.
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April 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In case you forgot, I’m reminding you with a link here and another link on the next attached post.
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7 ft, 340 lb Giant Penguins are extinct; or so they will have us believe. Is it really worth it to take that chance?
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Fossils of a 340-Pound Giant Penguin Found in New Zealand
Paleontologists unearthed the bones of two new penguin species that lived 50 million years ago
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April 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
7 ft, 340 lb Giant Penguins are extinct; or so they will have us believe. Is it really worth it to take that chance?
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/f...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/f...
Substack and similar are basically just churches. Someone writes something that should appeal to people who share their beliefs and hope those people will put a few $ in the basket to support the effort. Mixed in is a belief that if nonbelievers would also listen it might change the world.
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Substack and similar are basically just churches. Someone writes something that should appeal to people who share their beliefs and hope those people will put a few $ in the basket to support the effort. Mixed in is a belief that if nonbelievers would also listen it might change the world.
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open.substack.com/pub/contrari... fabulous timely piece
April 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... fabulous timely piece
Trump's nonsense about trading partners ripping us off is a bit like a rioter justifying looting a store by calling that the shopkeepers are ripping off the people.
April 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Trump's nonsense about trading partners ripping us off is a bit like a rioter justifying looting a store by calling that the shopkeepers are ripping off the people.
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Bill Kristol is doing it. You can do it too. You can stop writing false equivalence op-eds and donating to Third Way.
April 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bill Kristol is doing it. You can do it too. You can stop writing false equivalence op-eds and donating to Third Way.
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Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.
April 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.