Dale Emmons
@dpemmons.com
Pilot for fun. Previously founding engineer & infra tech lead for YouTube Shorts; founder Vidmaker.
Why ask people who know what they're doing when you can just make shit up instead?
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Why ask people who know what they're doing when you can just make shit up instead?
It always is
man it’s gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police
July 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It always is
Columbia University is just a test case.
April 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Columbia University is just a test case.
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the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen
All but three House Republicans just voted for Trump's tariffs. The procedural measure, which preemptively surrenders congressional power to stop Trump's tariffs, passed with all Democrats voting no. This was the vote count:
April 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen
A modern day Clifford Stoll.
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A modern day Clifford Stoll.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Looks like Anthropic is trying to leverage regulatory capture to protect their business from open source competition. This feels a lot like 1980-90s attempts to export control cryptography, which was ultimately self-defeating.
Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Looks like Anthropic is trying to leverage regulatory capture to protect their business from open source competition. This feels a lot like 1980-90s attempts to export control cryptography, which was ultimately self-defeating.
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Is Gmail UI laggy/slow for everyone lately or just me?
January 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is Gmail UI laggy/slow for everyone lately or just me?
god I hate the javascript ecosystem.
January 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
god I hate the javascript ecosystem.
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Here's the truth: Elon Musk doesn't want any restrictions on his investments in China, and that's why we're on the brink of a government shutdown.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China
There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest.
prospect.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Here's the truth: Elon Musk doesn't want any restrictions on his investments in China, and that's why we're on the brink of a government shutdown.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
None of these words would have made any sense 10 years ago.
December 20, 2024 at 2:50 AM
None of these words would have made any sense 10 years ago.
We'd feel bad about this but our thoughts and prayers payout limit for 2024 has already been reached.
BREAKING: Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel in an apparent targeted attack, law enforcement official says
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in midtown Manhattan, official says | CNN
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, a law enforcement official tells CNN.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:25 PM
We'd feel bad about this but our thoughts and prayers payout limit for 2024 has already been reached.
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
Google's new mantra: Let's be Evil
www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...
Google is inserting search links into webpages in the Google App now
Have you seen them yet?
www.theverge.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Google's new mantra: Let's be Evil
www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...
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it's kind of amazing that literally every basic chat program today is less functional than AIM was 20 years ago *and* spies on you
July 6, 2023 at 5:03 PM
it's kind of amazing that literally every basic chat program today is less functional than AIM was 20 years ago *and* spies on you
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The USPTO has issued proposed rules that will make it harder for everyone in #opensource to challenge bad #patents. Let them know you want a fair and open system for all, where anyone can seek a review of an invalid patent. Read about it here: hubs.la/Q01Svz2V0
June 12, 2023 at 6:38 PM
The USPTO has issued proposed rules that will make it harder for everyone in #opensource to challenge bad #patents. Let them know you want a fair and open system for all, where anyone can seek a review of an invalid patent. Read about it here: hubs.la/Q01Svz2V0