Dylan MacKay
@dylanmackayphd.bsky.social
Dad | #T1D my pancreas is on my phone | Assistant Professor of #NutSky and Chronic Disease | Newfoundlander in Winnipeg | Deutscher | Clinical Trialist | ADHD | he/him | Old man playing Rocket League | views my own
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Dylan MacKay
@dylanmackayphd.bsky.social
· Sep 26
People with type 1 diabetes #T1D can sometimes seem aloof and unapproachable. I want to let you know it isn't because we know we are so hot (we do), it is because we are really busy trying to stop our bodies from killing us.
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They won’t leave. But the fact they moan about shows the level of their greed. They couldn’t spend their money, minus the taxes, in multiple lifetimes.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
They won’t leave. But the fact they moan about shows the level of their greed. They couldn’t spend their money, minus the taxes, in multiple lifetimes.
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Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
www.wired.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...
This #JiggsDibber was so good yesterday, but the Chalkers salt navel beef was not as good as making the salt beef myself, so I will be going back to salting my own brisket
December 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This #JiggsDibber was so good yesterday, but the Chalkers salt navel beef was not as good as making the salt beef myself, so I will be going back to salting my own brisket
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How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
July 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
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the median 2025 AI sales pitch
by this time next year ai will be capable of opening presents with your family, freeing you up to finish those spreadsheets your boss has been waiting on
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
the median 2025 AI sales pitch
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New Idea: Carbon Capture, but we inject it into fossil fuel CEOs and bury them.
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
New Idea: Carbon Capture, but we inject it into fossil fuel CEOs and bury them.
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My favorite season is the fall of fascism.
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My favorite season is the fall of fascism.
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MAGA: America is a Christian nation!
Me: Cool the Bible says in Leviticus "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
MAGA: Not like that.
Me: Cool the Bible says in Leviticus "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
MAGA: Not like that.
December 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
MAGA: America is a Christian nation!
Me: Cool the Bible says in Leviticus "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
MAGA: Not like that.
Me: Cool the Bible says in Leviticus "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
MAGA: Not like that.
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Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
Going to be making some Newfie Dal
December 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Going to be making some Newfie Dal
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Agricultural history is more important than military history because you can’t do war fighting if you are dead.
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Agricultural history is more important than military history because you can’t do war fighting if you are dead.
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I have some magic beans to sell to the government.
Carbon-capture project ‘very exciting,’ but community buy-in needed: Kinew
www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1...
Carbon-capture project ‘very exciting,’ but community buy-in needed: Kinew
www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1...
Carbon-capture project ‘very exciting,’ but community buy-in needed: Kinew
The financial impact of a proposed carbon-capture facility in southwestern Manitoba could be “very exciting,” Premier Wab Kinew told the Sun. In a wide-ranging year-end interview, the premier said the...
www.brandonsun.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I have some magic beans to sell to the government.
Carbon-capture project ‘very exciting,’ but community buy-in needed: Kinew
www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1...
Carbon-capture project ‘very exciting,’ but community buy-in needed: Kinew
www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1...
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Call me old fashioned or just plain old but I do think students need to learn to read, write, edit, and think without gAI BEFORE they ever use the technology.
It’s incredibly disheartening to see unions working with tech companies, too, that makes anything you say suspect to me.
It’s incredibly disheartening to see unions working with tech companies, too, that makes anything you say suspect to me.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Call me old fashioned or just plain old but I do think students need to learn to read, write, edit, and think without gAI BEFORE they ever use the technology.
It’s incredibly disheartening to see unions working with tech companies, too, that makes anything you say suspect to me.
It’s incredibly disheartening to see unions working with tech companies, too, that makes anything you say suspect to me.
The Atlantic getting ready for work each morning
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The Atlantic getting ready for work each morning
Is this because of something new or like just a friendly reminder
Once again, John Ioannidis should just shut the fuck up.
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Is this because of something new or like just a friendly reminder
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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I don't have a problem with recreational drug use and I think it should be decriminalized, so I am not critical of Rubio doing drugs, but I do think him doing it at work and the hypocrisy of murdering people in boats to stop drugs, while clearly loving cocaine, are valid and disqualifying critics
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I don't have a problem with recreational drug use and I think it should be decriminalized, so I am not critical of Rubio doing drugs, but I do think him doing it at work and the hypocrisy of murdering people in boats to stop drugs, while clearly loving cocaine, are valid and disqualifying critics
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yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
Why can't we have a big solar and wind power generation investment near Brandon instead of those fossil fuel turbines, also has anyone tried bison farming around solar panels, it seems to work well with sheep. I want a solar and bison agrivoltaics pilot in Manitoba
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Why can't we have a big solar and wind power generation investment near Brandon instead of those fossil fuel turbines, also has anyone tried bison farming around solar panels, it seems to work well with sheep. I want a solar and bison agrivoltaics pilot in Manitoba
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I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case
So when I say there is *zero* utility for LLMs, I don't mean there are zero use cases. I mean there are zero use cases that even begin to make up for the damage that's being done.
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case
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I’m confident that next year can be even stupider
What a stupid year
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’m confident that next year can be even stupider
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Remember kids, if you're working today, no you're not. It's Christmas Eve Eve. Put 8 hours of fake meetings on your outlook calendar. You're meeting with Santa. Take a dozen smoke breaks and feed a reindeer. Dasher and Dancer love Newports. This work week is over if you believe it is.
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Remember kids, if you're working today, no you're not. It's Christmas Eve Eve. Put 8 hours of fake meetings on your outlook calendar. You're meeting with Santa. Take a dozen smoke breaks and feed a reindeer. Dasher and Dancer love Newports. This work week is over if you believe it is.