Daniel J. Willis
@bayareadata.press
Data Journalist, @edsource.org | Music Journalist, @riffmagazine.com | Co-Vice Chair, @edsourceguild.bsky.social | http://SeeDisclaimer.com | linktr.ee/bayareadata | danny@bayareadata.press | 510-585-4944
That’s a flowery way to describe a man who looks like an old burlap sack full of creamed corn.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
That’s a flowery way to describe a man who looks like an old burlap sack full of creamed corn.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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To be clear, I don't use Claude (or any other "AI"/LLM) for any part of my writing process, either for personal or commercial work. I check in on them on a fairly regular basis to see how the latest iterations function, so I can understand the state of the field and speak non-ignorantly about it.
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
To be clear, I don't use Claude (or any other "AI"/LLM) for any part of my writing process, either for personal or commercial work. I check in on them on a fairly regular basis to see how the latest iterations function, so I can understand the state of the field and speak non-ignorantly about it.
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AI-Enabled Teddy Bear Pulled From Shelves For Giving Advice On BDSM, Where To Find Knives https://theonion.com/ai-enabled-teddy-bear-pulled-from-shelves-for-giving-advice-on-bdsm-where-to-find-knives/
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
AI-Enabled Teddy Bear Pulled From Shelves For Giving Advice On BDSM, Where To Find Knives https://theonion.com/ai-enabled-teddy-bear-pulled-from-shelves-for-giving-advice-on-bdsm-where-to-find-knives/
Tech Companies: Our new phones perform exactly the same and look exactly the same, but they have those AI features that annoy you every time you come across them. Also it costs $1,500.
Everyone: Nah, I'm cool.
Tech Companies: Why do you hate America.
Everyone: Nah, I'm cool.
Tech Companies: Why do you hate America.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Tech Companies: Our new phones perform exactly the same and look exactly the same, but they have those AI features that annoy you every time you come across them. Also it costs $1,500.
Everyone: Nah, I'm cool.
Tech Companies: Why do you hate America.
Everyone: Nah, I'm cool.
Tech Companies: Why do you hate America.
I've got no beef with 1-24, though I'd swap U2 and the Beach Boys. For 25-50 they made some... choices.
@billboard.com magazine’s TOP 50 ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME or “SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY TO FIGHT ABOUT." Sound off!
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I've got no beef with 1-24, though I'd swap U2 and the Beach Boys. For 25-50 they made some... choices.
I mean... I'm not mad about it.
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I mean... I'm not mad about it.
I've always wanted to see this movie.
True story Kim Jong Il had his favorite S Korean director and actress kidnapped and forced them to make a N Korean version of Godzilla called Pulgasari that has a giant subplot about peasants giving up their cookware as a sacrifice to the nation.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I've always wanted to see this movie.
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“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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Tre'von Moehrig punched Jauan Jennings directly in the 🥜🥜
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Tre'von Moehrig punched Jauan Jennings directly in the 🥜🥜
Airplane, which is by a wide margin the funniest movie of all time, is at 62. Who in god’s name made this list?
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Airplane, which is by a wide margin the funniest movie of all time, is at 62. Who in god’s name made this list?
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I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
My only objection is that Rise of Skywalker, or really pretty much any movie, is better than Phantom Menace. I don't care that the TV shows rehabilitated it, that movie is a top-to-bottom disaster.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My only objection is that Rise of Skywalker, or really pretty much any movie, is better than Phantom Menace. I don't care that the TV shows rehabilitated it, that movie is a top-to-bottom disaster.
What honors our country is to do whatever we want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. It's the evolution of one of our founding principles, that we get to do whatever we want end of sentence.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
What honors our country is to do whatever we want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. It's the evolution of one of our founding principles, that we get to do whatever we want end of sentence.
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Today, striking baristas are taking the picket line to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's office.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today, striking baristas are taking the picket line to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's office.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
Dude flew 39 combat missions and went to space four times, I’m not sure that’s the fight I’d pick. Like, I know not every astronaut is Buzz Aldrin, but enough are impressively tough that I’d think twice just in case.
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dude flew 39 combat missions and went to space four times, I’m not sure that’s the fight I’d pick. Like, I know not every astronaut is Buzz Aldrin, but enough are impressively tough that I’d think twice just in case.
If the AI bubble burst gets me an RTX5090 for $150 this will all have been worth it.
the next big scandal is going to be "gpus sitting in warehouses" i'm sure of it
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If the AI bubble burst gets me an RTX5090 for $150 this will all have been worth it.
Turns out my least favorite sentence is, “Well, I don’t know if the termites ate the dry rot or if water got into the termite holes.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Turns out my least favorite sentence is, “Well, I don’t know if the termites ate the dry rot or if water got into the termite holes.”
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
As a rule I try to be polite and courteous in public unless someone gives me a reason not to, but now that Transportation Secretary Road Rules All Stars told me to I’m just gonna spit on people at random.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants. n.pr/4oWRh0K
The U.S. Transportation Department is urging air passengers to be on good behavior
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
As a rule I try to be polite and courteous in public unless someone gives me a reason not to, but now that Transportation Secretary Road Rules All Stars told me to I’m just gonna spit on people at random.
I just caught up on the WPBL draft and I’m pleased to report that the unnamed San Francisco team took former @oaklandballers.bsky.social star Kelsie Whitmore first overall. I do wish they’d also have taken Mo’ne Davis even though her college softball career didn’t go as well as little league.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I just caught up on the WPBL draft and I’m pleased to report that the unnamed San Francisco team took former @oaklandballers.bsky.social star Kelsie Whitmore first overall. I do wish they’d also have taken Mo’ne Davis even though her college softball career didn’t go as well as little league.
It’s “an act common to the game” now? Whatever happened to a football move? I liked football moves.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It’s “an act common to the game” now? Whatever happened to a football move? I liked football moves.
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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
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I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather grew up Dickensian- street- urchin- poor on the streets in Manhattan; fought in WWII; and then got a good union civil service job that allowed him to retire after 30 years with a pension at age 61. The loss of that historic connection is a problem now.
I feel like a lot of us were privileged to be among the last generation to be able to learn under the 60's civil rights generation. What im seeing today from this newer generation of children is a serious lack of grounding, which i think is due to them not having direct access to the type of
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather grew up Dickensian- street- urchin- poor on the streets in Manhattan; fought in WWII; and then got a good union civil service job that allowed him to retire after 30 years with a pension at age 61. The loss of that historic connection is a problem now.