Dan Higbie
@danhigbie.bsky.social
Designer doing ops work
Critical of tech
Opinionated about most things
Lover of burgers
Drinker of Topo Chico
Believes things can be better
Critical of tech
Opinionated about most things
Lover of burgers
Drinker of Topo Chico
Believes things can be better
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Again, speed cameras make a lot of sense as a solution to police using traffic as a pretext for racist exploitation/violence. Issue is entrusting these systems to the police only reintroduces the very problems of the police in the first place.
Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
www.404media.co
May 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Again, speed cameras make a lot of sense as a solution to police using traffic as a pretext for racist exploitation/violence. Issue is entrusting these systems to the police only reintroduces the very problems of the police in the first place.
Hell yeah. I have been saying this for years now. Malls are perfect to convert to living spaces. Live/work, mixed use, elder care with dignity, there’s so many great use cases for mall layouts.
May 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hell yeah. I have been saying this for years now. Malls are perfect to convert to living spaces. Live/work, mixed use, elder care with dignity, there’s so many great use cases for mall layouts.
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Why did Sam Altman and Jony Ive just release a 10-minute video advertising a new product when they don’t have a product yet?
BECAUSE IT WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL LIKE PROGRESS IN AI WAS SLOWING DOWN.
BECAUSE IT WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL LIKE PROGRESS IN AI WAS SLOWING DOWN.
May 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Why did Sam Altman and Jony Ive just release a 10-minute video advertising a new product when they don’t have a product yet?
BECAUSE IT WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL LIKE PROGRESS IN AI WAS SLOWING DOWN.
BECAUSE IT WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL LIKE PROGRESS IN AI WAS SLOWING DOWN.
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GWU is investigating this student for her grad speech—
"I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors."
Excerpt:
"I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors."
Excerpt:
May 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
GWU is investigating this student for her grad speech—
"I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors."
Excerpt:
"I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors."
Excerpt:
This is Taylor’s best yet imo.
The time spent unpacking early 2020 is an excellent reminder of just what a more community focused nation might look like here in the US.
The time spent unpacking early 2020 is an excellent reminder of just what a more community focused nation might look like here in the US.
I went deep on the "somebody's got to do it" meme, what it says about the current state of our political system and culture, what led us here, and more!!!
'Somebody needs to do it'
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is Taylor’s best yet imo.
The time spent unpacking early 2020 is an excellent reminder of just what a more community focused nation might look like here in the US.
The time spent unpacking early 2020 is an excellent reminder of just what a more community focused nation might look like here in the US.
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New report: “BART’s focus on fare evasion recovers minimal revenue, may be addressing an overstated problem, and is not effective at curbing incidents that make riders feel uneasy in the system”
Last part will be an inconvenient truth for some carceral urbanists on here
Last part will be an inconvenient truth for some carceral urbanists on here
Cracking down on fare jumpers didn’t make BART safer or increase revenue, report finds
The Center for Policing Equity partnered with BART to produce a report that's skeptical of the agency's claims.
oaklandside.org
May 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
New report: “BART’s focus on fare evasion recovers minimal revenue, may be addressing an overstated problem, and is not effective at curbing incidents that make riders feel uneasy in the system”
Last part will be an inconvenient truth for some carceral urbanists on here
Last part will be an inconvenient truth for some carceral urbanists on here
Charlotte recently got DoorDash drone delivery and it’s starting around my house and let me tell you, these things fucking suck for a billion reasons. But wow, call me old, the noise is super annoying.
May 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Charlotte recently got DoorDash drone delivery and it’s starting around my house and let me tell you, these things fucking suck for a billion reasons. But wow, call me old, the noise is super annoying.
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For anyone who needs some GOOD news, Nottoway Plantation—burial site of countless victims of the rape, maiming, and slaughter of the formerly enslaved but where white people love to brunch & get married—has burned to the ground.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For anyone who needs some GOOD news, Nottoway Plantation—burial site of countless victims of the rape, maiming, and slaughter of the formerly enslaved but where white people love to brunch & get married—has burned to the ground.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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They’re ready to round up the traitors
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.
May 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
They’re ready to round up the traitors
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.
May 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.
This is most certainly the raptors touching the first amendment fence.
By the way, this is *not* just about porn. While they certainly want to get rid of all porn, this is also a loaded gun aimed at the expression of the LGBT and other marginalized communities.
So, uh. first of all...Mike Lee can't just wave a magic wand and change the definition of obscenity. That's not how the First Amendment works.
Second, this is a naked attempt to subject the Internet to the censorious whims of the most puritanical community.
www.lee.senate.gov/2025/5/lee-b...
Second, this is a naked attempt to subject the Internet to the censorious whims of the most puritanical community.
www.lee.senate.gov/2025/5/lee-b...
May 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is most certainly the raptors touching the first amendment fence.
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I am honestly speechless. Every university administrator at Columbia is accountable for this.
May 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I am honestly speechless. Every university administrator at Columbia is accountable for this.
I’ll never understand why millennials act this way. Let young people have “being cool” it’s literally all you get when you’re young.
For folks at near or beyond 40 stop caring about this stuff.
For folks at near or beyond 40 stop caring about this stuff.
May 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I’ll never understand why millennials act this way. Let young people have “being cool” it’s literally all you get when you’re young.
For folks at near or beyond 40 stop caring about this stuff.
For folks at near or beyond 40 stop caring about this stuff.
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Alt text, because that’s what Mr. Rogers would do.
May 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Alt text, because that’s what Mr. Rogers would do.
Maybe this year for Christmas the Red Sea will only get two fighter jets instead of thirty.
Excuse this personal post, but has anyone found a Navy Jet, I lost it around the Red Sea, DM me.
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Maybe this year for Christmas the Red Sea will only get two fighter jets instead of thirty.
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Oh yeah, but please tell me more about how this tech should infuse every aspect of education.
AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad
Smith: Study finds ChatGPT replicates human prejudices and fails to recognize exceptional work — reinforcing the inequalities it's intended to fix.
www.the74million.org
May 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Oh yeah, but please tell me more about how this tech should infuse every aspect of education.
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Yep. Because if it's magical power they don't have to pay you for it.
A lot about societies treatment of artists went downhill as soon as people forgot it's a craft one works at becoming skilled at, not some magical power you have bestowed upon you by fairies upon your birth.
May 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Yep. Because if it's magical power they don't have to pay you for it.
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We are 100% building a new internet with even more duct tape and an even higher maintenance burden, meanwhile CEOs think LLMs are set-it-and-forget-it
Working in the field where ai is supposed to make its strongest case, I can attest to spending more of my time fixing LLM code than it would have taken to write it, and it is absolutely getting worse with each iteration.
i feel like the 2020s have been defined by a collective consumer bewilderment. they keep telling us there's great new technology, over and over—it's new and wonderful and and it's going to change the world!! and in reality it all simply suuuuuuucks
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We are 100% building a new internet with even more duct tape and an even higher maintenance burden, meanwhile CEOs think LLMs are set-it-and-forget-it
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I’ve seen enough: JB Pritzker has THE JUICE
May 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I’ve seen enough: JB Pritzker has THE JUICE
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The really annoying thing here is the inevitable framing of this as a heartwarming story that all involved are proud of bringing to reality, instead of something dark and shameful that everyone should be drawing as little attention to as possible.
NEWS: Jim Fagan was the voice of the NBA on NBC's promos during the 90s. He passed away in 2019.
Using AI, he will be heard once again as the NBA on NBC returns next season.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...
Using AI, he will be heard once again as the NBA on NBC returns next season.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...
NBC to use AI to recreate Jim Fagan's voice-over for NBA coverage
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The really annoying thing here is the inevitable framing of this as a heartwarming story that all involved are proud of bringing to reality, instead of something dark and shameful that everyone should be drawing as little attention to as possible.
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The new film “Sinners” is a symphony of vampire bites, gunshot wounds, and people being staked in the heart and left to burn alive, @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. But the true horror is the Jim Crow economy, which drives every event in the film.
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
bit.ly
May 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The new film “Sinners” is a symphony of vampire bites, gunshot wounds, and people being staked in the heart and left to burn alive, @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. But the true horror is the Jim Crow economy, which drives every event in the film.
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I should have been clearer: the shit you buy from CVS also comes from China but that's not what I'm concerned about. The reason we can consume a diet high in processed foods and not die of acute vitamin/mineral shortages is we fortify our food.
May 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I should have been clearer: the shit you buy from CVS also comes from China but that's not what I'm concerned about. The reason we can consume a diet high in processed foods and not die of acute vitamin/mineral shortages is we fortify our food.