Dan
@danlyon.net
Curious cat, IT nerd, and connoisseur of cringe. Based in Portland, OR
call me Gavrilo Princip the way I'm blasting these dukes 🔫🚽
September 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
call me Gavrilo Princip the way I'm blasting these dukes 🔫🚽
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Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
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Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
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AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...
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August 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
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If the world seems too overwhelming and you want to die, remember that you’ve already done the suffering. Do not let them win. Write, sing, fucking fight until your last breath. You are not the final generation to exist. plant a tree for the future from which you will never enjoy the fruit
July 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
If the world seems too overwhelming and you want to die, remember that you’ve already done the suffering. Do not let them win. Write, sing, fucking fight until your last breath. You are not the final generation to exist. plant a tree for the future from which you will never enjoy the fruit
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Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
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www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
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Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Roaring River at King's Canyon #NationalPark
June 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Roaring River at King's Canyon #NationalPark
big ass tree (General Sherman tree) at Sequoia #NationalPark
June 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
big ass tree (General Sherman tree) at Sequoia #NationalPark
Potato Harbor on Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands #NationalPark
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Potato Harbor on Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands #NationalPark
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ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
"The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear." Hunter S. Thompson, 1958
June 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear." Hunter S. Thompson, 1958
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May Day Strong: Portland, OR · May Day Strong
Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...
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May 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: Portland, OR” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
April 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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move slowly and build things
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
move slowly and build things