Dan Boland
@danzigner.bsky.social
I design 💰The Price Is Right🎡 and I have a dog named Jeffrey.
Duolingo* needs a Let Me Live mode. Fuck off, bird, I'm working 16 hour days right now. 🤬
*I know I shouldn't be using Duolingo anymore because their techbro goon boss has turned into yet another Bond villain—but god damnit I'm simply bedeviled with meetings et cetera
*I know I shouldn't be using Duolingo anymore because their techbro goon boss has turned into yet another Bond villain—but god damnit I'm simply bedeviled with meetings et cetera
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Duolingo* needs a Let Me Live mode. Fuck off, bird, I'm working 16 hour days right now. 🤬
*I know I shouldn't be using Duolingo anymore because their techbro goon boss has turned into yet another Bond villain—but god damnit I'm simply bedeviled with meetings et cetera
*I know I shouldn't be using Duolingo anymore because their techbro goon boss has turned into yet another Bond villain—but god damnit I'm simply bedeviled with meetings et cetera
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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incredible how many people are willing to say “for years I didn’t care about anybody but myself. then one day, I imagined what it would be like to be somebody else and it completely changed the way I saw everything”
“So I totally flipped on immigration… people working hard and paying taxes should be able to stay… my girlfriend told me how her family got here, and I said: you know, you might be right.”
July 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
incredible how many people are willing to say “for years I didn’t care about anybody but myself. then one day, I imagined what it would be like to be somebody else and it completely changed the way I saw everything”
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Possibly my favorite summation of Pride
June 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Possibly my favorite summation of Pride
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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I seriously thought that students not using their brains and letting them rot inside their heads was going to be the existential problem with ai in academia, but now I see that the death knell is actually the total disruption of good faith and trust between teachers and students
A friend of mine is having trouble with a professor who insists (because of Turnitin) that their paper is 40% AI generated. Out of curiousity I ran a paper I wrote in 2012 through Justdone (Turnitin seems to require me to have an account) and what the fuck
May 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I seriously thought that students not using their brains and letting them rot inside their heads was going to be the existential problem with ai in academia, but now I see that the death knell is actually the total disruption of good faith and trust between teachers and students
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It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
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‘Stop making your writing political’ the privileged cry, whilst the existence of the authors identity is actively erased by the corrupt fascist government’s stochastic terrorism and hate crime rockets.
No.
If learning makes you uncomfortable, maybe reading just isn’t for you?
No.
If learning makes you uncomfortable, maybe reading just isn’t for you?
February 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
‘Stop making your writing political’ the privileged cry, whilst the existence of the authors identity is actively erased by the corrupt fascist government’s stochastic terrorism and hate crime rockets.
No.
If learning makes you uncomfortable, maybe reading just isn’t for you?
No.
If learning makes you uncomfortable, maybe reading just isn’t for you?
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Recently built a new portfolio site in Framer. It was a really great experience and I highly recommend their platform. Their onboarding is really well done.
Also, I need a job.
#ux #uxdesign #ui #design #portfolio #productdesign
Also, I need a job.
#ux #uxdesign #ui #design #portfolio #productdesign
Todd Rutherford Portfolio
A free, customizable template for Digital Agencies / Designers built with Framer. Interactive experiences for web and mobile by Dawid Pietrasiak.
toddrutherford.framer.website
February 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Recently built a new portfolio site in Framer. It was a really great experience and I highly recommend their platform. Their onboarding is really well done.
Also, I need a job.
#ux #uxdesign #ui #design #portfolio #productdesign
Also, I need a job.
#ux #uxdesign #ui #design #portfolio #productdesign
Meta more like Beta am I rite
January 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Meta more like Beta am I rite
Quick question for the makers of dog poop bags that have aggressive adhesive on the roll sealing sticker that then upon removal makes a hole in the bag you use to pick up your dog's poop with your hands:
What's up with that?
What's up with that?
December 31, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Quick question for the makers of dog poop bags that have aggressive adhesive on the roll sealing sticker that then upon removal makes a hole in the bag you use to pick up your dog's poop with your hands:
What's up with that?
What's up with that?
Also the AI image fucking sucks compared to the real thing!
On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.
All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
December 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Also the AI image fucking sucks compared to the real thing!
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Dads in Boston describing their gay children
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Dads in Boston describing their gay children
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so we moved to bluesky
November 15, 2024 at 4:53 AM
so we moved to bluesky
Is there a proper app for this? Or are we all using The Web
August 8, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Is there a proper app for this? Or are we all using The Web