Dan
@darpa42.bsky.social
Software Engineer, ttrpg and scifi fan. Opinions my own.
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There are days I wake up worried that I’m too much of an art nerd, too hoity-toity in my preferences, for my chosen field. But then I have coffee and remember I’m a New Yorker and no, it is the children who are wrong. Time to keep plugging away at raising the bar.
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
There are days I wake up worried that I’m too much of an art nerd, too hoity-toity in my preferences, for my chosen field. But then I have coffee and remember I’m a New Yorker and no, it is the children who are wrong. Time to keep plugging away at raising the bar.
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Me @ The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Me @ The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus
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In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
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The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.
I’m surprised you don’t use ai answer engines in research you currently do with Google
October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.
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CEO: we're all trying to improve this place
You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right
CEO:
You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right
CEO: WAFFLES
You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right
CEO:
You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right
CEO: WAFFLES
October 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
CEO: we're all trying to improve this place
You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right
CEO:
You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right
CEO: WAFFLES
You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right
CEO:
You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right
CEO: WAFFLES
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The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
September 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
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Farscape rules.
Farscape was just THAT show, you don't get how wacky it was. All those jokes in Lower Decks about getting trapped inside a painting? They did it. Strange energies? SO MANY episodes where that happens. Mind clone inserted into a brain chip? Done and Done. AND IT HAS PUPPETS
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Farscape rules.
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PUT A POWER BUTTON ON THE TV
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
PUT A POWER BUTTON ON THE TV
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It's been five months since I was laid off, and I'm still hunting for work.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
September 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It's been five months since I was laid off, and I'm still hunting for work.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
I'd still like to stay in policy and/or advocacy; but at this point, I'm open to pretty much anything.
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You still do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the NRA.
September 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You still do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the NRA.
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Some weeks ago, I was reading about the actual organizing experience of a group of nurses that was trying to unionize, and the person giving advice was just really driving the point home that to build solidarity, you need to really get in there and Do The Hard Social Work.
September 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Some weeks ago, I was reading about the actual organizing experience of a group of nurses that was trying to unionize, and the person giving advice was just really driving the point home that to build solidarity, you need to really get in there and Do The Hard Social Work.
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okay, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking The One Ring to Mordor:
August 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
okay, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking The One Ring to Mordor:
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Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
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I can’t help but feel Strange New Worlds gets praised this season because it’s safe & unchallenging—offering comfort while the world feels unbearable. I get it. But it’s an illusion of depth recycling tired stories of America, empire, & romance - circling the same shallow waters & not boldly going.
August 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I can’t help but feel Strange New Worlds gets praised this season because it’s safe & unchallenging—offering comfort while the world feels unbearable. I get it. But it’s an illusion of depth recycling tired stories of America, empire, & romance - circling the same shallow waters & not boldly going.
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“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
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part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
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There aren’t really legitimate concerns but empathy for the illegitimate concerns of voters—insofar as that empathy enables politicians to make people feel heard without conceding on actual policy, which Pete did not do—is a legitimate function of politics.
Surprised so few get this middle ground.
Surprised so few get this middle ground.
I'm sorry, but there absolutely ARE legitimate concerns.
A kid with XY chromosomes who identifies as female but hasn't medically transitioned in any way is a trans kid. And THAT SPECIFIC trans kid probably should not be playing on the girl's basketball team despite their identification as female.
A kid with XY chromosomes who identifies as female but hasn't medically transitioned in any way is a trans kid. And THAT SPECIFIC trans kid probably should not be playing on the girl's basketball team despite their identification as female.
Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.
To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.
www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.
www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
July 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
There aren’t really legitimate concerns but empathy for the illegitimate concerns of voters—insofar as that empathy enables politicians to make people feel heard without conceding on actual policy, which Pete did not do—is a legitimate function of politics.
Surprised so few get this middle ground.
Surprised so few get this middle ground.
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In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
November 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
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I don't understand how parents can support harm to *anyone's* children, ever. How that does not become an absolute, uncrossable line the second you hold a child in your arms and recognize that vulnerability and dire responsibility (if not before). How you don't generalize that protectiveness.
July 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I don't understand how parents can support harm to *anyone's* children, ever. How that does not become an absolute, uncrossable line the second you hold a child in your arms and recognize that vulnerability and dire responsibility (if not before). How you don't generalize that protectiveness.
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highest ranked reader pick comment lmao
July 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
highest ranked reader pick comment lmao
this is one of my faves, if you haven't played it you should give it a shot!
QUEER GIRLS CAN SAVE THE WORLD!!! CELEBRATE PRIDE BY GOING ON A ROAD TRIP TO FIGHT THE HATEFUL MACHINE DEVIL AND THE COPS OF THE DIVINE ORDER WITH FOUR HEROIC BABES! Get in the Car, Loser! is 30% off in the Steam summer sale! store.steampowered.com/app/938860/G...
June 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
this is one of my faves, if you haven't played it you should give it a shot!
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QUEER GIRLS CAN SAVE THE WORLD!!! CELEBRATE PRIDE BY GOING ON A ROAD TRIP TO FIGHT THE HATEFUL MACHINE DEVIL AND THE COPS OF THE DIVINE ORDER WITH FOUR HEROIC BABES! Get in the Car, Loser! is 30% off in the Steam summer sale! store.steampowered.com/app/938860/G...
June 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
QUEER GIRLS CAN SAVE THE WORLD!!! CELEBRATE PRIDE BY GOING ON A ROAD TRIP TO FIGHT THE HATEFUL MACHINE DEVIL AND THE COPS OF THE DIVINE ORDER WITH FOUR HEROIC BABES! Get in the Car, Loser! is 30% off in the Steam summer sale! store.steampowered.com/app/938860/G...
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When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government
June 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government
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what, are they out of couches on twitter?
June 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
what, are they out of couches on twitter?
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feeling like one of those tesla owners who got their car before elon went trump doge nazi crazy
Instant Pot Brands plans to offer a “45/47 Collaboration” featuring various products branded with those numbers and Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” tagline.
Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products
From bedsheets to appliances, a number of businesses are finding that MAGA has commercial appeal.
www.semafor.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
feeling like one of those tesla owners who got their car before elon went trump doge nazi crazy