Dan Ryan
@djjrjr.bsky.social
Multidisciplinarian thinking about technology, democracy, AI, institutions, fiction and art. Teaching professor at JHU CS. Baltimore/Toronto/Oakland.
That's the big distinction? In the context of current events, this is a big point worth making? Perspective?
August 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
That's the big distinction? In the context of current events, this is a big point worth making? Perspective?
Brava. Watching folks fall for heterodoxy as high mindedness has been depressing for several years.
July 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Brava. Watching folks fall for heterodoxy as high mindedness has been depressing for several years.
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As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
July 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
It's a common name. Apparently some hallucinations at your end.
July 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's a common name. Apparently some hallucinations at your end.
Journalists are too busy fetishizing clicks and reposts to do real work like this.
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Journalists are too busy fetishizing clicks and reposts to do real work like this.
So, IIUC, you try to enter US to work. We catch you and deport you. You try again. We catch you and then American taxpayers pay to house and feed you for the rest of your life. Probably to some private prison company. Sounds like a brilliant plan. Solid cost benefit analysis behind it, no doubt.
May 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So, IIUC, you try to enter US to work. We catch you and deport you. You try again. We catch you and then American taxpayers pay to house and feed you for the rest of your life. Probably to some private prison company. Sounds like a brilliant plan. Solid cost benefit analysis behind it, no doubt.
As contrasted with the institutions that were very prepared for ChatGPT's adoption?
May 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
As contrasted with the institutions that were very prepared for ChatGPT's adoption?
I think you are catching on go the plan.
April 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I think you are catching on go the plan.
The intellectual equivalent of a mail-order bride.
April 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The intellectual equivalent of a mail-order bride.
Hopefully it will be noted as theft. Be ironic if Trump's downfall were due to stealing from immigrants.
April 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hopefully it will be noted as theft. Be ironic if Trump's downfall were due to stealing from immigrants.
Reporters need to up their game. They ought to have a lightning reflex: give us a concrete example. how often does this happen? How do the amounts involved compare to provider fraud?
April 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reporters need to up their game. They ought to have a lightning reflex: give us a concrete example. how often does this happen? How do the amounts involved compare to provider fraud?
Trump yard signs were very effective like this. Harris : high prices; Trump low prices. Stupid simple stuff like that. But effective.
April 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Trump yard signs were very effective like this. Harris : high prices; Trump low prices. Stupid simple stuff like that. But effective.