Doug G
@dougdanger.dev
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imo if all the richest ppl on the planet are at once begging you to lower your standards for art and media consumption you can bet that it benefits them more than whatever they selling your ass on and should consider the opposite of what's suggested
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
imo if all the richest ppl on the planet are at once begging you to lower your standards for art and media consumption you can bet that it benefits them more than whatever they selling your ass on and should consider the opposite of what's suggested
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I do not want it Sam Altman
I do not want "AI" slop spam!
I do not want "AI" slop spam!
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I do not want it Sam Altman
I do not want "AI" slop spam!
I do not want "AI" slop spam!
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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All mass shooters since and including Columbine have been captured by video surveillance. Not a single time did one of those cameras jump off the wall to stop the shooter. And they never will. Cameras do not stop violence.
Surveillance boosters and people who sell cameras are shameless in that any tragedy is an argument for more cameras. The actual number is irrelevant, rather it’s seen by them as an opportunity to increase the existing number until every square inch of the earth is blanketed.
Brown University has over 1,200 surveillance cameras. Why that wasn’t enough to capture video of the shooting suspect | CNN
CNN spoke to several security experts to better understand the growth of Brown’s surveillance system, why its cameras failed to capture the attack or suspect, and the concerns about privacy and academ...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All mass shooters since and including Columbine have been captured by video surveillance. Not a single time did one of those cameras jump off the wall to stop the shooter. And they never will. Cameras do not stop violence.
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
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I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
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manifesting:
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🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
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December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
manifesting:
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🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.
Joe Biden's whole brand as a Senator was taking the train between DC and Wilmington, DE. One of the biggest failures of his presidency was not getting a high-speed rail bill passed through Congress.
seriously though, there is very clearly pent up demand for rail options and every reason to build out as much new rail as possible.
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Joe Biden's whole brand as a Senator was taking the train between DC and Wilmington, DE. One of the biggest failures of his presidency was not getting a high-speed rail bill passed through Congress.
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Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
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this is the moment i realized exactly how incredible public schools in america could be if we spent money on educating humans the same way we spend money on educating computers
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
this is the moment i realized exactly how incredible public schools in america could be if we spent money on educating humans the same way we spend money on educating computers
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I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
like incredible takeaway from a huge overperformance by Democrats in fucking *TN*
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
The new UI in iOS 26.1 is awful.
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The new UI in iOS 26.1 is awful.
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*shouts* EVEN AS A JOKE
*whispers* stop reposting AI images you guys
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
*shouts* EVEN AS A JOKE
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this will be strictly worse than standard sketches because the realism will give a false sense of confidence but it is worth nothing that standard sketches are also very bad and extremely bias-reinforcing because they pull the likeness towards average and away from individual identifiability
“…Goodyear’s police department appears to be one of the first to substitute hand-drawn sketches of suspects with lifelike images generated by AI.”
Have you seen this (AI-generated) man? Police swap suspect sketches for AI.
Police in a Phoenix suburb appear to be the first department in the nation to use AI for suspect sketches, a practice that raises concerns among some experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
this will be strictly worse than standard sketches because the realism will give a false sense of confidence but it is worth nothing that standard sketches are also very bad and extremely bias-reinforcing because they pull the likeness towards average and away from individual identifiability
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Remember, kids, using people's preferred pronouns is "Marxism." Centralized control of the economy that leaves people increasingly dependent on cronyist government largesse is, apparently, good ol' free-market conservatism.
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Remember, kids, using people's preferred pronouns is "Marxism." Centralized control of the economy that leaves people increasingly dependent on cronyist government largesse is, apparently, good ol' free-market conservatism.
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“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
“I think I'll take pimples and broccoli farts any day over whatever that is”
Gotta work “broccoli farts” into my general lexicon for accepting imperfections.
Gotta work “broccoli farts” into my general lexicon for accepting imperfections.
The newsletter I just sent out amused the hell out of me as I was writing it, but could someone please read it and tell me if it makes sense to someone who is not in my head? Thank you!!
www.leahreich.com/guy-with-a-v...
www.leahreich.com/guy-with-a-v...
Guy With a Vomit Hose Walks Into an Advertising Agency
Of all the great television shows ever created, Mad Men is the greatest. This is not an invitation to argue or discuss but a simple declaration of fact. Should you like to declare your own facts, you ...
www.leahreich.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“I think I'll take pimples and broccoli farts any day over whatever that is”
Gotta work “broccoli farts” into my general lexicon for accepting imperfections.
Gotta work “broccoli farts” into my general lexicon for accepting imperfections.
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Gotta manufacture that consent, eh
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Gotta manufacture that consent, eh
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I have so many things I need to do, but all I WANT to do is sleep for one thousand years
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I have so many things I need to do, but all I WANT to do is sleep for one thousand years
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Well, I mean.
I believe that, in the vast enormity of the universe, there likely exist things that we would describe as being ALIVE. So yeah, I suppose I believe in "aliens."
But then, I also believe we'll never meet any sentient or sapient ones. They're not in this solar system, so.
I believe that, in the vast enormity of the universe, there likely exist things that we would describe as being ALIVE. So yeah, I suppose I believe in "aliens."
But then, I also believe we'll never meet any sentient or sapient ones. They're not in this solar system, so.
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Well, I mean.
I believe that, in the vast enormity of the universe, there likely exist things that we would describe as being ALIVE. So yeah, I suppose I believe in "aliens."
But then, I also believe we'll never meet any sentient or sapient ones. They're not in this solar system, so.
I believe that, in the vast enormity of the universe, there likely exist things that we would describe as being ALIVE. So yeah, I suppose I believe in "aliens."
But then, I also believe we'll never meet any sentient or sapient ones. They're not in this solar system, so.
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LLM-powered chatbots need to be regulated for everyone, not just children
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LLM-powered chatbots need to be regulated for everyone, not just children
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The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.