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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 13m

A pattern recognition robot can sound like Metallica in 2026 but it couldn’t have sounded like Metallica in 1981. But when the funders of American art demand artists follow trends but provide no avenue to create them mimicry sounds like innovation.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 15m

I love that chatbots can’t even think and even its rudimentary word-based pattern recognition was immediately broken by basic McKinsey era business principles.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 3h

Oh my god what. They're trying to cripple the post office while also turning it into a rolling snitch?

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Onion Inc Union @onionunion.bsky.social · 4h

The Onion Union has four months until our contract expires. Here are some tips to unionize your workplace.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

36 minutes before the hearing started.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17h

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16h

That’s a man who smells like a 1 am bus.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16h

First off, good lord, you’ve got 14 years on me? Either you’re doing really well or I need to get less evil. Second, it’s true, he looks like a man who owns a van but won’t let you see inside.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17h

“I’m not owned” I yell as i slowly shrink into a corncob. “i’m not owned!”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16h

These mouth-breathing puddles of garbage juice genuinely think AI does its own thinking rather than putting words in an order that sounds like a poorly-educated person on first glance. Amazing.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16h

You’re not the boss of your desk.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16h

I’m sorry, he’s FIVE YEARS younger than me? Dude looks like if Carl from Aqua Teen had an older brother on the sex offender registry.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

“was the one who got famous for being a loser the same one who was a helen keller truther because she confused helen keller with anne frank” is the kind of question that will be researched for years

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 21h

Girl, you don't have the range.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

Anyway, there’s honestly no point to any of this. I don’t know if Kim is a passionate tax opponent and Marco doesn’t care or what’s going on. I just found the whole thing fascinating and I spent the time untangling it so I wanted to tell someone what I found.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

It turns out Kim is married to yoga and athleisure powerhouse Alo’s cofounder Marco DeGeorge. Aside from some (by billionaire standards) small donations to the lieutenant governor race Marco has stayed out of politics. Which makes it especially curious his wife is all-in giving to the Roundtable!

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

Turns out she does have an online presence as model and actress Kim Kindrick, who played Pretty Girl in ‘Meet the Spartans’ and appeared in the 2004 and 2005 Lingerie Bowl.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

Obviously, I had to figure this out. So I went down a deep, DEEP rabbit hole trying to figure out who this is. I’ll spare you the gritty details but it took longer than I want my boss to know about.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

For the 2025-26 election cycle the Roundtable’s second-largest political donor, behind only Peter Thiel, was Kim DeGeorge. I did not know that name! Basically every other donor was someone rich enough for me to have heard of, but nearly none gave more than a woman with no internet footprint.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

It’s election season so I was checking the various proposition supporters and opponents for education-related people and organizations, and since a couple are taxes that meant checking on the California Business Roundtable. They’re generally among the most well-funded tax opponents in the state.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 21h

I went down an all-time rabbit hole today and it turned out to be pretty much completely irrelevant to the actual story so I’m telling you people instead. (This is a thread but I’m letting the automatic numbering do its thing rather than add the 1/ stuff.)

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 23h

Exactly! It’s like they put my head in a bench vice and every ring twisted it one rotation tighter. If I came back to a thrown phone I’d be like, you know what, tough but fair.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 23h

If the White Sox don’t win it all it proves that Martin Luther was right.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 23h

I was ready to throw it after three… rings? Chimes? Noise emissions. But I decided to be generous, I’m certainly not above being oblivious from time to time and something something glass houses.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

I genuinely don’t understand what In-N-Out gains from making threats and getting the photos taken down. Obviously they lose free publicity, and doing it makes them look like joyless jerks, but what’s the upside?

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

Yeah, but currently it’s the sport of choice for the sort of white guy who wants to go to Duke for undergrad then Harvard Law because his uncle is an alum.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

I propose that if an unattended phone has an audible alarm going off for at least three minutes anyone nearby should be allowed to throw it in the direction of their choosing.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

Anyway if I was Eric Schmitt's election opponent I'd run an ad that was just the exchange from this morning with the words "IF SCHMITT DOESN'T KNOW THE ATLANTA HAWKS FROM THE IOWA HAWKEYES HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND US"

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

I mean, I drive a Camaro, I'm sympathetic to liking things generally associated with the worst kind of white people, but all we can do to fight the stereotypes is positive representation. Anything else just reinforces preconceptions.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

This is why you don't hire a 19 year old lacrosse player to be your lawyer, I guess.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

The only thing sadder than his average completion going for 11 feet is that his average attempt is about 14 feet. The biggest cousin who plays all-time QB on Thanksgiving has got a stronger arm than America's least popular serial rapist.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the whole 'i dont like AI but THIS i can get behind' when its a story about someone pounding a trex or a minotaur is such a bad take. camp is art. real legitimate art. honestly kind of astonished to see anti-AI folks just ignoring their stated values because someones AI erotica cover made them laugh

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i love how strongly anti-AI young buckaroos are, and the creative community is, and basically anyone who knows anything about it. but dang i wish folks brought that kind of fight to the world of erotica. such a sneaky reveal of how those who CLAIM to care actually dont see erotica as 'real art'

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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@penny-arcade.com is predicting the dystopian future well before it gets here.

A panel from Penny Arcade where an executive type, you know the type, says "I have invented a new Everquest II peripheral - The visa crucible. Seriously, listen up. Okay, kids run mom's credit card through the Machine and the amount of money they pay directly equals the damage they deal. Each swipe of the card a slash of the sword! It's so pure I think I'm going to cry."

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

1) It is artificial. 2) You can't sign an executive order to change the English language. 3) Why is anyone playing along with this. 4) Reality gives me a headache. 5) Four is an unsatisfying number of items for a list.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

Weird that someone with no TV experience gutting a show’s staff and replacing them with Ross Douthat, who not only also has no TV experience but is also an opinion columnist rather than a reporter, would affect viewership. Should’ve done more focus groups I guess.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

Does Marc Novicoff think only affluent people need daycare while poor people can afford to have a parent stay home and make ends meet on a single income?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

Pro tip from a connoisseur? Hold the eye contact for a few seconds and let him sit with the silence. He expects you to get it and be with him, and not getting the response he thought he would get subconsciously makes him afraid he’s the out group now. You can see the existential crisis in his eyes.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

Cishet white man here: It’s so fun. It’s SUPER fun. Misogyny, racism, bigotry against people for their sexuality or gender identity. Looking some idiot in the eye and telling him what he just said was messed up is incredible. There’s this look of confusion and internal panic over being judged.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

WHY IS THIS WHAT THEY’RE SPENDING ONE OF THEIR SIX WORK SAYS PER YEAR ON

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 29/09/2026

WHY WOULD I KNOW I WAS ALLERGIC TO FOUNDAYO, COMMERCIAL, IF YOU’RE TRYING TO CONVINCE ME TO TRY FOUNDAYO

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 28/09/2026

If Pat MacAfee is Bizarro @chriswarcraft.bsky.social, Jay Feely is Mirror Universe Chris Kluwe.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 28/09/2026

Dude is reinforcing every stereotype of kickers not really being part of the team, because a lack of team chemistry tanks otherwise talented men’s teams ALL THE TIME.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 28/09/2026

“Now watch the shoe.” -football in 2026

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