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Dan Davis

@bindlestiff.bsky.social
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A linguist and software architect for many years, now I create custom guitars and, occasionally, Maloof-style rocking chairs. LLMs are NOT AI, are addictive, and are worse than useless.

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 47m
Direct link: stringpluckery.com/products/fre...
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Fretboard Radius Jig | String Pluckery
Fretboard radius jig built for 6 compact routers. No adapters, no modifications. Standard and extended-range sizes, custom radii available. Made in Virginia.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 49m
The jig is very high quality. It’s printed using PLA, which is perfect for this application, and out-of-the-box supports mounting DeWalt, Milwaukee, Makita, Bosch, & Ryobi compact routers. If your router isn’t supported, you can email them & they’ll send you a blank baseplate you can drill yourself.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 49m
It pivots on bearings on radiused rails you can change out. It took me about 3 minutes (plus about 30 seconds of finish sanding) to get a 16” radius that’s perfectly accurate all the way down the board. The track the jig rides on took me about an hour to make and cost about $15 for the MDF.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 49m
After years of trying everything from hand planing / sanding to an elaborate home-grown pivoting platform, I finally invested in the fretboard radius jig from stringpluckery.com. It’s a 3D-printed carriage for a compact router (my Makita fits perfectly) that supports all common fretboard radii.
The fretboard radius jig from Stringpluckery on its track, after radiusing a Macassar Ebony fretboard to a very accurate 16” radius.
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IGN @ign.com · 17h
The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." bit.ly/4rD8rmh
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h
There is no ‘superintelligence.’ Only a fool would believe we’re even close. Which explains a lot.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 18h
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5h
I think we all saw that coming
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 7h
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7h
How your email finds me
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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 8h
Is anyone else just getting calls from random mobile numbers every day now? Doesn’t even say suspected scam anymore. Haven’t answered any of them but just feels a bit insane you cant trust any number that calls you except ones already saved
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 7h
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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Myron Vernis @junkman356.bsky.social · 7h
The car I drove to my first-ever job interview. I parked it at a distance so no one would see it.
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William "Chip" Nagel @cto1usn.bsky.social · 5h
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 6h
US healthcare system: iN oThER cOuNtRieS YoU'lL wAiT mOnTHs fOr aN aPpOiNtMeNt! Also US healthcare system: Wheelchair order will take 4mos. Me: cool so if I started the process on 8/24-- US HC system: --no that's 4 months AFTER your specialist appt. That takes 6 weeks to schedule for 3-4 mos out.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h
AND they elide artist and access mechanism. “Who do I like? Oh Spotify!”
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h
I think a key issue here is that these guys have no idea what 'good' means
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 6h
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h
It’s gotten to the point now where I miss calls from doctors’ offices because of this (and the fact that many of them apparently use services that don’t add caller ID info to the calling numbers).
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h
Jerry yes/no
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h
Wonderful!
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 6h
Carole King and R&B artist Merry Clayton working on the recording of "Oh No Not My Baby" circa 1972 , a Legendary Demos' bonus track. The song was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and this track featured Carole on piano. (Cont'd)
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h
He’s probably butthurt all over again because of the near-universal horror at his ridiculous dream of using an algorithm to keep score and label people “toxic” who give Big Accounts the red ass.
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 4h
Hey, I got blocked too! Guess the punk ass motherfucker who's been cashing checks for making Bluesky an untrustworthy and unsafe platform is in a snit again.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 5h
yes, i think this is a big factor in our current weirdness burst
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 4h
The delusion runs deep.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h
Fantastic idea sir!
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 4h
Great example of how easily LLMs can be manipulated and weaponized.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 4h
If anyone else on the Bluesky “team” wants to block me, please indulge your adolescent selves. Hey look at me! I’m TOXIC!
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 4h
I guess word finally got to ol’ Aaron here that I think he’s a dangerous, pretentious poseur and has been at least since his tenure at Twitter. Well I guess I’m ‘toxic’ now. I wonder how long it will be before the suspension rolls around.
Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky’s Clown Prince of Moderation, just blocked me.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
Black text that reads:

229 new affordable homes are coming to the Bronx.

We just broke ground on Sol on Park:
• 80 homes for current NYCHA residents
• 69 homes for formerly homeless seniors
• 79 homes for low- and middle-income seniors
• 8,000 sq. ft. of community space, including a health and wellness center 

This is what’s possible when we invest in NYCHA and use the power of government to build a City where New Yorkers come first.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/08/2026
We're using City-owned land to build the affordable homes New Yorkers need.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 18h
“control” 😂
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h
Mmmmhmmmm.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He thought he was making the Fox News clip of the hearing when he was making the MSNOW clip.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18h
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 18h
Oh so THAT’S where you got the idea from!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 22h
To Trump, a Hello World app is an example of superintelligence.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 22h
The Department of Making 'Fetch' Happen
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 29/09/2026
The White House recently released another ad in a series of videos that it calls “public service announcements.” It’s yet another example of the Trump administration illegally using federal funds and authority as a tool of partisan electoral politics and retribution.
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