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C.V. Danes

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Old. Opinionated. Humanist. Bigotry is not a valid alternate viewpoint. Common decency is not a bargaining chip. cv-danes.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h
"Only 28 percent of Americans believe that AI technology should move full speed ahead. Everyone else wants it slowed down or stopped, temporarily or permanently." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/one-more-r...
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One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them
Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 25/09/2026
No Bill, AI is not powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. Cultist billionaires in a Heaven's Gate themed AI cult using AI to bring about 12 Monkeys are powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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Bill Gates Issues Warning About AI: ‘Never Been A Weapon As Powerful’
“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” Gates told “Meet the Press.”
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 25/09/2026
Let me guess, they're pivoting to become an AI company now: www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Starbucks to close 250 locations by the end of this week
While most locations are thriving as they integrate the Back to Starbucks strategy, some are underperforming, the COO said.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 25/09/2026
I was thinking about this utterly profound rendition of Both Sides Now sung by 80+ year old Joni Mitchell at the Grammy awards. And I was wondering what the tech overlords felt if they watched it, and I'm guessing nothing. Nothing at all. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeF...
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Joni Mitchell and the Joni Jam - Both Sides Now (2024 GRAMMYs performance)
YouTube video by Brandi Carlile
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Christie Malry ☭ 🔻 @christiemalry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
microsoft applying for patent to force adds into your games while listening to your speaking in your room time to split to linux youtu.be/Smwo493IAfw?...
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Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 23/09/2026
I just can't even with this shit. This is why no one in the Trump administration has any fear whatsoever about being investigated or prosecuted for anything they do, no matter how egregious.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:
Cover of the September-October issue of Mother Jones Magazine: a white background with the words "50 years of fearless journalism" in black print, centered above the name/logo of the magazine in large Bright Red. Below that in black, the words "the southern strategy — jim crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."

And then, framing those words, there are two sets of robes: to the left, the simple black robes of the Judicial Branch of the United States Government, as a Supreme Court Justice might wear; to the right, the white robes and hood of the KKK.

A white person's hand with cuff of business suit and shirt visible, reaches into the scene from the right, poised to grab the Klan robes.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 23/09/2026
Noting that this is a choice. Societal collapse is neither accidental nor inevitable.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 23/09/2026
Going exactly as expected.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
This is the shit we need. Can you imagine being able to cut the CO2 emissions from air travel virtually overnight? There'd obviously still be production pollutants from batteries & the planes themselves, but come on: call it $200 of electricity for DC to ATL, fully loaded? Vs ~$4k in jet fuel? Shit…
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is the woman tennis player vs random men off the street
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 17/09/2026
You're morning tl/dr :-) Good stuff!
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 09/09/2026
9/11 didn't force the intelligence community to revamp its ways of doing business. It forced the rest of us to live with the consequences of increased surveillance and monitoring.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Minority Report from my Right Boob 3D->5D 🏳️‍⚧️ @rowenagold.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In If Looks Could Kill news...
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 03/09/2026
I have taken this workshop. Recommended!
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 03/09/2026
A reminder that there are still good people doing good work.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 02/09/2026
Enshittification is not merely worsening service. It's a total breach of trust that the service will be fulfilled at all. It's like when you order something. Companies used to somewhat take delivery seriously. Now they just don't really care if or when it shows up. /2
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 01/09/2026
5000 fucking dollars www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
tomshardware.com
Nvidia's top-end RTX 5090 gaming GPU now costs at least $5,000 — Blackwell cards continue to endure drastic price hikes
It's all down to AI
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
went and tried the shirt that hides you from AI surveillance cameras, made this little video about it: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 30/08/2026
I dunno. My expectation for the first 100 days is creation of a special Nuremberg style court with Stephen Miller, amongst others, on trial sitting in a glass box. I don't think that's too much to ask. I certainly don't want to hear that Miller is a political problem (again).
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 30/08/2026
I watched Motor City with Alan Ritchson last night and I'm still trying to get my head around it. A visual tone poem to revenge, perhaps? The elevator fight scene between Ritchson and Pablo Schreiber, tho. Holy shit, that alone was worth the price of admission. #motorcity
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 30/08/2026
Another shipment from Amazon that is multiple days late. Seems to be the norm now. Not only don't they care, let me tell you how little they care: when you cancel the shipment there's no place to say why you're canceling it. They. Just. Don't. Care. #amazon #amazonprime
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 24/08/2026
Thanks, AI fortune.com/2026/08/21/e...
fortune.com
Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs | Fortune
The e-commerce company's hardware price hikes follow similar moves by Apple, Dell, and Microsoft Xbox.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 21/08/2026
Thanks AI www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
tomshardware.com
Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027
VDURA's latest flash index puts a 30TB TLC drive at $22,600 as NAND price increases settle.
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The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 19/08/2026
It really is ridiculous that the delivery fee on my electric bill in NY is higher than the supply fee.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 18/08/2026
Not to get all doomie, but, maybe getting dire: www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens... I personally think worst case is OpenAI limps along until after 2028 and a Dem-controlled government is tasked holding the bag on a very unpopular possible bailout of the tech industry.
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What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 17/08/2026
This is what a country being reduced to shambles looks like.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 17/08/2026
Sadly, it seems Silo has reached the tech billionaire savior stage of the show. Which at first blush may be lazy writing, but on second thought the idea that humanity can be saved by cramming half a million people into silos and killing off the rest can only come from a cultist tech billionaire.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 14/08/2026
Thanks, Trumpers.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 12/08/2026
Trump take jalapenos
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 10/08/2026
If there's a game more pointless yet more hopelessly addicting I can't think of one :-)
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 07/08/2026
New kids on the block: --Matsubara Ginsan 180mm tall nakiri --Murata Aogami Super 165mm funayuki --Murata Aogami Super 135mm petty. Happy birthday to me! #japaneseknives
Picture of new Japanese kitchen knives:

--Matsubara Ginsan 180mm tall nakiri

--Murata Aogami Super 165mm funayuki

--Murata Aogami Super 135mm petty.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 02/08/2026
Amazon delivery really is the role model for enshittification. Used to be pretty good at meeting their dates, now it's maybe 50/50. Like literally the most untrustworthy now when it comes to shipping.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
“Immigration camps in the United States today disappear people politically before, all too frequently, they disappear them physically. To combat the suffering we should use language that reveals the inhumanity rather than conceals it. The word camp does just that.”
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 30/07/2026
Filed under "Stupidest Possible Timeline"
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 28/07/2026
If by singularity they mean a sudden increase in AI bro idiocy, then yeah: www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...
businessinsider.com
Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. Several buildings and bridges have collapsed. The earthquake registered Shindo 7, the highest level on Japan's seismic intensity scale.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Minority Report from my Right Boob 3D->5D 🏳️‍⚧️ @rowenagold.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In Please Share Far and Wide news... We are all part of the same human spectrum.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 24/07/2026
Whelp. fortune.com/2026/07/23/d...
fortune.com
Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet's business model | Fortune
Multiple cyber firms agree: bots outnumber humans online, challenging advertising, analytics and security systems designed around human visitors.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 23/07/2026
I maintain: bsky.app/profile/cv-d...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Enjoy some photos of agrivoltaics.
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On a Colorado farm, solar panels bring shade for plants, power – and cash: in pictures
More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profitThe Guardian receives support for visual climate coverage from the Outrider Foundation. The Guardian’s co...
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 12/07/2026
Seems relevant for today: m.youtube.com/watch?v=17HR...
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Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls {Offical Music Video}
YouTube video by MetalMusicInc
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 09/07/2026
#TechFailures
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 08/07/2026
Revolution exists at the intersection of young people believing they have nothing to gain and old people believing they have nothing to lose. We are steadily accelerating towards both.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A developer made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...
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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/07/2026
Because it takes some fucking nerve to say you're not a citizen but Black people are, when Black people are being beaten up on suspicion of being Somali and the Supreme Court says that Trump is allowed to act on racial animus and eject Haitians from this country. Some fucking nerve.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 01/07/2026
My take on AI quite simply is this; 1. Take a circa 2000 slop machine like ColdFusion that produced code people have made entire careers cleaning up and rewriting, and 2. Glue on a natural language interface to wow the idiotic corporate suite. That's all it is. Low code/ no code slop machine.
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The AI Industry Is Losing
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