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Dan Flashes

@dan-j-flashes.bsky.social
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Work in HE ed tech, love ice hockey, dogs, playing drums, and drinking good bourbon. I have a Simpsons quote in the chamber for every possible scenario.

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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The irony is that the modern writer who did that most often was Hunter S. Thompson, who would have absolutely LOATHED and completely shredded Donald Trump as a politician.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You misspelled "bribing voters"
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That this article calling for "civility" dropped *the day after* the Roberts court intervened to *allow Tennessee to charge ahead with trying to kill someone* before her legal appeals were resolved is fucking rich, man
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's like they trained an AI agent based on your skeets and said, "OK, rewrite this article, but in NY Times Pitchbot" style.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's being marketed as "it makes you more efficient!" but I think you're right on, here. I also think the undertones of the "efficiency bump" are nefarious. bsky.app/profile/dan-...
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Right, he just wanted the sound bite accusing Smith of perjuring himself. That was really it.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, if you read down that entire thread, this person has almost no imagination of, nor empathy for, a life outside of their specific experience/bubble. Someone cited academic writing as a way AI has made their life worse, and the response was, "OK, but that's not, like, a real problem."
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Judging from the ongoing discussion, there's a LOT you can't even parse. Maybe the AI can do it for you.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every student where I work uses it to cut corners and possibly cheat? Also the data center built in my town has raised my utility rates? What else you need?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm 6'3" and have never lived in a home with a closet where I wasn't looking up at the top shelf.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, I agree it's going to be a shit-show. I just don't get the timing. Repubs are trying to distance themselves from Trump, and so their closing argument is.... Trump? It was all a plot to get Trump? Why risk the exposure of "we've enabled this crook for a decade" when he's toxic right now?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If these people TRULY believed their work was an existential threat to humanity, it would be simple to pull the plug and wipe all the code. This is ALL a ploy to get government cover from competition and liability.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"where rogue agents broke containment and hacked business and government systems" Please don't do their framing work for them. There are no "rogue" agents. Agents do what they are programmed/trained to do, full stop.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is this a midterms strategy? Are they trying to get the last vestiges of Trump die-hards to the polls by... making it all about Trump? I don't understand the play here. For all the soundbites they'll no doubt generate for themselves just as many negative ones will come out as well.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Surprised he signed now TBH, and assume that’s a deal CBJ would have lived with so he must have made it clear there was no way he’d consider staying
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I meant more of he jumps up being on a team with more offense, yeah. At his current level he’s probably closer to $11-12
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(On an extension, not necessarily a QO/arbitration, since he's got one more RFA season left in 27-28.)
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The contract thing is big; Marchenko is SUPER cheap this year, but is up for arbitration at least this coming off season and definitely is going to want to get paid. If he puts up a season at his ceiling he's going to be in the $17 million range.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you say "it's all happening" are you talking like it's a done deal, or just that there's a LOT of smoke?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, but have you heard there's a MIGRANT CARAVAN
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I always just assumed that the plan is to call them to testify knowing that they can't, and then in the RW news/social media sphere to then frame it as "THEY'RE REFUSING TO TESTIFY BECAUSE IT WAS ALL AN ATTEMPT TO 'GET TRUMP' AT ANY COST."
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have, but I've also secretly always hoped that you all on Drew Carey Show--especially you and Ryan--were just riffing a lot of the time.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And Lost. That final season should eject Lost out of the list entirely.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So who would be the market for this product, I wonder? /taps earpiece I'm being told it's perverts
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wait, is Frum suggesting that, because the global Jewish population suffered a horrific genocidal event 80 years ago, the state of Israel is above any criticism for the also-horrific shit it's doing now? Or just that he doesn't think people should call systematically erasing a population "genocide"?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You would think a doctor would understand how health insurance works
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Who believes this?" Here in Ohio there are CONSTANT ads against Sherrod Brown saying he's "in favor of FORCED sex change surgeries for kids" which is the most dumb-ass ridiculous thing on its face, but they put it in ads because there are a bunch of dumb-asses that think it's true.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As long as Enrico Palazzo is involved I'm good for it
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Respectfully, we've been so far past "how is this even legal?" with this stuff for so, so long it shocks me people are still even rhetorically asking this question.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Manchin also vote ~50% of the time with Trump's positions in his first term, including approving most of his cabinet as well as voting to confirm Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to SCOTUS, the latter of whom was embroiled in scandal during his nomination process.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would submit that this is a revisionist history on the passage of the IRA (which gutted BBB's social safety net pieces), which due to Manchin's feet-dragging took until mid-2022 to pass.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Has he said which party he'd caucus with (eg, Sanders and King caucus with Dems despite being "independent")?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Right, I'd rather have someone in there who *sounds* like he'd listen to a solid argument rather than just voting party line, and if Achilles is sincere about many of his stated positions there is some true common ground. I just worry about people who view theirs as the vote you always have to earn.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
His position on immigration, for example, has some good things (we shouldn't be doing what Trump is doing re: enforcement) while also having some potential poison pills (border security). If that ALWAYS has to be placated, we won't ever get his vote on any meaningful immigration reform.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Senators like Manchin/Synema not only did little of substance to help Democrats legislatively, but also actively hindered them from some important things because they always needed to be placated and relished that attention. I can want Achilles to win and still be wary of him at the same time.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of his policy positions read as center-left. That said, he is giving me some Manchin vibes by running as an I to "become the fulcrum in the chamber" which implies being someone who must always be placated for ANYthing to pass. Not sure he's on record as to which side he'd caucus with.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That, and advertisements like ChatGPT's "people dancing around the office just hitting a button" commercial imply that, going forward, you don't really need to know how to *do anything* to be a successful and productive worker bee. You just need to know how to push the AI button.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who wants to tell him?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine celebrating child endagerment
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
After I read Michael Lewis's book about Sam Bankman-Fried I came to believe that "effective altruism" is just a "prosperity gospel" bill of goods sold to young directionless people as a means to justify criming.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My conspiracy theory (said tongue in cheek) is that in '24 they saw Harris polling ahead by a solid margin and just started flooding the zone with garbage polls that showed the race "tightening" as the election neared so that all their dirty tricks to steal elections would seem plausible b/c "polls"
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think for me, it's the more I hear about him the more sickened I am that so much of this country saw that and said, "Yes, THAT is what I want!"
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So glad I get to vote for Joyce Beatty every two years
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But God forbid "the executive" should try to forgive student loan debt
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So, extortion, then?
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If not wanting to completely skull fuck the environment just to “augment what I already do“ is “cope” then I guess I’m on Team Cope
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hell, in 2015 Rubio was still blaming Clinton for 9/11 itself.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Or, hear me out, they hit the mark they were aiming for and were hoping no one noticed
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If "We are all so fucking scared of this thing that we're just going to... keep doing it!" isn't galaxy-brained marketing, then I don't know what is.
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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is an irony that those who use "Christianity" as a political cudgel are so much like the Pharisees of Jesus's time: twisting his words to preserve their own political power. They believe on some level that they're spreading Jesus's message by doing the exact thing Jesus was working against.
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