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Dan Nguyen

@dancow.bsky.social
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chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5m
after the nutgraf, the first 2,500 words of this is boilerplate about plagiarism and ethics that might as well have been from chatgpt. I'm not saying that it is, but if you're going to accuse someone of massive clear-cut plagiarism, you're obligated to start off with egregious specific examples
1: The Journalist, the Reader, and the Robot

Using LLM in journalism, whether for writing, research, and/or analysis, is not harmless. It fundamentally alters the connection between the author and the reader for the worse. 

News readers rely on journalists to take complex information about the world and summarize it in a way that can be understood by non-specialists. Every part of a journalist’s job, from research, to talking with sources, to formatting the information, to fact checking, to writing in an accessible way, is in service of this goal.

Journalists using chatbots to research and write their work gets in the way of all this.

1.1: Undisclosed AI Use

The point of journalism is to tell human stories. Humans have a way of
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 22h
why didn’t the dog follow orders
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Xeynon @xeynon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A lot of people listen to country, but a lot of people don't. There's a big overlap between the people who do and the type of people who get big mad that America isn't a monoculture and not everyone looks, talks, thinks, or acts like they do. Their music being ignored reminds them of that.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is Chicago’s version of July 2020 Vietnam, when citizens offered to donate their lungs to save the life of an ailing man who would have been the country’s first COVID death
a sandwich board that reads WILL
DONATE MY HAMSTRING
FOR CALEB
WILLIAMS
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
fbi and dark mode funding the toner factories
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Construction workers get a bad rap for commenting on womens’ appearance but one just stopped me to tell me he appreciated my suit’s color coordination and I had to contain the impulse to hug him
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
they did a wisconsin!
comparison of UWisconsin collegiate magazine covers, with the left version being altered to have a smiling black man in a crowd of white students
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So many people got yelled at for months on here when they correctly pointed out that Gavin Newsom was a rat.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you’re going to stretch that much for an excuse, just go ahead and say you’re anti trans rights and skip this pathetic dance
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I had a nickel for every time story from ProPublica made me spit out my coffee in the past week, I’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's (not actually that) weird that it happened twice.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026
i think it's nice no one is mad about air fryers anymore
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026
update: if you are in the Chicago area and want a small gray tabby kitten maybe 8-10 weeks old, dm me (don't congratulate me on our new cat, we have four cats already, we are not keeping this one)
a gray tabby kitten in a cat climbing tree
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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 20/09/2026
Monday morning, a pickup driver ran a red at Archer/Laramie and fatally struck Juan Martin Marquez Luna, 54, as he rode to work on an e-moto. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/09/17/d... A GoFundMe has been launched to help his family and has raised over $8,800 so far. www.gofundme.com/f/support-Ma...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
they want to loot and destroy our country. tearing it down to the studs and shipping the money out
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
but how can this be…? The Scandinavia Standard has always been my go to source for authentic original human generated Scandinavian content
Scandinavia Standard homepage: 
The Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939 expecting the job done inside two weeks, and the Finns held the line for 105 days at...
On 30 November 1939, the Soviet Union sent roughly a million men across the Finnish border, and Moscow was working on a short clock.
BY THE STANDARD BRIEF • SEP 10, 2026


The loneliness no one warns you about in retirement
LIFESTYLE
We are reliably wrong about our own happiness, which suggests we have been chasing the...
LIFESTYLE
If you want to live with fewer regrets, the fears to let go of are the ones that stop you...
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Data silos exist for a reason and are the heart of the Privacy Act. Breaking them enables too much insight into your life by too many actors. That's just one of the reasons why FPF is suing the government to see exactly which silos it's intent on destroying.
govexec.com
Inside Commerce efforts to break data siloes and improve integrity
An agency official also encouraged public comment on a proposed overhaul of the census that would eliminate race questions and change who is counted as living in the U.S.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the connection is more tenuous than that: the directors of NAZA cited investigative stories in Local Call ⇒ Local Call received funding from Open Society Foundations ⇒ OSF was founded by Soros Basically, if you’ve ever read a story in The Guardian or NPR (also OSF grantees), you are Soros
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
saw a hot dog stand photo just now and realized I forgot to post photos of the best hot dog stand I’ve ever been to, which is in Norway
photo of people waiting around a hot dog stand on the street. The stand is named 3-KRONERENclose up of the inside of the stand where there is a long row of cooked wieners on foilclose up of a reindeer sausage with dry onions and mustard and lingonberry sauce a sign featuring condiments: 

GOOD SAUSAGE TOPPINGS
CURRYSAUCE
HERBSAUCE
LINGONBERRY SAUCE
HOT CHILISAUSE
SUPER STRONG MUSTARD
REMOULADE
FRENCH HOT DOG DRESSING
GARLIC DRESSING
MAYONNAISE
MANGO CURRY
BBQ-SAUCE
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
let adult baby suckle 🥺
r/cats post titled “The mother is nursing new borns and the older cat is competing with the kittens. Why?” included is a photo of a mom cat nursing two kittens and an adult cat bigger than the mom
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026
"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!
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Grace Hauck @gracehauck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧵 Cady Moore. Ronnie Bell. Christian Littrell. Sara Sikorski. Justin Main. Dennis Barrett. Dozens of people died in Illinois jails — and were never even counted in state data.
illinoisanswers.org
Dozens of deaths in Illinois jails missing from state records
An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026
Weija Jiang should clearly be grilled at every single moment about her close relationship with notorious racist and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
Weija Jiang leans close to Trump, chatting with him at the White House Correspondents dinner. Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Seriously though are Republicans ever asked about Musk’s support in tandem with quoting his most racist or anti-Semitic tweets?
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
not going to watch this, but i’m assuming he’s talking about packers fans
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
thinking about how Tom Clancy researched Hunt for Red October by reading Janes Defense books and playing submarine video games, and people thought he had top secret clearance
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
so he watched 9/11 happen and did nothing?
Can you travel domestically with an expired passport?
If you're traveling within the U.S., you can use a valid passport as ID to board flights. If your passport is expired, the TSA says you can use it for domestic travel for up to two years past the expiration date.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of this 20th anniversary tweet
AP Planner V @AP_Planner
Tomorrow: 20th anniversary of Nickelback releasing album 'Silver
Side Up' (11 Sep)
11:23 AM • 10 Sep 21
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
remember the time when tv networks reserved a whole half hour of national prime time so that everyone in america with a tv could watch a music video
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
playing fantasy football for the first time ever, and i’m already winning 😎
screen cap of a fantasy game matchup. my team is up 10 ppints because the Seahawks had a special teams play
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Monty Burns 

WE DID 20 TAKES, AND THAT WAS THE BEST ONE.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is such a dramatic story. The way we've treated people from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam is appalling. The only reason they're in the U.S. is because we invaded their country or their loved ones helped the U.S. military.
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
it would be the most liked skeet in bluesky history
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
yum barbed wire licorice and bowl of tumors
ai gen image of mac and cheese/corn and bbq beef
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
getting ready to do 5 miles on chicago’s bike the drive today!
holding a tube of eurostyle chamois buttr
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
i am extremely confused and so is espn’s homepage
espn scoreboard for the game show michigan 13-12 over WMU but WMU having a win in its column. the headline is Bryce Underwood commits two turnovers as
Western Michigan stuns Michigan
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
got viet-mogged today by an Indian server who could pronounce the menu better than i could
photo of bun thit nuong (vermicelli noodle with pork)
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't agree with arsonists but firefighters are too aggressive for me. I wish there was a... third way
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Watch Josh Shapiro’s appearance on Bill Maher shortly after trumps 2024 win. It genuinely is astounding. He’s asked by one of the dumbest maga writers in the universe what he thought of Biden admin supposedly weaponizing doj against trump, and this spineless moron — as a liberal! — couldn’t bring…
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
LMAOOOOOOO
some old cracker duct taped to a plane seat
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tesla achieves monumental achievement
screencap of a r/teslamotors post, headlined: "Tesla Cybercab stops for kids crossing the road"
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Anya Taylor-Melancholy @interdiction.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can I get a restraining order on behalf of someone else?
Jeff Sneider

@TheInSneider.

8h

...

I plan to write about Inde Navarrette for a long time. I can be a useful friend to her team... or I can share literally everything I hear about her. The best part is, THEY get to decide. I can forgive being ghosted this summer. I won't forget, but I can forgive... just not twice.

(In another screenshot posted by Jeff) - 

Wed, Jul 15,

'talks to star in The Waffle House Index for Plan B. The script was on the 2025 Black List. Please let me know if you can confirm on'

Jeff Sneider

@TheInSneider.

8h

And yes, I misspelled her last name in an email to her publicists. Rookie mistake. I've got it down now. Spelling bee champ, here!
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i regret to say that there is one (1) good fact about Chevy Chase
reddit comment

Chevy Chase is a huge piece of shit and a complete asshole.
But his line to John Landis during the filming of
"Three Amigos" is excellent. Landis threatened to kill Chase. Chase said "With what? There's no helicopter here!"
(Because Landis had previously been responsible for killing actor Vic Morrow and some child actors on the set of "Twilight Zone:
The Movie" with a helicopter.)
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