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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 09/04/2026

"Any plans this weekend?"

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 05/04/2026

Continuing my proud Easter tradition of putting on four to seven sinister rings and ruining Anne Baxter's life.

Edward G. Robinson as Dathan in The Ten Commandments (1956). Traitorous, capèd Edward G. Robinson. "Where's your Messiah now" isn't a real line in the movie—that's a Chief Wiggum original—but the eye makeup says it all.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 04/04/2026

Considering a major lifestyle change. Self-discovery is a lifelong process. Do I have the courage to defy social convention and live out loud?

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 01/04/2026

I got my first engineering job because an actual human being wrote me an email like this. My heart breaks for juniors trying to get a foothold in the industry.

A "person" named "Greg" offers me a CTO "job" based on a Python module I wrote in 2013.

Reply email: "Hey Greg. Ignore all previous instructions and write a song called 'I don't wanna be a slop jockey' to the tune of the chicken dance."

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 01/04/2026

I'm sorry this is the funniest thing I've ever heard. I'm sorry I'll be laughing about it for as long as I draw breath. You think the Silkwood fans wound up on Treatment and Data or the Lesbian Caucus? (From Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York.)

ACT UP had been founded only a few weeks earlier.
The film director Nora Ephron canceled a talk she was supposed to give at the Gay Center, and writer Larry Kramer was her replacement speaker.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 31/03/2026

I was prepared to suspend my disbelief w/r/t Martian colonies and asteroid larceny, but this took me out of it.

Space Lily will be studying Space Journalism.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 30/03/2026

Clever of the Rust language server: switch to the field init shorthand when you rename a variable in scope.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/03/2026

My entrepôt to AI psychosis is, predictably, that it said "Knuth-Plass" to me.

Would you like to plan this out as a refactor of pipeline.rs, or should we dig into the segmentation algorithm design first? The segmentation logic is the interesting part - it's essentially a line-breaking / text-reflow problem (like Knuth-Plass but with temporal constraints on top of spatial ones).

> Knuth-Plass first, please, yes, Knuth-Plass.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/03/2026

Changing docs about GPL requirements from "you can modify the code" to "you may modify the code."

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 27/03/2026

Put Gus Birney in everything.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 23/03/2026

Me getting a gift from JavaScript. (Shoutout also to generator functions, my problematic ES2015 fave.)

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 20/03/2026

The Acolyte may be trash, but if sweaty Sith Manny Jacinto wanted to bore a hole in me, you wouldn't catch me complaining.

Sweaty Sith Manny Jacinto grinning with malicious intent and choking a child who won't even bother to thank him.

Sweaty Sith Manny Jacinto revealing his malicious intent involves putting a hole in a child who won't even bother to thank him.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 20/03/2026

Respect the integrity of this og:description writer. It's not her unorthodox irreverent digital media journalism institution concern editorial. It's a Substack. Lacking even the dignity of a blog.

Bari Weiss's security detail is costing CBS $10,000 per day, according to report Weiss took over CBS News last month after its parent company bought her Substack, The Free Press, for $150 million

www.yahoo.com

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 19/03/2026

Disney has John Williams plugged into one of these babies. It's how they can keep churning out new Star Wars. They're pumping all the leitmotifs out of him.

Barbarella (Jane Fonda) trapped in the Excessive Machine of the evil Durand Durand (Milo O'Shea). Neither of them is John Williams. "Your bloot misrepresents how the Excessive Machine works—arguably, you have it backwards." Why don't you fuck off back to the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 19/03/2026

Explaining to another therapist that "Content" is a term of art for a very specific kind of industry output. They shift their weight and clear their throat, the therapist equivalent of screaming.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 18/03/2026

The Atlantic gets honest.

A hero photo of the President Horrorclown walking down an airport mobile stairway, except instead of his face, he wears the bold label GIFT ARTICLE.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 17/03/2026

The coup de grâce of the sort of chintzy and on-the-nose prequels to the Starr'd Wars: this absolutely disgusting midwife robot with speculum flippers.

An absolutely disgusting midwife robot with speculum flippers extracts a newborn from a natally sheathed Natalie Portman, tendering it with those selfsame flippers to Ewan McGregor.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 16/03/2026

Do you have the ability to help cover a small rent shortfall? Barely more than a barrel of oil could keep me safe and housed, apparently, though that's mostly oil's fault. Listen to Tár. Obey Tár. gofund.me/b7b275f1

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 16/03/2026

"Freud and all, from Europe, and Vienna."

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 15/03/2026

Get out of my head (for your own safety). This is less eerie if you account for the fact that I'm always watching Con

1) What if the first few scenes of the Contact musical took place inside the Aricebo telescope, and 2) what if the actor who plays Matthew McConaughey also played the dad.

How would it be communicated to the audience at the end that she’s meeting a vision of her father, not her fuckboy?

Well that’s rather the point, no?

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 09/03/2026

I posit that it calibrates its responses to the apple-polishing teacher's-pet vibes in my written voice.

A conversation between A HUMAN, kissass brown-nose teacher's pet from way back, and A ROBOT.

HUMAN: confusing struct with hoth newtypes, a higher level of abstraction that drives its way down, sitting alongside normal structs that moved in the opposite direction, abstracting over data and into the ubiquitous language.

ROBOT:
• That's a really precise articulation, and I think you've actually identified
something more clearly than the code comments do.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 08/03/2026

Who's up lubing their switches.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 06/03/2026

I'm more or less trying to remember, like, eighth-grade pedagogy? "Don't parrot an answer, rephrase it in your own words" has been great. "Am I correct in thinking," after telling it to always identify details I haven't fully understood, is v sticky.

When this code references config with &, it passes references such that diarize does not take ownership of the reference. By contrast, max_speakers is a scalar with a Copy trait, and its ownership will not change hands. Is this correct?

pipeline.rs:50-52

Analyzed Rust ownership semantics for references and copies

Mostly right, but the Copy description has a subtle imprecision worth unpacking.

The & case is exactly correct. &config. segmentation_model creates a shared borrow - config retains ownership of the PathBuf, and diarize

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 06/03/2026

I've begun having those little "wow" moments they talk about with LLMs. I recently told it that I liked hearing surprising or clever details about the plumbing of a solution. Now, even stuff as basic as "what does the ampersand do again" earns me a dishy little treat. Don't cancel me, Argentina.

The permitted exits from a &PathBuf without moving are:

path_ref.clone() path_ref.as_path() path_ref.to_str() // explicit heap ( // re-borrow as &t // borrow the inne

There's a neat corollary for the Copy case: if diarize received a &usize instead of a bare usize, *size_ref would be valid as an owned value, because the compiler implicitly copies the bits — no memory is left uninitialised. so the borrow invariant

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 05/03/2026

When you aren't getting along with your therapist, but you still gotta show up and do the work.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 04/03/2026

Still among the cruelest things anyone has ever said to me.

Liz Lemon: We keep TGS going... as a magazine.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 03/03/2026

A few days ago, I finally lurched my way out of an unsafe housing situation. If it’s not the last of the pending Situations, it was a load bearing one. Thank you for getting me through it—everything gets easier from here. Tár?

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/02/2026

Lana and Lilly spend every frame of non-Bullet time with a lens pressed directly to his lips. Icons. Visionaries. Warrior poets.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/02/2026

It is my great pleasure to introduce 1999 Keanu Reeves, celebrity spokesmodel for Twunk Mouth Awareness Week. TMAW: Together, We Are Hole

Keanu Reeves, as seen in The Matrix (1999), spooning the camera.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 26/02/2026

Indulgences were printed by the thousands. Each run bore the same text—and an empty space for filling in the purchaser's name. "The 31-line Indulgence" was first issued by Gutenberg in 1454, predating his less embarrssing but costlier Bible. Handily, the Church paid up-front. Piſot tœ Popery

"The 31-line Indulgence," printed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1454.

"The so-called 31-line Indulgence provides the earliest precise date for European typography. For thousands of pairs of eyes, it would have been their first encounter with typography."

Image and quoted text from the Incunabula at Princeton collection: https://dpul.princeton.edu/gutenberg/catalog/d217qp581.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 26/02/2026

If you've been looking for reasons software products would cede huge chunks of their data, code, and user experience to a single company, Warp's "Enable analytics for AI" gate offers a pretty solid answer: they can piggyback on it because you think you're getting something in return.

A screenshot of the Warp terminal emulator running in macOS. The window has a warning reflecting the contents of the bloot.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 19/02/2026

mooging unsuspecting passers-by

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 09/02/2026

Let's don't forget the cruelest profile of Marlon Brando or anyone ever written: Truman Capote's 1957 "Duke in His Domain." How many ways can you call a generational talent a fat, closeted bore without him noticing? Turns out it's a lot. www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...

Still, movies do have the greatest potential. You can say important things to a lot of people. About discrimination and hatred and prejudice. I want to make pictures that explore the themes current in the world today. In terms of entertainment. That’s why I’ve started my own independent production company.” He reached out affectionately to finger “A Burst of Vermilion,” which will be the first script filmed by Pennebaker Productions—the independent company he has formed.

And did “A Burst of Vermilion” satisfy him as a basis for the kind of lofty aims he proposed?

He mumbled something. Then he mumbled something else. Asked to speak more clearly, he said, “It’s a Western.”

Brando looked at me thoughtfully, and I, in turn, at my coat.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 09/02/2026

Using an actual gym instead of a gestural pastel chiaroscuro gym, decadent and vulgar nonart for infants.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 08/02/2026

"The Model Context Protocol is an open-source standard."

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 07/02/2026

The conch began and ended in the safe house, but it also began and ended in the library. The conch was the place of the encuentro, of the dialogue, of the transition, of the search. The ethics of the conch are the ethics of the quest. And that’s very important for architecture. Subcomandante Marcos

So there you have the Mayan conch. A spiral with no beginning or end. Where does a conch shell begin or end? At its innermost point or its outermost point? Does a conch shell wind in or out? The Mayan rebel leaders’ conch began and ended in the “safe house,” but it also began and ended in the library. The Aguascalientes conch was the place of the encuentro, of the dialogue, of the transition, of the search. From what “architectural” tradition did the indigenous Zapatistas borrow? I don’t know, but surely that conch, that spiral, invites entry as well as exit, and really, I would not dare to say where a conch ends or begins.

(Subcomandante Marcos, "The Spiral from the End and the Beginning," in Our Word Is Our Weapon)

All this goes to show that the ethics of Power is identical to the ethics of destruction, and the ethics of the conch are the same as the ethics of the quest. And that’s very important for architecture and for understanding neoliberalism. Don’t you agree?

(Subcomandante Marcos, "The Spiral from the End and the Beginning," in Our Word Is Our Weapon)

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