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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 8h

What’s the magical thing in the first photo with his shirt cuffs rolled back like that?

Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got my shots yesterday and feel like crap. So glad I’ll feel all good tomorrow and not be sick for days like I would be with Covid or the flu!

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, not enough. I need the whole thing. EK: I feel like you’re treating these like these are not things that we have seen again and again in history, but I feel like they are things we’ve seen again and again in history, that we’ve watched... JH: But Ezra, I see a lot of good things in history.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know that #hatereads are kind of @davekarpf.bsky.social 's thing, but I feel like the world needs a #hatelisten to the Jensen Huang interview on Ezra Klein. Pleeeeeease, Dave?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like the Sweetest Batch berries generally do deliver on the promise. I’d never buy them at retail but at my “last chance” bodega that shops the Hunter’s Point market for me I’m all over them. But otherwise, no.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, just to zero in on the specific example, it completely ignores power. Part of the reason banks can add friction is power. You really think they won’t use THEIR AI to keep making money from you? You really think it costs $3 to use somebody else’s ATM?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would LOVE to see tech bros’ guesstimates of what shares of the population do different types of labor. Part of the infatuation with AI has to be that they can’t really imagine what most people do all day

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Definitely a good one. If only the Brussels would slice themselves in half it’d be perfect

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And the speed of the change. Water in the US is hugely fragmented—way more than energy—and has billions in deferred maintenance (to say nothing of new issues like PFAS). Closed loop data centers don’t use a huge amount of water, but they still are a quick arriving stressor on a stressed system

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is this how the truck full of rice got here?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They clearly made a decision that “completely failed to stick the landing” and “followed great with one to two awful seasons” were not disqualifying

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Esoteric hyper-specific fields rarely come out intact when they suddenly become highly salient to everyone (e.g. public health, data center siting, utility rate setting)

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mass Save, the MA ratepayer-funded efficiency program, spends multiple billions each year on electrification and heat pumps and even they have a long way to go. It’s a BIG project, but desperately needed

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So the question is why did the two, which used to be fairly tightly linked, delink? The spike of both in 2021 happens together but one goes down and the other doesn’t. The 2009 episode is also interesting. Inflation nearly goes negative and yet, huge spike in price anxiety. People “felt” poorer

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did she record the “I approve this message” tag in a stairwell?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“By design” meaning they’re not trying to attract attention because they don’t see it as a core part of their job as Leaders. I would disagree with that judgment if it’s true, but I could at least imagine an argument for it

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Completely agree that parsing tiny word choices is silly. And lord knows that “breaking through” in our godforsaken information environment ain’t easy. But can we agree that Schumer and Jeffries are terrible at getting attention? Maybe that’s by design, but to me it feels like a problem

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not gonna litigate the specifics cause I’m sure we won’t convince each other. My contention is that Dem leadership sucks at generating friction and in today’s info environment that’s what drives attention. They want to pivot to anodyne (but important) stuff like health care. Which gets no coverage

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nope. It’s subtle, but these are different. The Canadian example is “They’re doing awful things to distract from Epstein.” Jeffries is “We should be talking about health care, but we can’t because they want to protect Epstein.” One pivots INTO the weakness. The other pivots away from it

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do they get a tax deduction if they buy supplies with their own meager salary?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But also, it is nigh-impossible to predict which decisions will be history-defining. Thus my grand unified theory of “work for structural change but also throw a bunch of shit at the wall cause you don’t know what’ll stick” 😅

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hard to believe that Canadians are showing Dems what it looks like to not play nice. CANADIANS!

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What if I yell “BLOCKCHAIN!”? It’ll work then, right?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some day I will learn not to cut watermelon on the onion cutting board. But not today!

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Alignment” has always bugged me. It stipulates that AI is different from all other technology and needs to be “convinced” to “behave.” Which, maybe? But I’m not stipulating it.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No. No it didn’t. It never had any value. It didn’t lose it.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You can see the malice radiating off it

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Comparing yourself to MLK and Rosa Parks for being arrested for assaulting someone is 🧑‍🍳💋

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Maps are and always have been political. Trump is just reminding people of that

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Darn! Ordered from my local bookshop, but they have to get it from the publisher because it's sold so well. Guess I'll have to wait.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Had one of the more embarrassing experiences of my life in the back of a cab in Glasgow. Cabbie was feeling chatty and I could not understand a word of his questions.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So happy for you, Rebecca! Gonna get my copy ASAP.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you were to rank the most compelling communicators in the Dem House Caucus, he wouldn’t crack the top 20

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What kind of thermal energy storage can hold the energy for months?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Two possibilities: Jeffries’ people leaked it, showing how out of touch he is with the base. Kushner’s people leaked it, showing Jeffries got played

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Around these parts, we call this “getting Chotinered”

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Could be negative given the size of the error bars 😅

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If that’s true and they only had YOB, that’d absolutely decimate their claims. Entity resolution is one of those things that seems easy but is monstrously difficult in reality. Joe Smith (1982) at 123 6th Ave Apt A and Joseph Smith (1982) at 123A Sixth Avenue. Same person? Unrelated? Who knows?

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

But yes, a quick glance at the 2014 paper indicates there’s basically no cascade you could construct that would have a low enough overall false match rate to be able to reliably detect anything at the exceedingly precise level of ~0.02% without it being swamped by noise

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This isn’t quite my area of expertise, but it’s adjacent. Without the actual code/details of their match procedure, it’s hard to say much for certain. Since it’s a cascade, false match errors will accumulate.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes he does. The problem with fear-mongering conspiracy theorists isn’t their reading comprehension. It’s their bad faith

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Legit thought the ranting woman was Pirro

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yeah, the hay, corn and alfalfa is particularly galling. Using water that’s in short supply to grow thirsty crops that feed hungry animals to feed humans is about as 🍌 🍌 🍌 as it gets

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