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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here is a good example of disingenuous framing from that piece. We do not, in fact, need to build $1 trillion worth of new data centers just to keep using Waze, Uber, Instagram, and all of the other apps that have been working just fine with the existing infrastructure

But if we want to continue to enjoy using Instagram and Waze, streaming movies, banking online, hailing an Uber or conversing with A.I. chatbots, we are going to need more data centers.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Reminder that according to Ground News, the New York Times leans left

A screenshot of an opinion piece from the New York Times. The headline reads, "Electricians Love Data Centers. You Should Too." The illustration is of an electrician, presumably wearing a yellow hardhat, smiling widely, with tools levitating around his head as they usually do for electricians. In the background is a data center and a rainbow.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In fact, in real life, the mouse is much bigger

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Is that bird even paying the HOA dues that pay for the upkeep of this green space infrastructure?

A bird sitting on a bench in front of a hazy background

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Animals using a bed like humans is my favorite thing.

A grey mini schnauzer with her head and shoulder on a pillow, tucked in under a messy comforter.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is my local Costco yesterday, July 22nd.

A display at Costco showing a multilingual skeleton, a Frankenstein's monster, and some other assorted Halloweenies

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I know we have a hundred reasons to be upset at what remains of our country’s media but this framing is borderline malpractice. “Even as”? Where do you think the winnings are coming from?

New York Times article headline and subhead, reading:

Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big
President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Reflecting Pool story keeps getting funnier and funnier. This guy owns the company that got the no-bid contract to redo the water purification system for The Reflecting Pool and of course he's a long-time Trump donor. But you know the best part? The name of his company? Greenwater Services.

Some big dude with a very funny porno stache in the most "I bribe politicians" looking suit ever. He looks like he's either 29 or 58.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Meanwhile here in picturesque California

A uniformly grey sky over a chaparral landscape with houses in the background.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Why is he doing the facial expression from Commander Keen’s Dopefish?

A large green cartoon fish with buck teeth, a lopsided grin and one eye much larger than the other

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Reasons why I block instead of picking fights on social media

A man holding a microphone with the subtitle of "because I think that something awaits for me in the divine for resisting"

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

California gave me an ocean of fog rolling in off the Pacific tonight. Failed to capture how absolutely huge and all-engulfing it felt.

A thick marine layer on the ocean with the Channel Islands poking through in the distance. In the foreground stands a dry chaparral yucca

The foothills of the Santa Monica mountains barely holding back an ocean of fog. Soon they will fail and the fog will take us

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Okay I know he tried to assassinate some folks but you didn’t have to do him this dirty. Wow. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.

Excerpt from an NYT article: “He has connections to game development.

On Facebook and LinkedIn accounts that appear to be connected to him, Mr. Allen described himself as an independent game developer, posting about a game called “Bohrdom” that he released in 2018.

Described as “a skill-based, nonviolent asymmetrical fighting game loosely derived from a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality,” the game appeared to have almost no reviews and almost no followers before Saturday on its social media accounts.”

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The pope could do the funniest thing right now

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

The vice president, who is Catholic, took issue with Pope Leo XIV’s statement that disciples of Christ are “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Closing the strait is WORLD EXTORTION, Trump says to Iran, and that is OUR job.

News update from the NYT reading: “President Trump accused the Iranians of “world extortion” for closing the strait, and said that the United States Navy would begin its own blockade of the route. His comments signaled an escalation in naval activity around the strait. He said that the Navy would begin stopping ships that had paid a toll to the Iranians for usage of the strait, and that the military would begin destroying underwater mines placed in the waters. “Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!” Trump said.”

Under it there is a picture of Trump yelling at an unseen person

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Now if this was something OpenAI had done, the framing would be like "Environmental activist provides CEO of struggling start up with short window of free heating."

NYT healine and sub header: Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman
The device burned an exterior gate of the house in San Francisco, the police said, and it was unclear whether the artificial intelligence executive was home. The authorities arrested a suspect.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Why can't Charlie Brown give Lucy a chance?

A cartoon with two peanuts characters: Lucy, who's holding a football in place with one finger, and Charlie Brown, looking at her doubtfully.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And you’re telling me we get one of these for free every day?

A stunning orange red sunset against fluffy grey clouds with a foreground of a green chaparral landscape

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sometimes the author’s name is a little too on the nose.

A headline for an opinion piece at the NYT titled “The Epstein files should never have been released”, written by one Daniel Richman

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My favorite plant native to my part of the world the the Chaparall Yucca (Hesperoyucca Whipplei) which I feel 95% certain in identifying now (I think there's one or two other plants here in SoCal that look similar). I cannot walk past one without taking a picture.

Southern California chaparall landscape featuring many flowering stalks. In the background sits the squat Conejo Mountain (more of a hill really ;P)

A trio of flowering stalks of the chaparral yucca; only the middle one still bears flowers, with the right hand one showing just the primary branches coming from the scape

A landscape photo looking from the Santa Monica Mountains in Will Rogers State Park (from 2017, long before the fires; don't even want to think about what it must look like now) down onto Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, and the Pacific. There is a large flowering stalk of Yucca in the right foreground and another stalk also heavy with flowers in the middle of the shot much farther away from the camera.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I have no clue what this is but can I just say as a child of the 80s who used computers pretty early I'm so pleased with the return of ASCII user interfaces. This is giving me dBASE or Tome of Vast Knowledge vibes

A screenshot of the MSDOS ASCII interface to the Tome of Vast Knowledge, an AD&D 2nd digital helper from the before times.

Screenshot of dBASE IV, which was one version past what I used, in the antediluvian age.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It's giving this. "Support your local fash"

Twitter post from 2017 reading "Conservatives: Lets round up Muslims and put them in camps

Liberals: HIRE MORE WOMEN GUARDS"

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Dog did not appreciate the sunset nearly as much as I did.

A sunset, somewhat overexposed, over a chaparral landscape. In the foreground is a leashed grey Mini-Schnauzer, the edges of her hair rimmed with golden light. She's staring at the picture taker like "can we go now please"

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I know everything's grim these days and you don't need additional reminders of how much we're headed the wrong direction, but this combination of headline and subhead is as complete an encapsulation of the shit we're in and the shit we've BEEN in as I've seen.

Headline and subhead from the New York Times reading:

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Apparently my legs are great pillows

A picture of my legs, lying on a couch, with a dog on each foot

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

When you’re a famous literary critic you can just throw out outrageous statements as obviously true facts in a little “such as” phrase and move on and no one will call you on your bullshit. Truly the dream.

Quote from Northrop Frye’s “Anatomy of Criticism”: Much of the hero’s life is spent with animals, or at any rate the animals that are incurable romantics, such as horses, dogs, and falcons, and the typical setting of romance is the forest.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I am reminded of this photo showcasing greater bravery than I could ever imagine having.

A menorah in a window facing an official looking building flying the swastika flag of Nazi Germany

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Here's another fun fact about that show (Mystère)

The snail seen growing larger throughout the show is called Alice. By the end of the show, she is a giant inflatable puppet controlled by four puppeteers from the inside. The puppeteers move her around by following markings on the floor, since they can not see outside the puppet. They also control her eyes, torso, and tail.

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I have this reminder of my job description hanging over my office desk

Me holding a big framed piece of art depicting the goose from untitled goose game honking with a caption of "I think I will cause problems on purpose"

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