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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Does anyone think opening up those tickets sounds appealing

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To be clear, this is math. A series of tokens which represent vulgar and flippant language skews the context in which it is replying.

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My lowkey guess is that as the context window widens, bullying language would shift the model to parts of the internet it has been trained on that make it substantially harder to ensure user safety and accuracy in its replies

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New NYT Game just dropped! Can you keep your daily streak alive through early November by coming back every day to stress out about where you would put which states??? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

2026 Midterms: How the Battle for the Senate Could Play Out

Explore possible outcomes in battleground states to see how each party could win a majority in the Senate.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This MFer said "Night and Day" Anyway. I think "Yes" is the direct sequel to "Call Me Maybe" which feels wild but works.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I always tell the new kids that it's the storytelling that is important. We can figure out how to move the pixels around later.

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Night and Day has grown on me so much as a smart double album that it is jarring to learn Jepsen just had these kind of bangers laying around to be tacked on to an extended edition

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fuller findings for _that_ specific poll (with good charts! 🥰) are here bsky.app/profile/aedw...

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a short polling hit, but—man—do I love a question that actually picks at voter motivation (and not in the "would this change how you would vote 9 months from now" sense) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The midterm polls that caught our eye this week

Polls show Trump losing support among his base and voters focused on Senate control and issues.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man, Hoult would be fun to watch in this

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Like... Doomsday is such great rising tension and Reign of the Supermen is a great rollercoaster, but Funeral For a Friend always felt like the crux of Death and Return. And almost half of Fatal Attractions is people just talking (plus the Wolverine issue is a sweeps episode of ER, not a fight)

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think this is mostly right. I get folks were bummed the series' crescendo peaked early on and there wasn't more doing stuff with powers—but I also think some of the best comics have always been the talky ones not the punchy ones www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/a...

The Superhero Story Line That ‘Lanterns’ Handled Better Than the Rest

HBO’s new series tackles the trope of a Black hero taking up a white predecessor’s mantle, giving John Stewart’s path to the Green Lantern ring a depth and autonomy that others missed.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Massively overdue, but also wild to do this in time for Doomsday... with no Avengers, FF or Dr. Doom books?

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good. I remember when I'd need to set aside a day to install dependencies and get QGIS up and running on a new system. Then, one new laptop, in the time since I'd last installed it they'd made it easy! And I was like "Oh. I can recommend this to people, now!"

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been thinking we might see interesting state-level political swings in this climate, and here is the Post with a nice, charty package digging into just that www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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GOP is at risk of significant state legislative losses, Post analysis finds

Democrats have a rare chance to boost their state presences after years of Republican gains.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Hobbes had a chance to respond to Locke:

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

MoE is 3 letters, so either spot is fine

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Does anyone have a pedalboard they like (like, the actual board). Need to upgrade for more space but don't want to go overkill for my little apartment / carrying it to practice space on transit...

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A big hangup I have around even things like the coding tools is just how they came to understand natural human language

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Emma Frost and quicksilver. Name me a more mercurial combo.

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This year's electoral map is playing out in unexpected ways—GOP-held seats in Republican strongholds have slid increasingly into being in-play... ...but Democrats have been slower to convert tossup seats in areas they've traditionally done well in www.wsj.com/articles/dem...

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Democrats Inch Into Red Territory, but Have Problems on Home Turf

Senate seats in states that President Trump won handily are now seen as tossups, but the GOP has its own list of targets.

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is funny we got an origin story for Han Solo's name but then they will do things like the below or name the third Dark Forces game "Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast"

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Paywall discourse is great because it's always journalists pointing out you can get around them or get in through libraries and other folks ignoring that to say all they want is microtransactions (by which they mean the ability to buy a single article for less than a dollar)

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Obviously this is a generalization full of exceptions, so if you're going to respond with counterfactuals at least do it in the shape of a book recommendation

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is accidentally an interesting media literacy piece! Speculative fiction is metaphor! I think if you're writing about good times fantasy is a canvas for the stability of society and if you're writing about bad times sci fi lets you tease out future tensions www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...

Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology

100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pollsters remain undefeated for being the people most earnestly asking "can we trust polling?" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | Can you trust the polls?

How to read all these midterm polls.

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah. I'm super curious about media consumption moving into the home (and shifting what folks are focusing on) but also really wonder about home gym shifts after folks bought stuff in 20-21. I suspect the plateau is masking a lot of choices folks are making b/w what they do at home, though.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've actually long wanted to dig into the ATUS numbers on this. I think shopping at home is part of it, but suspect the biggest driver is work activities at home (but think breaking out work and leisure activities would show some interesting trends)

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The difference between a shortcut and cutting corners is understanding

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a visual journalist it was funny for me to watch writers insist AI can't do "journalism"while topping newsletters with slop images and add a hobbyist it's been funny to watch musicians—who would never use AI in music!—vibe code tools while tech guys say things like this

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I actually read some hope in this. It kinda points at rhetoric rapidly responding to changes—which might mean that fixing the "reading problem" we wring our hands about could have profound effects. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/clau...

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Now We’re All Starting to Talk Like AI Chatbots Too

In team meetings, group texts and over lattes, people are catching themselves using ‘prompt speak.’

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is reposting but cloning content

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know you are reading those skeets for the politics, but basketball is a sport. This is a 5-for-5 sports and entertainment list.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ugh, but who wants to go to Terminal 2 at Lambert

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you want deers? Because that is how you get deers.

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Which of the following would you most closely identify as being your preferred choice? A) I think it would be Tennessee B) Oh, wait, is that Abilene? C) Let's forget those Memphis Blues we sing D) For "Armarillo By Morning" E) Texas (you can tell)

Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[extremely butterfly song voice] Come my weighting, come come my weighting

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Living somewhere dense enough that several coffeeshops, a dozen bars, a couple of libraries and a variety of good restaurants are all a 15 minute walk from me continues to feel like such a cheat code for living a good life full of community www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/b...

Here’s Your New House. It Comes With Friends.

Fresh pies. Book groups. Puzzle challenges. Developers of master-planned communities see fear of social isolation and desire for friends as a business opportunity. Welcome to Amity Lane.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I increasingly am wondering if we're about to learn a lot about if the human brain can climb up and down the hyper- / a-phantasia scale depending on how much we're working our noggins (and what happens to the tools we use)

5 silhouettes of a human head containing pictures of an apple in them, ranging from photo realistic in the first, to cartoony in the second to black and white in the third to an outline in the fourth to there being no apple in the fifth.

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

feels like a good synergy for the also-Bezos-owned Twitch, TBH

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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes. I dunno how I feel about the actual story / format, but the earnest replying to mistakenly dropping in the wrong link feels like it points to how many folks dogpile these things without even trying to read the story