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Dan Turner

@ddt.bsky.social
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Same ddt. Working in service design for govtech. Bikes, books, cats. But I get out. All content here is personal. If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 5h
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7h
All the weird unscientific cultists framing the AI debate are testament to the power of well-funded movements (no matter how ridiculous) to shape narratives.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 7h
That chill is in the air, maybe at least above the 50th parallel. Sweater season! www.mulebooks.com/store/fuck-a...
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Era of Abundant Intelligence Sweater — MULE BOOKS
If you live in a hot place, you might want the shirt instead. This extra-soft knit crew-neck sweater will help you look put-together while feeling warm and comfortable. Pair it with jeans for a r...
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isaac @sevier.io · 8h
San Francisco folks come see @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @gilduran.com tonight in Glen Park! birdbeckett.com/event/gil-du...
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Gil Duran (The Nerd Reich) & Amy Westervelt (Brought to You By) – Bird & Beckett Books & Records
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 8h
I'm sure their policy is not to waste investor money on non-technical roles and that they can 10x their graphic design by using AI.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 8h
Jesus, I missed that. Prior ads:
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 8h
Holy cats. We get a ton of that company's AI slop fake person ads in SF, at first about "don't hire humans, hire this sexy AI-generated woman". Odds they're paying for that art?
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 8h
Sorry for the NYT link, @gruber.foo
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 8h
I've been waiting for them finally to adapt The Great Liberal Student War crossover.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 9h
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 19h
CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...
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Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 20h
It's TRYING beanie season! Get yers!! shop.dansinker.com/products/try...
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TRYING Beanie
NOW AVAILABLE IN TWO COLORS: Olive & Maroon It is cold, times are hard, and you are doing everything you can.  Put a hat on your head that says TRYING. Made by pals, this beanie is available in ol...
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I might have to break my Bill Maher boycott to see more of this
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe you could use a squeaky toy instead and I'm being told by my producer to shut up
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah, I thought I was a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. What a weird pivot. This looks bad, I know.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been wondering what's actually up here for a while + you're not going to believe this but the answer is, once again, private equity. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...
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Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stop interviewing CEOs
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Tackling the challenge of AI will require confronting our broader crisis of governance,” Lina M. Khan writes. “Our democracy cannot surrender the trajectory of these powerful technologies to a handful of private actors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | There Are Plenty of Laws on the Books to Check the A.I. Giants. Use Them.
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I personally have no need for these, but am immensely glad that they exist in the world. thatwasmadebymatty.com/products/ext...?
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Extension-C | 10 ft USB-C to USB-C Cable, 60W | MATTY
Meet Extension-C: a 10 ft USB-C to USB-C charging cable with up to 60W charging and classic extension-cord style. Available in Black, Orange, and Green.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The two rules of software development: - Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we can only learn by shipping - There's no room on the roadmap for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time Bosses love AI because they think it can give them up-front certainty on the cheap. But it can't.
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The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.
AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looking for examples of AI being used successfully to aid in conservation biology
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sleestaks
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stop interviewing CEOs. It might be okay if you have actual experts in the field to live-check their statements. Maybe.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Find someone who loves you the way Sheriff Kerry loves garlic bread. #Lanterns
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Um. I mean. Um. Assume gif.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I respected Roose's "Young Money" but
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/10/2026
Nice! Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched 69 years ago today.
Sputnik 1
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Linda Lindas are too photogenic
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Aw. My two also always want to lean on or put a paw on me.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely curious how often, or whether, these boosters are ever faced with this data. Will those 10^63 virtual humans spread across the galaxy in the age of the Machine God have utility if they evolve out of deskilled humans?
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thinking a lot about it, and realized I can't recommend Theo Baker's How to Rule the World. He whiffs on the most important insight, about how he lived in privilege and that drove the toxic in-groupification of trillions of dollars. Better to listen to him being interviewed w/ that context.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'd repost but I'm driving, LUCY.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Both amused and proud that I hit Genius on today's Spelling Bee with "pooping".
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With AI use, as with politics and public life in general: bring back shame (as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says)
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Dave Kartunen @davekartunen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Leave it to @davekarpf.bsky.social — One of the most pernicious tropes of the AI Boom (and our economy over the past 50 years) is that “we can’t slow innovation.” It’s one of the best tricks capital has used to get people to vote against their self-interests. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-infini...
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The Infinite Money Trick
Guarded skepticism about AI product releases
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Musk and one of the Google founders have vendettas against public transit because that would force them to share space. They admit it.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Got my tickets for You Can See Everything in two weeks.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hear the shovel had a bigger role in Digger before studio notes
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/10/2026
It's interesting to me that the American authors conservatives deem acceptable/non-woke/masculine--your Steinbecks, Cormac McCarthys, Faulkners, Hemingways etc--all identify brutality as the fundamental language and original sin of the United States. There's nothing very patriotic about their work.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
Fellow FTX executive Caroline Ellison is out of jail, and the Manifund effective altruist grantmaking organization has just let slip they hired her. She “brings specific, useful expertise around finance”, they say, which yeah — much in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.
Meanwhile, his fellow former FTX executive, Caroline Ellison, has been free from prison since January, and has now found gainful employment! She will be working for Manifund, an effective altruist grantmaking organization. In a blog post explaining why he hired her, CEO Austin Chen listed first among his bullet points “I specifically enjoyed Caroline’s Tumblr and other writings, which I found thoughtful and relatable.” (This is the blog where Ellison regularly blogged about “human biodiversity”, a euphemism for scientific racism, and wrote, “how do I signal my genuinely sweet and feminine nature on my dating profile? should it go before or after the section on wire fraud”). He also wrote that “Caroline brings specific, useful expertise around finance and systems management to Manifund.”16 Which, yeah, I guess I can't argue with that, in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.FTX essentially bankrolled Manifund and the associated Manifold Markets (think Polymarket but with fake money) through grants and investments. This may explain why Chen, citing a “keen debt” to FTX, decided to hire Ellison and pay her using funds derived from her fraud — money Manifund is currently fighting the FTX estate over rather than returning to creditors.17
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't know about a) acting out a fantasy as starting a marriage 2) that huge use of resources and forcing the output onto friends and family but I like the idea of hiring local graphic artists to draw their own story!
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If someone with "scientist" in their title tells you there's a 10% chance, it's either a hella coincidence or they're lying to you.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now accepting SAFE checks and terms sheets for my startup, which will build the first Mega Language Model. Get in on the ground floor of this first MLM!
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I actually love that Sliwa brought this up. That's good modeling of not denying something that happens to some people, and it doesn't have to be a source of embarrassment.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It has notes of, well, every other wine. It's made of other wine.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ask me about Web Portals. Or Gamification. Or the Push Web. The rhetoric is always "this will be the only thing in the future".
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