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Daniel Keys Moran

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Born at 318 parts per million carbon dioxide. On 2025/02/14 it was 427.44 ppm. "He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@fatsam, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Just for clarity, by white left, I mean the people who think the white right isn't racist. If that's not you, I don't mean you.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

The first clinic that led to the creation of Planned Parenthood was opened on October 16, 1916, 110 years ago today. Founded by Margaret Sanger, along with her sister Ethel Byrne and activist Fania Mindell, the storefront clinic was located at 46 Amboy Street […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The first planned Parenthood clinic.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

I've been watching poorly educated people say, "I could be President, what's he got I don't?" ... my whole life. At long last, they are correct.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

You run into these people who throw wild accusations out of nowhere? Every last one of them is twitchy in the area of their accusations.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Point's been made that for Trump every accusation is a confession. But it's broader than that. The entire White Right and most of the White Left suffers from it. Do you know where Q came from? Q, with its obsession with pedophiles? 8chan. Which before Q, was known mostly as a place where they […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The press is deranged? You don't say. This is such a small example, but Paul Tassi in this piece suggests that Street Fighter and the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything are in some way in conflict in the marketplace. Is this just LLM slop? Did a human actually write this? […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I am often nice to people who hate my guts ... because it makes them mad. Saying that they're not important enough for me to hate back isn't the exchange they're looking for.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I've led a reasonably accomplished life. Probably the only big thing I wanted to do and struck out on, was writing for Doctor Who. Something I didn't know I wanted and has delighted me for decades now? Having evil Star Trek aliens named after me. Those fuckers annoyed me, but apparently I […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The existence of billionaires. Either they go or democracy does.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Congratulations to the neurodivergent among us. You are now being sought by the fash for your unique skills. Success, I guess. fortune.com/article/palantir-ceo-al…

Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers—‘or you’re neurodivergent’ | Fortune

Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, as one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies recruit more neurodivergent talent by 2027.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Very good read. "... the alternative to fascism in the US context is not generally anti-fascism. Instead, the alternative to fascist backlash is often a nostalgia for, and an attempt to restore, a bipartisan and less contentious white supremasist [sic] consensus." […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Throw in the Demonflyingfox Balenciaga/Harry Potter stories, and Kono Express (by far the most competent visually, though badly written) ... there's a sea change coming in video production. That's not a surprise, of course, having watched images, studio, and text struggle under the onslaught of AI.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

$50 a minute, this guy says, using tools I can use for free on my desktop. I'm only about halfway through this, and the "Doctor" has barely been in it. It's better than some of the Chibnall era episodes, though, and not much worse than Davies. The video is 55 min long, made for, supposedly […]

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Grassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

"Newsom has bad political instincts, and as his pro-billionaire moves show, he’s terrible on policy too. Democrats who were considering him as a 2028 candidate should have one word for the California governor: Next!" Little if anything we don't already know, but if he does raise a gazillion $ […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I gave up on reasoning with conservatives some years back. I used to. People who've known me for years know this to be true. But fascism isn't an ideology. It has no principles. There's no there, there. It's the worship of raw power. All you can do with it is kick it in the nuts, smash it in […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. If you're not armed, you should be. abc30.com/post/off-duty-ice-agent-s…

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Had the option of being angry at the people who screwed them rather than people who have nothing to do with them. ... If you're not armed, you should be. Their murder fantasies are right at the top of their minds these days.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Some of those things strike me as a little dumb. Some strike me as perfectly healthy for the right people. But good God, the world is hard enough. It genuinely amazes me that people have the energy to be mad about this shit. I can only think that their own lives are so horrible that being angry […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I don't care if you want to have sex with people of the same gender. Or multiple genders. I don't care if you never want to have sex with anyone. I don't care if you want to change the gender that was assigned you. I don't care if you want to tattoo your face. I don't care if you wanted to use […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Blocked a guy elsewhere yesterday for irritating me. He kept at me on a stupid argument about NBA defensive ratings, so finally I blocked him. ... and then realized he was right, and I'd been reading the defensive rating backward. I *know* how defensive rating works... And read it backward […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@paco shrug. The anti AI people in broad don't understand the business of AI or data centers, or a variety of similar things. A 20 billion shortfall is still relevant, though, and it's still (almost certainly, miraculous hockey sticks aside)... a bubble that's going to burst.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Charlie Kirk was publicly executed after arguing for public executions. ... let's hope for similar irony with Hegseth.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The MAHA creeps are probably less healthy than your average American. Certainly dumber. They're all about "you can't tell me what to do! No matter how many of my kids and immune compromised people I kill!" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…

theguardian.com

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenicThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to expand a controversial loophole to allow some of the world’s most toxic chemicals...

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I'm not too good to mock conservatives or TERFs or tankies or Russkis individually. But you do have to make sure you waste more of their time than they waste of yours, at bare minimum. A crowd howling at you is winning.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Both inside the Singularity, and with an AI bubble highly likely to burst. Interesting times. futurism.com/future-society/ai-fina…

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure

A $20 billion setback. The post AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure appeared first on Futurism.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Not bad for an old man. I miss boxing. I've got a bum hip, can't move that well. But I like hitting other men and I'm willing to be hit for the privilege. (Men who aren't don't like fighting, they're just abusers, sadists.) If I'm not one of those who enjoy getting hit, don't get me wrong […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Not completely unreasonable on premise. We do need to chase the fash out of the Defense Department and nationalize SpaceX, though.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I've eaten ants. Cricket. Grasshoppers, locust. Rattlesnake, alligator. Puffin heart, frog legs. Not the world's most adventurous menu, but nothing that embarrasses me. I'll try most things once. Just watched a video where a lady tried cockroaches. No. Not unless I was starving and maybe not then.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The number of people in Donald Trump's orbit whom a fair trial would result in being hanged? Gets larger every day.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hillary was never more right than when she called them deplorables. Degenerates is closer, though. apnews.com/article/fort-hood-shoote…

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It's not just Trump, folks. He'll die. We'll celebrate. But the problem won't move until we move it.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Last piece of mine that ran on NPR. I did a dozen or so, but this appears to be the only one that's survived online (though I have audio of 2 or 3 of them on my computer.) www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162524325/wr…

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I don't know if "men are simple creatures" is true or patriarchal bullshit. But it's nearly true in my life. One day I was out shooting from distance, hadn't been on a basketball court in a while. Not playing, just putting up shots. I was bad. 2 out of 10, 3 out of 10, territory. Amy was […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

But again, that's near term. Longer term? Ten years, twenty? You got me, bunky.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

BUT ... migrate all these agents into switches, power backups, etc? A more (but not very) likely scenario would be subversion of human operators, backed up by control of parts of the infrastructure gen AI can't currently access.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It's more involved than fusing a switch shut, fortunately. (Though if you can call lightning from a cloudless sky, well, maybe it's not. But that's fantasy.) Most of the near-term scenarios involving AI murdering the human race involve things like hacked nuclear or biological weapons: not […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?” The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay. “Yes, now there is a God.” Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch. A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

(Speaking as someone who's spent thousands of hours in data centers, unlike most of the people making pronouncements on the subject today.) Fredric Brown actually wrote that story back in 1954, "Answer."

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Asked elsewhere about the Skynet scenario. Depends mostly on how quickly AI can perfect modifying its own code. All the AI companies claim they don't do that, but I don't believe them and you shouldn't. Once models can reprogram themselves at those extraordinary speeds? I'm not *very* worried […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Rot in hell, Bakker. www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckly02gd1…

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Apparently this year there's 25 hours of Marvel I did/will watch. Same thing, though.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I haven't spoken to him yet, though I am interested in getting his take. This is a pretty good overview of how even experts in various fields misread how good AI would get, and how quickly. I'd have been on the low end of most of these estimates myself, so I won't pretend this doesn't surprise […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I don't believe that we are in AI destroys the human race territory today, but it is not far-fetched that we could be down the road. OpenAIs dump of 722 (almost certainly correct) solutions to difficult maths problems has mathematicians in a state today. The papers arrived with Lean checked […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

But the thing that probably most irritated me was the assertion that AI output was both purest slop, stuff that a hungover intern could produce on his lunch hour, to use one memorable phrase, and a mortal threat to us all. Well, that one has shaken out. I don't know if it was always guaranteed […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I was an AI programmer (machine learning, in any event, not the most modern stacks, though at the time I was pretty up to date on then-current state of the art.) I stopped arguing with people about this stuff some years ago. Instant experts appeared along about the same time as popular LLMs and […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

From @bruces ...

Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.
Bruce Sterling

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Looking forward to Doomsday. I probably watch 10-20 hours of Marvel a year. Occasionally sometime tries to to mock my big swinging artist dick by saying that people with big swinging dicks don't do that. But there's nothing wrong with cheeseburgers. I probably eat twenty of those a year too.

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

CHILI Look at me. I'm thinking, you're mine. I fuckin' own you. What I'm not doing is feeling anything about it one way or the other. - Get Shorty

Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I don't really care how people describe the Scandinavian countries. The people who hate socialism, and I'm pretty fucking skeptical of that crowd, like to insist it's capitalism. Fine. Let's have more high tax welfare state capitalism. Good talk. That said, I'm even more skeptical of the people […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I'd probably argue that capitalism strongly regulated is still the best known economic system. (And indeed, that that's what the Scandinavian systems mostly are.) But I wouldn't argue it with my whole chest. Harnessing selfishness and greed is useful. Good […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Two trains have collided. The train to the left is labeled the only planet we know of that supports life.

The train to the right is labeled an economic system that shares the same principles as that of the cancer cell.