Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 16hCan I ask what platforms you see this on? Sounds irritating, glad I've not seen it 100
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 20hKind of amazed that the janky-looking old Craigslist posting UI turns out to be head-and-shoulders easier to use, cleaner, more intuitive, faster, less frustrating, and more reliable than any other web service I've used in recent memory #web #ui 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 21h"We need a billionaire to buy the Atlanta arena and renumber the seats, asap" 000
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 29/09/2026The Advanced D&D (1E, Deities & Demigods) rule for negative Charisma, which arguably explains much of the world today: #dnd #charisma #horror 050
Reposted by Daniel CollinsGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5550323
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 29/09/2026I claim that table (and my spectrumy belief in what they wrote about it being necessary) is responsible for destroying my college game 010
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 28/09/2026A few years back on Twitter, there was a young gentleperson who argued, "Evil gods in RPG worlds make no sense, no one would ever worship or wish for evil, that could never happen" and I think about them a lot 041
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 28/09/2026techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 040
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 28/09/2026Seems pretty well established at this point: If you pump your cutting-edge research through OpenAI or Anthropic they will steal it, scoop it, claim it for their own. 250
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 27/09/2026Guessing there's a filtering process where those who demonstrate obsequity in college get the jobs 100
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 27/09/2026In one hour: What's the best way to communicate the dungeon geography to your D&D players -- verbal descriptions, a DM sketch or battlemap, using a virtual tabletop with dynamic lighting bells & whistles? Join us in the live chat! #dnd #maps #players www.youtube.com/live/rAGQTMr...youtube.comMapping the Dungeon | Communicating Space in Exploration | Wandering DMs S8E30YouTube video by Wandering DMs 061
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 26/09/2026I think it was Socrates who first said, "You have to be really stupid to be that evil", or something like that 000
Reposted by Daniel CollinsEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252101927
Reposted by Daniel CollinsLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 384198226349
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 25/09/2026In places with a viable safety net, health care, etc. you can potentially imagine expanding those services and having something of a job-free civilization. In America all of that is ludicrous on its face. 0280
Reposted by Daniel Collins🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121715158
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/09/2026CBS Sunday Morning segment on the giant buffalo puppet parade that my partner Isabelle worked on: #puppets #parade #nyc www.cbsnews.com/video/a-spec...cbsnews.comA spectacle of puppetry: Buffalo parade through New York CityThis past week, a herd of 40 buffalo roamed the concrete canyons of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn – life-size puppets that are part of a public arts project by St. Ann's Warehouse, a Brooklyn theater. ... 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/09/2026Btw, that's Sam Rockwell on the poster, which someone should have told me earlier 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/09/2026Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die – a surprisingly good sci-fi time-travel social commentary horror satire. Structurally something of an anthology, a bit reminiscent of Creepshow or Black Mirror. #movies 130
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/09/2026If the banks are left holding the bag on all this, do they get (another) government bailout? 010
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 23/09/2026The funny thing is growing up (in Maine) I always personally thought of square dancing as the "Nazi shuffle" even without knowing this 110
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 23/09/2026Last night I added a bit to my basic college math lectures about why this shit is awful 010
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 23/09/2026Immigration courts at New York Federal Plaza in the last week have started making use of a new "black site" system that bars legally-required public observers and press from witnessing the proceedings. Chaotic and scary development: #nyc #immigration #law www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 000
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 22/09/2026"Giants can't exist because of the square-cube law" Also: 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 22/09/2026www.forbes.com/sites/gilpre...forbes.comOn Thinking Machines, Machine Learning, And How AI Took Over StatisticsIn the sixty years since Arthur Samuel first published his seminal machine learning work, artificial intelligence has advanced from being not as smart as a flatworm to having less common sense than a ... 050
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 22/09/2026Seventy years ago, IBM's Arthur Samuel showed off his self-learning checkers program on TV, which played a much stronger game than he did – proving that the power of software isn't limited to what the creator knows. #ai #games #checkers 140
Reposted by Daniel CollinsBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/20261/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory 720372
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 21/09/2026I'm finding it hard to find the cheap workstations on ebay these days, my search fu might be bad 000
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 21/09/2026Pig & Uni live at the People's Improv Theater: What happened when it came time for "the talk" with a very young piglet? #puppet #improv #comedy #nyc youtu.be/g0zA9qJKoqs?...youtu.bePig and Uni PIT August26 2026YouTube video by Pig and Uni puppet improv 010
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 20/09/2026In one hour: We review all the mechanics for Poisons in D&D across the years. Which is best? Join us in the live chat! #dnd #poison youtube.com/live/sDvfREU...youtube.comPoisons in D&D | Toxic Portrayals | Wandering DMs S8 E29YouTube video by Wandering DMs 041
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 19/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...nytimes.comConjuring a Herd of Buffalo From Steel, Wood and BurlapOver the summer, 40 life-size bison puppets were handmade at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. This weekend, they’ll stampede through New York. 000
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 19/09/2026I heard you wrote a cyberpunk play but could never track it down. True? 100
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 18/09/2026I think this observation is in the same class as Marc-Auguste Pictet's critique, c. 1800, regarding "those who believe blindly... have a secret taste for marvels because they seem to expand Nature; they use their imagination with pleasure to find explanations". 131
Reposted by Daniel CollinsJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422318
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 17/09/2026youtu.be/vDme6CWisu4?...youtu.beVID 20260915 144134 274YouTube video by Pig and Uni puppet improv 040
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 17/09/2026My lovely partner Isabelle, who is a jaw-dropping talented puppeteer, is one of the performers in this Saturday: #puppets #nyc brooklyneagle.com/415015/40-gi...brooklyneagle.com40 giant buffalo puppets to parade through Brooklyn this SaturdayThe event — “Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi” — is a work of public art on a spectacular scale, created by artist Amir Nizar Zuabi. 351
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 17/09/2026You've gotta be stupid to be this evil. I think Socrates said that. 060
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 16/09/2026www.madmath.com/2015/02/yita...madmath.comYitang Zhang Article in the New YorkerA math teacher wrestles with demons. 030