Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026@npr.org maybe don't post a headline photo of a sexual assault survivor cropped to make her look naked (I've blurred her face here) 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You find yourself faced with two guardians. One sometimes lies, and the other sometimes tells the truth, because both have an orthogonal relationship to the concept of truth. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The red button blue button meme is a glaring "we need humanities and not just STEM" example. Everyone saying that pressing the red button is the Nash equilibrium is wrong. Pressing the blue button is the Nash equilibrium *and* Pareto efficient, bc a blue loss results in a world not worth living in. 020
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 20/04/2026@leebillings.bsky.social In the article "Master of Chaos..." it states, "A linear equation is something like y = 2x, which states that the value of y doubles whenever you double the value of x." but this is incorrect; what is described is y = x. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I assume the machine is keyed to reject it in front of the voter, but any ambiguous ballots should be reviewed before the election is certified. I worked for the Broward County Florida elections office years ago (years after 2000!) and they took it gravely serious given the history there. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Some people would sooner die than see a Muslim elected mayor of NYC, and I wish them well on their journey 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Nuclear weapons? Asteroid strike? Pestilence? Super intelligent AI? No, putting LLMs in Excel is what is going to end civilization.claude.comClaude for ExcelClaude understands your entire workbook—from nested formulas to multiple tab dependencies. 000
Reposted by Travis DawryTravis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Yesterday's school shooting won't show up in a bunch of summary statistics. "Only" two people other than the shooter died, so it won't count as a mass shooting as counted by many organizations. 021
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 14/06/20259 months seems like a pretty long time alreadyabcnews.go.comUS women waiting longer to have children, CDC data showsNew CDC data shows the average age of US mothers reached 29.6 in 2023, with significant differences across geographic and racial groups. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 08/06/2025"We don't know who they are, or even which agency they represent, but does that make these police "secret police"?" Yes, it clearly does. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I'm normally hesitant to make claims of causality, but it's a pretty easy bet that repeated infection with an incredibly damaging virus is a more likely cause of detriment to kids than other kids being out of school for a few months before they were even born.bbc.comThe pandemic generation: How Covid-19 has left a long-term mark on childrenThe stress and isolation of the pandemic has left social and emotional scars that are already being seen in children, but scientists also predict there could be huge economic costs. 030
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The professors defending the use of LLMs to create course content in this article are beyond embarrassing. No, this is not "AI" and students will not need to know how to "ethically" use this in their careers. Anyone pretending otherwise is misinformed, lying, or both.nytimes.comThe Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The first American Pope was Francis. This isn't hard. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Calling Pope Francis the "first Latin American Pope" is such a weird thing, when he was the first American Pope, without any modifier. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I don't post on here much, but I'm so psyched every time I see @roywoodjr.bsky.social getting some of the credit he deserves. His series got renewed, and he had a Detroiters reunion on one side of the stage for yesterday's show. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Cake's cover of I Will Survive was released closer to the release of the original than to the present day. This was true starting in 2014. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Ronin the rat was quoted as saying, "I set a record doing WHAT?!"bbc.comRonin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing recordRonin, a giant African pouched rat, is the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines in Cambodia. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It takes a special kind of temerity to try to claim intellectual property rights over something not only plundered, but 1700 years old.bbc.comRoman dodecahedron replica removed from eBay after complaintArchaeologists say the copy of the Roman artefact "ripped off" their work. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I have bad news for these pilots about what they're doing on these missions 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 31/03/2025It's just a matter of time before The Atlantic finally just admits that Waltz is a source, and that's why they're contacts of one another in @signal.orgtheguardian.comGoldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025It is beyond wild that Cameo labels deceased performers as "out of stock" 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I've been off of here (and all social media) for a few weeks, and I'm going to keep that going a bit. DM me for Signal. Be well. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 16/02/2025RIP Biff Wiff 😔search.appBiff Wiff, 'I Think You Should Leave' Actor, Has DiedBiff Wiff, the beloved character actor known for his roles in ‘I Think You Should Leave,' has died. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Will markets tanking be enough to stir up political will? Everything else sure isn't. Maybe it'll take huge contractors getting cut off. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The Bulwark is literally just a rebrand of The Weekly Standard. It's extremely gross. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Despite writing a whole lot on child rearing and education, he forced his wife to give up all five of their children, and described her as a woman of low intelligence. Some of his political philosophy is historically important, but dude was pretty soundly a real horrid dude. 110
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 30/01/2025It's probably been said before, but @hrbrmstr.dev seems like a truly dreadful enemy to have. May we all be even a fraction as productive in opposition to fascism. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This is just an auto-complete. That's all it can do. If it happens to explain something correctly, it's quite literally by chance. Stop expecting meaningful responses from these things. Reasonable people using them, like Chris here, lend credibility to inherently untrustworthy technology. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Almost unbelievable hypocrisybloomberg.comMicrosoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI DataMicrosoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ... 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I've been seeing a lot of "but they said they weren't going to implement Project 2025!" takes, but it's all standard GOP policy. This is exactly what they said they wanted. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Ok so maybe some of us won't get our hands on new video cardstomshardware.comNvidia finally admits looming RTX 50-series GPU shortage — RTX 5090, RTX 5080 stockouts may happenDo you want Nvidia's latest and greatest GPU? Too bad, it's out of stock. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025There's an important distinction to be made between rolling over and having aligned goals. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The most important point in all of this is that LLMs still lack a valid use case. There is a new kid on the block that is apparently *much* less expensive when it comes to doing nothing particularly useful. All the money involved in "AI" is still on the costs end. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Looks like they're trying to create a use case for LLMs, a foreign service without any language skills. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I have a North Bayou g70 attached to a standing desk, holding a ~20 lb monitor, and it's fine. I've had some in the past that were just on the edge of the weight rating, and it was not worth the hassle. Congrats on the new gig. 110
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hadley's History of the Tidyverse... If only there were some way to shorten this... 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Time synchronization is good enough, and this was strong enough, that you can watch the waves propagate as each sensor detects them. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025What I'm reading in the news about DeepSeek is that some of us might, someday, get our hands on new video cards. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I think this is correct, but that the outstanding question (more than just when) is by whom. Does the DNC stand up, does Trump have a heart attack on the toilet, or is there an international coalition and a truth and reconciliation commission? 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Microsoft stole so much code and violated so many licenses. It's almost unbelievable. They spent decades and (at least) hundreds of millions of dollars strengthening intellectual property laws. They're still fighting, today, to keep people from having access to vaccines, for the same reason. 000
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Reduce > reuse > recycle Even if you're not using them to buy from Amazon, which is the idea, they're collecting your data. 010
Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Unfortunately, the Presidency has a history of love for insurrectionists. Eisenhower helped smash the Nazis last time, but he kept a portrait of Lee in the Oval Office. He called him a "great American." Every Republican President since has been a segregationist, but so have some of the Democrats. 010
