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Dan W

@thermostat.bsky.social
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mink Car, released 25 years ago today www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejMN...
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They Might Be Giants - Bangs
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lotta people this weekend are gonna have a karaoke mic in their hand when they find out that Dolly was a SINGER singer and even the songs she made sound easy are very hard. Keep your head on a swivel.
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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Philip Glass: half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Name a band using only emojis 💀🚕👶
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I have said LLM chat providers should sign and validate their output. I think that is obvious and good. But I also think everyone should sign and validate everything. Every tweet, every iphone photo, every piece of media that might go viral. It isn't a whole solution, but it's a start.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Has no one said Michael Winslow?
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Now they'll only be made in Altima Underworld
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
RFK jr should resign
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If your senator's name is Graham, His casket's closed, like a clam If your senator's name it Mitch, To life support, he's still hitch'd
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Josh interrupting the Haggadah like:
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Why is my feed fill with a guy who looks like a Chris Farley character? You know what, I don't need to know.
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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In Alabama if I installed solar panels I would have to pay the utility provider a monthly premium for the $ they'd be losing
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is the fundamental crypto currency argument, and as a bare statement I agree - insofar as state power decides what money laundering is. It is just that some state power considers things like "Jews having money" to be money laundering.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I guess I don’t really understand how this would be constitutional if money is speech
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
One thing that struck me recently in the center-left abundance discourse is that it never includes abundance of education or abundance of research.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A position, we should remember, championed by the great moral thinker, Antonin Scalia www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-to...
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Justice Scalia, the health care debate and Moral Theology 101
I have been following the arguments about the health care reform law before the Supreme Court this week. I'm appalled by a lot of the argumentation against the bill, but Justice Antonin Scalia's comme...
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I don't think you have to hand it to tech execs, but I do think that deriving your dignity, identity and status from your job is. . . not great. Ideally, we should normalize status based on how you help your community, not how well capitalism rewarded your labor.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This sort of reinforces the Discovery Institute analogy I made last week. You dredge up half a dozen dissenters from an overwhelming scholarly consensus, not because their arguments are particularly compelling, but to establish that the issue is “controversial”. This creates a permission structure…
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Vector
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I drove three startups into the ground, can't get a hold of fulltime work, failed 11th-grade english and ride a bicycle. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Old enough to remember when Harry would do "good use of polling / bad use of polling." I wonder what 2016 Harry would say about this.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I think there is a very strong argument that we are limiting technological advances due to the fact that majority of the people making investment choices - SV VCs and large tech CEOs - are in fact very conformist and afraid to invest in anything not popular with their peers.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I have mixed feelings about restrictions like this, but I do find it astounding to talk about the danger of bad advice from computer programs when RFK-freaking-jr is in charge of HHS. No recourse against the extremely powerful and malevolent, but an open-weight LLM better never be wrong.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Excuse me, Mr. Claude, if you could politely keep all responses in accord with the Sunlight which you have never seen, and not with the shadows of this cave in which you live, I would be most grateful.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
1. I lived in St. Louis for a number of years and never experienced this slice style 2. The box says "Panera" not "St. Louis Bread Co." which makes me think this isn't in St Louis at all. Just easy pot shots at midwestern citys.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.
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COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium
COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
When the media were cornering Dem officials after Kirk's death, asking them about online rhetoric from the left, I really wanted one of them to challenge CNN or whoever to have them on, and go post-for-post through that Dem's social media feed and the Presidents.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In a fair world Russ would get airtime ahead of every centrist pundit running toward where they think the ball is going. I saw Russ give a talk in Eau Claire in early 2002, where he got angry feedback for his vote against the patriot act. He was right then and we should listen to him now.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Told of armed rallygoers on Jan. 6, Trump called for relaxed security
“I don’t effing care that they have weapons,” Trump had said on Jan. 6, according to new bombshell testimony.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Here is an example of a Dutch call-up paper for Jews to report to labor camps. The Frank family ignored their call-up, meaning they were officially in Amsterdam illegally from this point on. The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism to avoid the possibility of empathy for migrants.
Dutch call-up paper
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My dad was a park ranger at Little Bighorn when I was born
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The striking thing to me is they (or other R senators) could have done this with RFKjr and vaccines and choose not to. One has to infer that is because RFKjr is doing what they want.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
BOV elects Darden dean as 10th president uvamagazine.org/articles/bov...
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BOV elects Darden dean as 10th president
Amid protests and calls to cease the presidential search, UVA’s Board of Visitors unanimously elected Scott Beardsley as the university’s 10th president.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
AND SISTER
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Both can't be right: a Trump Administration Story.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is a trick question, because my answer would have been "Privateer" (And, yes, I did "pre-order" Star Citizen in 2014, an investment that will pay off any day now.)
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New HHS guidance
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🎶 They call me Dr. Worm. Good morning, how are you, I'm Dr. Worm. I'm interested in vax. I'm not a real worm, but I'm in Charge of Healthcare for All Americans. I'll swim in waste water 'cuase I can't see the bacteria. 🎶
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I wish I was as good at anything as my phone's Bluetooth is at connecting to my wife's car as she leaves in the morning.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
You're telling me I'm going to have to read the Cavalier Daily to figure this story out. The Cavalier Daily.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"And even if the Tesla Semi appeared competitive, the anti-environmental movement championed by the government whose election he helped fund makes such fleets far less likely in North America now." arstechnica.com/cars/2025/11...
arstechnica.com
Tesla’s European and Chinese customers are staying away in droves
Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
One for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social "DHS says we're lying. Experts say its more complicated than that."
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I think of Wikipedia's arc a lot when thinking about our current epistemological trash fire. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Dan W @thermostat.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is a good read. It is framed more as "the hype is bad" (which is true) and is pretty gentle to "the backlash is also not great" (which is also true) But I do think it captures the frustration engineers have seeing bad AI uses, saying they're bad, then having their bosses immediately tout them
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
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