Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 14mA nice side effect of this will be neutralizing the incentives of intentional friction-based attrition, roach motel sign-up traps and overall process sludge. For a lot of companies its an entrenched part of the business model, and it can't go away fast enough. 100
Reposted by Dan TuohySecrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication! 351148207
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 29/09/2026"We're gonna be signing a document today renaming the bike shed, because it's not a shed. We're gonna be naming it the Bike House. Official renaming it." 010
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comKrusty's Good Evil SwitchAlt: Krusty's Good Evil Switch 030
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 27/09/2026The most important political project of this era is ensuring that this man's role in history become a cautionary tale to would be imitators. 010
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 26/09/2026"Knowing how to operate in a denied EW environment wins championships" - Bear Bryant 010
Reposted by Dan TuohyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comRead the document (Gift Article)Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter 20161212203
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 25/09/2026"How was the movie?" "Great!" "What was your favorite part?" "Dad bought us gummy worms!" 020
Reposted by Dan TuohyAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7935321339
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 24/09/2026the laziest explanation is that they asked an image AI to make some unrelated edit - e.g. putting the jet in a specific place - and it made a bizarre harp hybrid on its own 110
Reposted by Dan TuohyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.” 201871600
Reposted by Dan Tuohymr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 23/09/2026Anthropic has a wet lab in SF where they’re using Claude to accelerate fundamental biology research This is the first big result from that lab — discovery of a CRISPR-like enzyme www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...anthropic.comClaude discovers a novel enzyme systemIn early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown. 109611
Reposted by Dan TuohyRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At 3:30pm ET, US District Judge Tim Kelly will hold a hearing on whether to grant a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Trump's 9/18 directive to bar @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, & @politico.com from the White House grounds. I’ll try to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org /1 8428128
Reposted by Dan TuohyA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation. 261169250
Reposted by Dan Tuohyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113112104
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 22/09/2026I remember in theory of computation 20 years ago encountering turing's proposition that a human brain could be entirely simulated by a tape head manipulating individual symbols on a tape in sequence, and thinking "wow, that's really neat and seems true" it still does, and its ok 010
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 21/09/2026at some point every man must look in the mirror and decide: do you want to be a potato, or do you want to be an egg 020
Reposted by Dan TuohyGabriel Sterling @gabrielsterling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026All Georgia Sample Ballots are up and available for all voters on @GaSecofState Raffensperger’s My Voter Page. Review yours and make a plan to vote. You can find yours at mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ 041
Reposted by Dan TuohyNicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 21/09/2026Its not actually that bad, this is for route PLANNING and dispatch scheduling: www.faa.gov/newsroom/SMA... It is unclear if the AI does anything other than ML for "this is probably your best departure time"faa.gov 2113
Reposted by Dan Tuohydrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 19/09/2026amazing job on the john fetterman magic card. making him damage you even though you put him into play was a great detail 141468
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 19/09/2026Dude reflexively defends data centers like they are coal plants staffed by credibly accused sex abusers 051
Reposted by Dan TuohyLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don't understand the hate for RFK Jr.. For YEARS, people have been saying they want a Secretary of Health and Human Services that swims in raw sewage and eats whatever animal carcass they randomly stumble upon. We finally have one and people are STILL unhappy?? 1113912
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 14/09/2026the degree to which he is amped up about this suggests an explanation not currently in the public record 010
Reposted by Dan TuohyEllis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com 224557
Reposted by Dan TuohySky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/09/2026type of shit that killed shinzo abe's gundam 67710
Reposted by Dan TuohyJosh @josh.galaxyrise.org · 12/09/2026Bush literally gave an "Islam is Peace" speech a week after the attacks, saying that the terrorists are not the face Islam and imploring everyone to be kind to their Muslim neighbors and avoid Islamiphobia and panic. I'm not making this up, I swear. 410710
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 11/09/2026like cookie monster resigning from that tree that the keebler elves live in 040
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 08/09/2026pity future generations attempting to understand the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as describing something other than this 021
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 06/09/2026"LLMs are only good at software shaped problems" seems insightful and correct. What worries me: when LLMs can debug the interpretation of the raw data streams of high resolution sensors, what is the space of "software shaped problems"? 2110
Reposted by Dan TuohyThe French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Division of Switzerland proposal by Muammar al-Gaddafi at G8 summit of 2009 after his son was arrested in Switzerland for assault 3132
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 05/09/2026"Candidate struggles to keep campaign on message amid a steady barrage of the thing I am currently writing, according to me as I write that type that of thing" 040
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 05/09/2026Important point that will be with us for the next 2 years and also applies to trade wars. 030
Reposted by Dan TuohyUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough 8983852024
Reposted by Dan TuohyRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl... 10860801505
Dan Tuohy @tripsnek.com · 02/09/2026> so now that very important change of names, between Google Maps and Apple Maps, is complete, ratified, and binding TIL i have binding agreements with map tile servers 010
Reposted by Dan TuohyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"I agree Musk is awful, but stay on X for the news" 1054693
Reposted by Dan TuohyWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Elon Musk is a world historical mass murderer whose actions will lead to the preventable death of millions and the implications of that are horrifying so Very Serious People make a huge performance of scoffing at the suggestion but it is the dry spreadsheet reality of what he did. 91334245
Reposted by Dan Tuohyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide. 22656921274