Late Night with the Dan Turner

Friday! Look, I *know* the business part is khaki pants, ugh, but we need a lot more of the people who want to do good things knowing their way around business. "Attract funding, do illegal shit" gets the most press coverage, but it's not the only way. www.eventbrite.com/e/2003749697...

Oooh, if you get one of these emails about me, please let me know! Sure I said something cutting, clever, and true.

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Mayor Mamdani's got a hankering for great data design! Got a knack for data visualization and live in NYC? This job could be for you. Looks awesome (though it's temporary, though April next year.) cityjobs.nyc.gov/job/data-vis...

I've been to Milwaukee and enjoyed it (lost half a tooth right by the state house in Madison) and enjoyed it, so good on you!

When I see AI companies living off of circular investment, I have to ask, what exactly do people mean by "creating wealth"?

Hey, I would take up my old job writing features if I could write this up with academics and AI researchers to talk about how crap this is, @technologyreview.com

Sure, the cgi in Hope can be a bit ropey but damn those chase sequences. It also makes me want to learn to cuss in Korean half as well as they do.

I mean, there are tons of HBR case studies about how this worked in the short run for tobacco companies (and it still working for oil companies).

Sunny day flooding in San Francisco amid the city’s highest October tide on record.

He was very nice when I, as a starstruck child, ran headfirst into him in an LA park.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

There will likely never be another Spider-Man musical, but if there were, I'd want to see Peter Parker not sing a note, because the last time he did, lots of people got hurt.

Out of nowhere, Steve Rogers appeared and jumped on it.

This is the kind of AI safety we need to regulate.

We won not only against Bolsonaro, but against the full force of the USian's Big Techs, Meta, CIA, Trump, the Brazilian right-wing elites, the billionaires' press and more.

Watching Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst and hey, there’s my own design partner as a co-lead in one of their picks.

Looks like a good day for Student List in Serbia, with a manifesto focused on anti-corruption measures and restoring/strengthening democracy and the rule of law. Just imagine!

Meet me at the corner of… uh… ummm…

And of course, once Sauron is gone, everything will be back to normal again. Those Orcs will rejoin civil society and we need to meet them in the middle.

A 45-year-old man who somehow, in the 2020s, did not realize that a college professor bonking his student would be a power imbalance. A very very stupid college professor. Just unbelievably dumb. Dumb in a way that is very very hard to believe.

Never heard of Brad Poiumbo before he was platformed on C-SPAN but he's obviously not only a partisan tool, but incredibly uncharismatic and obviously not that smart.

"The only variable within my control is how women behave, so I'll control that."

@davekarpf.bsky.social Dude, I would talk allll day about You Csn See Everything (including about family who defended her before and after Carreyrou’s reporting).

Wolves are now roaming into Finnish villages after Google cleared over 56 million square feet of forest habitat to build AI data centers. "We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest." futurism.com/future-socie...

Visionquest but Paladin is played by Wile E. Coyote

Kids have resources around them to learn how to be kind to others and to themselves.

The most brilliant part is: Machine-washable Machine washing >> machine thinking www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026...

By my napkin math, total Bell Labs research expenditures from 1930-1980 were on the order of $50 billion in 2026 dollars. AI companies have spent ~$1 trillion so far: The equivalent of ~20 Bell Labs histories. In its history, Bell Labs researchers discovered the transistor, the solar cell, the laser

Not the point, but I've been in so many bars where dudes tried to talk about House of Leaves with their first dates.

I know exactly where I was 25 years ago today: a theater at One Infinite Loop, where I got talked at and handed a bag with a brick of CDs and the first-model iPod.

Rooting for a horrible lab accident while the boss attends a wardog demo.

Might have to go on a Maggie Cheung filmography binge

Isn't RAGBRAI one of the largest tourist revenue sources in Iowa?

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

a message from the future

Okay, "iPhone uno" was right there and it's not bad. Jealous that I didn't see it first.

im so glad AI is making us all safer from cyberattacks

omg yes and it's going to bug me that I think I know who the artists would be but can't pull the name right now

One wish for my life is that I never respond to a question with, "Well, look...".

No vision. Investors, I'm offering the chance to get in on the ground floor. If we get to Series B, we'll enable ALL LLMs to be shipped to the Moon.

Wow. I've never read Girard, only Thiel and Vance's casting of his concepts, but this well written essay breaks it down and reclaims Girard (not that I agree with all of his conclusions, but glad to see them given justice). www.christiancentury.org/features/pos...

I’ll be hitting a lot of cities across the United States, Canada, and Europe over the next two months. Some of them are listed on my website, but make sure to check back as I add more — particularly for Europe in December. I hope to see you there! parismarx.com/speaking/

applying for jobs again