Dan McDonald

Still find it amusing how many people are only now realizing how awful Larry Ellison really is. Here's the oldest example I can think of (from the biography of a UW Comp. Sci. professor, specialty: databases)... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...

@msrosenberg.bsky.social I think I promised you this?

Repeat after me: Russia has no legitimate security concerns; only its neighbours do. Russia has been the only one invading others.

I was hoping someone would mention Koenig's amazing performance as Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. @rincewind.run here does great 3-post job (and "Lawful Evil" villain is REALLY accurate for Bester).

It's a great day to unfollow @file770.bsky.social, which has become a Nazi bar.

This was kinda obvious right at the start of the bubble It's too variable, unreliable, and nondeterministic to truly improve productivity Mass-automating mediocrity in both coding and media destroys value and doesn't create it

This is measurable in kilo-WTFs. I saw @wmmcdonald.bsky.social get bitten by this yesterday... trying to figure out WTF to do (#1 one of the >= 1000 WTFs).

#StayReadyCrew, if you give chocolate at Christmas or do a lot of holiday baking, now would be a good time to up your chocolate supply.

“Rape enabling republicans” is an easy phrase to say that is accurate

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

YES THIS! (read this whole thread, too) Lots of "grievance politics" is grievance that the whiners can't put people in lockers anymore, or those that got put in lockers now want power to do so (almost always to the least deserving). H in MAHA isn't healthy, it's High school.

america’s biggest problem as a superpower, a nation, and a people, is that no one - especially white men - seems to be able to emotionally graduate from high school.

Brewers/Rays is the 8th World Series between teams that have never won one before 1903 Americans (Red Sox)/Pirates 1905 Giants/Athletics 1906 White Sox/Cubs 1907 Cubs/Tigers 1909 Pirates/Tigers 1920 Indians/Robins (Dodgers) 1980 Phillies/Royals 2026 Brewers/Rays (good idea @mikemedvin.bsky.social)

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

"he may be a bad guy but at least he won't start any wars and will make me rich" -every 2024 swing voter

I’d bankroll a bunch of musicians to write a rock opera dunking on my enemies

A friend mentioned that everyone will be Press Secretary for 15 mins soon enough. It occurs to me that a milliScaramucci is 14.4mins, not QUITE a Warhol. Is there some standards-based solution waiting here?

Beagles can sleep well knowing the Brewers won the pennant:

The Brewers are the first team to trail in all four games of a best-of-seven postseason series they swept

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

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Doctors smoke Chesterfields more than any other brand!

last time I tooled around on a brand new X account it took me less than a minute to hit a high-octane slur, but I thought, hey, maybe John’s right and it’s changed. had a stopwatch going this time, 73 seconds

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

btw if you post about Alito's originalism book, which is bad, you are obligated to also post about my originalism book, which is good bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

I'm writing something about this but a major flaw of the right-wing movement is the clear and obvious belief that racism, homophobia and misogyny are *correct*, but unpopular. so the most "forbidden" voices are obviously *right*, but voters aren't ready for it yet. This whole thing is an example.

"This topic" == Originalism per 2/3 of the supremes. Buy this book. Pairs nicely with the recent Sumner biography by @ztameez.bsky.social

Speaking of 8-bit hobbyists. I think some of problems we have in modern computing today result from people whose first machines were either early IBM PCs or their 6502 & Z-80 based peers. More than a few things got reinvented from 8/16-bit scratch when there were probably better examples elsewhere.

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I've seen reports that a climate change mitigant for overexposed crops is... wait for it... solar panels. All we need is the will.

So much for the possibility of a Dan's head imploding World Series. Would've picked the Brewers anyway this time so without any hesitation: GO BREWERS!

As a Michigan fan, I guess I can empathize with Eric Schmitt. The Iowa Hawkeyes are exposing a lot of people as gigantic frauds these days.

Still on X ?!?

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

Thinking about some of my new co-workers, including the one who took one for the team to read this guy's book so nobody else needed to. IYKYK.

My 50 year Little League volunteer dad, who retired as administrator for half of our state, would cry broken-hearted tears at some of these comments In 2001 in our small farm town, he allowed a child named Ash to play on a boys' team & keep their birth certificate private between the parents & Dad

I still have PTSD from that Ann Selzer Harris +3 IA poll in October

I found that my response to this merited something longer on what Sun got wrong bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/w...

Yeah, Taylor Lorenz's brain, like many others, has been scattered, smothered, covered at the Nazi bar