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Dan Davis

@bindlestiff

A linguist and software architect for many years, now I create custom guitars and, occasionally, Maloof-style rocking chairs. LLMs are NOT AI, are addictive, and are worse than useless.

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Senator Bonebreak Sheehy

07.03.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most outlets conveniently left that out

07.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Look at how this outlet characterized it

bsky.app/profile/desq...

05.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHere let me get that arm for you”

07.03.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other will stop".
Frederick Douglass, 1894

05.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 549 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Oh I hear he was just β€œassisting” πŸ‘€

07.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

05.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 12461 πŸ” 4022 πŸ’¬ 507 πŸ“Œ 194

Again. This matters.

07.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 3161 πŸ” 885 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 21

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

07.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 6105 πŸ” 685 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 21

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

07.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 9107 πŸ” 2498 πŸ’¬ 315 πŸ“Œ 99

Oh he can be plenty scary too.

07.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?

But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

07.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 1230 πŸ” 166 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 21

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

06.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1004 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 16

Do these β€œbubbles” have separate water fountains for each β€œtribe?”

07.03.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

07.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 1804 πŸ” 204 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 6

Same in the Greenville / Anderson area

07.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Such a primitive attitude. Truly.

07.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œtribes”
Amazing throwback mindset

07.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
David Shor @ @davids... 3h 5 ...
This is not remotely true - there are way way more mixed
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David Shor @ @davids... 3h 5 ... This is not remotely true - there are way way more mixed Christian-Muslim neighborhoods/cities in places like Egypt or Syria. Everybody always lazily assumes this is true but Israel is really unique in the region. β€’ 16 L7 16 Β© 319 ill 1oK 企 Jacob Ben-David Lin... V 3h $ ... Christians and Muslims speak different languages in Egypt and Syria? That's not true at all. L71 O26 lil 3K

Lol now the goalpost is moving

07.03.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

David Shor is currently having to tell people on Twitter that actually according to the data Israel is in fact substantially more racially segregated than America and in fact even more so than some of it's neighbors

07.03.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 471 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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People Across The US Are Tearing Down Flock's Traffic Cameras - Here's Why - BGR Rapidly growing surveillance tech company Flock is seeing many of its cameras in cities across the U.S. be torn down by concerned citizens, and here's why.

β€œTo date, the company's tech has been deployed to identifyΒ activists, track abortion visits,Β stalk women,Β and reinforce racial profiling. Security issues further exacerbated privacy concerns after activistsΒ discovered Flock accidentally exposed live camera feeds on the internet.”

06.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Graves: There’s been reporting that some troops have been told that this is about starting Armageddon.

Warner: I don’t know whether that’s coming from the White House or just from specific military commanders.

07.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 1067 πŸ” 351 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 30

Our representative government is almost gone. We have a criminal conspiracy masquerading as a federal government.

They are doing virtually nothing for the average American.

Their focus is on personal wealth and power. And unwavering loyalty to the authoritarian ruler.

Rescue America. VOTE!

07.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6
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Investigation finds β€˜secretly’ added chemicals of unknown safety in US food supply | CNN Over 100 chemicals of unknown safety were secretly added to foods and supplements without notifying the public or the FDA, a new investigation found.

This is not comforting to me, at all.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/h...

06.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 445 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 23
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Cosplay puppy-killer Kristi Noem has now suffered the fate of all who displease the Mad King, but will her replacement be even worse ? Probably.. (cartoon Dave Granlund)

06.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 1048 πŸ” 245 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 19
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

07.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 3881 πŸ” 1812 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 107
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Humanist Climate Action interview: Dr Helen Czerski on oceans, humanism, and the planet’s life support system Dr Helen Czerski is our patron, Professor of the Environment and Society at University College London, and a scientist who specialises in the physics of the oceans. At our Convention in Sheffield last...

"So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will. Standing up against those simplifying assumptions is fundamentally a humanist thing to do."

From a recent interview I did... here's the rest:

humanists.uk/2026/03/06/h...

06.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 189 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Higher Airfares Could β€˜Start Quick’ As Jet Fuel Prices Surge, United Airlines CEO Says The Iran war is causing a sharp rise in the price of jet fuel, a major cost for airlines that will soon be passed on to travelers.

The Iran war is causing a sharp rise in the price of jet fuel, a major cost for airlines that will soon be passed on to travelers.

06.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 297 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 18
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Trump accused of violent sexual assault in bombshell missing Epstein file interview β€œLet me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.”According to an interview with a woman conducted by the FBI as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, those were some of the first words ...

Trump accused of violent sexual assault in bombshell missing Epstein file interview

www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

07.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats

06.03.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 480 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 11