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Dan Nguyen
Dan Nguyen
@dancow.bsky.social
chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
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So Republican sources tell Zeteo that Amy Acton's estranged mother appeared mentally unwell around when the ad was filmed & that she struggles to keep a straight narrative on the past. Here's what Trump said about her: “The mother looks like she’s totally lucid. She looks very smart actually.”
NEW on @zeteo.com Sources say Amy Acton's estranged mom seemed mentally unwell when Ramaswamy's ad was filmed & she had trouble keeping a coherent narrative on the past. Some wanted to vet her more, but *Ramaswamy himself* wanted to pushed ahead. From @jsweetli.bsky.social & @swin24.bsky.social:
LMAO…honestly have a hard time believing any model released in the last year could produce something this boneheaded
Mayoral hopeful George Cardenas’ campaign inadvertently exposed 1.5 million Chicago voters’ personal data through his campaign site, which appears to have been largely built with AI. Experts agree the move was a “complete lapse” in security. illinoisanswers.org/2026/10/27/m...
classic nonsense nothingburger of an answer from Harris: makes an appeal to cold calculus (“the votes aren’t there”) and in the next breath asserts that “we should be ruthless, uncompromising” yeah okay, good chat
Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…
Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
I was thinking how chatgpt back then produced code that wasn’t just “bad, in my expert opinion” but outright invalid— and that wasn’t enough to stop an engineer trusting it for something far more complicated. It’s a reflection of her desperate situation, and also how dangerous this bot design was/is
1) It's completely coherent that a top engineer would do whatever is necessary to maintain her career and try to stay in the U.S. 2) The story says she went on disability leave in 2021, during the pandemic, when people were isolating. She rarely left her apartment and didn't make friends.
more context: gpt-4o users raised a shitstorm last year after OpenAI replaced 4o with gpt-5, b/c they thought v5 was less friendly. The lawsuit says the victim thought that too: she was on chatgpt's $200/month plan and deliberately switched back to the 4o model schenklawfirm.com/wp-content/u...
Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
Yesterday I went to a small arepas place that had been on my list, but the storefront and inside was entirely covered in ai food slop posters. I ended up eating there, and it was delicious, but still had to fight off nausea from having to look at the posters 🤢 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/21/r...
Reminds me back when someone got into all of Instagram's systems b/c Instagram had installed an admin tool and re-used a secret token from the tool's public repo www.exfiltrated.com/research-Ins... it's the kind of thing every org is vulnerable to, but you'd hope Anthropic would be ahead of...
Exclusive: Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity start-up, recently told Anthropic that its researchers had penetrated sensitive internal data and messaging systems at the AI company, according to a draft report reviewed by The Post.
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Put together this data catalog of Chicago area data catalogs, to make it easier to find useful (and recently updated) data sets dannguyen.github.io/chicagoland-...
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So @lilianasegura.bsky.social and I just co-wrote a piece about the bodycam footage in the Kohan Wiley case. theintercept.com/2026/10/23/k...
I rode RAGBRAI in 2015, and the Trump campaign had a whole bus of campaign staff following the trail; Clinton's campaign was...not as visibly present at RAGBRAI. I was actually surprised that Trump's campaign even thought about RAGBRAI
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
wouldn’t it be better to ask wikipedia
‘Wicker’ stars Alexander Skarsgård as a man made entirely of wicker, complete with a rock-hard wicker dick. But what about splinters? Bacteria? Degradation? Would it be advisable, from a sexual-health perspective, to mount a basket dick? We asked a gynecologist: vulture.visitlink.me/DNQwX5
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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.
has any Christian who believes in the afterlife actually read Revelations where heaven is described, or do they think it'll be just like twitter but in the cloud
Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.
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ICE causes man to wreck while his children are in the car, then tries to pry his kids from his arms. They got the wrong guy. Toward the end of the video, an ICE officer says law requires the person recording to back up 25 feet and threatens with pepper spray. (There is no 25-foot law.)
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Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
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Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...
Update to my Chicago crash tracking site: I learned that the city has an incredibly annoying way of (not) updating victim death info, so while I mull a more accurate way of tracking fatalities, I re-did the site's database to count things by block instead of whole ass streets crashstop.org/chicago/
Added a page dedicated to fatalities: 1,032 crashes and 1,126 people killed in Chicago traffic since 2018 crashstop.org/chicago/fata...
eep www.wiz.io/blog/php2she... "These findings rank among the most severe vulnerabilities discovered in PHP, and arguably in software history... With frontier AI models and the right tools, a single researcher completed in a week what previously would have taken a world-class team months of work"
There are millions of Wordpress sites that will be epically pwned tomorrow. Two critical PHP RCEs will be revealed in the morning. www.php.net/archive/2026...
37% for tiktok is lower than I had thought. There was a @propublica.org podcast where the reporter found victims and witnesses of an ICE raid by searching tiktok and I was thinking, you probably couldn’t do that on twitter (or youtube)
NEW: The latest @pewresearch.org study about social media use in the US YouTube: 84% of adults use it Facebook: 70% Instagram: 51% TikTok: 37% WhatsApp: 33% LinkedIn: 31% Snapchat: 26% Reddit: 25% Nextdoor: 18% X (Twitter): 18% Truth Social: 4% www.pewresearch.org/internet/fac...
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Replying to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*
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