Dan Shields

Today's wisdom

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Cash-strapped?!? You've got to be shitting me.

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

This is an important read. I also have noticed local Detroit TV news station crime segments are specifically mentioning the importance of Flock cameras -- it feels extremely coordinated and intentional.

Who's the most chaotic choice to give the One Ring to?

Reskeet with your home river(s). The Allegheny The Monongahela The Ohio

Drop some ROBOTS

Seems bad

Pounds of beer???

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

Seriously, fuck everyone involved in this. Fucking degenerates.

Future MLB stars? 🤭

Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.

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This would be even better if they zoomed in to see a smaller solar powered cleaning robot cleaning the panels of the solar powered cleaning robot cleaning the solar panels.

Finally, an AI assistant we all can agree on

Don't avoid the word "suicide". Hearing the command team say "ended his own life" or some other euphemism 3000 times is sickening.

Give if you can.

Let's Go!

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Team Tiny Particle

Guy walks into a bar with jumper cables hanging around his neck. Bartender walks over to him, looks him over, and says, "Listen here, mister, don't you go startin' nuthin' in here."

I would rather have an inefficient space program than a trillonaire nazi

"When the gauge says empty, we all know there is still a gallon or two left in the tank." -Neil Armstrong

#TransRights

Nothing I’ve ever done takes as much courage as it does for her to get up and go to school every day while the full weight of the conservative legal apparatus comes for her. And she’s not only still out there but crushing it. Happy pride, Becky. We’ve got your back no matter what SCOTUS decides.

The American Leigon is an organization of mostly old boomers that sit around the bar and complain about lazy woke kids.

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.