Dan Saffer

It's really something to be living through the worst President, the worst Supreme Court, and the worst Congress all at once

If one of my students gave me this as a real AI use case I would fail them for it being too implausible

It's as though he's relied on bots to build him all along. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

How I arrived on BlueSky

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

Lanterns S1 stuck the landing but I'm not really sure I want to watch S2 without [REDACTED] being in it somehow. If there is a S2 (hasn't been erm greenlit yet)...

good example of how bad faith the right are. it’s just pointless to engage with them.

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Me: Can someone explain SlutCon to me—wait never mind can someone strike me on the back of my head hard enough so I forget I ever heard that term

One month until pub day! Read a sample chapter: #BookSky #SciFi #AI dl.bookfunnel.com/fhj20qr6pg

SNW S4 had (generously) five watchable episodes out of ten. ("Tomorrow's Enterprise", "Orders of Magnitude", "Off-Hour", "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass" and "Valles Marineris")

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the wealthiest people to have ever existed and he still looks like he shops at Walmart and get his hair done at Supercuts

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

What's the point of having Fuck You money if you never say Fuck You?

We're only a few weeks from the launch of THE RESTORATION, my John Adams meets The Man in The High Castle meets Person of Interest scifi novel drops. Audiobook is being recorded, ebook is done, and the first proof of the paperback is at the printer. Get sample chapters or pre-order: dsduffy.com

Uncle Jesse from Full House John Stamos is 63. Denver Pyle who played Uncle Jesse on the Dukes of Hazzard was 64 when the Dukes of Hazzard *ended*

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

I hope Colin Jost has been practicing his Hegseth over the summer

UPMC caves to the Trump Administration and bans gender affirming care for ten years while outright lying and saying GAC is illegal (it's not). It would be a shame if their mailbox was flooded with angry emails...

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

When the edible hits and you’re at the Taco Bell drive thru.

Fucking Fettermaaaaaaaan

A $2000 iPhone?

at this point all the stuff that walter isaacson "missed" in his biography of musk should be disqualifying for him as a serious source of info

60 years ago today, Star Trek asked us to imagine humanity becoming something better. Not perfect. Better. More curious. More compassionate. More willing to seek understanding instead of fear difference. Six decades later, I'm still happily along for the ride. 🖖 #StarTrekDay

The Penguin

Pearson Education (aka New Riders) is taking 88% and 90% of my Anthropic settlement money for Designing for Interaction. O'Reilly is taking 50% for Microinteractions and Designing Gestural Interfaces. So for four books, instead of $12,000, I will get $3660.

“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March

Happy New Thermals Album Release Day to those who celebrate

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

We've lost journalist Gloria Steinem. She once infiltrated the Playboy club as a bunny and exposed their unfair working conditions. When DC took Wonder Woman's powers and costume away, she wrote an article to shamed them into restoring the character. RIP Legend

I've heard of two of these people, and only because they are/were involved in political controversies #old #outoftouch #usinghashtagsbecauseoldandoutoftouch

Paid political influencers are highly effective propagandists. Which is why Pete Hegseth is paying them to manipulate other Americans in state-funded, prev undisclosed influence ops. Gift link: wapo.st/4x0p3pf

Post your getaway vehicle

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

Preparing for the blood moon...

really disappointing to see how many of you so-called “progressives” are deadnaming lake america

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.