Ian Danforth
@iandanforth.bsky.social
AI, Robots, Neuroscience, and Liberal Politics.
"A multitude of good judges seldom meet together." - Maria Edgeworth
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"A multitude of good judges seldom meet together." - Maria Edgeworth
In Canada it was a No Tyrants protest because many of us quite like our king. And frankly if Trump acted a lot more like Charles things wouldn't be nearly as bad.
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
In Canada it was a No Tyrants protest because many of us quite like our king. And frankly if Trump acted a lot more like Charles things wouldn't be nearly as bad.
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Buffet Index of 217%
Two.
Hundred.
And Seventeen.
😱😱😱
Two.
Hundred.
And Seventeen.
😱😱😱
October 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Buffet Index of 217%
Two.
Hundred.
And Seventeen.
😱😱😱
Two.
Hundred.
And Seventeen.
😱😱😱
Funny how Figure robots look more and more like 1x robots every day
October 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Funny how Figure robots look more and more like 1x robots every day
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If you or a loved one is taken by ICE, you can call the National Lawyers Guild federal repression hotline at 212-679-2811, for a free, privileged consultation about your rights, risks, & responsibilities, & to be connected with appropriate legal resources in your jurisdiction.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If you or a loved one is taken by ICE, you can call the National Lawyers Guild federal repression hotline at 212-679-2811, for a free, privileged consultation about your rights, risks, & responsibilities, & to be connected with appropriate legal resources in your jurisdiction.
PLEASE SHARE THIS
PLEASE SHARE THIS
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I'm looking for a dataset of non-stolen videos of good quality taken in many different contexts, with a license that allows academic use.
Something like the MIT Moments In Time dataset but... ethical. No annotations needed.
Any leads?
Something like the MIT Moments In Time dataset but... ethical. No annotations needed.
Any leads?
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'm looking for a dataset of non-stolen videos of good quality taken in many different contexts, with a license that allows academic use.
Something like the MIT Moments In Time dataset but... ethical. No annotations needed.
Any leads?
Something like the MIT Moments In Time dataset but... ethical. No annotations needed.
Any leads?
I want an AI voice mode that sounds like Stephen Fry, is that so much to ask?
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I want an AI voice mode that sounds like Stephen Fry, is that so much to ask?
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melt down the guns
forge the steel into beams
raise the beams to build schools
but first
melt down all the guns
forge the steel into beams
raise the beams to build schools
but first
melt down all the guns
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
melt down the guns
forge the steel into beams
raise the beams to build schools
but first
melt down all the guns
forge the steel into beams
raise the beams to build schools
but first
melt down all the guns
Imagine you had to purchase a MacBook to use an iPhone. This is how I feel about being required to own an iPhone if I want to use an Apple watch. Infuriating walled garden BS.
September 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Imagine you had to purchase a MacBook to use an iPhone. This is how I feel about being required to own an iPhone if I want to use an Apple watch. Infuriating walled garden BS.
Let it not be said that a stopped clock is not right twice day. I support renaming the DoD to the DoW.
September 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Let it not be said that a stopped clock is not right twice day. I support renaming the DoD to the DoW.
Anyone here involved in pixel art video games? Nano-banana & Veo3 are now good enough to create and animate assets (with a little glue code). We've crossed a bright line and I kinda want to talk to someone about it.
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Anyone here involved in pixel art video games? Nano-banana & Veo3 are now good enough to create and animate assets (with a little glue code). We've crossed a bright line and I kinda want to talk to someone about it.
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If your state hasn't done this yet, call your governor's office as well as top public health official in your state, and request that they do this. If enough people start calling, they will hear us loud and clear!
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If your state hasn't done this yet, call your governor's office as well as top public health official in your state, and request that they do this. If enough people start calling, they will hear us loud and clear!
This is not *at all* what I intended to generate with Veo3, but it's actually pretty cute and satisfying to watch, so here you go!
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is not *at all* what I intended to generate with Veo3, but it's actually pretty cute and satisfying to watch, so here you go!
@maggieastor.bsky.social Unconscionably weak writing on the CVS crisis. People will die or be crippled because of an anti-science faction taking over the CDC. Say this! Point out each and every time that this is a concerted attack on science and good medicine!
August 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
@maggieastor.bsky.social Unconscionably weak writing on the CVS crisis. People will die or be crippled because of an anti-science faction taking over the CDC. Say this! Point out each and every time that this is a concerted attack on science and good medicine!
@riggaroo.dev Holy crap Google is making a mistake trying to get developers to register to develop apps to sideload. Please send as many internal emails as you can expressing how awful an idea this is. I don't ask permission to put code anyone can run on Github, Google doesn't get to make me ask it!
August 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
@riggaroo.dev Holy crap Google is making a mistake trying to get developers to register to develop apps to sideload. Please send as many internal emails as you can expressing how awful an idea this is. I don't ask permission to put code anyone can run on Github, Google doesn't get to make me ask it!
@tornorbye.bsky.social Hi! Please tell your boss, coworkers, anyone who will listen how much we hate the idea of registering to develop apps to sideload. These are *our* devices. We hate this idea SO much. And telling us it's for "security?" Tell them to GFYS!
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
@tornorbye.bsky.social Hi! Please tell your boss, coworkers, anyone who will listen how much we hate the idea of registering to develop apps to sideload. These are *our* devices. We hate this idea SO much. And telling us it's for "security?" Tell them to GFYS!
@sanbeiji.com Hi! Please tell your bosses how much we hate the idea of registering to sideload. We hate it a lot! Bucketfuls of hate! It's a truly awful policy. And cloaking it in a transparent veil of "security." We hate that even more! Seriously, WTF?
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
@sanbeiji.com Hi! Please tell your bosses how much we hate the idea of registering to sideload. We hate it a lot! Bucketfuls of hate! It's a truly awful policy. And cloaking it in a transparent veil of "security." We hate that even more! Seriously, WTF?
Newsom is so deeply fake and unappealing as an individual *of course* the Democrats will run him in 2028. He's a tall haircut and that's about it.
August 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Newsom is so deeply fake and unappealing as an individual *of course* the Democrats will run him in 2028. He's a tall haircut and that's about it.
Current occupation: Giving money to Anthropic and OpenAI via scripts.
August 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Current occupation: Giving money to Anthropic and OpenAI via scripts.
"There is amongst all parties, who at present aim at political power, an unsatisfied demand for honest men." - Maria Edgeworth, 1798
August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"There is amongst all parties, who at present aim at political power, an unsatisfied demand for honest men." - Maria Edgeworth, 1798
Adults attempt to handle toddler with nuclear codes. archive.is/202508191417...
archive.is
August 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Adults attempt to handle toddler with nuclear codes. archive.is/202508191417...
Every visit to the vet feels like a betrayal 🙁
August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Every visit to the vet feels like a betrayal 🙁
Prior to "The princess and the pea" there was "The Sybarite, whose night's rest was disturbed by a doubled rose leaf."
Equally lovely and absurd but far less succinct.
Equally lovely and absurd but far less succinct.
August 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Prior to "The princess and the pea" there was "The Sybarite, whose night's rest was disturbed by a doubled rose leaf."
Equally lovely and absurd but far less succinct.
Equally lovely and absurd but far less succinct.
"[T]he justices making up the current Supreme Court majority have shown hostility toward sound legal reasoning"
Now *that* is solid rhetoric. Appropriately insulting, accurate, and implying that the court will change.
Now *that* is solid rhetoric. Appropriately insulting, accurate, and implying that the court will change.
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"[T]he justices making up the current Supreme Court majority have shown hostility toward sound legal reasoning"
Now *that* is solid rhetoric. Appropriately insulting, accurate, and implying that the court will change.
Now *that* is solid rhetoric. Appropriately insulting, accurate, and implying that the court will change.
"Can you wipe the avocado off his forehead?"
Not a sentence I ever expected to hear, but that's #parentlife
Not a sentence I ever expected to hear, but that's #parentlife
August 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Can you wipe the avocado off his forehead?"
Not a sentence I ever expected to hear, but that's #parentlife
Not a sentence I ever expected to hear, but that's #parentlife