Beaverdale
@beaverdale.bsky.social
Roots in rural Iowa farm & ag, branches in AI, insurtech, ethics, higher ed, project management, social justice & the scholarship of teaching and learning.
While living through The Horrors here in the US, keep an eye on what happened during Tanzania's recent ejection and the one currently underway in last year in Uganda. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Uganda shuts down internet ahead of election, orders rights groups to halt work
Ugandan authorities cut internet access and limited mobile services across the country on Tuesday, two days before an election in which President Yoweri Museveni will stand for a contentious seventh t...
www.reuters.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
While living through The Horrors here in the US, keep an eye on what happened during Tanzania's recent ejection and the one currently underway in last year in Uganda. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Just leaving this curse-free episode of Better Offline here. Fellow Xennials, thank goodness most of us have another 15+ years of productivity ahead before we seriously consider retirement because our stock portfolios are seriously effed in the short term. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference And Its MSFT Revenue Share
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 11/12/2025 · Bonus · 7m
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November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just leaving this curse-free episode of Better Offline here. Fellow Xennials, thank goodness most of us have another 15+ years of productivity ahead before we seriously consider retirement because our stock portfolios are seriously effed in the short term. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
The cruelty is the point.
+ money, of course.
It is not a crime to be poor, but without a safety net the struggling are more likely to participate in illegal acts to survive. When caught, populations in for-profit prisons rise = more available cheap inmate labor. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
+ money, of course.
It is not a crime to be poor, but without a safety net the struggling are more likely to participate in illegal acts to survive. When caught, populations in for-profit prisons rise = more available cheap inmate labor. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The cruelty is the point.
+ money, of course.
It is not a crime to be poor, but without a safety net the struggling are more likely to participate in illegal acts to survive. When caught, populations in for-profit prisons rise = more available cheap inmate labor. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
+ money, of course.
It is not a crime to be poor, but without a safety net the struggling are more likely to participate in illegal acts to survive. When caught, populations in for-profit prisons rise = more available cheap inmate labor. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
How did we get to this point?
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
How did we get to this point?
I’m going to need someone to calculate the odds the average inhabitant of this planet will enjoy the promised benefits of quantum computing before global markets collapse. I used to write business cases for a living & the 5-year pro forma financials don’t hit ROI targets www.bain.com/about/media-...
$2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI’s scaling trend - Bain & Company’s 6th annual Global Technology Report
www.bain.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’m going to need someone to calculate the odds the average inhabitant of this planet will enjoy the promised benefits of quantum computing before global markets collapse. I used to write business cases for a living & the 5-year pro forma financials don’t hit ROI targets www.bain.com/about/media-...
I can’t wait for @edzitron.com to hear this week’s episode of Hard Fork, where Kevin & Casey dismiss OpenAI et al.’s profitability challenges by saying “there are just too many users.” and “Uber eventually became profitable.”
August 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I can’t wait for @edzitron.com to hear this week’s episode of Hard Fork, where Kevin & Casey dismiss OpenAI et al.’s profitability challenges by saying “there are just too many users.” and “Uber eventually became profitable.”
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well at least we didnt decide on this one obvious bubble to prop up our entire economy, im sure nothing bad will happen here
Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.
August 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
well at least we didnt decide on this one obvious bubble to prop up our entire economy, im sure nothing bad will happen here
Wonder how much the administration paid the NYT for this ad-itorial
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Wonder how much the administration paid the NYT for this ad-itorial
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Watch out for agitators during #NoKings. They will not scare us. Trump's shock troops have been planning for this. They want to start a hot civil war.
🧾 WSJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
🧾 WSJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
These agitators have been organized by Trump to turn peaceful No Kings protests into deadly riots so he a score political points.
It's disgusting.
It's anti-American.
And it's impeachable.
Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Groups Buzz With Violent Talk on How to Respond to ‘No Kings’ Protest - WSJ
It's disgusting.
It's anti-American.
And it's impeachable.
Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Groups Buzz With Violent Talk on How to Respond to ‘No Kings’ Protest - WSJ
Far-Right Groups Buzz With Violent Talk on How to Respond to ‘No Kings’ Protest
The Proud Boys and other extremists are capitalizing on Saturday’s planned demonstrations against Trump policies.
www.wsj.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Watch out for agitators during #NoKings. They will not scare us. Trump's shock troops have been planning for this. They want to start a hot civil war.
🧾 WSJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
🧾 WSJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well...
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations
Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...
www.wired.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well...
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
The inverse relationship between what is good for digital media engagement metrics and what is good for the American people on full display.
For the love of all things holy, someone please run on a pro-democracy, pro-science, pro-human rights, pro-truth platform and “Make America boring again.”
For the love of all things holy, someone please run on a pro-democracy, pro-science, pro-human rights, pro-truth platform and “Make America boring again.”
For every amazing local journalism story trying to make American lives better, there’s a big, lazy, national media narrative that is hot gutter trash making Americans stupider and lowering their expectations of government to a bullsh*t reality show.
Truly embarrassing stuff here.
Truly embarrassing stuff here.
May 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The inverse relationship between what is good for digital media engagement metrics and what is good for the American people on full display.
For the love of all things holy, someone please run on a pro-democracy, pro-science, pro-human rights, pro-truth platform and “Make America boring again.”
For the love of all things holy, someone please run on a pro-democracy, pro-science, pro-human rights, pro-truth platform and “Make America boring again.”
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
~Jimmy Carter
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
~Jimmy Carter
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
www.theatlantic.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
~Jimmy Carter
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
~Jimmy Carter
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This is all part of the plan. What I vaguely remember about 1982 is playing with my baby sister in the lobbies of banks for hours on end while my parents negotiated with bankers in attempt to keep their farm. I was 5. Many of parents’ closest friends had sold their farms and left the state by 1986
US 30-YEAR TREASURY YIELDS RISE TO 4.95%, MARKING BIGGEST WEEKLY INCREASE SINCE 1982 - RTRS
Via FirstSquawk
Via FirstSquawk
April 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This is all part of the plan. What I vaguely remember about 1982 is playing with my baby sister in the lobbies of banks for hours on end while my parents negotiated with bankers in attempt to keep their farm. I was 5. Many of parents’ closest friends had sold their farms and left the state by 1986
Americans have willfully traded privacy for convenience en mass for over two decades and I keep wondering at what point will we decide that maybe having every element of our lives - from our sleep cycles to our buying habits - tracked & stored & sold to “optimize & extract value” is umm…, bad?
April 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Americans have willfully traded privacy for convenience en mass for over two decades and I keep wondering at what point will we decide that maybe having every element of our lives - from our sleep cycles to our buying habits - tracked & stored & sold to “optimize & extract value” is umm…, bad?
This is the type of content I want at the top of my feed daily.
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
April 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is the type of content I want at the top of my feed daily.
It took 12 years from the day hitler took power to the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials. And some would argue that Germany never fully recovered.
April 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It took 12 years from the day hitler took power to the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials. And some would argue that Germany never fully recovered.
We let kids redo assignments & retake tests as many times as needed to pass, and even Iowa’s highschool graduation rate is under 90%. When does all the winning start?
April 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We let kids redo assignments & retake tests as many times as needed to pass, and even Iowa’s highschool graduation rate is under 90%. When does all the winning start?
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In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin.
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
March 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin.
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
Does anyone else find the cognitive dissonance in US media deafening?
March 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Does anyone else find the cognitive dissonance in US media deafening?
This is fine. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Consumer Sentiment Tanks as Americans Expect More Pain Ahead
Uncertainty around the economy, stocks and jobs are taking a toll. One economist labeled the latest reading from the University of Michigan’s index “horrific.”
www.wsj.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is fine. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
The calm before the storm.
March 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The calm before the storm.
5 years ago this week everything shut down and we entered a new timeline and I’d very much like to go back to the World Before now, please.
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
5 years ago this week everything shut down and we entered a new timeline and I’d very much like to go back to the World Before now, please.
Nothing like a good old dashing DDoS attack.
Dark Storm Team claims responsibility for a DDoS attack as users report Twitter down for the third time today.
Live updates here ⤵️
Live updates here ⤵️
Dark Storm team claims DDoS attack on X, causing major outage: Live Updates
Dark Storm Team claims responsibility for a DDoS attack as users report Twitter down for the third time today. Live updates here.
www.newsweek.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Nothing like a good old dashing DDoS attack.