Das Doak
@dasdoak.bsky.social
Gentleman adventurer, mostly decent bastard, only slightly pessimistic optimist. I ride bikes, tinker, program, and read way too much.
White, cis, straight, US male if you need the context. It's a fucked demographic; wasn't my choice to be born into it.
White, cis, straight, US male if you need the context. It's a fucked demographic; wasn't my choice to be born into it.
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Das Doak
@dasdoak.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Here's what Democrats should do - as a minimum - to help fix the media ecosystem:
Start a newspaper in every single congressional district - yes, all 435 of them - called "The <name of geographic area> Democrat." It can literally be the district number if there's nothing better to hand. (1/7)
Start a newspaper in every single congressional district - yes, all 435 of them - called "The <name of geographic area> Democrat." It can literally be the district number if there's nothing better to hand. (1/7)
The simple fact is that the fossil fuel industry needs a greater fool to take their soon-to-be-stranded assets off their hands.
They think that greater fool could be the US government - and, with Trump in charge, I think they might actually be right.
They think that greater fool could be the US government - and, with Trump in charge, I think they might actually be right.
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The simple fact is that the fossil fuel industry needs a greater fool to take their soon-to-be-stranded assets off their hands.
They think that greater fool could be the US government - and, with Trump in charge, I think they might actually be right.
They think that greater fool could be the US government - and, with Trump in charge, I think they might actually be right.
Buttigieg remains really *quite* bad at this. Nothing I've ever seen about the man suggests he's anything other than the personification of the calcified conventional wisdom of the Democratic consultant class - but gay!
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Buttigieg remains really *quite* bad at this. Nothing I've ever seen about the man suggests he's anything other than the personification of the calcified conventional wisdom of the Democratic consultant class - but gay!
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Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there
As much as I disagreed with Obama and Biden, and as much as I hated dubya, at least I never had to think about the national security implications of their sexual activity.
And, in retrospect, that was *really* nice.
And, in retrospect, that was *really* nice.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
As much as I disagreed with Obama and Biden, and as much as I hated dubya, at least I never had to think about the national security implications of their sexual activity.
And, in retrospect, that was *really* nice.
And, in retrospect, that was *really* nice.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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“Street parking was not inevitable. Data centres are not inevitable. Having to spend a huge chunk of your income on private transportation is not inevitable. These are choices made by human beings. And choices can be resisted.”
From cars to AI, the spread of technologies is not inevitable
Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
From cars to AI, the spread of technologies is not inevitable - Halifax Examiner
None of this is inevitable. It is the result of powerful lobbies and poor decision-making.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“Street parking was not inevitable. Data centres are not inevitable. Having to spend a huge chunk of your income on private transportation is not inevitable. These are choices made by human beings. And choices can be resisted.”
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
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Me: I went to a book release event last night.
Coworker 1: What book?
Me, unsure how they’ll take it: Uhhh it’s called “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile”
Coworker 1: God I wish we could do that.
Coworker 2: that book sounds rad.
Me: <relieved>
Coworker 1: What book?
Me, unsure how they’ll take it: Uhhh it’s called “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile”
Coworker 1: God I wish we could do that.
Coworker 2: that book sounds rad.
Me: <relieved>
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Me: I went to a book release event last night.
Coworker 1: What book?
Me, unsure how they’ll take it: Uhhh it’s called “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile”
Coworker 1: God I wish we could do that.
Coworker 2: that book sounds rad.
Me: <relieved>
Coworker 1: What book?
Me, unsure how they’ll take it: Uhhh it’s called “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile”
Coworker 1: God I wish we could do that.
Coworker 2: that book sounds rad.
Me: <relieved>
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the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
"...and we're gonna stack the Supreme Court so that there's a majority that'll actually follow laws rather than just running cover for politicians, *and* we're gonna impeach the justices who took bribes."
"Fuck moving forward. Screw coming together. We are going to hire a team of prosecutors so large it needs its own building, fund them so well they have their own helicopters, and instruct them to go after everyone who broke the law from the White House to individual ICE agents."
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"...and we're gonna stack the Supreme Court so that there's a majority that'll actually follow laws rather than just running cover for politicians, *and* we're gonna impeach the justices who took bribes."
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
"This could take down Democrats, too." is a feature, not a bug.
I'd prefer the party to be purged of gross old men by people just refusing to tolerate that behavior - but if the purge comes from those gross old men being in the Epstein Files, I ain't gonna complain.
I'd prefer the party to be purged of gross old men by people just refusing to tolerate that behavior - but if the purge comes from those gross old men being in the Epstein Files, I ain't gonna complain.
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too." is a feature, not a bug.
I'd prefer the party to be purged of gross old men by people just refusing to tolerate that behavior - but if the purge comes from those gross old men being in the Epstein Files, I ain't gonna complain.
I'd prefer the party to be purged of gross old men by people just refusing to tolerate that behavior - but if the purge comes from those gross old men being in the Epstein Files, I ain't gonna complain.
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
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Drivers stop at crosswalks in Poland now because they passed presumed liability, and they ran a public awareness campaign to promote it. The driver is presumed to be at fault if they hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
The zebra stripes in Poland have magical power that the ones in America don’t. Even on a fast divided highway, a pedestrian in the shadows, well back from the curb, can stop traffic.
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Drivers stop at crosswalks in Poland now because they passed presumed liability, and they ran a public awareness campaign to promote it. The driver is presumed to be at fault if they hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
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A fun exercise is thinking about how far down the presidential line of succession you'd have to go before you find someone who isn't involved in committing or covering up the most heinous crimes known to man. You have to impeach everyone until you get there
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A fun exercise is thinking about how far down the presidential line of succession you'd have to go before you find someone who isn't involved in committing or covering up the most heinous crimes known to man. You have to impeach everyone until you get there
One of the *many* reasons to take power out of the hands of the billionaire class is that society would be much, much better if major decisions were made by people who were
A. Literate
and
B. Willing to think about said decisions and their impacts for more than twenty seconds.
A. Literate
and
B. Willing to think about said decisions and their impacts for more than twenty seconds.
You think that they’re meeting in smoky mahogany rooms doing eyes wide shut shit and while that does happen mostly it’s just emails to fellow perverts like “stupid purple hair barista was mean 2 me im gunna fund gender essentialism center at a prestigious university
Sent from my iPad”
Sent from my iPad”
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One of the *many* reasons to take power out of the hands of the billionaire class is that society would be much, much better if major decisions were made by people who were
A. Literate
and
B. Willing to think about said decisions and their impacts for more than twenty seconds.
A. Literate
and
B. Willing to think about said decisions and their impacts for more than twenty seconds.
We have decided that all sorts of shit - asbestos, phosphate detergents, leaded gas, aerosols and refrigerants that deplete the ozone layer, etc. - needed to stop being used because of the damage they were causing.
This is not a new concept.
This is not a new concept.
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We have decided that all sorts of shit - asbestos, phosphate detergents, leaded gas, aerosols and refrigerants that deplete the ozone layer, etc. - needed to stop being used because of the damage they were causing.
This is not a new concept.
This is not a new concept.
Better than hydrogen was expected, but better than natural gas is *shocking*
Technology is moving at breakneck speed these days.
Technology is moving at breakneck speed these days.
NEW RESEARCH: Our study shows high-temperature heat pumps are the most cost-effective path to decarbonising industrial heat at low to medium temperatures.
We find industrial heat pumps can cut heating costs by up to 75% vs h2 & and beat natural gas.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
We find industrial heat pumps can cut heating costs by up to 75% vs h2 & and beat natural gas.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Techno-economic analysis of technologies for decarbonizing low- and medium-temperature industrial heat
Techno-economic analysis shows that high-temperature heat pumps achieve the lowest
cost of heat when considering options for industrial decarbonization in Europe, especially
when combined with thermal...
www.cell.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Better than hydrogen was expected, but better than natural gas is *shocking*
Technology is moving at breakneck speed these days.
Technology is moving at breakneck speed these days.
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social