DocDanPgh
@docdanpgh.bsky.social
Scientist & engineer: ❤️ Theater, music, books, film, comedy, comics, cooking, art, history, social justice & a pluralistic democracy.
“The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is to have no fear at all” -Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
“The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is to have no fear at all” -Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
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DocDanPgh
@docdanpgh.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Microwaving is the best way to cook corn. It steams in the husk w/o boiling away sugars, the silk slides off w/o having to be picked off in strands & anyone watching is impressed AF.
Up to 3 fit in a triangle at once. Use 3-4 minutes an ear, rotating them along their axis once so they cook evenly.
Up to 3 fit in a triangle at once. Use 3-4 minutes an ear, rotating them along their axis once so they cook evenly.
“We’re out of the first three things you wanted and all our prices are MUCH higher, but look how pretty!”
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“We’re out of the first three things you wanted and all our prices are MUCH higher, but look how pretty!”
Post someone who looks good in red.
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Post someone who looks good in red.
“We’re crushing the Republicans in every poll and over performing by double digits in every election, especially when we point out how horrible Republicans are behaving.”
“Hey, what if we ignore all that and pretend we’re selling management consulting services?”
“Hey, what if we ignore all that and pretend we’re selling management consulting services?”
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“We’re crushing the Republicans in every poll and over performing by double digits in every election, especially when we point out how horrible Republicans are behaving.”
“Hey, what if we ignore all that and pretend we’re selling management consulting services?”
“Hey, what if we ignore all that and pretend we’re selling management consulting services?”
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Kiss of death
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Kiss of death
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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Children are dead because of this idiot. HE IS NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL!!! He went yo law school then spent a decade or so addicted to heroine.
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
Source: POLITICO
share.newsbreak.com/g4e2gzr5
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
Source: POLITICO
share.newsbreak.com/g4e2gzr5
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines - NewsBreak
A Kennedy adviser said he wants to preserve the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The health secretary's anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Children are dead because of this idiot. HE IS NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL!!! He went yo law school then spent a decade or so addicted to heroine.
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
Source: POLITICO
share.newsbreak.com/g4e2gzr5
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
Source: POLITICO
share.newsbreak.com/g4e2gzr5
I recently had someone point out the lyrics to More Than Words by Extreme and 😳
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I recently had someone point out the lyrics to More Than Words by Extreme and 😳
AI insight.
One of my favorite jokes from Futurama was Bender saying he needed a calculator, Fry pointing out that Bender IS a calculator, and Bender scoffing “I need a GOOD calculator.”
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
AI insight.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
Good thread.
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Good thread.
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It’s baffling to me how many people whose careers came up in the era of loss-leading hyper growth services that stopped being “cheap” post-IPO seem to think that the LLM industry using the same playbook are angling for a different outcome. Why? Why would you ever think that?
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It’s baffling to me how many people whose careers came up in the era of loss-leading hyper growth services that stopped being “cheap” post-IPO seem to think that the LLM industry using the same playbook are angling for a different outcome. Why? Why would you ever think that?
As an undergraduate I attended a presentation on the huge economic impact of a proposed pedestrian overpass across the middle of a busy street on campus.
I also wanted it built but asked how their key predictions were supported. Got glared at by admin & shot down unanswered. It was so obviously BS.
I also wanted it built but asked how their key predictions were supported. Got glared at by admin & shot down unanswered. It was so obviously BS.
It's not that consultant models are implemented wrong or are biased, it's that it's not possible for them to do what people think they do. It's just ex-post motivated reasoning. Confusing "economic impact studies" with actual economics is like confusing astrology and astronomy.
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
As an undergraduate I attended a presentation on the huge economic impact of a proposed pedestrian overpass across the middle of a busy street on campus.
I also wanted it built but asked how their key predictions were supported. Got glared at by admin & shot down unanswered. It was so obviously BS.
I also wanted it built but asked how their key predictions were supported. Got glared at by admin & shot down unanswered. It was so obviously BS.
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It's time to stop pretending that these are good-faith estimates that are exaggerating or being abused on the margin. Projecting the "fiscal impact" of a stadium over a 30-year lease is a fool's errand. If you disagree, show me one done right.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's time to stop pretending that these are good-faith estimates that are exaggerating or being abused on the margin. Projecting the "fiscal impact" of a stadium over a 30-year lease is a fool's errand. If you disagree, show me one done right.
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From what I’ve tasted of desire
I'd almost rather end in fire.
But when I guess at how we'll stop
I've seen enough of creeping crud
To say we'll grind down, trapped in slop
Instead of blood,
Or fire,
Or ice.
I'd almost rather end in fire.
But when I guess at how we'll stop
I've seen enough of creeping crud
To say we'll grind down, trapped in slop
Instead of blood,
Or fire,
Or ice.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I'd almost rather end in fire.
But when I guess at how we'll stop
I've seen enough of creeping crud
To say we'll grind down, trapped in slop
Instead of blood,
Or fire,
Or ice.
I'd almost rather end in fire.
But when I guess at how we'll stop
I've seen enough of creeping crud
To say we'll grind down, trapped in slop
Instead of blood,
Or fire,
Or ice.
Me, an old hetero white male engineer eagerly discussing and recommending romance novels without shame if they’re by Mia Sosa, Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, Talia Hibbert or Lily Chu.
Cara Bastone? I read’em but
Cara Bastone? I read’em but
I also like some novels by Cara Bastone but I can never recommend any of her books because the titles are always so shmaltzy and stereotypical that they’re too embarrassing to mention.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Me, an old hetero white male engineer eagerly discussing and recommending romance novels without shame if they’re by Mia Sosa, Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, Talia Hibbert or Lily Chu.
Cara Bastone? I read’em but
Cara Bastone? I read’em but
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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3. Detective Comics #551
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
3. Detective Comics #551
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In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .
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So I've been teaching a themed intro to literature course on romance novels, and I want to set up a lending library in my office because my institution's romance holdings are terrible.
I'm hitting a used book store today to stock up. What is the one book I MUST add to my list?
I'm hitting a used book store today to stock up. What is the one book I MUST add to my list?
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So I've been teaching a themed intro to literature course on romance novels, and I want to set up a lending library in my office because my institution's romance holdings are terrible.
I'm hitting a used book store today to stock up. What is the one book I MUST add to my list?
I'm hitting a used book store today to stock up. What is the one book I MUST add to my list?
Name a fantasy movie without mentioning The Lord of the Rings.
The 1962 Czech film Baron Prasil (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
The 1962 Czech film Baron Prasil (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Name a fantasy movie without mentioning The Lord of the Rings.
The 1962 Czech film Baron Prasil (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
The 1962 Czech film Baron Prasil (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
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It wasn’t even the first film adaptation of the Clansmen
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It wasn’t even the first film adaptation of the Clansmen
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Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
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idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
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Noting you approve of teasing to enforce certain norms and then flipping the fuck out and crying discrimination when you are challenged in perhaps the most kind way possible is so much of their entire ethos in one distilled bit.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Noting you approve of teasing to enforce certain norms and then flipping the fuck out and crying discrimination when you are challenged in perhaps the most kind way possible is so much of their entire ethos in one distilled bit.