Dan Janssen

Systems Engineer in Portland Oregon, formerly of Anchorage AK

[They murdered Renée Good @Youtalkingtume]

Reporter: “Pete Hegseth says you want to see him in prison.”

Rep. Thomas Massie: “ There’s no way that I would go to visit him”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

*narrator, 6 months later* ‘He did in fact win by exactly 7 points.’

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A top GOP official accidentally said on a hot mic, “If Netanyahu loses reelection in Israel, and Democrats in the US win subpoena power in both chambers of Congress, all I can say is Jared Kushner is completely, totally, utterly, historically, spectacularly f*cked.”

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@isinternets It makes me wonder how different the BL lighting engine is. I assume they added something like global illumination and this meant even more manual shadows and light sources were removed? I don't program games but get lots of friends asking me about all of these recent projects.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Congress has worked so few hours this year that lawmakers wouldn't even meet the Medicaid work requirements they passed.

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

“Who’s a good boy?!”

Hackers just dumped the contents of a Flock camera.

They found:

🔴Software explicitly detecting people, not just plates
🔴1.6 million images logged in 21 days
🔴Key to decrypt files stored on the device itself.

Finds directly contradict Flock, which claims someone with physical access can't access images.

Making it worse,@GainSec warned about the physical access issue more than a year ago & Flock downplayed it.

And yeah, the Flock camera logged “Who’s a good boy?!” about every 2 minutes, all while plagued with errors, crashes & reboots.

By @dmehro & @josephfcox
https://t.co/5a91FwVrPf

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Want lower gas prices? → End Trump's war in Iran.

Want lower grocery prices? → Stop Trump's illegal tariffs.

Want lower health care costs? → Reverse Trump’s health care cuts.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough:

“The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

BREAKING: Trump's DHS took a step back from seizing Fentanyl so that ICE could terrorize our streets.

In just one year at HSI:
- Fentanyl investigations down 24%
- Fentanyl seizures down 39%
- Hours spent countering fentanyl down approx. 30%

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@suicidexjockeys It could have been done last year and somehow the brakes would be fucked.

[Medic Kim @medickimw]

I had less peer pressure to try drugs than I do with AI 😒

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@PaulTassi I'd love to see a situation where Peter is just doing dad life stuff, and being a mentor to Miles.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Congress could stop this madness tomorrow. It could take back control of trade policy and cancel the tariffs. It could bring impeachment proceedings on the impeccable grounds that the president has plainly lost his mind. No one who is compos mentis writes as he just did to the Norwegian leader.

The Founders knew what they were doing when they gave Congress these powers. They were obsessed with the story of how the Roman Republic had ended. They were determined to prevent the rise of what they called “Caesarists”, meaning men who believed that their ambitions were bigger than the Constitution. They knew how difficult it was to remove such men once they were in office, surrounded by flatterers and sycophants.

There was a moment, following the assassination of Caligula, when the Roman Senate might have restored the Republic. Senators spoke movingly of “the mischiefs tyrannies have brought upon this commonwealth, discouraging virtue, depriving our leading men of their liberty, elevating flattery and slavish fear, and replacing the rule of law with the whims of those who govern”.

Had they acted decisively, they might have ended the imperial system. “It would be enough to live a single hour under our old laws,” declared one senator, “the laws that raised our nation to greatness”.

But when news came that a new emperor had been proclaimed, senators rushed to declare their loyalty to him. Rome returned to its dictatorial executive, its obsequious legislature and its bellicose foreign policy.

How many Congressmen today will make a stand for their old laws, the laws that raised their nation to greatness?

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@iShieldMaiden_ Please shoot

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@aka_niris That’s a pokemon right?

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@WillMuldoon Getting a useful summary can be the most annoying thing ever though, I have to make sure it uses exact excerpts. But having it cut out all of the aspects of a white paper that don't apply to what I'm doing just makes it so much easier to read the 20 page output instead of 300.

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@WillMuldoon Despite my common use case being "what is the name of this thing that's broken and I need to fix" I think my favorite use case is converting a massive PDF to markdown and then having it create a "summary"
I would say that Claud is just better than OpenAI and Meta though.

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@joegoroth I was going to try some just to do it, but then I saw it's Matcha. No thanks.

[Dan Janssen @ApathyDan]

@aiiygatorz @TooDiffizzle Does @TooDiffizzle even wear ties?