Dan Lyke (he/him)

@annepmitchell.bsky.social please read this thread. An AI-reliant lawyer stupided himself all over the court

The Steinway Model O Living Room Grand Piano must meet the following critical performance requirements: -New (not used or refurbished) -Ebony (black) polish finish -Not to exceed 6ft in length and 5ft in width -Delivery to Quarter 7, Generals Row, Ft. Myer Virginia 22211 -Preparation of piano to include: tuning, voicing, regulation, and set-up on site -Adjustable Artist Bench -5-year Manufacturer’s warranty parts & labor -Removal and disposal of existing piano

those of you who are pianists now have permission to refer to anything you need done to your piano as "critical performance requirements"

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Thinking, base on bsky.app/profile/ceci... , The Philadelphia Story.

Fuck me, The BEAM Chronicles has me on pins and needles waiting for the next episode... promised Monday.

Yeah, I realized I was asking the victim to do the work, which ain't fair, but any effort we can give helps.

Hearing comparisons of using LLMs for coding to the same sort of revolution that word processors brought to skilled typists.

And wow does that say a lot about what those people think software is.

Thank you for turning what would have been tears of despair into sobbing laughter.

and I'm still working it out, but identities, as well.

I'm afraid it's going to have to get to "lost WWII" levels of bad for that to happen. And I'm afraid it has to.

I had given up on Signal when they dropped SMS integration, but boy the modern era is bringing them back; it's almost replaced Slack for personal chats...

Find someone to file a complaint with. If my wife's experience with filing complaints about "AI" assistants pushed on her by health care providers is any indication, that front line person will be overjoyed to help you register same.

And you're doing a public service.

don't follow us on mastodon?

through the magic of bridging, we can still tell you to buy a ticket!

Can someone familiar with solar systems give me any evidence that a slightly north-facing (4°) panel would give better performance (perhaps evenings or mornings) at 38.23N?

I think I'm being fed bullshit, but citable evidence would be really nice to have to smack this down.

Every one of his candidates followed me on Twitter day 1 of their campaigns. I figured out after a few years that he must've made a local influencer cheatsheet. When I ran for office, he stood me up when I was interviewing campaign managers. Grateful for that and that I lost that race. Whew!

They bought their North Beach dream home. The city says it must become four apartments Tenants rights groups are calling on San Francisco officials to make a North Beach couple fix a problem they did not create and revert their home to the four-unit complex.

I wish the authors had dug just a bit deeper into this story. The flipper who was quoted saying he would never dream of marketing a non-compliant building has other, substantially similar complaint proceedings at other buildings on the same block! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Pay attention to the District 2 and District 4 Supervisor races this year.

Donate to and volunteer for the candidates who aren't backed by Muelrath.

And if you're not on D2 or D4, make sure everyone you know who does live there understands the stakes.

THESE RACES MAY BE DECIDED IN JUNE!

Not enough people know:

A single political consultant, Rob Muelrath, is responsible for 4 of 5 members of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (all but Coursey).

And that consultant is ALSO a govt affairs consultant, who trades on influence over his electeds for the benefit of his biz clients.

So if it's ever been confusing why seemingly progressive Dem-registered Supervisors act like members of the GOP, there's your answer.

That's why they rigged redistricting in 2022. That's why they won't reign in the Sheriff. Or fight for non-cooperation with ICE.

They're corrupt.

Did anybody else try to read this with the cadence of the Theme from Shaft?

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...

also the double-take i did upon seeing that the guy running the survival-bunker company is named Ron Hubbard… c’mon, someone get the writers’ room a fresh pot of coffee

Calishat (@researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host) Attached: 1 image @danlyke I used TimeCake to limit search results to before 2022 and found good shit.

I will try. Tara Calishain suggested using one of her time limiting search tools, which sounded like a good thing...

researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuz...

I'm okay with detaining them all preemptively, as an emergency measure, and letting them work out their innocence through the courts.

Eventually we figured out that "gwijo" was a useful search term, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time for that to get slipped.

Charlene had run across some African singing she really liked, so last night we tried to find a bit of it before we went to sleep. Looks like everything "Ubuntu Choir" on YouTube is AI generated. Along with all of the videos on Facebook. The slop really is taking over.

are the "adults in the room" in the room with us right now?

SingWithMarv.com Community singing with Marv Zauderer -- in person or online.

Went down to Marv's Big Sing www.singwithmarv.com with Riomas (formerly Shireen Amini, shireenamini.com ), and Rio's transformation has been accompanied by a shift from "good song leader" to "that was powerful and I feel compelled to learn those songs in order to share them".

Yeah. I have no idea what it is, and other people have been unable to duplicate the issue, but on two Macs, PDFs display subtly (sometimes) wrong, and if I view them in the browser and save from that view they're wrong.

I discovered this with an insurance document that got saved wrong....