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Dan Boland

@danzigner

I design πŸ’°The Price Is Right🎑 and I have a dog named Jeffrey.

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17425 πŸ” 5766 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 101
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Two days ago 200+ Anti-ICE billboards I designed went up across the country in the following cities. tag me if you see them.

Phoenix
Bakersfield
Fresno
LA
Orange County,
San Bernardino
Miami
Chicago
Boston
Detroit
Charlotte
Raleigh
PDX
Memphis
Nashville
Dallas
Fort Worth
Laredo
San Antonio

05.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Also like, why hype should we consider the possibility of being true here. That it works? At all? That it increases productivity? That it will replace all human jobs and lead to utopia powered by a galaxy sized Dyson sphere of Nvidia GPUs operated by Oracle?

12.02.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can tell pretty easily when the robot is driving because it behaves in very inhuman ways. It makes a thousand tiny course corrections while going straight on a simple road; the wheel is constantly moving. It actually stops at stop signs. It actually gives pedestrians their right of way.

06.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The robot gets bamboozled when a weeping willow is leaning over the road. The robot gets bamboozled when an asshole driver blocks it in on a narrow road. More than anything, the robot gets bamboozled because Google/Waze thinks a lot of driveways are actually public roads.

06.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lotta not reading past the misleading headline going on with this article, I've noticed. I ride in these all the time. When the robot gets bamboozled, you press a button and an operator picks up and remote piloting fixes the problem (or, according to them, tells the robot how to fix the problem).

06.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

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03.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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I cannot recommend this product enough. $100 little wet vac area rug scrubber from Hoover. When Jeffrey was having his intestines troubles (πŸ’©), this is how my apartment survived.

08.12.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Duolingo* needs a Let Me Live mode. Fuck off, bird, I'm working 16 hour days right now. 🀬

*I know I shouldn't be using Duolingo anymore because their techbro goon boss has turned into yet another Bond villainβ€”but god damnit I'm simply bedeviled with meetings et cetera

12.08.2025 07:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine if they found out all us gatekeepers are crippled with self doubt and imposter anxiety constantly!

It's almost like life doesn't actually have an easy button!

03.08.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marksβ€”it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

03.08.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 7853 πŸ” 3021 πŸ’¬ 392 πŸ“Œ 666

incredible how many people are willing to say β€œfor years I didn’t care about anybody but myself. then one day, I imagined what it would be like to be somebody else and it completely changed the way I saw everything”

17.07.2025 03:19 πŸ‘ 1177 πŸ” 193 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 16
A SKELITON AT WORK AND THERE THINKEN ABOUT HOW A.I IS FORCED INTO EMAILS, INTO SEARCHES, INTO ALL APP'S, AND IT NEVER MAKES ANYTHING BETTER, IT MAKES THERE JOB WORSE, AND DA TEXT SAYS "IF AI WAS ACTUALLY USEFUL THEN THEY WOULDNT HAVE TO FORCE US TO USE IT" AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT, SOMEONES MAKEN SOME MONEY OFF THIS AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT US - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

A SKELITON AT WORK AND THERE THINKEN ABOUT HOW A.I IS FORCED INTO EMAILS, INTO SEARCHES, INTO ALL APP'S, AND IT NEVER MAKES ANYTHING BETTER, IT MAKES THERE JOB WORSE, AND DA TEXT SAYS "IF AI WAS ACTUALLY USEFUL THEN THEY WOULDNT HAVE TO FORCE US TO USE IT" AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT, SOMEONES MAKEN SOME MONEY OFF THIS AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT US - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

THINK ABOTU IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

29.06.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 3382 πŸ” 1133 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 30
Years ago I was at New York Pride and I remember running into this couple and they told me they drove like five hours to be at Pride and I was like, β€œFive hours? Why would you drive five hours?” And he said to me, β€œThis is the one time a year and the only place where I can hold my partner’s hand and kiss my partner in the street without having to look around first. It’s the only place. I don’t have that anywhere else.” One time a year. One place. This is it. And that’s what Pride means. - bob the drag queen

Years ago I was at New York Pride and I remember running into this couple and they told me they drove like five hours to be at Pride and I was like, β€œFive hours? Why would you drive five hours?” And he said to me, β€œThis is the one time a year and the only place where I can hold my partner’s hand and kiss my partner in the street without having to look around first. It’s the only place. I don’t have that anywhere else.” One time a year. One place. This is it. And that’s what Pride means. - bob the drag queen

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

27.06.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 5455 πŸ” 1449 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 37
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

16.05.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 31637 πŸ” 9991 πŸ’¬ 358 πŸ“Œ 1005

I seriously thought that students not using their brains and letting them rot inside their heads was going to be the existential problem with ai in academia, but now I see that the death knell is actually the total disruption of good faith and trust between teachers and students

09.05.2025 04:58 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in aβ€”

02.04.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 26429 πŸ” 8359 πŸ’¬ 411 πŸ“Œ 685

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

09.02.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 7547 πŸ” 2543 πŸ’¬ 137 πŸ“Œ 297

β€˜Stop making your writing political’ the privileged cry, whilst the existence of the authors identity is actively erased by the corrupt fascist government’s stochastic terrorism and hate crime rockets.

No.

If learning makes you uncomfortable, maybe reading just isn’t for you?

08.02.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Todd Rutherford Portfolio A free, customizable template for Digital Agencies / Designers built with Framer. Interactive experiences for web and mobile by Dawid Pietrasiak.

Recently built a new portfolio site in Framer. It was a really great experience and I highly recommend their platform. Their onboarding is really well done.

Also, I need a job.

#ux #uxdesign #ui #design #portfolio #productdesign

07.02.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Meta more like Beta am I rite

15.01.2025 05:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NO WHAMMIES

15.01.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So very many of my friends & coworkers have lost everything / too much. Please support mutual aid efforts. It's very very bad here.

09.01.2025 08:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Appreciate you DC 🧑 I'm fine. I decamped to my sister's house about 30 miles away from the fires. My neighborhood is still fine despite fires on all sidesβ€”not worried about my home, just was worried about midnight emergency evac traffic so decided to get ahead of it

09.01.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeffrey was very upset with the entire situation (yes my fake tree is still up)

05.01.2025 20:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This discussion prompted me to finally figure out a quick-rearrange solution to my living room layout (to give me workout space) and then I did 2 sessions from this series.

05.01.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I also really love the "for Beginners" programs on Apple Fitness+ (particularly great if you take advantage of their incessant 3-months-free offers).

05.01.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quick question for the makers of dog poop bags that have aggressive adhesive on the roll sealing sticker that then upon removal makes a hole in the bag you use to pick up your dog's poop with your hands:

What's up with that?

31.12.2024 00:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0