Dan Ness
@danodano.bsky.social
Curious, with levitation (no visible means of support)
Independent producer of the MetaFacts TUP/Technology User Profile study (42 continuous years).
Independent producer of the MetaFacts TUP/Technology User Profile study (42 continuous years).
Enterprises realizing their risk exposure may be the nail in the coffin to stop half-baked chatbots before they can cause more harm
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount
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Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Enterprises realizing their risk exposure may be the nail in the coffin to stop half-baked chatbots before they can cause more harm
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France has launched an investigation into Musk’s Grok AI after reports of Holocaust denial content, raising alarms about tech accountability and historical truth.
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
France has launched an investigation into Musk’s Grok AI after reports of Holocaust denial content, raising alarms about tech accountability and historical truth.
San Diego has been out-normalizing for decades, and even has a delightfully diverse neighborhood named Normal Heights
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
San Diego has been out-normalizing for decades, and even has a delightfully diverse neighborhood named Normal Heights
Great work today giving 1,000 complete Thanksgiving meals to San Diegans!
Today we are celebrating National Food Bank Day during this Hunger Awareness Month! More than 1/4 of San Diegans face nutrition insecurity and more than 70% of those that the San Diego Food Bank serves are working households.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Great work today giving 1,000 complete Thanksgiving meals to San Diegans!
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"Limiting surveys to one follow-up visit would compound the impact, demographers say"
Me.
That demographer was me.
🙄
Me.
That demographer was me.
🙄
🚨 Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians
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Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians
Pending bills targeting decennial census and American Community Survey would make results less reliable
www.science.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Limiting surveys to one follow-up visit would compound the impact, demographers say"
Me.
That demographer was me.
🙄
Me.
That demographer was me.
🙄
There’s a crass yet insightful question attributed to a naive advertising intern: “What if the dogs won’t eat the dog food?”
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
There’s a crass yet insightful question attributed to a naive advertising intern: “What if the dogs won’t eat the dog food?”
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
Data Depot - the next big DIY chain?
The thing is that if you get your data from DoorDash, it might be more convenient but the costs add up in the long run, because it’s really better and cheaper to just go directly to the data place and pick it up yourself.
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Data Depot - the next big DIY chain?
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We’ve got one of the most in-depth surveys on how Americans connect with neighbors online — what works, what doesn't, what they want instead.
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need · Zoom · Luma
Now we know what we've long suspected: People really use and rely on their local Facebook groups, Nextdoor neighborhoods, and WhatsApp group chats, but they…
luma.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’ve got one of the most in-depth surveys on how Americans connect with neighbors online — what works, what doesn't, what they want instead.
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
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For 40 days, President Trump and Republicans refused to negotiate a bipartisan budget deal that prevents healthcare costs from skyrocketing. In CA50, 28,000 people face higher costs if we don't extend ACA tax credits. We cannot afford to wait, yet this deal does nothing to address this crisis. 1/3
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
For 40 days, President Trump and Republicans refused to negotiate a bipartisan budget deal that prevents healthcare costs from skyrocketing. In CA50, 28,000 people face higher costs if we don't extend ACA tax credits. We cannot afford to wait, yet this deal does nothing to address this crisis. 1/3
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When Speaker Johnson finally brings the House back into session on this, I'm voting no. 3/3
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
When Speaker Johnson finally brings the House back into session on this, I'm voting no. 3/3
It takes a lot of work by the US Census to gather and report statistics on racial identity. Many Americans who have Hispanic ancestors are hesitant to answer that it’s part of their past, and many also don’t even know their ancestry.
NEW: The nation's Hispanic population hit 68 million in 2024, according to recently released Census Bureau data. That means 1 in every 5 people in the United States is Hispanic. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It takes a lot of work by the US Census to gather and report statistics on racial identity. Many Americans who have Hispanic ancestors are hesitant to answer that it’s part of their past, and many also don’t even know their ancestry.
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But if we start using AI instead of humans, AI will be trained by AI and it’s likely to become a game of telephone in that it will degrade over time. We won’t be able to capture changes over time or learn new insights with any real accuracy.
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
But if we start using AI instead of humans, AI will be trained by AI and it’s likely to become a game of telephone in that it will degrade over time. We won’t be able to capture changes over time or learn new insights with any real accuracy.
It looks like Ohio lawmakers are trying to restrict civil union to be only between humans.
Grok may be disappointed.
Grok may be disappointed.
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It looks like Ohio lawmakers are trying to restrict civil union to be only between humans.
Grok may be disappointed.
Grok may be disappointed.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It’s great to see progress in human-made creations
@travale.bsky.social I bought a birthday card today and loved to see this icon on the back! I You've done amazing work advocating for no AI, had to share
September 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It’s great to see progress in human-made creations
The same has been happening with commercial market research reports. Aggregators have been tapping into works licensed by corporates both to train their models as well as to resell the results. It’s thievery whether it’s consumer or commercial.
As if the whole academic publishing business wasn't squeezing authors (and taxpayers) enough.
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
September 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The same has been happening with commercial market research reports. Aggregators have been tapping into works licensed by corporates both to train their models as well as to resell the results. It’s thievery whether it’s consumer or commercial.
Published authors may yet get some compensation for Anthropic’s theft. This article clarifies some key questions.
Legal settlements of this kind are generally taxable. Some other good answers here:
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
authorsguild.org
September 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Published authors may yet get some compensation for Anthropic’s theft. This article clarifies some key questions.
They called it a game, but some unsuspecting users didn’t notice it being swapped for a real calculator
Look, I just think it’s clear this is the future and we have to start integrating it into our processes now so we don’t get left behind and miss out on the innovative potential of such a breakthrough technology.
September 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
They called it a game, but some unsuspecting users didn’t notice it being swapped for a real calculator
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Maybe, although it’s fascinating to watch people react to the bizarro stuff on TV
Normalize not having TVs on in waiting rooms and other public places. If people want something to watch, they have phones.
September 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Maybe, although it’s fascinating to watch people react to the bizarro stuff on TV
Christmas in August, at least among some retailers
August 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Christmas in August, at least among some retailers
A can’t-miss approach for kings.
Much cheaper than hiring statisticians and obviously more accurate! 😉
(Yes, this is about solid statistics being undermined re firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.)
Evergreen cartoon by Hankin
Much cheaper than hiring statisticians and obviously more accurate! 😉
(Yes, this is about solid statistics being undermined re firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.)
Evergreen cartoon by Hankin
August 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A can’t-miss approach for kings.
Much cheaper than hiring statisticians and obviously more accurate! 😉
(Yes, this is about solid statistics being undermined re firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.)
Evergreen cartoon by Hankin
Much cheaper than hiring statisticians and obviously more accurate! 😉
(Yes, this is about solid statistics being undermined re firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.)
Evergreen cartoon by Hankin
Linguists, sociologists, and demographers take note: this looks like the birth of a new generation name–“slop-native”
👏🎉
Slop-native: an age cohort whose first reading materials are remasticated, regenerated, and regurgitated text
#slopnative
👏🎉
Slop-native: an age cohort whose first reading materials are remasticated, regenerated, and regurgitated text
#slopnative
there's also a cumulative effect. how do you even learn what a good issue description is if a nontrivial amount of issues and PR you've seen are slop. if you grow up surrounded by uncanny valley, do you even see slop? what is it like to be slop-native?
August 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Linguists, sociologists, and demographers take note: this looks like the birth of a new generation name–“slop-native”
👏🎉
Slop-native: an age cohort whose first reading materials are remasticated, regenerated, and regurgitated text
#slopnative
👏🎉
Slop-native: an age cohort whose first reading materials are remasticated, regenerated, and regurgitated text
#slopnative
