David Daniel
@daviddaniel.bsky.social
Husband & father, American Jew, entertainment journalist, environmentalist, reader, regular blood donor. SoCal native, home after Boston & Atlanta sojourns. “Find the good, and praise it" - Alex Haley
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David Daniel
@daviddaniel.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Kindness is as critically underrated as it is monumentally important.
From @us.theconversation.com:
"[Navigating different web links] leads to the development of a deeper, more original mental representation of the topic at hand. But with LLMs, this entire process is done on the user's behalf, transforming learning from a more active to passive process."
"[Navigating different web links] leads to the development of a deeper, more original mental representation of the topic at hand. But with LLMs, this entire process is done on the user's behalf, transforming learning from a more active to passive process."
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
From @us.theconversation.com:
"[Navigating different web links] leads to the development of a deeper, more original mental representation of the topic at hand. But with LLMs, this entire process is done on the user's behalf, transforming learning from a more active to passive process."
"[Navigating different web links] leads to the development of a deeper, more original mental representation of the topic at hand. But with LLMs, this entire process is done on the user's behalf, transforming learning from a more active to passive process."
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
The Police (Oingo Boingo opened)
Grateful Dead
Jimmy Buffett
Squeeze
James Taylor / Carole King reunion at the Troubadour
The Police (Oingo Boingo opened)
Grateful Dead
Jimmy Buffett
Squeeze
James Taylor / Carole King reunion at the Troubadour
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Devo
Tom Waits
Soundgarden
Wilco
Math Emergency
Devo
Tom Waits
Soundgarden
Wilco
Math Emergency
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
The Police (Oingo Boingo opened)
Grateful Dead
Jimmy Buffett
Squeeze
James Taylor / Carole King reunion at the Troubadour
The Police (Oingo Boingo opened)
Grateful Dead
Jimmy Buffett
Squeeze
James Taylor / Carole King reunion at the Troubadour
Here’s your pre- or post-Thanksgiving dinner read: if you love pie*, you should definitely know about @worldneedsmorepie.bsky.social, her wonderful books, and her remarkable new film, PIEOWA.
(*If you don’t love pie, I feel for you, but read it anyway.)
(*If you don’t love pie, I feel for you, but read it anyway.)
Facing burnout, she chased her dream of making pie - and built an empire: ‘Pie brings us together’
She left Silicon Valley to master pie, became Hollywood’s baker and now films its healing power
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Here’s your pre- or post-Thanksgiving dinner read: if you love pie*, you should definitely know about @worldneedsmorepie.bsky.social, her wonderful books, and her remarkable new film, PIEOWA.
(*If you don’t love pie, I feel for you, but read it anyway.)
(*If you don’t love pie, I feel for you, but read it anyway.)
Thanksgiving movies:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Alice’s Restaurant (the movie, starring Arlo Guthrie)
Home For The Holidays
Pieces of April
Friendsgiving
Addams Family Values (the camp Thanksgiving play)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Alice’s Restaurant (the movie, starring Arlo Guthrie)
Home For The Holidays
Pieces of April
Friendsgiving
Addams Family Values (the camp Thanksgiving play)
There aren't a lot of Thanksgiving movies because we absolutely do not want to dwell on the reason for the season
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thanksgiving movies:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Alice’s Restaurant (the movie, starring Arlo Guthrie)
Home For The Holidays
Pieces of April
Friendsgiving
Addams Family Values (the camp Thanksgiving play)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Alice’s Restaurant (the movie, starring Arlo Guthrie)
Home For The Holidays
Pieces of April
Friendsgiving
Addams Family Values (the camp Thanksgiving play)
If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving with family and/or friends, I hope everyone there, especially those who prepared the food, feels comfortable, safe, and honored.
If you’re alone and/or not celebrating, I hope you have the day you want, feel comfortable and safe, and know that I honor you.
If you’re alone and/or not celebrating, I hope you have the day you want, feel comfortable and safe, and know that I honor you.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving with family and/or friends, I hope everyone there, especially those who prepared the food, feels comfortable, safe, and honored.
If you’re alone and/or not celebrating, I hope you have the day you want, feel comfortable and safe, and know that I honor you.
If you’re alone and/or not celebrating, I hope you have the day you want, feel comfortable and safe, and know that I honor you.
Reposted by David Daniel
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
@billmckibben.bsky.social: BlackRock "has $13.46 trillion under management as of this fall. owns ten percent of the world’s stock market. If it wanted to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry, it could, more easily than any other single entity on planet earth."
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@billmckibben.bsky.social: BlackRock "has $13.46 trillion under management as of this fall. owns ten percent of the world’s stock market. If it wanted to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry, it could, more easily than any other single entity on planet earth."
"ChatGPT accessed content from behind Press Gazette’s paywall and then gave a highly misleading explanation of what it had done.
It’s a case which underlines the extent to which AI answer engines are flouting copyright and paywalls and also the sheer weirdness of some of the responses they give."
It’s a case which underlines the extent to which AI answer engines are flouting copyright and paywalls and also the sheer weirdness of some of the responses they give."
ChatGPT took Press Gazette content then said that could not have happened
World's leading LLM said it could not have done the thing it did.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"ChatGPT accessed content from behind Press Gazette’s paywall and then gave a highly misleading explanation of what it had done.
It’s a case which underlines the extent to which AI answer engines are flouting copyright and paywalls and also the sheer weirdness of some of the responses they give."
It’s a case which underlines the extent to which AI answer engines are flouting copyright and paywalls and also the sheer weirdness of some of the responses they give."
New from @404media.co:
Slop Evader, a new browser tool available for Firefox and Chrome, filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day ChatGPT was released to the public.
Slop Evader, a new browser tool available for Firefox and Chrome, filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New from @404media.co:
Slop Evader, a new browser tool available for Firefox and Chrome, filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day ChatGPT was released to the public.
Slop Evader, a new browser tool available for Firefox and Chrome, filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day ChatGPT was released to the public.
Reposted by David Daniel
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
From @us.theconversation.com:
Immigration raids, tariff changes and cuts to food assistance programs have left farmers short of workers and money, food rotting in fields and warehouses, and millions of Americans hungry. And then there's the administration’s actual destruction of edible food.
Immigration raids, tariff changes and cuts to food assistance programs have left farmers short of workers and money, food rotting in fields and warehouses, and millions of Americans hungry. And then there's the administration’s actual destruction of edible food.
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From @us.theconversation.com:
Immigration raids, tariff changes and cuts to food assistance programs have left farmers short of workers and money, food rotting in fields and warehouses, and millions of Americans hungry. And then there's the administration’s actual destruction of edible food.
Immigration raids, tariff changes and cuts to food assistance programs have left farmers short of workers and money, food rotting in fields and warehouses, and millions of Americans hungry. And then there's the administration’s actual destruction of edible food.
My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: the composer himself, Vince Guaraldi, can be heard singing in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving."
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: the composer himself, Vince Guaraldi, can be heard singing in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving."
"The platform no longer fits our vision on how we want to present news on social media," the state-funded news organisation said. "The amount of hateful responses and disinformation on X is large and unrestricted. Also under our own messages, making us unintentionally help spread them."
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"The platform no longer fits our vision on how we want to present news on social media," the state-funded news organisation said. "The amount of hateful responses and disinformation on X is large and unrestricted. Also under our own messages, making us unintentionally help spread them."
Thank you, @worldneedsmorepie.bsky.social, for telling me about this heart-warming four-minute rom-com starring Keira Knightley, comedian Joe Wilkinson, and, of course, pie. (It's an ad for a British supermarket chain, but don't let that stop you.)
Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thank you, @worldneedsmorepie.bsky.social, for telling me about this heart-warming four-minute rom-com starring Keira Knightley, comedian Joe Wilkinson, and, of course, pie. (It's an ad for a British supermarket chain, but don't let that stop you.)
“Screen everyone ages 40 to 85, regardless of smoking history, and you detect 94% of cancers and prevent more than 26,000 deaths every year. The cost is lower than what we routinely pay for breast or colorectal cancer screening.”
"Let that sink in: Two-thirds of people who develop the deadliest cancer in the country would never have been offered the one test proven to save their lives." www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/l...
The hidden reason lung cancer screening is not working
The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of a cancer prevention institute.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“Screen everyone ages 40 to 85, regardless of smoking history, and you detect 94% of cancers and prevent more than 26,000 deaths every year. The cost is lower than what we routinely pay for breast or colorectal cancer screening.”
Bob Ross painting fetches a record $1.04 million; bidet signed by GWAR’s Blöthar the Berserker brings in slightly less.
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight auction raises a total of more than $1.5 million for public media, and many viewers made individual donations to stations profiled on the show.
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight auction raises a total of more than $1.5 million for public media, and many viewers made individual donations to stations profiled on the show.
John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million for Public Media Thanks to Bob Ross and GWAR
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight auction raised $1.54 million for public media, thanks to a record-setting Bob Ross painting and a GWAR-signed bidet.
consequence.net
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Bob Ross painting fetches a record $1.04 million; bidet signed by GWAR’s Blöthar the Berserker brings in slightly less.
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight auction raises a total of more than $1.5 million for public media, and many viewers made individual donations to stations profiled on the show.
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight auction raises a total of more than $1.5 million for public media, and many viewers made individual donations to stations profiled on the show.
Reposted by David Daniel
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
The first US women's professional baseball league in more than 70 years begins play next summer, with teams in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.
Women who play baseball will once again have a league of their own | CNN
Women’s professional baseball is returning for the first time since 1954. CNN’s Brynn Gingras takes you inside the draft party of one of the league’s top picks and former Little League star, Mo’ne Dav...
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The first US women's professional baseball league in more than 70 years begins play next summer, with teams in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.
My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Georgia O'Keeffe.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Georgia O'Keeffe.
Reposted by David Daniel
A 20-year-old Florida man was arrested after allegedly planning a livestreamed attack and threatening children. Federal authorities found an array of neo-Nazi paraphernalia at his home, including a flag associated with Atomwaffen Division. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Florida man discussed livestreaming neo-Nazi terror attack, feds say
Exclusive: The father of 20-year-old Lucas Alexander Temple, who was there when his son was arrested, told The Independent that he didn’t want to “inadvertently say anything that might hurt his case.”
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A 20-year-old Florida man was arrested after allegedly planning a livestreamed attack and threatening children. Federal authorities found an array of neo-Nazi paraphernalia at his home, including a flag associated with Atomwaffen Division. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Reposted by David Daniel
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Bless you, @clairewillett.bsky.social and respondents, for the most and loudest laughter I’ve enjoyed in quite a while.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Bless you, @clairewillett.bsky.social and respondents, for the most and loudest laughter I’ve enjoyed in quite a while.
Reposted by David Daniel
To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.
Intermittent solar and wind complement each other for a more stable grid
A study finds combining wind and solar leverages their alternating peak periods, significantly boosting total generation capacity while providing a constant, predictable power curve critical for grid ...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.