Dale Osterman
@dalenotdan.bsky.social
Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Writer. Aimless musician. Sad Lefty. Just trying to make cool stuff and leave things a little bit better than I found them, ya know?
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Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 8, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Watching musician friends wring their hands about not wanting to support Spotify but also wanting to post their Wrapped because they want to share their music tastes with everyone and it’s like…
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Watching musician friends wring their hands about not wanting to support Spotify but also wanting to post their Wrapped because they want to share their music tastes with everyone and it’s like…
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Don't say we didn't warn you.
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Don't say we didn't warn you.
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babe, wake up, clipping. tiny desk just dropped and they got a rube goldberg robot drummer thing on the beat
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
babe, wake up, clipping. tiny desk just dropped and they got a rube goldberg robot drummer thing on the beat
One of if not the best narrative game I’ve ever played. Now that it’s on ALL the platforms y’all owe it to yourselves to check it out
You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake.
💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution
1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.
💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution
1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One of if not the best narrative game I’ve ever played. Now that it’s on ALL the platforms y’all owe it to yourselves to check it out
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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
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"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is:
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."
September 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is:
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
*butterfly meme* is the free speech?
President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing Penguin Random House, which published the book Lucky Loser, as well as the New York Times and four of its reporters, of trying to undermine his 2024 election campaign. Both the Times and PRH called the suit meritless.
Trump Sues Penguin Random House, ‘New York Times’ for $15 Billion
President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing the New York Times and four of its reporters, as well as Penguin Random House, which published the book Lucky Loser, of trying to undermine his…
buff.ly
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
*butterfly meme* is the free speech?
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This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.
When Charlie Kirk, who put together lists of professors he didn't like so people could target & harass them, used the phrase "free speech", he used it in the same way creationists use "teach the controversy." For Kirk, it was just another way to bludgeon the left and also to promote his propaganda.
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
Clair Obscur really is the ultimate “you go over your friend’s house but your friend’s parents are getting a divorce and they get in a fight and start yelling at your friend and now you gotta just stand there awkwardly” simulator
September 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Clair Obscur really is the ultimate “you go over your friend’s house but your friend’s parents are getting a divorce and they get in a fight and start yelling at your friend and now you gotta just stand there awkwardly” simulator
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Here’s what just happened: Trump sent a peace deal to Hamas, Hamas met to discuss it in Doha, where the U.S. is mediating talks and has a base,and Israel bombed them, presumably with US support.
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Here’s what just happened: Trump sent a peace deal to Hamas, Hamas met to discuss it in Doha, where the U.S. is mediating talks and has a base,and Israel bombed them, presumably with US support.
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I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
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Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
“The school uses AI to monitor how students are working on their computers, recording screen activity & monitoring keystrokes. If a student isn’t taking time to read lessons, flying through prompts or not paying attention to the computer, a coaching tool will remind them to slow down & refocus.”
A 🧵
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For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia
At Alpha School, a new private school in Northern Virginia, students will study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
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Gaza is at a stage of irreversible famine, when bodies start consuming their organs. Even if they were fed today, many are past the point of absorbing nutrients.
Israel has already been suppressing the true death toll, but we're at an inflection point. This means MASS GRAVES.
Israel has already been suppressing the true death toll, but we're at an inflection point. This means MASS GRAVES.
July 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Gaza is at a stage of irreversible famine, when bodies start consuming their organs. Even if they were fed today, many are past the point of absorbing nutrients.
Israel has already been suppressing the true death toll, but we're at an inflection point. This means MASS GRAVES.
Israel has already been suppressing the true death toll, but we're at an inflection point. This means MASS GRAVES.
Fascinating thread. The gulf between users’ perception of their productivity and the actual results is particularly interesting. People seem so bought in to the promise of AI that they don’t realize when it’s slowing them down
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Fascinating thread. The gulf between users’ perception of their productivity and the actual results is particularly interesting. People seem so bought in to the promise of AI that they don’t realize when it’s slowing them down
Sets of three and parallel structure? *stares at hands* am I…an LLM?
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Sets of three and parallel structure? *stares at hands* am I…an LLM?
My “We didn’t start the fire” song has people asking a lot of questions answered by the song
July 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My “We didn’t start the fire” song has people asking a lot of questions answered by the song
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I think this is true, which is why you can expect a full-on assault on ranked choice from both major parties over the next year-plus. They'll frame it as "your vote doesn't count in ranked choice," which won't be true or make sense, but when has that stopped any of them
Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.
From a key Mamdani adviser ❤️
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I think this is true, which is why you can expect a full-on assault on ranked choice from both major parties over the next year-plus. They'll frame it as "your vote doesn't count in ranked choice," which won't be true or make sense, but when has that stopped any of them
*Ed Sheeran voice* The club isn’t the best place to find a lover cause in da clerb we all fam
June 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
*Ed Sheeran voice* The club isn’t the best place to find a lover cause in da clerb we all fam
I know all we have are process arguments because nobody has a moral compass these days, but even if Congress *did* authorize it, these strikes on Iran would still be bad and we shouldn’t have done them!
June 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I know all we have are process arguments because nobody has a moral compass these days, but even if Congress *did* authorize it, these strikes on Iran would still be bad and we shouldn’t have done them!