Dane in GA
@greatdanega.bsky.social
Organizational change advisor, novice Buddhist, uncle, shaper of the common good
To be fair to Trump, Lutnick makes me want to shut my own eyes. Or poke them out.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
To be fair to Trump, Lutnick makes me want to shut my own eyes. Or poke them out.
This is an important topic but it what is needs is a lot more synthesis and summarization. Clarity begets action.
All this whining about how most people don’t pay attention to the nuance. Sometimes, rambling wonkery is the problem.
All this whining about how most people don’t pay attention to the nuance. Sometimes, rambling wonkery is the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is an important topic but it what is needs is a lot more synthesis and summarization. Clarity begets action.
All this whining about how most people don’t pay attention to the nuance. Sometimes, rambling wonkery is the problem.
All this whining about how most people don’t pay attention to the nuance. Sometimes, rambling wonkery is the problem.
And further, if it’s ’not clear’, no credible PUC should approve consumer bill rate hikes until it’s made clear.
This isn’t an academic argument - at 25% increases over 5 years, we’re talking about some number of households getting their power shut off in winter.
This isn’t an academic argument - at 25% increases over 5 years, we’re talking about some number of households getting their power shut off in winter.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
And further, if it’s ’not clear’, no credible PUC should approve consumer bill rate hikes until it’s made clear.
This isn’t an academic argument - at 25% increases over 5 years, we’re talking about some number of households getting their power shut off in winter.
This isn’t an academic argument - at 25% increases over 5 years, we’re talking about some number of households getting their power shut off in winter.
Fairness: a principle that the drivers of increased costs should pay for those costs. When a utility company goes hat in hand to the PUC, they’d better come with an analysis of the consumer’s role in cost increases. As in credible multiple regression models that are independently validated.
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Fairness: a principle that the drivers of increased costs should pay for those costs. When a utility company goes hat in hand to the PUC, they’d better come with an analysis of the consumer’s role in cost increases. As in credible multiple regression models that are independently validated.
Perhaps utilities need to optimize their grids or pay construction costs to grow. State governments should force all those costs to be funded by the drivers of that growth: data center firms.
It’s maddening that we seem perplexed at cost of living challenges - when it’s clear how they emerge.
It’s maddening that we seem perplexed at cost of living challenges - when it’s clear how they emerge.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Perhaps utilities need to optimize their grids or pay construction costs to grow. State governments should force all those costs to be funded by the drivers of that growth: data center firms.
It’s maddening that we seem perplexed at cost of living challenges - when it’s clear how they emerge.
It’s maddening that we seem perplexed at cost of living challenges - when it’s clear how they emerge.
The conclusion of the 10 minute preview appears to be ‘It’s complicated’. But campaigning on the fact that electric bills have risen by 25% since 2020 isn’t complicated. Perhaps some of this is climate change, but PUCs should prevent any costs of Data Center growth from being passed to consumers.
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The conclusion of the 10 minute preview appears to be ‘It’s complicated’. But campaigning on the fact that electric bills have risen by 25% since 2020 isn’t complicated. Perhaps some of this is climate change, but PUCs should prevent any costs of Data Center growth from being passed to consumers.
Then why are rates rising in so many regions? This analysis would be at odds with rate increases, unless greed is the driver.
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Then why are rates rising in so many regions? This analysis would be at odds with rate increases, unless greed is the driver.
What did they say about fixing things on Day 1?
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What did they say about fixing things on Day 1?
I believe the editors garbled the headline.
It should read: ‘Kiss our public health system goodbye’.
That should have been apparent by interview #2.
If not, Michael Scherer is not a very good reporter.
It should read: ‘Kiss our public health system goodbye’.
That should have been apparent by interview #2.
If not, Michael Scherer is not a very good reporter.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I believe the editors garbled the headline.
It should read: ‘Kiss our public health system goodbye’.
That should have been apparent by interview #2.
If not, Michael Scherer is not a very good reporter.
It should read: ‘Kiss our public health system goodbye’.
That should have been apparent by interview #2.
If not, Michael Scherer is not a very good reporter.
Her recent art makes a useful broader point: that we scrutinize AI & VR as being loosely tethered to reality, yet stories and images we create are cropped, told slant, or made up to fit who we aspire to be. They too are loosely tethered to reality. Perhaps AI's quirks are an uncomfortable mirror.
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Her recent art makes a useful broader point: that we scrutinize AI & VR as being loosely tethered to reality, yet stories and images we create are cropped, told slant, or made up to fit who we aspire to be. They too are loosely tethered to reality. Perhaps AI's quirks are an uncomfortable mirror.
Laurie showed this leftmost photo during her ARK performance - also from her MASS MoCA exhibit. Her prompt was ‘horse-drawn wagon’ but the image is a blur without structural delineation between horse & wagon. The image feels simultaneously authentic and hokey. Fun? Yeah. Confidence inspiring? …
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Laurie showed this leftmost photo during her ARK performance - also from her MASS MoCA exhibit. Her prompt was ‘horse-drawn wagon’ but the image is a blur without structural delineation between horse & wagon. The image feels simultaneously authentic and hokey. Fun? Yeah. Confidence inspiring? …
The latter. If the image is fit-for-purpose, I’m indifferent to how it was created. If I were an artist, I might feel differently.
Yet many AI images seem wildly hokey, at least now. Last year, Laurie Anderson demoed a real time AI image generator onstage as she talked. Fun but laughable.
Yet many AI images seem wildly hokey, at least now. Last year, Laurie Anderson demoed a real time AI image generator onstage as she talked. Fun but laughable.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The latter. If the image is fit-for-purpose, I’m indifferent to how it was created. If I were an artist, I might feel differently.
Yet many AI images seem wildly hokey, at least now. Last year, Laurie Anderson demoed a real time AI image generator onstage as she talked. Fun but laughable.
Yet many AI images seem wildly hokey, at least now. Last year, Laurie Anderson demoed a real time AI image generator onstage as she talked. Fun but laughable.
It’s not the provenance of the images but their usage: as used, they rarely add to presentations as do charts and diagrams. Always been true - at best, they offer cheap metaphors.
Also lame to embed the same image again and again of those same four people smiling in a sterile meeting room.
Also lame to embed the same image again and again of those same four people smiling in a sterile meeting room.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s not the provenance of the images but their usage: as used, they rarely add to presentations as do charts and diagrams. Always been true - at best, they offer cheap metaphors.
Also lame to embed the same image again and again of those same four people smiling in a sterile meeting room.
Also lame to embed the same image again and again of those same four people smiling in a sterile meeting room.
Thank you for sharing these recommendations, Michelle.
This administration has produced so much anxiety - everything, everywhere, and all at once - that it can feel hard to cope. People are not used to this much chaos.
The best antidote is acting, even in small ways. I’ll contribute today.
This administration has produced so much anxiety - everything, everywhere, and all at once - that it can feel hard to cope. People are not used to this much chaos.
The best antidote is acting, even in small ways. I’ll contribute today.
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thank you for sharing these recommendations, Michelle.
This administration has produced so much anxiety - everything, everywhere, and all at once - that it can feel hard to cope. People are not used to this much chaos.
The best antidote is acting, even in small ways. I’ll contribute today.
This administration has produced so much anxiety - everything, everywhere, and all at once - that it can feel hard to cope. People are not used to this much chaos.
The best antidote is acting, even in small ways. I’ll contribute today.
This is the most tone deaf, idiotic perspective I’ve read in a long time.
Exactly how many minimum wage workers live with hedge fund managers or tech executives?
Your editorial team is clueless.
Exactly how many minimum wage workers live with hedge fund managers or tech executives?
Your editorial team is clueless.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is the most tone deaf, idiotic perspective I’ve read in a long time.
Exactly how many minimum wage workers live with hedge fund managers or tech executives?
Your editorial team is clueless.
Exactly how many minimum wage workers live with hedge fund managers or tech executives?
Your editorial team is clueless.
This is a woman who found RFK Jr. attractive. The man is a walking corpse, FFS.
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is a woman who found RFK Jr. attractive. The man is a walking corpse, FFS.
Once the political pendulum swings back from its bro/anti-woke era (it will), media outlets, universities, and corporations (e.g., Target) will need to recalibrate with public expectations. They'll be seen as the weathervane opportunists that they are. I can't decide whether that is good or bad.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Once the political pendulum swings back from its bro/anti-woke era (it will), media outlets, universities, and corporations (e.g., Target) will need to recalibrate with public expectations. They'll be seen as the weathervane opportunists that they are. I can't decide whether that is good or bad.
The past decade has forced me to hold two thoughts simultaneously:
1 - I think less of my country after seeing gleeful celebration of cruelty and deliberate undermining of the common good. I can't unsee it now.
2 - There are so many decent citizens worthy of our care and building solidarity with.
1 - I think less of my country after seeing gleeful celebration of cruelty and deliberate undermining of the common good. I can't unsee it now.
2 - There are so many decent citizens worthy of our care and building solidarity with.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The past decade has forced me to hold two thoughts simultaneously:
1 - I think less of my country after seeing gleeful celebration of cruelty and deliberate undermining of the common good. I can't unsee it now.
2 - There are so many decent citizens worthy of our care and building solidarity with.
1 - I think less of my country after seeing gleeful celebration of cruelty and deliberate undermining of the common good. I can't unsee it now.
2 - There are so many decent citizens worthy of our care and building solidarity with.
Two thoughts:
1 - Tim shows up here as smart, generous, & funny ('you packin?'😁).
2 - These Gen Zers seem willing to overlook Trump's excesses (ICE fascism) because nobody has yet solved the problem at hand (immigration). They value solutions over democracy's system of laws. That's unnerving.
1 - Tim shows up here as smart, generous, & funny ('you packin?'😁).
2 - These Gen Zers seem willing to overlook Trump's excesses (ICE fascism) because nobody has yet solved the problem at hand (immigration). They value solutions over democracy's system of laws. That's unnerving.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Two thoughts:
1 - Tim shows up here as smart, generous, & funny ('you packin?'😁).
2 - These Gen Zers seem willing to overlook Trump's excesses (ICE fascism) because nobody has yet solved the problem at hand (immigration). They value solutions over democracy's system of laws. That's unnerving.
1 - Tim shows up here as smart, generous, & funny ('you packin?'😁).
2 - These Gen Zers seem willing to overlook Trump's excesses (ICE fascism) because nobody has yet solved the problem at hand (immigration). They value solutions over democracy's system of laws. That's unnerving.
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM