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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Dec 17

Yesterday's school shooting won't show up in a bunch of summary statistics.

"Only" two people other than the shooter died, so it won't count as a mass shooting as counted by many organizations.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jun 14

9 months seems like a pretty long time already

US women waiting longer to have children, CDC data shows

New CDC data shows the average age of US mothers reached 29.6 in 2023, with significant differences across geographic and racial groups.

abcnews.go.com

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jun 8

"We don't know who they are, or even which agency they represent, but does that make these police "secret police"?"

Yes, it clearly does.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jun 7

I'm normally hesitant to make claims of causality, but it's a pretty easy bet that repeated infection with an incredibly damaging virus is a more likely cause of detriment to kids than other kids being out of school for a few months before they were even born.

The pandemic generation: How Covid-19 has left a long-term mark on children

The stress and isolation of the pandemic has left social and emotional scars that are already being seen in children, but scientists also predict there could be huge economic costs.

www.bbc.com

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · May 15

The professors defending the use of LLMs to create course content in this article are beyond embarrassing.

No, this is not "AI" and students will not need to know how to "ethically" use this in their careers.

Anyone pretending otherwise is misinformed, lying, or both.

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

www.nytimes.com

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · May 13

RIP Pepe Mujica

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · May 8

The first American Pope was Francis. This isn't hard.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 21

Calling Pope Francis the "first Latin American Pope" is such a weird thing, when he was the first American Pope, without any modifier.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 21

Calling Pope Francis the "first Latin American Pope" is such a weird thing, when he was the first American Pope, without any modifier.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 20

I don't post on here much, but I'm so psyched every time I see @roywoodjr.bsky.social getting some of the credit he deserves.

His series got renewed, and he had a Detroiters reunion on one side of the stage for yesterday's show.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 12

Cake's cover of I Will Survive was released closer to the release of the original than to the present day.

This was true starting in 2014.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 4

Nope

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 3

Will markets tanking be enough to stir up political will? Everything else sure isn't.

Maybe it'll take huge contractors getting cut off.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 4

Ronin the rat was quoted as saying, "I set a record doing WHAT?!"

Ronin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing record

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, is the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines in Cambodia.

www.bbc.com

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Apr 2

It takes a special kind of temerity to try to claim intellectual property rights over something not only plundered, but 1700 years old.

Roman dodecahedron replica removed from eBay after complaint

Archaeologists say the copy of the Roman artefact "ripped off" their work.

www.bbc.com

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Mar 30

I have bad news for these pilots about what they're doing on these missions

New York Times Headline: Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots

Lede: Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans.

“You're going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Mar 30

It's just a matter of time before The Atlantic finally just admits that Waltz is a source, and that's why they're contacts of one another in @signal.org

Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’

Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible

www.theguardian.com

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 17

It is beyond wild that Cameo labels deceased performers as "out of stock"

An image from Cameo of the late actor Biff Wiff showing "out of stock"

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 16

I've been off of here (and all social media) for a few weeks, and I'm going to keep that going a bit.

DM me for Signal.

Be well.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 16

RIP Biff Wiff 😔

Biff Wiff, 'I Think You Should Leave' Actor, Has Died

Biff Wiff, the beloved character actor known for his roles in ‘I Think You Should Leave,' has died.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 3

Will markets tanking be enough to stir up political will? Everything else sure isn't.

Maybe it'll take huge contractors getting cut off.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 2

The Whimpering Twenties

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Feb 2

The Bulwark is literally just a rebrand of The Weekly Standard. It's extremely gross.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jan 31

Despite writing a whole lot on child rearing and education, he forced his wife to give up all five of their children, and described her as a woman of low intelligence.

Some of his political philosophy is historically important, but dude was pretty soundly a real horrid dude.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jan 30

It's probably been said before, but @hrbrmstr.dev seems like a truly dreadful enemy to have.

May we all be even a fraction as productive in opposition to fascism.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is just an auto-complete. That's all it can do. If it happens to explain something correctly, it's quite literally by chance.

Stop expecting meaningful responses from these things.

Reasonable people using them, like Chris here, lend credibility to inherently untrustworthy technology.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jan 28

Getting DeepSeek to explain to me how neural networks work.

Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social · Jan 29

Almost unbelievable hypocrisy

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