Dan
@danlyon.net
Curious cat, IT nerd, and connoisseur of cringe. Based in Portland, OR
MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/da...
Washington County Data Center Moratorium Petition
"The unchecked proliferation of data centers is already causing irrevocable public harm to our communities across economic, social, and environmental fronts. We need to stand together because state an...
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I'll be at the Toxic Roots of the Silicon Forest: People, Power, and Pollution in the Semiconductor Industry Conference co-hosted by @jwjpdx.bsky.social & @chipscommunities.bsky.social in #Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets today: bit.ly/toxicroots?s...
Toxic Roots of the Silicon Forest: People, Power, and Pollution in the Semiconductor Industry
Portland Jobs with Justice and CHIPS Communities United invite you to join us on June 3-4, 2026, for Toxic Roots of the Silicon Forest: People, Power, and Pollution in the Semiconductor Industry. F...
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one of my favorite guitar solos of all time - featuring Jessy Caron of Men I Trust last night @ Pioneer Square #PDX
Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...
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If the world seems too overwhelming and you want to die, remember that you’ve already done the suffering. Do not let them win. Write, sing, fucking fight until your last breath. You are not the final generation to exist. plant a tree for the future from which you will never enjoy the fruit
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
