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danso
Tues Jun 14, 2011 9:30pm PST
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about
Amateur data scientist and photographer in Chicago.

Formerly: teaching at Stanford and programming+newsing at ProPublica.

Blog: http://www.danwin.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dancow

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dnguyen; my proof: https://keybase.io/dnguyen/sigs/69iS-DQno44YqjgaowUD_Zze660k3fojXZmHob-bgxA ]

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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
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Delivery Apps Must Pay $5M in Minimum Pay Settlement with NYC
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 1:10pm PST
Menasha police officer allegedly used Flock cameras to find victim's car
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Tues Jan 13, 2026 6:42pm PST
The $1B AI Drug Lab That Can't Touch Its Own Data
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Genetic inheritance for animals in Dwarf Fortress
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Tues Dec 23, 2025 10:03pm PST
Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 2:10pm PST
Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird's Beak
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Sat Dec 13, 2025 12:17am PST
Think Tanker Altered Ukraine War Map Before Big Polymarket Payout
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Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
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He managed to format a 3.5" disk so that it could contain more data than 1.44MB
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Tues Nov 25, 2025 4:34pm PST
Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds
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Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor's AI use
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Sun Nov 9, 2025 6:55pm PST
A new experiment in remote work, from the inside
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Sun Oct 19, 2025 12:36pm PST
A Tower on Billionaires' Row Is Full of Cracks. Who's to Blame?
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Renato Casaro, 'Michelangelo of Movie Posters,' Dies at 89
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Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:04pm PST
We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb
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Thurs Oct 2, 2025 1:04am PST
iCloud-photos-downloader: A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
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Thurs Sep 25, 2025 10:52am PST
The Tech Fashion Darling Accused of Swindling Investors Out of $300M
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Thurs Sep 11, 2025 12:24pm PST
How Bloomberg News Vetted the Epstein Emails
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Thurs Sep 4, 2025 10:13pm PST
The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com
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Thurs Sep 4, 2025 4:26pm PST
A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience
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Wed Aug 27, 2025 8:14pm PST
Whatever Happened to the Self Driving Semi?
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Mon Aug 25, 2025 12:10am PST
Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way
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Surviving the Unsurvivable
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Tues Aug 12, 2025 12:14am PST
The Long Trip of Rick Perry
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Mon Aug 11, 2025 12:38pm PST
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
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Sun Aug 3, 2025 8:05pm PST
An Investigation into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
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Sat Aug 2, 2025 12:38am PST
Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight
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Fri Aug 1, 2025 6:54pm PST
Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 2:10pm PST
Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites This Week
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 7:36pm PST
The last step in a long process on “arsenic life”
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Fri Jul 18, 2025 7:44pm PST
Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 3:24pm PST
The Error Project: Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 12:18pm PST
A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:00pm PST
Mindustry Captured Minds in Prison. Then It Disappeared
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:00pm PST
Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:51pm PST
The Life-Changing Joy of Tidying My Prison Cell
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 2:48pm PST
I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X
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Why AO3 Was Down
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Wed Jun 25, 2025 12:13pm PST
Former CEO sentenced to prison in first-ever prosecution for stock trading plans
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Tues Jun 17, 2025 5:55pm PST
He's got the rights, the original code, and is about to relaunch Dungeon Rampage
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DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 6:29pm PST
Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
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The Echo in the Machine
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