Dan Olner
Policy fellow @Y_PERN_ @SouthYorksMCA Data scientist / geospatial+economics / climate / political economy / "tepid centrist" / bit of sci-fi too danolner.net github.com/DanOlner
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerFirst post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerEvery day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerThe New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
- "The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
- Reposted by Dan OlnerBrooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
- Reposted by Dan OlnerHere is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
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In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt: - Reposted by Dan OlnerCarney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
- Reposted by Dan OlnerI cannot express how it makes me feel to see my Minneapolis neighbors living every day in the line of fire, risking injury, imprisonment, and death at the hands of a tyrant, while these soft, empty suits prance around at Davos and hope that if they pretend hard enough he’ll go away.
- Someone should get Donald to have a play with thetruesize website. (As if objective reality plays any part in that man's mind...) thetruesize.com#?borders=1~!... #greenland
- Reposted by Dan OlnerWell that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
- Reposted by Dan OlnerCongratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.
- The Obamas in Selma, Alabama, March 2015. More on the Obama Whitehouse archived page. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03...
- Another moment where I think "surely *now* is the moment they say enough is enough" to add to the hundreds of others over the past decade. The letter's written by a malignant 5 year old who shouldn't be left unattended with anything more dangerous than lego. But no, still they all carry on.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerHow much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerSCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerWM Police chief Craig Guildford has apologised for identifying a fictitious West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match in a police report. He’s written to the home affairs committee and blames Microsoft CoPilot for the error
- Reposted by Dan OlnerHaving seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerPeople not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerThe FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
- Reposted by Dan OlnerThere are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs
- More MPs are coming off X and I assume that means they will be posting more on here @politicshome.bsky.social has a handy list of all the MPs on Bluesky Please point out anyone who is missing!
- Reposted by Dan OlnerAI does math proofs. Very interesting thread from a top mathematician. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...
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- Going to start marking these as #elonazi so I can collate them later. Haven't thought very long about that tag, it's pretty awful. It'll do.
- Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
- This map would look very different if crimes against creatures that live in hedgerows were treated with the seriousness they deserve.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerAmazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerQ: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?" Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
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- The actual front page of the actual US Homeland Security dept. www.dhs.gov
- Reposted by Dan OlnerBoth Reform & the Tories openly call for ICE-style immigration enforcement squads in the UK. While Labour tries to compete by boasting about its own number of raids & deportations that are barely any different. Immigration enforcement shot two more people in the US overnight.
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerI understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
- Not seen this in Gruaniad or NYT.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerIt has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.
- I know there's a lot of other things in here to be astonished by, but... Noble Peace Prize?
- Perfect description. UK government farting about is inexcusable.
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- Reposted by Dan OlnerFurther evidence that Reform voters are the most distinct political group in the country benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out
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- #SheffieldUniversity going for a "beatings will continue until morale improves" approach: no pay AT ALL for strikers until they provide plan to replace "lost" (i.e. when not being paid as on strike) teaching, deadline *this Friday*. 100% no pay indefinitely until done. Is that even legal??
- Reposted by Dan OlnerI’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
- New blog post: "Why make things simple / the Douglas Adams principle" on disassembling how I do stuff (tried to have a left-handed brain in a right-handed world) and testing baroque tools to help be more me. Bonus NASA material / earliest use of 'exobrain'. coveredinbees.org/posts/why-ma...
- Reposted by Dan OlnerLatest monthly visa application figures are out. Skilled workers? Still dropping. Health & care workers? Still dropping. Slow clap.
- Reposted by Dan OlnerHome Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
