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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)

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GA Tech Materials Science PhD Batteries & X-ray image analysis research Backpacking, guitar, calisthenics, & FOSS Stop being mean to trans folks.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026
I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.
Musk doing his Sieg Heil salute
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
US House passes legislation that blocks federal aid for colleges and universities if they engage in boycotts against Peru in 237-169 vote. (jk, of course it's Israel).
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms
Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026
AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/
The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
authors who put a single endnote at the end of a long paragraph and then cite half a dozen different books without any indication of which factual assertions came from which sources are actually going straight to hell, I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you!!!!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/07/2026
Amnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
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An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026
As far as I can tell, this dialog between MacArthur prize-winning mathematician Terrence Tao and Chatgpt about "the Jacobian conjecture counterexample" is very impressive: chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc... 1/
A 1960s classroom. A teacher in a blue dress stands at a blackboard in the background; in the foreground, a child works at a desk. The child's head has been replaced with the head of a killer robot. The blackboard is covered in printed circuits
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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Happy to share a new zine we just finished that's an updated version to "Recognizing Hate". This zine is a reference guide to identify various nazi dog whistles, and includes a list with brief descriptions of the most active far-right groups currently in the US. www.wewillfreeus.org/farrightthre...
cover of new zine titled "Far Right Threats. A reference guide for recognizing far right groups, symbols, and dog whistles." in the middle is a black and white photo of a member of patriot front with a circle / dash covering the dork.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026
Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 02/07/2026
The King must get his due these days OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake www.ft.com/content/7c80...
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OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
Sam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2121...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Social Circle wins. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/u...
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DHS scraps plans to turn Georgia warehouse into detention mega center, city says | CNN
The Trump administration is backing away from its plans to convert a warehouse in a small Georgia city into a “mega center” holding thousands of immigration detainees, just four months after first con...
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As I wrote about Musk’s X earlier this year www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-epst...
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The New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse
It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ríhanna doesn't have an official legal defense fund because multiple crowdfunding websites have shut down her campaigns. please donate to her directly and send her well-wishes on Facebook. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Rihanna_Ke... www.facebook.com/share/p/18uT...
This is a facebook post from Ríhanna Novalee ChasingStars, ie Ríhanna Kelver. It reads:

Hello! Welcome those who have found my Facebook! My name is Rihanna Kelver and yes, I am currently facing two felony charges after defending myself from a violent hate crime.

If you are a member of the press, please feel free to message me through here or at rihanna_kelver@outlook.com.

If you are someone looking to support me and my legal fund. You can find my Venmo at @Rihanna_Kelver or https://venmo.com/u/Rihanna_Kelver

The reason I have to use my Venmo is because we’ve been kicked off three crowd funding sites now due to ToS violations. Apparently surviving a hate crime and being charged for surviving it constitutes “fundraising for the defense of a violent crime.” 

Anyways, thank you all so much for your support and keep up the good fight 💖🏳️‍⚧️
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I wrote about the way that killing people seems to just be another cost of doing business, and a modest proposal for a reversal in the ways our systems of commerce, government, and law operate that just might provide an effective deterrent. www.the-reframe.com/the-cost-of-...
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The Cost of Doing Business
A modest proposal: Abolish the death penalty for humans. Institute it for corporations.
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The rebellions continue! The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, just to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read! (1/n)
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New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language Semantics
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Time for a thread on all the @standupforscience.net action tools! Site: www.standupforscience.net Action Center: fight2win.standupforscience.net SUFS OMB Overview: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... SUFS Guide to Public Comments: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...
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He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
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Sara Gregory @saraegregory.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The glass on MARTA’s new faregates is going to be replaced with new, thicker glass: www.ajc.com/news/2026/06...
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MARTA switching to thicker glass after faregate panels shatter
MARTA is swapping out the glass on its new faregates after a handful of panels shattered.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“Scientists alone can not defeat an anti-science machinery they did not create. What we can do is ask for help. Give guidance. Start acting and hope others will join” open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
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We need to talk about the anti-science movement
6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Atlanta influences everything.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/05/2026
ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. n.pr/4dAMaAo
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ICE is spending millions of dollars on iris scanners, expanding its arsenal of tech tools
ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc.com · 26/05/2026
The effort to redraw congressional district maps in Georgia and other states is a cynical Republican ploy to subdue democracy and disenfranchise Black voters.
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Redistricting push in Georgia and beyond is a direct assault on Black voters
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s really frightening.
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Politico @politico.com · 25/05/2026
Mexico’s president sees ‘no issue’ with her country hosting Iran’s World Cup team during tournament
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Mexico’s president sees ‘no issue’ with her country hosting Iran’s World Cup team during tournament
The team will still play its group stage matches in the U.S. but its base has been moved to Tijuana, Mexico.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/05/2026
The U.S. research community is asking the Senate to do something it hasn’t done in more than 3 decades: Hold a hearing on the president’s nominee to lead the National Science Foundation before voting on whether to confirm him. scim.ag/4dWgoxE
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Research groups want Senate to vet Trump’s nominee for NSF head
A hearing would air questions about James O’Neill’s qualifications to lead the agency
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NPR @npr.org · 25/05/2026
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
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Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Especially if you are cis, please read this www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
People really struggle with this concept but: How will you prove YOU deserve due process if you aren’t afforded due process?
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