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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 1h

Less than a month ago, Albanese was on Italian television talking nonsense about how the term antisemitism didn't come about to refer specifically to Jews and said that Jews were labeled "Muslims" in concentration camps. www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/28/u...

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UN Adviser Francesca Albanese Walks Back Claim Jews in Nazi Camps Were Called ‘Muslims’

Francesa Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, speaks at a …

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 2h

Albanese just is antisemitic. You can agree with lots of her criticism of Israel (and I do) and think that allegations of antisemitism targeting her include many in bad faith (and, again, I do), but she's also antisemitic. The record is pretty damning at this point.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 2h

NY has had fluctuations in statewide races for decades; Hochul being up double digits is a significant improvement over her '22 performance (+7). Schumer has won by as much as 40 and been as close as 10. "If things trend forever..." OK, but they never do.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18h

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 7h

The fact that Laura Ingraham actually nailed the price of butter ($4.03/pound on the Fed data) shows that at least some people at Fox are basically aware of the affordability issues and the administration’s lies.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 7h

I would like a lot of money for “Max out your Brain” campaign where I explain to Rogan viewers that reading more advanced books it like lifting heavier weights, and they should be bulking up their brain-muscles.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

This is the best statement I have seen on this awful day. Condemning the indefensible, genocidal actions of the state of Israel without minimizing or rationalizing the war crimes committed on 10/7 itself.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 7h

What’s wild about this is that (if you watch the clip) Collins really thought she was cooking with “well, for a year more than three decades ago, I didn’t have insurance” as though people were going to miss the fact that shes got it free from the government ever since.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 8h

The only Dem who seems to actually be taking this posture is Bill Foster, and I think Foster will largely do whatever party leadership says. But he’s comfortable with this posture because he beat back a terrible carpetbagging primary from the left in the ‘24 cycle. (IYKYK)

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 8h

From a public speaking standpoint, I found Jackson underwhelming and I think he needs better prep on presentation. But he clearly did a good of raising key points. The big stuff for me seems to be Collins just walking face first into campaign spots, like “well I didn’t have health care in 1994.”

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 8h

There’s an important counter factual question as to whether (if the tech actually worked) whether the company would be responsible for setting up a network of 4A violations. But for now the defects in the product should be bankrupting Flock.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 8h

Flock’s defense in the Columbine Valley package theft lawsuit is that the issue is police misconduct. That seems correct. But when they insist “our technology works” it’s critical to point out that it doesn’t. Appreciate the Sun reporting that well. coloradosun.com/2026/10/06/f...

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Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused of stealing package from porch

Chrisanna Elser was accused of stealing a $25 package after a Columbine Valley police sergeant cited Flock surveillance of her car as proof

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 18h

I know people who do AI work and occasionally engage the administration and I do genuinely wonder if they’re going to have to change their business cards.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 19h

“Republicans have taken a different tack.” What an odd way to say that Republicans are fine with sexual predators.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20h

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 22h

Oh yeah. If I’m the prosecutor, my opening statement would just be MF DOOM. youtu.be/dERcdvcXuE0?...

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MF DOOM - Rapp Snitch Knishes (feat. Mr. Fantastik)

YouTube video by MF DOOM

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Is you posting tweets about a criminal conspiracy?” - Stringer Bell, if we updated the Wire and also made it stupider

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve been impressed with Sen Alsobrooks. The points about disaster relief are so critical and I’m glad she’s taken the opportunity to make that point.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The last time I saw polling on this was back in June (when Trump’s approval was ~5 points better than it is now), and a majority of Americans supported impeachment.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As someone who loves conceptual engineering (as it is called in philosophy), the idea of inventing new joints and other physical structures strongly appeals to me.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just resharing for the afternoon crowd; I’m still trying to think of an appropriately funny way to greet fellow historians as ‘hello bone colleagues’

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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Notice how the headline frames Cuba as the potential lawbreaker: a ship is “intercepted” while “smuggling” oil into the country. What the headline obscures is that the U.S. is the one violating international law by imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and hijacking oil shipments bound for the island.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The public has generally not had the attention to be interested in addressing cost overruns in projects or outright product failures, and so it’s been difficult to get attention. If I were advising @markwarner.bsky.social or @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, I’d be heavily focused on this.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of people rightly see this as a terrible, wasteful program. I’d suggest that smart Democrats concerned with Defense budget and industry reform should instead see it a springboard for a massive investigative effort into fraud in military contracts.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Any reasonable ethics reform policy would bar Rahm Emanuel for running for office over the extensive violations of transparency, lobbying, and government contracting practices. Any reasonable Democratic Party would run Emanuel out of town for his awful policy record and moral character.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The conservative analysis (the number based on vacancies, not on improving teacher-student ratio) puts the US teacher shortage at almost a half million. There’s also a (less easily quantified) social worker shortage, and both professions are getting worse.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Refusing to provide student loans for social work degrees because we don’t pay social workers enough to recover the costs of a student loan is a dumbass policy proposal. And anyone who supports it is a dumbass.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A very strange political tactic trying to make villains of pediatricians— a group generally respected by most everyone and depended upon and still very trusted by most parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.

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Sinister Minnesotan, Quantum Hamologist @quantumham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The study this graphic is based on is weird - not just because it somehow got a small but significant number of people to say that their five year olds can do a solo trip to Cabela's or whatever, but because they are a right-wing think tank producing Boomer bait.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hate this as a post, but the article does actually mention the CSA in the first graph (which is better than most places do).

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think as a broad sport, jiu-jitsu culture is really bad, though I don't know how much worse it is than other hyper-masculinized sport. But I appreciate that there are a lot of small subcommunities within BJJ (including particular gyms) that have amazing cultures. Very grateful to have that.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My first instructor (when I was 15) was one of those guys who really lost his mind during COVID. He was always kind of out there, from Brazil and the Gracie Circle and therefore kind of right-wing already, which was different in the Bay Area.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI can pass the Turing test, but many human internet commenters wouldn't.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Gordon [Ryan] is the best in jiu-jitsu period. Now go outside of jiu-jitsu and there’s nobody that has a good thing to say about Gordon.” This is my sentiment about the whole scandal. It is truly a weird story, and I'm very curious if the Yanukovich stuff is true. bjjdoc.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Ukrainian BJJ Black Belt Explains Why Gordon Ryan Was Made To Leave Ukraine Seminar

Gordon Ryan’s controversial visit to Ukraine following ADCC has taken another turn after Ukrainian BJJ black belt Vlad Polyanskiy offered his version of what happened behind the scenes. Speaking on th...

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is a huge personal debt market in the United States; that's not necessarily bad when it's helping people finance responsibly at reasonable rates, but what we learned from the '08 crisis is... that's now what these lenders do anymore.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Colin Robinson is obviously wrong about the broad economic data, but I think it's worth pointing out that while *bank loan* delinquency rates are basically fine, that ignores basically every other debt market (credit cards, private credit, medical debt, student loans).

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would like the studio to lose exactly how much it cost them to have Tom Cruise involved in this film. Which I will not be seeing anyway.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Facebook doing data scraping again, because it’s literally their whole world.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rees-Mogg is a bigot and scumbag. But this is kind of funny.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is part of why any candidate dropping back away from protecting trans people right now should be regarded as a coward or a bigot, because the refusal to stand up for the dignity of people under attack is a basic litmus test for moral character. Dems were a disgrace in '04, and many still are.

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