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Mikhail Popov

@mpopov.com
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staff data scientist, autism dad, husband, former data science manager pronouns: he/him website: mpopov.com disclaimer: views and posts are my own

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 19h
If you have Switch 1 physical version of Witcher 3 you just download update, launch the game, click the “Remastered now available for Switch 2” button in the main menu, and then it opens eShop where you just add the Remastered version to your account for free. No cartridge needed afterward. Amazing.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 29/09/2026
Well, we did it. We signed up for Costco membership and visited a Costco Warehouse for the first time. I don’t know, man, felt rite of passage-y.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 29/09/2026
My dreams often end abruptly without a resolution or a clean conclusion, and usually that’s fine albeit disappointing. But the ones where I lose / get separated from my son and wake up before I find / reunite with him? Oh man, those nightmares wreck me.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 29/09/2026
Me: did you know Jay-Z and Beyoncé have an 11 year age gap? My wife, recoiling: oh I don’t like that
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
some of my finest stat-comm work 🤣https://bsky.app/profile/lucystats.bsky.social/post/3lo2japgpxk2d
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026
I think something not emphasized enough is that OpenAI is subsidizing this. It’s not like they create the agent and then it’s a self-sufficient guy who runs amok. Every time the agent’s little brain says “it’s cyberattackin’ time!” OpenAI pays like a few cents and a drop of water.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 28/09/2026
Okay so these aren’t my top 9 favorite but they’re probably my top 9 formative? Or at least these were some of my key gaming experiences as a teenager that probably had some kind of shaping effect on me as a person? That’s how I interpreted the prompt
A 3 by 3 grid of video game covers

My 9 games that shaped who I am
- Curse of monkey island
- the sims
- Team Fortress 2
- Star Wars knights of the old republic 1 and 2
- Mass Effect
- Heroes of Might and Magic 2
- grand theft auto Vice City
- Max Payne
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The plan: Build a 200-room, 300-bathroom data center, 70% subsidized by federal and local governments. Make it accessible to the train. Build a supermarket for the 800 people doing 24/7 on-site maintenance. Call it the future of technology. Make OpenAI pay for the rest. Then let people move in.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 26/09/2026
Came across a killer one pot rice cooker recipe on IG that makes the house smell divine: 2 cups white rice 2 cups water 2 chicken breasts cubed 1/2 🧅 , sliced 2 tbls soy sauce 2 tbls toasted sesame oil Fresh 🫚 🧄 Black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes White rice setting, garnish with green onion
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 25/09/2026
When you live a winner’s life, breakfast is anytime food.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 24/09/2026
Shoutout to my wife for waiting an extra second when she got a green light because otherwise she and our kiddo would have been T-boned by some asshole running a red light.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 24/09/2026
Whatever the quality of the final Control Resonant experience ends up being, we’ll always have this sick trailer cut to The Prodigy - Omen. Control Resonant being bad won’t negate that.
youtu.be
CONTROL Resonant - Altered State Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026
YouTube video by Remedy Entertainment
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but just fucking don’t film or photograph strangers who are just minding their business and not hurting anyone. I don’t care if they’re dressed weird, or “faking disabled” (they probably aren’t), or are adorable together. Just don’t.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 24/09/2026
➗ is the worst thing in mathematics
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026
Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 23/09/2026
Took some psychic damage this morning Me: amazing how much kiddo loves this video of chickens and chicks from our stay on that farm 6-7 years ago My wife: ehhhhhhh Me: 8-9 years ago??? Wife: 😬 Me: okay let’s see… 11 YEARS AGO???
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 17/08/2025
while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
A photo of Gavin Newsom at the press conference dressed in a tight black v cut t-shirt, black aviators, and a black cap, smiling as he answers questionsA photo of Gavin Newsom destroying an encampment of unhoused constituentsA photo of Gavin Newsom destroying an encampment of unhoused constituentsA photo of Gavin Newsom destroying an encampment of unhoused constituents
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 21/09/2026
Me as a teenager playing Deus Ex Human Revolution: that’s so ridiculous to keep a password on a sticky note on your monitor Me as an adult working in software development: [keeps a backend service password on a digital sticky note on desktop]
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 21/09/2026
My team (Product Analytics) is hiring a Sr. Data Scientist to help guide Wikipedia’s anti-abuse and security strategy
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Senior Data Scientist, Safety & Security
Remote
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 20/09/2026
There’s gotta be a better way to do recommendation systems than Instagram’s “oh you liked that one reel? Here’s 24 hours of nonstop feed of reels exactly like it or about that same thing” and Amazon’s “oh you bought that thing that people buy once in a blue moon? Wanna buy another one right away?”
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 20/09/2026
I miss California
Humidity 94%

The dew point is 63° right now
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 17/09/2026
I’m sorry but…what? They were selling other people’s content to each other???
According to another portion of the motion that was unredacted on Thursday, on top of copying stories to teach LLMs to cook up content that looks a lot like news, the companies illicitly copied
"billions of web pages" for "horse trading"-like deals
- meaning they sold the content to each other rather than licensing it from the news organizations. Microsoft did not address a question about the allegation.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026
"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 16/09/2026
Remembering one time I showed up to a retail job (that had a strict dress code) with some visible scruff and a manager wouldn’t let me clock in until I bought a razor and hastily shaved it off.
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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
you gotta remember that the type of guys we're talking about are so rich that they haven't been told "that's fucking dumb" in decades, maybe longer than you've even been alive. of course they thought this would work!
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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a lot of people default to "supervillain 5d chess thinking" because it sucks too much to accept that braindead animals can end up in charge of the world
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 15/09/2026
As a long time Ed Sheeran hater, today has been bountiful.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the vvitch is a horror story about what new england was like before dunkin
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026
It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.
EPA Finalizes Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Regulations, Delivering $300+ Billion in Savings, Proposes Repeal of All Remaining Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Power Plants

Trump EPA delivers reliable and affordable energy in the largest power sector deregulatory action in U.S. history

September 14, 2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
RFK Jr. has decided to change the way measles deaths are counted at the CDC. As @drdebhoury.bsky.social says in this article by @melodyschreiber.com: “The change doesn’t make any sense”. It only makes sense if you’re RFK Jr. and you desperately need to manipulate data to hide your malfeasance.
theguardian.com
Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak
CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 14/09/2026
Got my updated COVID and flu vaccines 💪🏻 Keeping my streak of getting them every year they’re available ✨
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 14/09/2026
A moment of silence for my decimated gut flora on this last day of the antibiotics treatment. 🫡 to the brave toilets in our house – thank you for your service this week
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Comparing “blogging” to “AI Slop” is the type of take that emerges from being obsessed with how people talk about things instead of being interested in what things are.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I really wish more Dems would go meta on this and ask whose interests it serves that candidates for the United States Senate are being asked about how they would micromanage the eligibility rules for local youth sports leagues.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 09/09/2026
You know you’re about to learn some fucked up shit about your house when you show a plumber the problem and the first thing out of their mouth is “oh boy”
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 09/09/2026
F1 The Movie is shockingly good
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 08/09/2026
My right leg getting stung by a wasp while I’m mowing grass… again.
Bruce Willis as John McClane, crawling through a vent. Caption: How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026
This, while some idiots think the current mayor isn’t supposed to go to Ground Zero.
"For 25 years, four different mayoral administrations kept from the public, the U.S. Congress, and the City Council documents showing what the city actually knew about the danger of the toxic chemicals in Lower Manhattan and Western Brooklyn after the World Trade Center collapse, even as city officials continued messaging to the public that the air was 'safe and acceptable," Ben Chevat, the executive director of the 9/11 Health Watch, said in a statement.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/09/2026
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 06/09/2026
Okay so I don’t love this pattern of starting every vacation with a visit to the ER, but at least this time it was just diverticulitis rather than a fractured foot.
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