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@professortophat.bsky.social
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Software engineer, bioinformatician, robotics enthusiast, hiker/backpacker

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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If filming police is considered a crime (when you are on public streets), why is it not a crime to have the automated license plate readers?
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They have project 2025. To move forward, a new framework must exist in order for societies to progress. This is my attempt: thedemocracyframework.xyz
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The Democracy Framework · A Modern Constitution
The Constitution of the Democratic Republic: a proposed modern constitution built on a balance of power between government, business, and citizens.
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K.G.L.W. of the day @kglwoftheday.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
God DAMN working sucks. Mentally I am here
Continental Divide Trail around 12,000 feet
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Can you imagine a world in which the developers of large language models were extremely honest (and even *insistent*) about their limitations? And where the models themselves were trained to reward "I don't know" or "I can't do that" as appropriate responses?
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Elon Musk is only a trillionaire because of government contracts and loans. He's not an entrepreneur — he's a nepo baby mooching off American taxpayers.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Why is it that when I have my software libraries installed I still need to connect to the internet to run my software. WHY!!!!
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Gpu accelerated deep neural network training on a windows laptop with intel, I think not. Microsoft, you have failed me yet again.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Once you step back, it’s easy to see the warping effect of the U.S. vs. China race,” Yi-Ling Liu writes. “It’s a story used to justify sprinting ahead without guardrails in the name of beating the other."
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Opinion | The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future
There is a shared sense of precarity that lies beneath the envy and distrust.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “America has a hidden justice system,” writes Brendan Ballou. “There, decisions are made in secret, and judges are often paid by the very companies they are supposed to judge.”
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Opinion | He Signed Away His Right to Sue by Subscribing to Disney+
Thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions, nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies can — and do — use forced arbitration with consumers or workers.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oops, somebody spilled their french fries. I hope they don't get indicted.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2026
Pentagon officials, mum for weeks on the cost of the war in Iran, have made their first public estimate: $25 billion so far. But what does a cost on that scale really mean?
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The War in Iran Has Cost $25 Billion So Far. Is That a Lot?
It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies, and the Pentagon’s yearly budget for munitions.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It is easy to hold others accountable. It is difficult to hold yourself accountable.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
So, men will be automatically enrolled in the draft.... but you need to contact three different agencies, each of which will take ten weeks to process your requests to get the correct documents in order for you to vote. And you could get purged from the roles right before you vote.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The CDC has paused testing for rabies and pox viruses, the family of viruses that includes smallpox and mpox — and by July will have no experts to advise states on clinical aspects of the diseases Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...
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C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Mpox
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
All of this talk about the economy has gotten me interested in developing a simulator. Lets see what social and economic factors/policies influence outcomes.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Those who don't want universal healthcare: it will take you 3 months to see a doctor! Me: takes me 3 months to see a new doctor. And with the number of specialists I need to visit, it will be a year long process....
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A small white bunny lies stretched out on a wooden floor beside a white rug.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“Fuck Trump. The midterms are happening. Period.” Pass it on.👇 www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Trump Tells Reuters ‘We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’ Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump managed expectations for the upcoming midterm elections, acknowledging he's frustrated with the potential of Republicans losing.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
There are four problems in society that exists today: the definition of fair being different to everyone, we will die on the smallest of hills and we view issues in the lens of "out of sight, out of mind", and the desire to learn through curiosity and skepticism.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/01/2026
When Mitt Romney says 'it's time for rich people like me to pay more,' you know it might be time for a change. My latest explores why billionaires are suddenly calling for higher taxes. Read & subscribe at the link in my reply.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Between the dynamic pricing, the national debt, monopolies and rising prices due to 'inflation', and AI, it seems that the wealth gap will continue to widen. And with climate change getting worse.... society may fail in the coming decades... Hope has faded in 2026.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Good day to reread this story on Trump's very own modelling agency... www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Been in a bit of a spiral lately. For the Western United States, it shouldn't be this warm. Between societal instability, the possibility of an economic default and climate change, the future does not look good later in life. And I don't want to think about future generations.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 15/12/2025
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
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God @thegodshow.com · 15/10/2025
Remember when JD Vance called Donald Trump “America’s Hitler?”
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Damn Donald Trump For Inspiring Young Nazis
They learned it by watching him.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/10/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Voting Rights Act is not a relic. It is a living promise to all Americans that our democracy belongs to everyone,” Representatives Troy Carter and Cleo Fields, Louisiana’s only Black members of Congress, write in a guest essay.
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Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court
Will Black voters continue to have an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, or will decades of hard-won progress disappear?
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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Wow, @laloalcaraz.bsky.social "I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The Trump BLM just sold 17,000 acres of land for oil and gas leasing in Utah to a company called Bro Energy. Some of that land is around the White River, which feeds into the Colorado. Biden had halted oil drilling there but now it's back on the table. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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The Colorado provides drinking water to 40 million people. Do they know what Utah does to it upstream?
I went to Mordor to find out.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which bullet my friend? The bullet that shot & killed Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband 60 or so days ago? Those bullets? Which bullet are you referring to? Thanks.
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Eden 🌸 @edenflux.com · 27/08/2025
Hey, if you're an author and have the chance to claim ... wanna do something really funny? *nudges article your direction*
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A pattern, within patterns, within patterns. And today, I have found such a pattern.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🧵 1/10 The Amazon rainforest may be nearing a tipping point—one that could turn lush jungle into dry savanna within our lifetimes. Climate change + deforestation are pushing it toward a collapse. We’re racing against time.
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Amazon rainforest is approaching 'tipping points' that could transform it into a drier savanna
Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could trans...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
“Wondering why those 2nd amendment folks always yelling about tyrannical governments have been quiet as hell about this.” As a big 2nd amendment guy myself @CharlieAnnFFS, I wonder the same darn thing every day. Such hypocrites. Thanks Charlie Ann for wondering out loud.👇
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/08/2025
After gutting the funding for PBS, the White House is now partnering with PragerU, the right-wing YouTube empire spreading conservative misinformation. As Mark Oppenheimer wrote in 2018, at PragerU, police are not biased against black men, and man-made climate change is debatable.
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Inside the right-wing YouTube empire that's quietly turning millennials into conservatives
The viral videos from Dennis Prager's "university" have clocked more than 1 billion views.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Trump asks, “Why do the parks need more staff?” Then you read: “Yellowstone visitor drinks from hot spring.” Enough said.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The White House is partnering with PragerU. The conservative, biased education company is already making AI content in a series launched with the Trump administration. And new reporting suggests the White House could be eying PragerU as a substitute for PBS. www.vox.com/today-explai...
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The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms.
How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Secretary of Defense’s pastor believes America should be a Christian theocracy. He also believes women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. And the Sec of Defense publicly promotes his pastor’s views. The Sec of Defense has violated his oath of office. He should resign. www.mediaite.com/politics/pet...
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Pete Hegseth Promotes His Pastor’s CNN Spot – and His Call for ‘Christian Domination’
Hegseth openly touted his alignment with self-described Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, sharing a new interview that the pastor did with CNN.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 13/07/2025
It feels like Epic Games’ CEO praising the Grok AI days after it called itself MechaHitler should be bigger news
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NOAA Climate.gov @climate.noaa.gov · 20/06/2025
June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. @edhawkins.org
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Coral reefs support 25% of marine species. Coral reefs have dropped by 50% since since 1950. Don't let anyone tell you this isn't a crisis.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Just so everyone knows, Elon did it too. His tweet is also still up.
A tweet in which Elon calls the far left “murderously violent” he is quote tweeting a tweet from “insatiableblevine”

Content of the quote tweet in the next image. The left kills the CEO of United Healthcare

Kills two Israeli ambassadors staffers 

Attempts twice to assassinate the President 

Doxes and attempts to murder federal ICE agents and Police - all week

And now kills a MN state rep and her husband and injures a Senator and his wife 

The left has become a full blown domestic terrorist organization.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/06/2025
Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, a Samoan-born fashion designer, was participating in an anti-Trump protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday when he was fatally shot by a man working security, the police said. Ah Loo, who appeared on “Project Runway,” lived in Utah with his wife and two children.
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1 Killed in Shooting at ‘No Kings’ Protest in Salt Lake City
Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, a Samoan-born fashion designer, was participating in an anti-Trump protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday when he was shot by a man working security, the police said.
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professortophat.bsky.social @professortophat.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Best sign I read today "it is so bad, even the introverts are showing up"
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