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Zach Peterson

@zachprague.bsky.social
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My lover, the river, makes a better soldier than a bride. Northern MN transplant in CZ.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 21h
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
SCOOP Internal ICE emails show the agency has been discussing the use of a Palantir-supported tool to track noncitizen voters www.wired.com/story/ice-em...
wired.com
ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's happening. notesfrompoland.com/2026/10/08/b...
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Beavers destroy sign warning about beavers
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I speak for one Twins fan here when I say go Sox. This is what we want the Twins to be--play the young guys, get them reps, let them have fun, and try to give fans a good time. Also, the Murakami deal stings because he was just sitting there as a Pete Alonso stand-in and no one jumped
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'll admit that I have always loved Tool and I was, for a time, that guy. We were all young once. Gimme a break. It's still "Undertow" though. That's still the album that does it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out these beauties. Found in southern CZ ±2 weeks ago
A pair of porcini mushrooms, connected at the root, with a neat winding shape to them. Found in southern czech republic
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today, we're announcing Fake School. We've lined up a bunch of dudes who all went to Real School but now hate that. They hate all schools, but Fake School is a different. Here at Fake School you'll learn firsthand how the top nihilists in the world think everything is a cap sheet.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind (Gift Article)
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I get that a headline is a headline, but framing this as governments being left behind really--ostensibly based on things gov't officials have said--is pretty wild. Governments (stand-ins for real people...representatives even!) have actively chosen this path again and again w/r/t tech.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My interview with The Philosopher is now up! We discuss the ideologies behind the race to build ASI and the history of thinking about human extinction, among other topics! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Are We Living in End Times? w/ Émile P. Torres
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah exactly. For this White Sox team it's like, yes, jeez, drown yourselves in bubbly. But even the Yankees/Dodgers -- there are rookies, vets that have never won anything, etc etc on the team. It's a long season, you did well, and you may never do it again in your life. Absolutely celebrate
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finally there's a way for people who absolutely can't afford it to go into debt betting on how many chicken wings will be eaten on the new episode of Tracker. What's the point of these companies beyond outright extraction and moral rot?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
thedartmouth.com
Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Been getting a lot of water buffalo content in the algo lately (regenerative farming stuff) and it seems pretty clear that they are aptly named. Those things really seem to like the water.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Software companies that build pervert glasses see posts like this and circulate them throughout the product marketing team with messages like "target ads to wherever this lady is" and "see, there's a market for these things" and "THIS is what I mean when I say 'focus on potential legacy buyers'"
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Death by “Widespread Systems Integration” just doesn’t have that ring to it though
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database…”
wapo.st
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a man is standing in front of an older gentleman walking his dog in the park. The man, making a friendly gesture towards the little white dog, asks, “does he bite?” The older man replies, “no.” Panel 2: the little dog grabs the first man’s hand with his paw and gives the back of his hand a sensual smooch. Panel 3: the man pulls his hand back in disgust.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolutely bonkers seeing someone I know at this level in one of these sorts of things. He was a fellow working under me in 2010-ish.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can confirm that Joseph Hammond is a real person -- I used to work with him IRL. This is crazy
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That is Lucky Auntie always and forever. She rules
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/09/2026
Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down
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Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down
WASHINGTON—Announcing “60… 59…58…” through their waterproof Bluetooth speakers in a booming, robotic voice that horrified millions of Americans across the country, the nation’s smart toilets have begu...
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Diesel gas at the pump here in CZ is roughly $9/gallon today. So…that’s good…?
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kudos to the genius who came up with "Be among the first to feel the news." No idea why, but it's so funny.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Talked to @wired.com about a bunch of things, including: r/bald, Bluesky, Elon ruining twitter, why I live the inbox zero life, LLMs, and more. Here it is: www.wired.com/story/user-b...
wired.com
Want to Get Off Your Phone? Mina Kimes Suggests Having a Baby
“I think that's been the most helpful thing,” says the ESPN journalist. “So there you go, Zoomers. There's a reason to have children.”
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[me, very very wealthy, doing an ESPN hit based on my NYT op-ed and appearance on Rogan's podcast]: "Cancel culture is silencing me and I am a victim here with no agency"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
Sept. 21, 2020: Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz is involved in a car crash in the Dominican Republic that kills three people. This is how Cruz avoided prosecution — with the help of a local fixer who would go on to become a Red Sox legend’s business partner. THREAD:
Oneil Cruz photographed in his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform. Credit: Icon Sportswire/Getty Images
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Luckily this is the only AI out there and the guys trying to make chemical/bio weapons using AI have no other options to choose from. We should be fine. Trust the process.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/09/2026
Report of the @mit.edu Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training —> aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
aiandeducation.mit.edu
Report – AI and Education
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I post gold like this and crickets from @dszymborski.fangraphs.com. I have become a Dril post.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
[me, the most annoying elder millenial at the function]: The thing about the band Incubus is that the album S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is actually weird, good and even interesting. I'm not a doctor, but this was a classic case of Lead Singer Being too Hot in the Early 2000s-itis.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a real plot line from a full season (and then some) of Veep. Just unbelievable.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sometimes @theonion.com actually stings. 30 years ago this was me. I was not a freakishly good c/c runner, but I was at least halfway decent, and I listed to nu metal and wore cargo pants. It burns.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sports gambling is an absolute scourge. Even ESPN is writing hell stories about it...under its sports betting vertical with all of today's betting lines. Nice touch. www.espn.com/sports-betti...
A screenshot from an ESPN story about sports gambling on a subpage with resources for people who want to do sports gambling.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...
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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lots of hip hop talk at the start, and it reminded me that I met @chuckdpe.bsky.social at a NYC ComicCon in 2007(ish). He was making fun of my name and I corrected him mid-autograph and the end result is one of the best pieces of art I own -->
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Such an interesting discussion with @sreenet.bsky.social and @hiphopprez.bsky.social on HBCUs and education generally
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Walter Kimbrough Teaches Sree about HBCUs, the State of Education & More
YouTube video by sree sreenivasan
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This one park gets >4m visitors per year and somewhere between 9-15% of them are foreigners. Even on the low end, that like half a million people from abroad who go to Yosemite every year. Literally stealing from everyone to give it away to a guy who probably made a fortune on port-a-potties
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is utterly insane. Somehow, he manages to actually rob something from literally every single person in America. Doing this once means doing it again and the effects are, and will be, profound. Just completely perverted.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer (Gift Article)
The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I live in CZ, home to the most aggressive drivers in Europe. We've spent a lot of time in Sweden, and the difference is crazy. Mentality matters obvs, but speed limits there are 10-20km lower on smaller roads, and 20-40 less on the few highways and it is honestly a dream to drive up there.
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seems a bit odd for the CIA chief to do this in-person in Russia, but...ok. This passage is pretty good though. Famously, spies are super trusting of other spies, especially the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
crazy to write "we live in a society" and it's a valid, full-throated response to hundreds and hundreds of words...but today we can do just that with this --> bsky.app/profile/usat...
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
Blueberries beginning to ripen in a field in Georgia. Credit: Zaydee Sanchez for ProPublica.A trove of passports that federal prosecutors say had been confiscated illegally from farmworkers by labor contractors. Obtained by ProPublica.
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