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S. Ali Zaidi

@zaidi.fm
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🔍 Currently: Studying ML / AI (theory + intersection w/ policy) 🏛️ Previously: Campaign and/or Hill staffer to Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Rep. Jimmy Gomez, Rep. Loretta Sanchez | + Tom Steyer, SD Dems, & others 💙 Photography, physics, piano, & my pup 📍San Diego

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
She’s getting absolutely SMOKED. Good.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Had early access to GPT-5.2. Its an impressive model. Here is GPT 5.2 Pro's version of "create a visually interesting shader that can run in twigl-dot-app make it like an infinite city of neo-gothic towers partially drowned in a stormy ocean with large waves," single shot., a hard task
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
You live long enough to see America elect a white supremacist criminal President and then follow it up with a Muslim American mayor of NYC.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/11/2025
Obama: "They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and blame DEI for every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? Must be DEI. Your wife kicked you out? DEI. Who knew?"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/10/2025
crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This Reuters headline. Oof. Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
You already can’t tell AI text from most non-AI text. Videos are on the horizon too. It’s important not to fool yourself about this!
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Welcome to America, where masked and armed federal officials will chase you down if you criticize the President.
Executive order: RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I pulled some updated data for ATOM Project // Interconnects. Qwen has taken the crown, is accelerating away in market share. U.S. has signs of promise in GPT-OSS & Nvidia.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2025
it includes model weights + data + training code + paper this is objectively open source
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/09/2025
One of the reasons this will be valuable for academics is that it provides a very clear recipe for pretraining ~3B-scale models on custom corpora.
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2025
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2025
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
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chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers. This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines. ai-scientific-discovery.github.io
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 22/09/2025
longcat is hot stuff. honestly not sure why this isn’t making a bigger splash
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Yes, “the worst of the worst.” Drug traffickers. Predators. 73 year old Sikh grandmas who sew saris and pay taxes www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US immigration: Harjit Kaur's ICE arrest stirs Sikh community - BBC News
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old who unsuccessfully applied for asylum, was arrested by immigration authorities last week.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Everything needs to shut down. Democrats need to not fund this oppressive government which is being used by Trump to oppress Americans. National Strike. Boycotts. This country, especially Trump and his billionaire friends, worships money. Green trumps the color White. Gotta shut it down.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2025
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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S. Ali Zaidi @zaidi.fm · 18/09/2025
Every "2028 Dem Hopeful" needs to disillusion themselves of the guarantee — or even likelihood — of a free/fair elections in 2028, let alone in 2026. Instead of posturing to future primary voters, every decision made by Dem pols should solely be geared toward "how do we best preserve the democracy"
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Michael Senters the Sigillite:ABD (Uma 7th Next Week) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"Welcome to the Resistance...Karl...Karl Ro...Karl Rov..."
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Sen. @kaine.senate.gov starts his questions to Susan Monarez by apologizing for grilling her in a confirmation hearing and then voting against her. “I had concern about your backbone. And I was wrong… it's important when you're wrong to admit you're wrong.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
There are two ways you can consume this: “Obama is a weakling who is tacitly endorsing Charlie Kirk because he’s not using the language and tone I would,” or “a professional communicator is making a point, I may not be the audience, and his primary aim may not be my personal emotional needs.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
SWALWELL: Did you ever tell the AG that Trump's name is in the Epstein files PATEL: The AG and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files S: Did you tell AG that Trump's name is in the files? P: *crashes out* S: We'll take your evasiveness as consciousness of guilt
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/09/2025
Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:
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It Is Genocide » Senator Bernie Sanders
Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend...
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 17/09/2025
this is turning out to be a big deal. a ton faster when it should be, and a lot smarter when it should be
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Omg did not realize until watching @chrislhayes.bsky.social that ICE had a warrant for four Latino men when they came onsite to the GA plant. So basically they saw a lot of other nonwhite people and just decided to detain them all?? What’s the reasonable suspicion
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
those commies at cato will get it for this
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
*whispers* there is already informal DEI for conservative professors, which is not generating equity in representation. What she wants is a quota regardless of merit.
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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We are living in a time where an opinion on Charlie Kirk's assassination gets you fired, but you can advocate for killing mentally ill homeless people live on television and face no repercussions.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Free speech censorship Political hit lists Detentions w/o due process Internment camps Military in our streets Corrupted law enforcement Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions MSM amplifying state propaganda We are not barreling towards fascism. We are in it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2025
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
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Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/09/2025
Will a reporter show this graphic to the next MAGA pol who claims that it's time for "the left" to tone down their rhetoric?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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