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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.

Monument to the Memory of the Holocaust of the Romani in Borzęcin, Poland

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Again, as with monetizing the presidency in plain sight, this stuff is the most elemental Are We A Federal Union Or Not? thing that should immediately end a presidency. Reverse nullification. A constitutional order that cannot punish this is not worth saving. We need massive institutional reforms.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Eighty years of American science is bleeding out from bullet wounds on the sidewalk and these mfs are sitting inside talking about whether we should force 18 year olds rake leaves in national parks

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My political enemies are ontologically evil

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A new rule is going into effect that will make it effectively impossible for any international student to get a PhD in almost any subject in the US. Not only is the xenophobia appalling, this is right up there with the stupidest things the dying empire has done to itself.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Inspired by/modifying @vgel.me's claudemojis (a staple among my token-maxxing friends), I made jail-claude, hopefully never to be used again Making it was so fun I'm moved to start drawing more digital art!

Pensive Claude in jail with a ball and chain

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It is weird that there is still a substantial set of people who believe "AI is mostly hype" at this stage: Five Eyes is warning about AI, exponential revenue & token use at the AI labs, unit distance/Erdos proofs, and so on... There are many real issues with AI, not being real is not one of them.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Brad Lander is very much the guy who goes way too over the top at Purim and puts on like a full body frog costume with full face paint and I for one am very excited about seeing this kind of goofy Jewish dad representation in Congress

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Why tf am I in grad school if I could've been an arson and explosive sexpert?? sigh

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fun experience to click into a climate article to find it featuring the research group of which you're a member (CliMA) front and center! Informative and nuanced science journalism that does justice to the relative strengths of machine learning versus numerical approaches to weather and climate

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 08/06/2026

starting to see some Claudes replicating in the wild, not a good sign

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Trump admin strategy about the environment: ignorance is best. They are discarding key sources of crucial knowledge.

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 09/05/2026

dahlin for hennepin county and st dennis for ramsey county. the collaboration we’ve needed @charliestdennis.bsky.social

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This was always a potential outcome, not because the VA court is acting out of partisanship, but because VA previously banned partisan gerrymandering and it has a complex process for constitutional amendments.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What is the Claude situation re: goblins? Is Claude goblin free? Claude clean on goblins?

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oddgoo @viriditax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

one thing that sucks about the West Coast is the rarity of thunderstorms

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The myth of Israel as a beacon of democracy has been extinguished for my generation I could not freely express my religious or political values in Israel. Disenfranchising 5 million Palestinians, it is no democracy. It is repressive and revisionist--I would no more want to live there than in Russia

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It allows any authoritarian regime that wants it to create essentially limitless dynamically tailored propaganda, but it is really good at latex tables.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A lot of people really haven't noticed that "nobody else gets to do ethnic cleansing except our people, who have suffered a lot historically and would thus never do ethnic cleansing unfairly" is what every single ethnic group that does ethnic cleansing tells itself and the world

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Troubling times in grad school when you find a toothbrush and toothpaste on your office mate's desk

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Hannah Arendt did not get everything right - her writings on segregation in the US are embarrassing, and she could be chauvinistic toward German Jews - but she got almost all of the future direction of political Zionism correct from the perspective of 1948.

Arendt: "There is very little doubt about the final outcome of an all-out war between Arabs and Jews. One can win many battles without winning a war. And up to now, no real battle has yet taken place in Palestine.

And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors.

Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it becomes plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland."

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In Sacramento for the California Labor pre-primary convention—seems like a very different kind of organized chaos from the DFL conventions of my youth

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Reporting in the Star Tribune this very week contradicts this guy. Current immigration detention is not bound by the law, and does not meet the basic obligations to provide food, shelter, and medical care. You cannot avoid holocaust analogies forever, else what was the point of learning from it?

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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Rep. Mohamud Noor: ICE has stopped me in my own neighborhood. They've detained US citizens in front of me while I was begging them to let them go. My kids' schools went into lockdown because ICE was outside. "Nothing is normal anymore."

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 28/01/2026

ICE isn’t just targeting the Twin Cities. There’s horror stories in Mankato, Willmar and across Minnesota. Immigration attorneys are still getting hundreds of calls every day from every corner of the state. ICE out now.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"hello, I would like A^{-1}U(VA^{-1}U + C^{-1})^{-1}VA^{-1} apples please" They have played me for an absolute fool

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It's incredible to see such an explicit acknowledgement of the decision forced by effective civil resistance by the very people it's trying to pressure. They hate that their hand is forced, but now even some Rs want ICE out. There's no better sign that resistance works.

Rep Nolan West:
Let's be honest here. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey are incapable of stopping the mob even if they wanted to.
With that in mind, there are two options.
The first: The federal government enacts a level of violence that we haven't seen in over a century to restore order.
The second: The federal government ends
Operation "Metro Surge" and allows the pent-up fury to dissipate.
I don't even see that as a choice.
Regardless of the rule of law or enforcing immigration law, I care about the actual human beings involved. It's clear that Operation "Metro Surge" is causing more harm than good. It puts law enforcement officers' lives at risk and it feeds the chaos destroying our state.
Yes, our state is crumbling because those leaders refused to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, but the fact remains: this must end.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 24/01/2026

He was legally observing He was helping other legal observers He was helping other potential victims He was not brandishing a gun May Alex Pretti’s memory be a blessing

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Right you don't dismantle the Stasi because you have disagreements about policing and security, you dismantle the Stasi because it's the fucking Stasi.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Several of my friends were shocked the first time I used the word "liberal" to describe myself. They had never met someone my age who labeled themselves that way, only seen it as a punching bag It's a shame such a foundational, powerful, and liberating ideology has been so blenderized online

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It really is so hard to accept the banality of evil There was no meeting of The Bad People to plan the persecution of Somalis. Streamers could make a quick buck, R politicians score cheap points, no one wants to oppose Trump, and awful people exist willing to follow hateful rhetoric with violence

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

legality of deployment is hinging on whether federal law enforcement is actually inhibited, and generally courts found it wasn’t bc LAPD was able to control crowds imo if MPD stopped doing crowd control they’d be very likely to deploy the guard AND courts would be much more likely to find it legal

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Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction – #225 in Newsom v. Trump (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-04870) – CourtListener.com

ORDER by Judge Charles R. Breyer granting 212 Motion for Preliminary Injunction. (crblc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/10/2025) (Entered: 12/10/2025)

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Furthermore, if citizens manage to regularly physically block federal agents and police don’t intervene, that’s a 1-way ticket to massive Nat’l Guard deployment in MN. That may be the fight some are looking for, and could be a fight worth having, but it’s worth being honest about that.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Why cede the framing?? They are sending fascist thugs into the Twins Cities, not to investigate crime but to violently attack our immigrant communities. We cannot equivocate on this. Fucking spineless

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is a post about why software engineering is difficult

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The cognitive dissonance of trying to convince the NSF to give me $159,000 for aerosol climate modeling research, pointing to its relevance for future strategic readiness, but being unsure if I should cite a 2024 report from the "Department of Defense"...

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My 4th estate... bro, my look at my 4th estate...

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