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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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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

For context, I'm in grad school studying the effect of aerosols in the climate system, motivated by the belief (as you observe) that we are likely to use this tech in the next 20-30 years. Whether that's good thing or a bad thing will hinge on our ability to model the effects of these interventions

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This makes sense for models as "prediction"--any geoengineering implementation is such a paradigm shift it doesn't make sense to treat them as a "forecast" without knowing when they will happen That said, there are ways people are trying to standardize research on the effects of geoengineering

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GeoMIP - Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project

WCRP modelling theme : CMIP6-endorsed MIPs - GeoMIP - Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They're not included in the "canonical" scenarios that topline climate reports like the IPCC use. Those capture a spread of different emissions trajectories within the same climate models, using different assumptions to capture uncertainty over carbon policy, clean energy, carbon capture tech, etc

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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 · 25/06/2026

In the end I agree cultural shifts are unlikely and we will only be saved by the grace of cheap solar and batteries, but I wish people played by their own desired rules

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've been in so many rooms with lefties who fly 10 times a year complaining about the masses' "consumerist mindset" and like, if we can't get the most progressive people on the planet to voluntarily cut their carbon footprints the size of a small island nation, how will "ban all fossil fuels" fly??

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I agree AND imo if you're calling for massive gov't regulation of emissions while not trying to meaningfully cut your own it's hypocritical. And conversely practicing what you preach is a reasonable way to advance climate causes, or at least nurture awareness.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The California ballot is fucking massive

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Indeed.... (posting as mostly as endorsement, did use Claude to sanity check obscure local races)

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Use AI This Election

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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 · 18/06/2026

This is just straight up not true--this is the same poll as the Strib's gov/Senate poll and is representative of the state. You can read the poll methodology here: www.startribune.com/about-the-mi... Maybe this is sarcasm, but replies are taking it literally and you're reinforcing them

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About the June 2026 Minnesota Poll

Information about methodology, demographics of the respondents and a map of the geographic regions for this week’s Star Tribune/KARE 11/Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication Minnesota Po...

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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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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I also don't mind when people deal drugs or ask me for drugs, it's just color in my day, but I understand why some (i.e. non-young men w no kids) feel unsafe, and fear for our transit system if the approach is "increase tolerance for drug dealing" and not "stop people dealing drugs on the lightrail"

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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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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Genuinely heartbreaking to see all the "great data viz" comments--didn't even consider that individual dots would be mislabeled until I saw your comment and realized obviously the regions are too perfect

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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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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Holy shit, that sure is some legal gerrymandering....

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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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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm rewatching "Medical Police" with grad school friends now and it scratches the same itch, though more Airplane!-y

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Patriot is one of my top-5 favorite shows of all time and I have never seen it publicly discussed. I think my mother might have genuinely peed herself during the rock-paper scissors scene. My father was rolling around on the floor crying.

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

this has all the hallmarks of a scam link btw, especially given all the tagging in the replies

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Zach Glaser @ziglaser.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

this is the pitfall in Kim Stanley Robinson's body of work (tho I still like it very much)

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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

There are similarities—the lack of vegetarian options (though 2 different kinds of bread and cheese and available!) but how can I feel at home without being able to buy a $70 pastrami sandwich

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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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