Data Bear 🏳️🌈
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Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
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The Blurring
What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.
www.dataandpolitics.net
Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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I had never heard this before
I feel like I’ve lost something
I feel like I’ve lost something
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I had never heard this before
I feel like I’ve lost something
I feel like I’ve lost something
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Every time I hear a product manger say “statsig” instead of statistically significant I die a little bit.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Every time I hear a product manger say “statsig” instead of statistically significant I die a little bit.
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Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
The Blurring
What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.
www.dataandpolitics.net
October 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Every time I hear a product manger say “statsig” instead of statistically significant I die a little bit.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Every time I hear a product manger say “statsig” instead of statistically significant I die a little bit.
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Update: They can't find Cornyn.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Update: They can't find Cornyn.
Is BlueSky banned in Hong Kong?
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Is BlueSky banned in Hong Kong?
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At this point, if you claim to be on the political left but are advocating against Dems doing retaliatory redistricting, you're either:
a) one of the dumbest people alive, or
b) a Republican plant
a) one of the dumbest people alive, or
b) a Republican plant
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
At this point, if you claim to be on the political left but are advocating against Dems doing retaliatory redistricting, you're either:
a) one of the dumbest people alive, or
b) a Republican plant
a) one of the dumbest people alive, or
b) a Republican plant
Primary all the bums.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Primary all the bums.
I would consider myself a centrist Democrat and I am so tired of these feckless, stand-for-nothing centrists.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I would consider myself a centrist Democrat and I am so tired of these feckless, stand-for-nothing centrists.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
Can anyone recommend a good sports massage therapist in SF?
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Can anyone recommend a good sports massage therapist in SF?
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
No snark intended, but was Obamacare the last truly major legislation that passed the Senate?
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
No snark intended, but was Obamacare the last truly major legislation that passed the Senate?
The only conclusion I can draw is that Charles Entertainment Schumer likes Trump and wants him to win.
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The only conclusion I can draw is that Charles Entertainment Schumer likes Trump and wants him to win.
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Don’t have polling here yet, but how would you complete this sentence:
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Don’t have polling here yet, but how would you complete this sentence:
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
Don’t have polling here yet, but how would you complete this sentence:
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Don’t have polling here yet, but how would you complete this sentence:
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
“I ___ an exam yesterday.”
(a) sat
(b) wrote
(c) took
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do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?
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Great shot! I’m kayak/camping on Tiger Key (Everglades National Park), here’s a shot last night of the Moon rising up over Camp Lulu Key (next island over).
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Great shot! I’m kayak/camping on Tiger Key (Everglades National Park), here’s a shot last night of the Moon rising up over Camp Lulu Key (next island over).
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Just realized there are full grown adults who have never opened a CD case.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Just realized there are full grown adults who have never opened a CD case.
Just realized there are full grown adults who have never opened a CD case.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Just realized there are full grown adults who have never opened a CD case.
Ladies who are painted.
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Ladies who are painted.