Fiziker
@fiziker.bsky.social
Data scientist, recovering particle physicist. ער/אים
I never would have expected wishing that piece of shit hadn’t died.
Happy 10-year anniversary to this headline from the San Antonio Express-News, which disrupted the 2016 presidential election, got Donald Trump elected, and disrupted many legal and political journalists’ lives and existence.
I know because we still have the scars to prove it.
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I know because we still have the scars to prove it.
Support local news.
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I never would have expected wishing that piece of shit hadn’t died.
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When I was a GS at Fermilab, the goat who lived next door to us (best friends with a diabetic horse!) would regularly get out of the fence then eventually return. One day he found a watch and brought it to me. It was so nice and wonderful and genuine. I wore that watch for years. The goat watch.
February 13, 2026 at 6:26 AM
When I was a GS at Fermilab, the goat who lived next door to us (best friends with a diabetic horse!) would regularly get out of the fence then eventually return. One day he found a watch and brought it to me. It was so nice and wonderful and genuine. I wore that watch for years. The goat watch.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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Parts of the Palestinian activist movement in the US have unfortunately been overtaken by campist politics that have utilized Palestine for broader ideological projects. This is the co-founder of Palestine Action US. (1)
February 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Parts of the Palestinian activist movement in the US have unfortunately been overtaken by campist politics that have utilized Palestine for broader ideological projects. This is the co-founder of Palestine Action US. (1)
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If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.
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The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
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Analilia Mejia is a real Democrat now! Just got my first text message from her asking me for money... 😑
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Analilia Mejia is a real Democrat now! Just got my first text message from her asking me for money... 😑
They should have an overhead track in the sliding center instead of using a drone.
February 13, 2026 at 1:30 AM
They should have an overhead track in the sliding center instead of using a drone.
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Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
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American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
February 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
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I don’t think the rubes are ready for us to hate them as much as they hate us.
There were a couple themes of the 2024 election but one was a declaration of war on American cities by American rural/exurban voters
He’s also doing this in Memphis…no one is reporting on it
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I don’t think the rubes are ready for us to hate them as much as they hate us.
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No, dude, that was Frederick Douglass' genuine read of the situation. Douglass was America-pilled. If you want America-pessimism from the same period, you have William Lloyd Garrison right there. They (Douglass and Garrison) famously had a huge fight and falling out about it.
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
No, dude, that was Frederick Douglass' genuine read of the situation. Douglass was America-pilled. If you want America-pessimism from the same period, you have William Lloyd Garrison right there. They (Douglass and Garrison) famously had a huge fight and falling out about it.
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Bluesky "leftist": "Frederick Douglass wasn't literate enough to read and understand the Constitution. I am very smart and woke."
Doing great folks, just great.
Doing great folks, just great.
February 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Bluesky "leftist": "Frederick Douglass wasn't literate enough to read and understand the Constitution. I am very smart and woke."
Doing great folks, just great.
Doing great folks, just great.
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Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
Larry Summers plot.
Still all in on this TBH.
I am not an ostrich. AI obviously is having a material impact on a few sectors of the economy, but it's going to take more than a breathless blog post by someone who WORKS FOR AN AI START-UP to make me go full Butlerian Jihad.
I am not an ostrich. AI obviously is having a material impact on a few sectors of the economy, but it's going to take more than a breathless blog post by someone who WORKS FOR AN AI START-UP to make me go full Butlerian Jihad.
February 12, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Larry Summers plot.
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In New Jersey, low-rent hotels and motels are where a lot of homeless people can get housing. Piscataway Twp just passed an ordinance allowing the town to evict people from hotels if they have been charged with a crime. Do they actually want people living on the street? www.nj.com/middlesex/20...
N.J. community wants to kick people out of hotels if they are arrested. Advocates say it will harm the most vulnerable.
The ordinance passed by a 5-2 vote after local officials have wrestled with how to control crime at local hotels.
www.nj.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
In New Jersey, low-rent hotels and motels are where a lot of homeless people can get housing. Piscataway Twp just passed an ordinance allowing the town to evict people from hotels if they have been charged with a crime. Do they actually want people living on the street? www.nj.com/middlesex/20...
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Closing chunks of vital airspace because paranoid idiots in the military want to show their dominance? The US really is becoming China
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Closing chunks of vital airspace because paranoid idiots in the military want to show their dominance? The US really is becoming China
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Kind of wish social media apps could detect when people are posting anti datacenter bullshit and then have a little character like Mr. DNA pop-up and take them for a tour of where their little post is going to live.
February 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Kind of wish social media apps could detect when people are posting anti datacenter bullshit and then have a little character like Mr. DNA pop-up and take them for a tour of where their little post is going to live.
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The replies to this are yet another giant red flag that your perception of reality is very much mediated through your community, that you’re not immune because you’re left of center, and that you should not assume that a community being online-only reduces this effect in any way
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
The replies to this are yet another giant red flag that your perception of reality is very much mediated through your community, that you’re not immune because you’re left of center, and that you should not assume that a community being online-only reduces this effect in any way
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the other thing I'd say is that trolls, even when blocked, are still part of the larger culture of the site. the community forms ideas regardless of whether or not you're directly in contact with all its members. blocked trolls still exert social gravity over you
February 12, 2026 at 4:21 AM
the other thing I'd say is that trolls, even when blocked, are still part of the larger culture of the site. the community forms ideas regardless of whether or not you're directly in contact with all its members. blocked trolls still exert social gravity over you
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I really dislike blocking in general, but also I've found it just doesn't matter that much. A lot of the worst harassment is coordinated from behind blocks, blocking makes it more confusing. Heck, the Twitter far right is still fixated on me and I'm not even on their entire website at the moment
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 AM
I really dislike blocking in general, but also I've found it just doesn't matter that much. A lot of the worst harassment is coordinated from behind blocks, blocking makes it more confusing. Heck, the Twitter far right is still fixated on me and I'm not even on their entire website at the moment
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We need to crush this infernal little guild as quickly as possible. They weren't content with their subsidized lifestyle, they supported Trump to get more, and now they should pay the price.
the US coal mining industry employees ~50k people. For some perspective, The Gap has about 82,000 employees
Trump and his “Champion of Coal” award.
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
We need to crush this infernal little guild as quickly as possible. They weren't content with their subsidized lifestyle, they supported Trump to get more, and now they should pay the price.
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"C'mon kids, I know we own homes you couldn't dream of. We've even grandfathered in our property tax rate so we only pay 20% of what you'd pay in taxes - if you could ever afford to buy.
But won't you please think of the millionaire boomers?
Can't you pay higher taxes so we can take even more?"
But won't you please think of the millionaire boomers?
Can't you pay higher taxes so we can take even more?"
Such an asinine potential ballot initiative exempting 60+ from property taxes and no income limit, sponsored by Rishi Kumar, a former local Democratic elected.
"Kumar, declined to reveal his age and would only say he worked for an artificial intelligence company in Silicon Valley."
"Kumar, declined to reveal his age and would only say he worked for an artificial intelligence company in Silicon Valley."
CA seniors could choose to opt out of property taxes under proposed initiative
“This has been brewing in our heads for the last two or three years,” said the person behind the measure.
www.sacbee.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
"C'mon kids, I know we own homes you couldn't dream of. We've even grandfathered in our property tax rate so we only pay 20% of what you'd pay in taxes - if you could ever afford to buy.
But won't you please think of the millionaire boomers?
Can't you pay higher taxes so we can take even more?"
But won't you please think of the millionaire boomers?
Can't you pay higher taxes so we can take even more?"
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.