Fiziker
@fiziker.bsky.social
Data scientist, recovering particle physicist. ער/אים
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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.
I hope those fuckers hate AI.
Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom. n.pr/3O3sWJn
AI brings Supreme Court decisions to life
Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom.
n.pr
February 12, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I hope those fuckers hate AI.
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Might as well let cameras in.
Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom. n.pr/3O3sWJn
AI brings Supreme Court decisions to life
Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom.
n.pr
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Might as well let cameras in.
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Not making someone listen to right wing podcasts for monitoring purposes is peak ethical use of AI
This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Not making someone listen to right wing podcasts for monitoring purposes is peak ethical use of AI
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Activists say the death toll from a crackdown over Iran's nationwide protests has reached at least 7,002 with many more people still feared dead.
Deaths in Iran's crackdown on protests reach at least 7,000, activists say
Activists say the death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests has reached at least 7,002 with many more people still feared dead. The U.S.
bit.ly
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Activists say the death toll from a crackdown over Iran's nationwide protests has reached at least 7,002 with many more people still feared dead.
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Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
I bought over 140 lbs of steel in the last 24 hours. At the cost of a few hours of work. I wish I had a time machine just to dumbfound people in history.
"Nails? Sure, fuck dude, I'll back up a whole dumptruck full of nails they're just throwing away, because they're broken" Shows him a handful of nails with minimal impact damage. "Broken. I think these are BROKEN" And then I start to laugh hysterically
February 12, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I bought over 140 lbs of steel in the last 24 hours. At the cost of a few hours of work. I wish I had a time machine just to dumbfound people in history.
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Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
February 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?
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A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
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yes, but if you get sniped that easily, maybe a little introspection is in order
the immediately prior round of tech hype on social media being NFTs and bitcoin really miscalibrated a lot of people
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 AM
yes, but if you get sniped that easily, maybe a little introspection is in order
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Basically every downstream negative effect is a byproduct of it being deeply useful and the hype being at least partially true. Increasingly pretending this isn’t the case marks you as a proudly incurious person.
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 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Basically every downstream negative effect is a byproduct of it being deeply useful and the hype being at least partially true. Increasingly pretending this isn’t the case marks you as a proudly incurious person.
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You're looking at the most powerful magnet in the UK, circa 1845. It was crafted by Michael Faraday using a link from a boat's anchor chain wound with copper wire.
He used it in his lab to show that all matter is affected by magnetic fields, either paramagnetic or diamagnetic.
He used it in his lab to show that all matter is affected by magnetic fields, either paramagnetic or diamagnetic.
October 3, 2023 at 2:44 AM
You're looking at the most powerful magnet in the UK, circa 1845. It was crafted by Michael Faraday using a link from a boat's anchor chain wound with copper wire.
He used it in his lab to show that all matter is affected by magnetic fields, either paramagnetic or diamagnetic.
He used it in his lab to show that all matter is affected by magnetic fields, either paramagnetic or diamagnetic.