Jacob Herbstman
@jacobherbstman.bsky.social
Californian in Chicago | UC Davis Alum | Econ/Stats/Math | Views are my own
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It’s striking how effectively republicans tied mainstream dems with random internet communists, despite the two groups hating each other, while the vice president and shadow president are clearly in a million group chats with literal nazis and people hardly notice
you can basically churn out a piece like this a day if you dive into who musk and vance interact with on twitter but for some reason no legacy media outlet is doing that
EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?
My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian.
www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...
My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian.
www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...
March 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s striking how effectively republicans tied mainstream dems with random internet communists, despite the two groups hating each other, while the vice president and shadow president are clearly in a million group chats with literal nazis and people hardly notice
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon
Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The SAVE Act is systemic misogyny. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of women--those who changed their name after marriage but don't have either a birth certificate or a passport with their new legal name.
The House of Representatives is considering a bill that will lead to voter purges and widespread disenfranchisement of eligible voters.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
www.americanprogress.org
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The SAVE Act is systemic misogyny. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of women--those who changed their name after marriage but don't have either a birth certificate or a passport with their new legal name.
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Absolutely. The degree to which congressional Dems should break the norms they've respected in the past ought to be proportional to the threat posed by what the administration is now doing, and that threat is unlike anything we've ever seen.
Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.
February 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Absolutely. The degree to which congressional Dems should break the norms they've respected in the past ought to be proportional to the threat posed by what the administration is now doing, and that threat is unlike anything we've ever seen.
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Yes. For every post you put in front of me, you better have a record of me explicitly opting in to seeing posts from that person if you don’t want to accept liability for it as a publisher. Changing the law to reflect this has gotta be a day one priority in the event we get through this intact.
I still cannot believe that Meta, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, et al. get away with this.
"Here is content from users you don't follow presented to you in the order that we want you to see it. But we're not a publisher. We're just a widdle platform. You can't hold us accountable"
"Here is content from users you don't follow presented to you in the order that we want you to see it. But we're not a publisher. We're just a widdle platform. You can't hold us accountable"
February 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Yes. For every post you put in front of me, you better have a record of me explicitly opting in to seeing posts from that person if you don’t want to accept liability for it as a publisher. Changing the law to reflect this has gotta be a day one priority in the event we get through this intact.
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White House going nuclear on...the WSJ ed board.
February 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
White House going nuclear on...the WSJ ed board.
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I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
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hmm somehow i dont think the guy who explicitly compared the city of god to a city of migrants said that the good samaritan was actually about the person in front of you and that alone
February 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hmm somehow i dont think the guy who explicitly compared the city of god to a city of migrants said that the good samaritan was actually about the person in front of you and that alone
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from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:
January 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:
Had a rly good research idea and it was someone’s job market paper 4 years ago 😭
January 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Had a rly good research idea and it was someone’s job market paper 4 years ago 😭
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Should we continue to encourage kids to go to college ? Or push them to take up a trade ?
I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser
Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.
I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser
Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.
December 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Should we continue to encourage kids to go to college ? Or push them to take up a trade ?
I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser
Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.
I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser
Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.
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Has Vivek's tweet about Boy Meets World and Whiplash made it over here? It's very long but one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.
December 26, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Has Vivek's tweet about Boy Meets World and Whiplash made it over here? It's very long but one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.
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wemby is like the climate change of the NBA. you know it’s coming to get us all but there’s really nothing you can do about it so you just sit back, smile and say “wow what a beautiful 70 degrees day in november”
December 25, 2024 at 7:11 PM
wemby is like the climate change of the NBA. you know it’s coming to get us all but there’s really nothing you can do about it so you just sit back, smile and say “wow what a beautiful 70 degrees day in november”
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Other countries like Finland are vaccinating farm workers, who are the vast majority of humans getting bird flu right now. The U.S. is not vaccinating farm workers for bird flu.
The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.
The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.
Are we doing anything ahead of time to work on a vaccine for humans because this is not how I want to fucking go out to a god damned bird flu
“A non-profit animal shelter in Shelton, Washington is grappling with a devastating bird flu outbreak that killed 20 of its big cats last week, including a Bengal tiger and other exotic felines.”
December 24, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Other countries like Finland are vaccinating farm workers, who are the vast majority of humans getting bird flu right now. The U.S. is not vaccinating farm workers for bird flu.
The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.
The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.
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1) you're benchmarking against a historical norm, so if the historical norm was a shortage, your estimate will say that the shortage today isn't so bad. you see this in their estimate of the rental housing shortage by county:
No shortage in the Bay Area!
No shortage in the Bay Area!
December 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM
1) you're benchmarking against a historical norm, so if the historical norm was a shortage, your estimate will say that the shortage today isn't so bad. you see this in their estimate of the rental housing shortage by county:
No shortage in the Bay Area!
No shortage in the Bay Area!
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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Honestly? It rocks that we just live in a world where a non-trivial number of people who vote are now just completely detached from reality.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
December 16, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Honestly? It rocks that we just live in a world where a non-trivial number of people who vote are now just completely detached from reality.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
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i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger
December 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger
Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild
December 8, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild
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Kudos to South Korea's right-leaning ruling party, which turned against its own embattled President and rejected his bid to declare martial law.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
December 3, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Kudos to South Korea's right-leaning ruling party, which turned against its own embattled President and rejected his bid to declare martial law.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
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Welcome to the United States of Latin America baby
December 1, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Welcome to the United States of Latin America baby