Nick Geiser
@nageiser.bsky.social
(ex?) political philosopher. Data scientist. Jaynes-pilled.
It’s wild how airlines make boarding deliberately inefficient in order to squeeze a few extra dollars out of passengers.
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s wild how airlines make boarding deliberately inefficient in order to squeeze a few extra dollars out of passengers.
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"
September 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.
Very excited to share this project I've contributed to over the past few months: a deep learning model that can identify, compute the area, and find the cardinal direction of rooftop solar panels in cluttered urban environments.
github.com/baraa-abd/sy...
github.com/baraa-abd/sy...
GitHub - baraa-abd/syria-solar: This project introduces a novel workflow for identifying solar panel assemblies in the challenging, post-war urban landscapes of Syria.
This project introduces a novel workflow for identifying solar panel assemblies in the challenging, post-war urban landscapes of Syria. - baraa-abd/syria-solar
github.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Very excited to share this project I've contributed to over the past few months: a deep learning model that can identify, compute the area, and find the cardinal direction of rooftop solar panels in cluttered urban environments.
github.com/baraa-abd/sy...
github.com/baraa-abd/sy...
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"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Moving the Population in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.
www.justsecurity.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
R.A. Fisher came up with really cool intuitive demonstration of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
Suppose we have a bunch of axioms A={A1, A2, … , An}. If A is inconsistent, /any/ theorem can be proven from A.
Suppose we have a bunch of axioms A={A1, A2, … , An}. If A is inconsistent, /any/ theorem can be proven from A.
July 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
R.A. Fisher came up with really cool intuitive demonstration of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
Suppose we have a bunch of axioms A={A1, A2, … , An}. If A is inconsistent, /any/ theorem can be proven from A.
Suppose we have a bunch of axioms A={A1, A2, … , An}. If A is inconsistent, /any/ theorem can be proven from A.
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Anyway, Happy 4th everyone. If you want to see genuine and engaged citizenship, do yourself a favor and witness a citizenship ceremony. Genuinely inspiring.
This essay from fellow Irish ex-part @kjhealy.co brought back memories of my own swearing in.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
This essay from fellow Irish ex-part @kjhealy.co brought back memories of my own swearing in.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
July 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Anyway, Happy 4th everyone. If you want to see genuine and engaged citizenship, do yourself a favor and witness a citizenship ceremony. Genuinely inspiring.
This essay from fellow Irish ex-part @kjhealy.co brought back memories of my own swearing in.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
This essay from fellow Irish ex-part @kjhealy.co brought back memories of my own swearing in.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Amazing to see the Attorney General of the US say, in so many words, that the President doesn’t have to follow the laws Congress has passed and signed into law!
The treatment of the TikTok ban might seem silly, but it is, effectively, a sign that the constitutional government we have operated under for more than 200 years is no longer in effect.
Read the thread.
Read the thread.
NEW: In letters to companies with app stores, AG Pam Bondi purported to be "irrevocably relinquishing any claims" against them — Apple, plus Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and T-Mobile — for violating the TikTok ban. This is so, per Bondi, b/c Trump said it's OK, despite contrary language in the law.
July 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Amazing to see the Attorney General of the US say, in so many words, that the President doesn’t have to follow the laws Congress has passed and signed into law!
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They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation
July 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation
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Imagine being New Hampshire. You tried a work requirements program in 2018, but it didn't work. You were about to kick 2/3rds of people off Medicaid.
You cancel the program. Interesting idea. Doesn't work.
Now the federal government is REQUIRING you to start it up again!
You cancel the program. Interesting idea. Doesn't work.
Now the federal government is REQUIRING you to start it up again!
July 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Imagine being New Hampshire. You tried a work requirements program in 2018, but it didn't work. You were about to kick 2/3rds of people off Medicaid.
You cancel the program. Interesting idea. Doesn't work.
Now the federal government is REQUIRING you to start it up again!
You cancel the program. Interesting idea. Doesn't work.
Now the federal government is REQUIRING you to start it up again!
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These aren’t work requirements, they’re reporting requirements and evidence shows that these requirements are onerous enough to cause significant health insurance coverage losses without producing increases in employment. (Because 92% of Medicaid beneficiaries are already working or would be exempt)
Markwayne Mullin to Kristen Welker on work requirements: "What is so hard about requiring an able-bodied individual with no dependents, no sickness, work work 20 hours a week? I know you worked more than 20 hours this weekend alone ... we don't pay people in this country to be lazy."
June 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
These aren’t work requirements, they’re reporting requirements and evidence shows that these requirements are onerous enough to cause significant health insurance coverage losses without producing increases in employment. (Because 92% of Medicaid beneficiaries are already working or would be exempt)
Iran signaled their missile attack on Qatar strikes in advance, which suggests they are face-saving and Iran wants deescalation. Markets seem to interpret it this way as well:
June 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Iran signaled their missile attack on Qatar strikes in advance, which suggests they are face-saving and Iran wants deescalation. Markets seem to interpret it this way as well:
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
Impeach and remove.
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Impeach and remove.
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Macedo and Lee totally sidestep the question of whether NPIs /slowed transmission/ to keep hospital systems from becoming overwhelmed when flattening the curve was always the primary argument for NPIs.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
The most rigorous studies available are consistent with restrictions having no effect on mortality. - Boston Review
Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee reply to their critics.
www.bostonreview.net
June 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Macedo and Lee totally sidestep the question of whether NPIs /slowed transmission/ to keep hospital systems from becoming overwhelmed when flattening the curve was always the primary argument for NPIs.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
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In 2003, we had to watch the war on CNN and scream obscenities at the rear-projection TV.
"But Iraq doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction," we'd yell as the president Bush struggled to pronounce words in English.
"But Iraq doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction," we'd yell as the president Bush struggled to pronounce words in English.
June 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
In 2003, we had to watch the war on CNN and scream obscenities at the rear-projection TV.
"But Iraq doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction," we'd yell as the president Bush struggled to pronounce words in English.
"But Iraq doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction," we'd yell as the president Bush struggled to pronounce words in English.
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In 2018, Donald Trump, then in his first term as US president, let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing.
Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran.
And here we are.
Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran.
And here we are.
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In 2018, Donald Trump, then in his first term as US president, let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing.
Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran.
And here we are.
Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran.
And here we are.
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It’s completely insane that the media pretends every random protester or activist in America speaks for the Democratic Party, but Trump’s agencies can directly quote white supremacist accounts on Twitter and the same media won’t link these people to Trump
June 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It’s completely insane that the media pretends every random protester or activist in America speaks for the Democratic Party, but Trump’s agencies can directly quote white supremacist accounts on Twitter and the same media won’t link these people to Trump
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This is not a good sign.
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is not a good sign.
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The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.
Kristi Noem: "In LA, what we're been going after is the worst of the worst. They're murderers." (They literally raided a Home Depot.)
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.
Wild how little has changed from antiliberalism in the 80s (Unger, MacIntyre, Lasch) to the 2010s (Deneen)
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Wild how little has changed from antiliberalism in the 80s (Unger, MacIntyre, Lasch) to the 2010s (Deneen)
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could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?
May 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?