Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor
@chadtopaz.bsky.social
Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
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Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Preorder at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
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🚨My nerds: new preprint + data available to you starting now. Plz enjoy what I believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. Have fun! 😘 #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky osf.io/preprints/so...
Husband just referred to Ted Lasso as Ted Bundy 🤷🏻♂️
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Husband just referred to Ted Lasso as Ted Bundy 🤷🏻♂️
Need one of these. Merry Xmas to me. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Need one of these. Merry Xmas to me. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Coffee will fix it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Coffee will fix it.
Piper explains why I don't do grades.
If life is so hard and complicated that nobody knows what the fuck they're doing they should have just said that instead of giving us grade point averages.
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Piper explains why I don't do grades.
How. How do things like this get published.
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How. How do things like this get published.
Constant tension between allocating my efforts to mitigating the broad harms impacting groups in our society and the very proximate harms impacting my students. Not enough hours in the day and I am not a philosopher.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Constant tension between allocating my efforts to mitigating the broad harms impacting groups in our society and the very proximate harms impacting my students. Not enough hours in the day and I am not a philosopher.
Need help re. Epstein emails. I am confused about resources available. I can find online explorers of the .pdf files but is there just a clean repo of text data out there?? @paulgp.com etc?
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Need help re. Epstein emails. I am confused about resources available. I can find online explorers of the .pdf files but is there just a clean repo of text data out there?? @paulgp.com etc?
Am I going to use the Epstein emails as my in-class example for various NLP techniques with my Data for Justice students this week?
Yes. Yes I am.
Yes. Yes I am.
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Am I going to use the Epstein emails as my in-class example for various NLP techniques with my Data for Justice students this week?
Yes. Yes I am.
Yes. Yes I am.
To everyone just now discovering that Larry Summers is a morally bankrupt scumbag, welcome to the party.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
To everyone just now discovering that Larry Summers is a morally bankrupt scumbag, welcome to the party.
I mean, OBVIOUS causality amirite. 👀👀👀https://www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat-could-double-your-risk-of-schizophrenia-research-suggests
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.
www.sciencealert.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I mean, OBVIOUS causality amirite. 👀👀👀https://www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat-could-double-your-risk-of-schizophrenia-research-suggests
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Toni Morrison said that "the function of freedom is to free someone else." That's it—that's the skeet.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Toni Morrison said that "the function of freedom is to free someone else." That's it—that's the skeet.
Toni Morrison said that "the function of freedom is to free someone else." That's it—that's the skeet.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Toni Morrison said that "the function of freedom is to free someone else." That's it—that's the skeet.
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Wait, do people at the NY Times not know that we hate the NY Times now?
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Wait, do people at the NY Times not know that we hate the NY Times now?
Wait, do people at the NY Times not know that we hate the NY Times now?
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Wait, do people at the NY Times not know that we hate the NY Times now?
Ok math friends, now that I am once again an AMS, MAA, and SIAM member (first time in a longtime for the first two) what should I do? Accepting suggestions of how to make this <waves hands at math and beyond> better using my positionality and total lack of self regard.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ok math friends, now that I am once again an AMS, MAA, and SIAM member (first time in a longtime for the first two) what should I do? Accepting suggestions of how to make this <waves hands at math and beyond> better using my positionality and total lack of self regard.
Wrote a problem set for my Data for Justice class on using NLP to study the most recent 30 days of headlines related to trans issues. They do some word counts, a simple sentiment analysis on Fox news vs other outlets, and a very basic LDA topic model.
10 wks ago these students couldn't program.
10 wks ago these students couldn't program.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Wrote a problem set for my Data for Justice class on using NLP to study the most recent 30 days of headlines related to trans issues. They do some word counts, a simple sentiment analysis on Fox news vs other outlets, and a very basic LDA topic model.
10 wks ago these students couldn't program.
10 wks ago these students couldn't program.
It’s cold and windy and hence I have a brutally busy day ahead of me of maintaining a proper skin barrier.
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It’s cold and windy and hence I have a brutally busy day ahead of me of maintaining a proper skin barrier.
I will be pre-ordering this and really need for you to, as well.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I will be pre-ordering this and really need for you to, as well.
Hi again! Hourly reminder to primary them!! At whatever is the next opportunity!
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hi again! Hourly reminder to primary them!! At whatever is the next opportunity!
Friends, I have done the unthinkable and rejoined 3 math societies with the goal of productively fucking shit up. I have set an initial 1 year time horizon for myself and when that alarm clock goes off I will assess if progress has been made or if it has been a waste and made me feel terrible.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Friends, I have done the unthinkable and rejoined 3 math societies with the goal of productively fucking shit up. I have set an initial 1 year time horizon for myself and when that alarm clock goes off I will assess if progress has been made or if it has been a waste and made me feel terrible.
Good morning to everyone who needs a reminder to primary them all! (And to everyone who already reminded themselves.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good morning to everyone who needs a reminder to primary them all! (And to everyone who already reminded themselves.)
I pray for a swift end of the political consultant class.
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I pray for a swift end of the political consultant class.
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If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...
Senate hopes for shutdown breakthrough Sunday
Senators believe enough Democrats are ready to reopen the government.
www.politico.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
Now that the election is over and I don't have to worry about my VAST INFLUENCE swaying things, am I allowed to just come out and say that Zohran Mamdani is mega effing hot?
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Now that the election is over and I don't have to worry about my VAST INFLUENCE swaying things, am I allowed to just come out and say that Zohran Mamdani is mega effing hot?