Dave Feldman
@davefeldman.bsky.social
Faculty in Physics and Math at College of the Atlantic.
Direct the CSSS at @sfiscience.bsky.social
Chaos. Fractals. Complex systems. Sustainable energy.
Trance. Cooking. Gardening. Fighting entropy.
Direct the CSSS at @sfiscience.bsky.social
Chaos. Fractals. Complex systems. Sustainable energy.
Trance. Cooking. Gardening. Fighting entropy.
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Once more, for old times’ sake
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Once more, for old times’ sake
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If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
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What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
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This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
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This first-person account of bring swept away by the Texas floodwaters is harrowing & an incredible piece of writing.
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This first-person account of bring swept away by the Texas floodwaters is harrowing & an incredible piece of writing.
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
Well worth a few minutes to listen to. Thank you @leighfinke.bsky.social for your wisdom and clarity.
rep. @leighfinke.bsky.social posted this speech and i am glad it is the last thing i saw before going to bed tonight. to give so much this week of all weeks, it is pretty amazing.
💜 “love each other til you cannot stand it.” -from the caption
💜 “love each other til you cannot stand it.” -from the caption
June 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Well worth a few minutes to listen to. Thank you @leighfinke.bsky.social for your wisdom and clarity.
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Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.
🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition.
This may force thousands to drop out.
This may force thousands to drop out.
Texas agrees with feds to end in-state tuition for undocumented students
Almost 20,000 undocumented college students in Texas will likely lose in-state tuition after this sudden policy reversal.
www.texastribune.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.
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I’d think a lot of people would find this gross, but as a Jewish person with cancer it has, let us say, a special repulsive resonance.
In this non-apology Ernst insults constituents by comparing her comment that we’re all going to die to informing them about the tooth fairy, then says you can have eternal life if you believe in Jesus Christ.
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
June 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I’d think a lot of people would find this gross, but as a Jewish person with cancer it has, let us say, a special repulsive resonance.
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🧵 1/9 It could have mattered.
Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer.
A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.
Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer.
A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.
May 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🧵 1/9 It could have mattered.
Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer.
A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.
Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer.
A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.
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Bravo, to Stanford faculty, led by physics, to ask their administrators to stand up and fight Trump.
stanforddaily.com/2025/05/22/f...
stanforddaily.com/2025/05/22/f...
From the Community | Stanford professors respond to political interference in the governance of U.S. universities
Over 300 Stanford professors respond to Trump administration's interference in U.S. universities.
stanforddaily.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Bravo, to Stanford faculty, led by physics, to ask their administrators to stand up and fight Trump.
stanforddaily.com/2025/05/22/f...
stanforddaily.com/2025/05/22/f...
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Please read and share the League of Women Voters of Maine's fact check of Jared Golden on the SAVE Act. #mepolitics
www.lwvme.org/node/3443
www.lwvme.org/node/3443
Fact Check on the SAVE Act | League of Women Voters
www.lwvme.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Please read and share the League of Women Voters of Maine's fact check of Jared Golden on the SAVE Act. #mepolitics
www.lwvme.org/node/3443
www.lwvme.org/node/3443
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RFK's the last person who should be allowed to run HHS. He's wholly unqualified and his hostility its mission is the very thing he's famous for.
Susan Collins helping confirm him breaks faith w/ decent folks who've given her the benefit of the doubt till now. They need to hear about it. #MEpolitics
Susan Collins helping confirm him breaks faith w/ decent folks who've given her the benefit of the doubt till now. They need to hear about it. #MEpolitics
February 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
RFK's the last person who should be allowed to run HHS. He's wholly unqualified and his hostility its mission is the very thing he's famous for.
Susan Collins helping confirm him breaks faith w/ decent folks who've given her the benefit of the doubt till now. They need to hear about it. #MEpolitics
Susan Collins helping confirm him breaks faith w/ decent folks who've given her the benefit of the doubt till now. They need to hear about it. #MEpolitics
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An American tragedy in three short panels.
January 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
An American tragedy in three short panels.
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New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did her first press briefing today and told a number of demonstrable lies (about condoms for Gaza, the criminal records of undocumented migrants, and more).
This is how the New York Times covered it.
This is how the New York Times covered it.
January 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did her first press briefing today and told a number of demonstrable lies (about condoms for Gaza, the criminal records of undocumented migrants, and more).
This is how the New York Times covered it.
This is how the New York Times covered it.
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I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too?
1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.
2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.
2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
January 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too?
1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.
2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.
2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
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New euphemism for sexual harassment just dropped www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New euphemism for sexual harassment just dropped www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Calm before the storms. Warm and sunny after two weeks of cold. Tomorrow will be very different.
January 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Calm before the storms. Warm and sunny after two weeks of cold. Tomorrow will be very different.
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So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/
January 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/