Rob Michlowitz
@arvrrob.bsky.social
AR & VR for Learning and Training
LiDAR for Preservation and Model Creation,
Occam's Razor Adherent,
Intolerant of Intolerance,
I put ideas together.
LiDAR for Preservation and Model Creation,
Occam's Razor Adherent,
Intolerant of Intolerance,
I put ideas together.
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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A really good example of how right wing pro-Israel rhetoric often bleeds into antisemitism.
The concept of defending "Western Civilization" is rooted in white nationalist antisemitism, but since many right wing Jews have bought into white nationalism they can't see what they're saying.
The concept of defending "Western Civilization" is rooted in white nationalist antisemitism, but since many right wing Jews have bought into white nationalism they can't see what they're saying.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A really good example of how right wing pro-Israel rhetoric often bleeds into antisemitism.
The concept of defending "Western Civilization" is rooted in white nationalist antisemitism, but since many right wing Jews have bought into white nationalism they can't see what they're saying.
The concept of defending "Western Civilization" is rooted in white nationalist antisemitism, but since many right wing Jews have bought into white nationalism they can't see what they're saying.
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Welcome to the Science Fight Club - Science Fight Club
Welcome to the Science Fight Club
An uncomfortable but winning plan to take back science in 2026. Written by: Colette Delawalla
sciencefightclub.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Welcome to the Science Fight Club - Science Fight Club
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I did this list by unique visitors because you sickos are all rereading @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com bangers so many times that she was like three of the top five or something by pure pageviews lol
Top 10 Liberal Currents essays of 2025, by unique visitors:
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory, by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com. "There are not this many pedophiles in every political party. Both sides are not the same." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory, by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com. "There are not this many pedophiles in every political party. Both sides are not the same." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I did this list by unique visitors because you sickos are all rereading @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com bangers so many times that she was like three of the top five or something by pure pageviews lol
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell's legacy will forever be remembered. His leadership paved the way to include Indigenous voices. I'm sending his family, loved ones, and community my most heartfelt condolences.
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Ben Nighthorse Campbell's legacy will forever be remembered. His leadership paved the way to include Indigenous voices. I'm sending his family, loved ones, and community my most heartfelt condolences.
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You know what actually makes women happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage, and not have a miscarriage kill us.
Participating in these "debates" is agreeing that our rights are not important.
Participating in these "debates" is agreeing that our rights are not important.
Debating Away Our Humanity
CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.
jessica.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
You know what actually makes women happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage, and not have a miscarriage kill us.
Participating in these "debates" is agreeing that our rights are not important.
Participating in these "debates" is agreeing that our rights are not important.
Are unthinkable acts plausible today? Read this opinion over at @forward.com
forward.com/opinion/7936...
forward.com/opinion/7936...
What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
in our new Trumpian world, even the most unthinkable acts now seem plausible, even renaming the Holocaust museum.
forward.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are unthinkable acts plausible today? Read this opinion over at @forward.com
forward.com/opinion/7936...
forward.com/opinion/7936...
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Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
December 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
Why should this surprise Ben Shapiro? If you allow a Nazi into the bar without throwing them out, then you are a Nazi bar.
forward.com/news/793102/...
forward.com/news/793102/...
Ben Shapiro is mounting a last stand against right-wing antisemitism. It’s not going well.
Megyn Kelly said Shapiro, not Tucker Carlson, is inflaming antisemitism.
forward.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Why should this surprise Ben Shapiro? If you allow a Nazi into the bar without throwing them out, then you are a Nazi bar.
forward.com/news/793102/...
forward.com/news/793102/...
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Pound for pound, Sammy Davis Jr. may have been the greatest performer of all-time. Some other contenders would be Prince, Stevie, Aretha, and I'm surely forgetting many. But Sammy could sing, dance, play a range of instruments, and cover it all up with kitsch due to the racism of his era.
May Britt, 91, Dies; Her Marriage to Sammy Davis Jr. Sparked Outrage
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Pound for pound, Sammy Davis Jr. may have been the greatest performer of all-time. Some other contenders would be Prince, Stevie, Aretha, and I'm surely forgetting many. But Sammy could sing, dance, play a range of instruments, and cover it all up with kitsch due to the racism of his era.
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@itsafronomics.bsky.social I thought you would find this inspiring. I did. 😀
Absolutely amazing obit of the Park Service’s oldest ranger. Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Betty Reid Soskin, Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Dies at 104
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@itsafronomics.bsky.social I thought you would find this inspiring. I did. 😀
Absolutely amazing obit of the Park Service’s oldest ranger. Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Betty Reid Soskin, Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Dies at 104
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Absolutely amazing obit of the Park Service’s oldest ranger. Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I interviewed my good friend @cherylrofer.bsky.social about her +30 year career at Los Alamos — topics discussed include gender, lasers, and much more — doomsdaymachines.net/p/working-at...
Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
doomsdaymachines.net
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I interviewed my good friend @cherylrofer.bsky.social about her +30 year career at Los Alamos — topics discussed include gender, lasers, and much more — doomsdaymachines.net/p/working-at...
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Starbucks workers in Oviedo, a small city just north of Orlando, FL, today joined nearly 4,000 baristas unionized with @sbworkersunited.org who are currently on an open-ended unfair labor practice strike. End date? TBD. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks workers in Oviedo join national strike
After voting overwhelmingly to go on strike if needed to secure a fair union contract, baristas at one of Central Florida’s only unionized Starbucks locations in Oviedo have joined a national strike t...
www.orlandoweekly.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Starbucks workers in Oviedo, a small city just north of Orlando, FL, today joined nearly 4,000 baristas unionized with @sbworkersunited.org who are currently on an open-ended unfair labor practice strike. End date? TBD. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/starbuc...
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Funny you should mention that arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...
Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.
arstechnica.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Funny you should mention that arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is 1000% true! The US has the opportunity to make sure Russia is not a factor on the world stage by just supplying any weapon short of nukes to Ukraine. More dead Russians will lead to the end of Putin and make the world safer.
So who convinced Trump that Russia is winning?
Was it Putin, Vance, Witkoff, Driscoll or some combination thereof?
Earlier this year he had a much better understanding that, a) 🇷🇺 is bleeding itself dry for tiny gains and b) the 🇺🇸 can make 🇷🇺's position much worse very, very easily.
Was it Putin, Vance, Witkoff, Driscoll or some combination thereof?
Earlier this year he had a much better understanding that, a) 🇷🇺 is bleeding itself dry for tiny gains and b) the 🇺🇸 can make 🇷🇺's position much worse very, very easily.
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is 1000% true! The US has the opportunity to make sure Russia is not a factor on the world stage by just supplying any weapon short of nukes to Ukraine. More dead Russians will lead to the end of Putin and make the world safer.
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
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Randall Munroe created a beautiful thing today, and now I'm writing this with tears in my eyes. Thanks, @xkcd.com.
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Randall Munroe created a beautiful thing today, and now I'm writing this with tears in my eyes. Thanks, @xkcd.com.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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What do these corporations all have in common?
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What do these corporations all have in common?
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.