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.
Preorder at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
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...
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Hey what do you call it when a bounty hunter from another galaxy celebrates tapioca balls ‘cause I’d call it a boba fête amirite
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hey what do you call it when a bounty hunter from another galaxy celebrates tapioca balls ‘cause I’d call it a boba fête amirite
Hey what do you call it when a bounty hunter from another galaxy celebrates tapioca balls ‘cause I’d call it a boba fête amirite
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hey what do you call it when a bounty hunter from another galaxy celebrates tapioca balls ‘cause I’d call it a boba fête amirite
Or is it over-easy?
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Or is it over-easy?
This is the best day because for the first time ever, my kid and I will play a gig together!
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is the best day because for the first time ever, my kid and I will play a gig together!
Wrong Turn 3 is a thought-provoking and hauntingly beautiful meditation on crime, punishment, and repressed homosexuality. It forces us to ask: do three wrong turns make a right?
We’re watching a 0% fresh movie.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wrong Turn 3 is a thought-provoking and hauntingly beautiful meditation on crime, punishment, and repressed homosexuality. It forces us to ask: do three wrong turns make a right?
We’re watching a 0% fresh movie.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We’re watching a 0% fresh movie.
Please I am actually desperate for someone to fill in the blank here. The #1 thing Chad can do today to help stop people from being disappeared is: ____________.
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Please I am actually desperate for someone to fill in the blank here. The #1 thing Chad can do today to help stop people from being disappeared is: ____________.
Sorry about… reality, but if you want to start your day with some more bleak dystopian bullshit, here ya go.
Sign up! Become a judge! Deport people! Earn money!
Just (un)believable.
join.justice.gov
Sign up! Become a judge! Deport people! Earn money!
Just (un)believable.
join.justice.gov
YOU BE THE JUDGE | Department of Justice
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November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Sorry about… reality, but if you want to start your day with some more bleak dystopian bullshit, here ya go.
Sign up! Become a judge! Deport people! Earn money!
Just (un)believable.
join.justice.gov
Sign up! Become a judge! Deport people! Earn money!
Just (un)believable.
join.justice.gov
I got rid of Gmail when Google rolled back all their civil rights / DEI efforts and reading this below makes me even happier I did. You can do it too.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I got rid of Gmail when Google rolled back all their civil rights / DEI efforts and reading this below makes me even happier I did. You can do it too.
Where’s MY text-message-based affair with a Kennedy?
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Where’s MY text-message-based affair with a Kennedy?
If you are thinking about holiday gifts for folx and want to give a little something for them to look forward to a few months down the road, pre-order "Unlocking Justice" for them! It's a nerdy-yet-extremely-accessible book that I wrote to be engaging and optimistic. www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change
Amazon.com: Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: 9780691276151: Topaz, Chad M.: Books
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November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If you are thinking about holiday gifts for folx and want to give a little something for them to look forward to a few months down the road, pre-order "Unlocking Justice" for them! It's a nerdy-yet-extremely-accessible book that I wrote to be engaging and optimistic. www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
Getting ready to submit this paper to a new journal... this is the one that AERA Open desk rejected in part because "At present, the writing comes across as somewhat too direct."
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Getting ready to submit this paper to a new journal... this is the one that AERA Open desk rejected in part because "At present, the writing comes across as somewhat too direct."
Horrified to discover that there is now priority seating for me at the coffee shop. F*** this timeline.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Horrified to discover that there is now priority seating for me at the coffee shop. F*** this timeline.
“Wrong Turn 2 is an Oscar-worthy cinematic masterpiece” is the hill I will die on. Just like so many cannibalistic hicks in that movie.
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“Wrong Turn 2 is an Oscar-worthy cinematic masterpiece” is the hill I will die on. Just like so many cannibalistic hicks in that movie.
The 4 pm nap I just took was in no way a poor decision that will ruin my sleep tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The 4 pm nap I just took was in no way a poor decision that will ruin my sleep tonight.
Data for Justice class today: demoing basic NLP + topic modeling using the 2017 UN General Debate speeches. After cleaning the text and fitting a simple topic model, we end up with this map of which issues different countries emphasize most. Such a cool example to teach. DM me if you want code.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Data for Justice class today: demoing basic NLP + topic modeling using the 2017 UN General Debate speeches. After cleaning the text and fitting a simple topic model, we end up with this map of which issues different countries emphasize most. Such a cool example to teach. DM me if you want code.
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.