Klaus
@jmstim.bsky.social
PhD student, author, columnist
Los Angeles
Past: 🇺🇦 corresp. @derStandard.at
🇺🇸 corresp. @WienerZeitung.at, contrib. @AlJazeera.com @Tagesspiegel.de @laist.com @fm4.orf.at @falter.at @artefr.bsky.social @datum.at, Ö1, BBC 1, BBC World Service, arte Magazin
Los Angeles
Past: 🇺🇦 corresp. @derStandard.at
🇺🇸 corresp. @WienerZeitung.at, contrib. @AlJazeera.com @Tagesspiegel.de @laist.com @fm4.orf.at @falter.at @artefr.bsky.social @datum.at, Ö1, BBC 1, BBC World Service, arte Magazin
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Klaus
@jmstim.bsky.social
· Jun 5
“Dad, why are political scientists in German-language countries different than their colleagues in the rest of the world?”
“Idk son. Might be because they’re the products of higher education systems marked by intense debates about controversial questions, like: ‘What is the purpose of a road?’”
“Idk son. Might be because they’re the products of higher education systems marked by intense debates about controversial questions, like: ‘What is the purpose of a road?’”
Every couple of years, I re-watch Yorkshire TV’s “The Sandbaggers,” the best Cold War-era series ever produced. Among the many memorable episodes, “My name is Anna Wiseman” still stands out. Most powerful, incredibly sad, timeless stuff. #SlavaUkraini
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Every couple of years, I re-watch Yorkshire TV’s “The Sandbaggers,” the best Cold War-era series ever produced. Among the many memorable episodes, “My name is Anna Wiseman” still stands out. Most powerful, incredibly sad, timeless stuff. #SlavaUkraini
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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In the U.S. students get the chance to experience mass shootings at multiple education levels.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In the U.S. students get the chance to experience mass shootings at multiple education levels.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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a big mistake liberals make is assuming their opponents are capable of shame. erase that thought and proceed accordingly
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
a big mistake liberals make is assuming their opponents are capable of shame. erase that thought and proceed accordingly
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Left wing rhetoric: big problem. needs to be tamped down. driving people to the right
Right wing rhetoric: nice, thank you. please make yourself comfortable. will that be 5 op-eds or 6
Right wing rhetoric: nice, thank you. please make yourself comfortable. will that be 5 op-eds or 6
June 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Left wing rhetoric: big problem. needs to be tamped down. driving people to the right
Right wing rhetoric: nice, thank you. please make yourself comfortable. will that be 5 op-eds or 6
Right wing rhetoric: nice, thank you. please make yourself comfortable. will that be 5 op-eds or 6
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This is literally an exchange from To Live and Die in LA:
“Why are you running?”
“Because you’re chasing me!”
“Stop running!”
“Stop chasing me!”
“Why are you running?”
“Because you’re chasing me!”
“Stop running!”
“Stop chasing me!”
ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is literally an exchange from To Live and Die in LA:
“Why are you running?”
“Because you’re chasing me!”
“Stop running!”
“Stop chasing me!”
“Why are you running?”
“Because you’re chasing me!”
“Stop running!”
“Stop chasing me!”
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There is a solid paper to be written, just comparing how the different AI Carnival Barkers hawk their product.
Sam Altman: “it will solve all of physics!”
Dario Amodei: “I don’t want to say we’ll live forever, but… we’ll totally live forever.
Elon: “what if history but way more racist?”
Sam Altman: “it will solve all of physics!”
Dario Amodei: “I don’t want to say we’ll live forever, but… we’ll totally live forever.
Elon: “what if history but way more racist?”
“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”
June 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
There is a solid paper to be written, just comparing how the different AI Carnival Barkers hawk their product.
Sam Altman: “it will solve all of physics!”
Dario Amodei: “I don’t want to say we’ll live forever, but… we’ll totally live forever.
Elon: “what if history but way more racist?”
Sam Altman: “it will solve all of physics!”
Dario Amodei: “I don’t want to say we’ll live forever, but… we’ll totally live forever.
Elon: “what if history but way more racist?”
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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You think, this time they’ll wake up. After this attack. After this child pulled from the rubble. After this mother screaming at the sky. But they don’t. They never do.
June 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You think, this time they’ll wake up. After this attack. After this child pulled from the rubble. After this mother screaming at the sky. But they don’t. They never do.