Aaron Striegel
@adstriegel.bsky.social
Professor - Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering, Dad to 4 awesome kids, husband to an amazing wife, dog, occasional tennis player / ref
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Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
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In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA
In the sadly continuing story of how Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at a useful idiot, Dr. Vinay Prasad, and how he is weaponizing dead children
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
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Real photo.
So yes, this pic (and the enlargement) was taken today.
Yikes!
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Yikes!
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November 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Real photo.
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"'Quiet, quiet, piggy,' Trump told a Bloomberg reporter who asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is." x.com/JenniferJJac...
Jennifer Jacobs on X: "Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night: Trump told us on EPSTEIN: -"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years." https://t.co/zRpNTrgkLy" / X
Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night: Trump told us on EPSTEIN: -"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years." https://t.co/zRpNTrgkLy
x.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"'Quiet, quiet, piggy,' Trump told a Bloomberg reporter who asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is." x.com/JenniferJJac...
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"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
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My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...
Reaction to the FDA Announcement on MHT
Removing the Black Box Warning was Served with a Side of Serious Misinformation
vajenda.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Re: America, Dark Helmet said it best:
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Re: America, Dark Helmet said it best:
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Hmm, yeah, depositions tend to up the stress a bit
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hmm, yeah, depositions tend to up the stress a bit
Josh is very correct on this. To borrow from a pandemic era show, Zap It, Zap It, Make It Happen.
Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate …
As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Josh is very correct on this. To borrow from a pandemic era show, Zap It, Zap It, Make It Happen.
The mashup of all of the apologies is pretty stark.
Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out
Time for some “life lessons.”…
arstechnica.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The mashup of all of the apologies is pretty stark.
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This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
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Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
Video from today's first gas attack.
Saturday morning in Chicago.
Saturday morning in Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
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If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime.
It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.
We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.
It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.
We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime.
It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.
We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.
It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.
We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.
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You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
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I’m not usually at a loss for words, but being reposted by @hcrichardson.bsky.social has left me speechless… 💙
I’m not usually at a loss for words, but being reposted by @hcrichardson.bsky.social has left me speechless… 💙
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I’m not usually at a loss for words, but being reposted by @hcrichardson.bsky.social has left me speechless… 💙
I’m not usually at a loss for words, but being reposted by @hcrichardson.bsky.social has left me speechless… 💙
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At this point, nothing is stopping him from doing this.
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
At this point, nothing is stopping him from doing this.
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craig’s newsletter is a daily must-read for me but I found this last bit on ai slop particularly resonant.
October 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
craig’s newsletter is a daily must-read for me but I found this last bit on ai slop particularly resonant.
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Our team presented five papers at the CSCW (computer supported cooperative work and social computing) conference this week in Bergen, Norway. (CSCW is an ACM conference and a “home conference” for my team.) I’m going to share a few highlights in a thread here.
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Our team presented five papers at the CSCW (computer supported cooperative work and social computing) conference this week in Bergen, Norway. (CSCW is an ACM conference and a “home conference” for my team.) I’m going to share a few highlights in a thread here.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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good essay. sad times
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
good essay. sad times
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Kavanaugh stop
“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Kavanaugh stop
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“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful.
From @gelliottmorris.com
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
From @gelliottmorris.com
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful.
From @gelliottmorris.com
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
From @gelliottmorris.com
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...