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, Ö1, BBC World Service
Los Angeles
Past: 🇺🇦 corresp. @derStandard.at
🇺🇸 corresp. @WienerZeitung.at, contrib. @AlJazeera.com @Tagesspiegel.de @laist.com @fm4.orf.at @falter.at @artefr.bsky.social, Ö1, BBC World Service
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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?’”
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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.
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Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
June 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.
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The parade’s rock melange soundtrack is also so perfectly wild & crazy 80s Eastern European.
Watching this parade I recall this SPY magazine article from 1989, just before the Soviet empire fell apart, about how the US and they were converging. Called “It's Morning in Amerika." books.google.com/books/about/...
June 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The parade’s rock melange soundtrack is also so perfectly wild & crazy 80s Eastern European.
More evidence emerging that Los Angeles indeed may be a testing ground for something bigger. www.techtimes.com/articles/310...
Predator Drone Overwatch in LA Sparks Outrage: Is Trump Testing Martial Law Tactics in Blue America?
Trump's Predator drone flies over LA protests, triggering fears of martial law and sparking backlash over authoritarian tactics in a Democratic stronghold.
www.techtimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
More evidence emerging that Los Angeles indeed may be a testing ground for something bigger. www.techtimes.com/articles/310...