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David Van Horn
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 14h
Sadly no, I'm in the land of no bidets or beignets.
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 14h
I first read this as beignets, which also works.
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 1d
The headline and lede is pretty misleading. They're not opposed to the deposit; they're opposed to the labelling requirement which means they have to manufacture and distribute different cans for DC vs other jurisdictions. That seems a much more reasonable objection.
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Jacob Mason @masontransport.bsky.social · 2d
Fascinating data & maps from NRDC. In DC,
67% of adults live in car-lite or car-free households
32% live in completely car-free households

This is entirely the result of density, transit, walkability, and bikeability.

www.nrdc.org/resources/wh...
Map showing in dark blue, the areas with low car ownership. DC, Baltimore, NYC + suburbs, & Philadelphia stand out in dark blue.
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 5d
today's jam: www.npr.org/2025/10/06/g...
31 Minutos: Tiny Desk Concert
Equal parts educational and just plain silly, the Chilean puppet show makes its first trip ever to the United States to turn the Tiny Desk into a playground.
www.npr.org
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 5d
"This test is worse than Milhouse's exam!"
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d
If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d
Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d
UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 10d
I have in fact noticed that the hospitals are full of immigrants.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 10d
The @aaup.org beat Marco Rubio in court, with a Reagan-appointed judge ruling that ideological deportations obviously violate the first amendment.

These cases cost money. And we need millions of people moving together to make them stick. If you're faculty in the US, join AAUP and join the fight.
Join
Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
www.aaup.org
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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 10d
Federalized DC cops newly-empowered to do high speed chases in the District are gonna kill people.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 10d
On Monday on Alabama Avenue SE, an MPD SUV was racing southbound with sirens blaring when the officer driving smashed into a private vehicle and then a tree (1/3)
A Metropolitan Police Department car is crumpled against a tree. Airbags are deployed and the car's doors are all open. The car is totaled and pieces of debris are scattered across the street. The back of a light blue Nissan Altima with its bumper on the ground and doors open. Firefighters are in the foreground looking away from the camera. The forward part of a light blue Nissan Altima. Its front bumper has been ripped off the car and hangs at an angle on the ground. A firefighter in the foreground has their back to the camera.
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 11d
Can't stress this enough:
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11d
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 11d
Big case brought by @aaup.org defending the First Amendment. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
www.nytimes.com
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14d
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 12d
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 12d
This machine fights fascists.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 15d
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 14d
I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14d
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 14d
tfw INTERNAL PANIC: Nat.pow exponent is too big
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 16d
Can we get some tips on what to wear to avoid getting raped next?
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David Van Horn @lambda-calcul.us · 16d
Can't help but think of all the university presidents who have either negotiated or fecklessly tried to fly under the radar while the research enterprise is being dismantled. Each of them embarrassed by their own marketing slogans like "Fearlessly Forward™️."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16d
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16d
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 17d
Every time another university wins a case against the Trump administration, I am reminded yet again of the folly of Columbia's effort to strike a "deal."
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 17d
UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 17d
TRUMP ON TRUTH SOCIAL: we NEED to put TURDS in BABY FORMULA! IMMEDIATELY

NPR: with the science not yet settled, some parent groups sing the praises of therapeutic turd supplements
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