Anders Schneiderman
@raschneiderman.bsky.social
Sociologist turned grassroots techie. http://enodecs.com. Lover of funky socks, chocolate, and economic justice.
FYI, I found out today I need to reduce the pain medication I’m on for my RSI in both arms, so going to go off social media for several weeks.
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
FYI, I found out today I need to reduce the pain medication I’m on for my RSI in both arms, so going to go off social media for several weeks.
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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
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Funny how they can move so fast to illegally put Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, but so slow to release all the instances of Trump's name all over the Epstein files.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Funny how they can move so fast to illegally put Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, but so slow to release all the instances of Trump's name all over the Epstein files.
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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This is my shit here, straight & uncut.
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This is my shit here, straight & uncut.
Did not have on my 2025 dance card congressman Massie giving a fiery anti-imperialism speech about stopping yet another attempt at regime change in an oil rich nation
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Did not have on my 2025 dance card congressman Massie giving a fiery anti-imperialism speech about stopping yet another attempt at regime change in an oil rich nation
Trump is truly awful — and so are the Rs who are going to back him on this
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump is truly awful — and so are the Rs who are going to back him on this
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
The blasé response of Anthropic, who created this monstrosity as a test of their new agents, is both hysterical and also deeply disturbing. How the f@@ck can anyone believe that we should be leaving the direction of our future to Tech Bros?
Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day.
Give a Wall Street Journal created BernieBot vending machine the ability to order a live fish, and it’ll declare a communist revolution
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
Give a Wall Street Journal created BernieBot vending machine the ability to order a live fish, and it’ll declare a communist revolution
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
This Anthropic AI Vending Machine Ordered Me a Live Fish | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The blasé response of Anthropic, who created this monstrosity as a test of their new agents, is both hysterical and also deeply disturbing. How the f@@ck can anyone believe that we should be leaving the direction of our future to Tech Bros?
Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day.
Give a Wall Street Journal created BernieBot vending machine the ability to order a live fish, and it’ll declare a communist revolution
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
Give a Wall Street Journal created BernieBot vending machine the ability to order a live fish, and it’ll declare a communist revolution
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
This Anthropic AI Vending Machine Ordered Me a Live Fish | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day.
Give a Wall Street Journal created BernieBot vending machine the ability to order a live fish, and it’ll declare a communist revolution
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
Give a Wall Street Journal created BernieBot vending machine the ability to order a live fish, and it’ll declare a communist revolution
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
I'm now pretty sure of two things:
1. AI is in a bubble, and it'll crash sooner rather than later
2. When it does, Google, Microsoft and China will make a disturbing a large amount of money /1
1. AI is in a bubble, and it'll crash sooner rather than later
2. When it does, Google, Microsoft and China will make a disturbing a large amount of money /1
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm now pretty sure of two things:
1. AI is in a bubble, and it'll crash sooner rather than later
2. When it does, Google, Microsoft and China will make a disturbing a large amount of money /1
1. AI is in a bubble, and it'll crash sooner rather than later
2. When it does, Google, Microsoft and China will make a disturbing a large amount of money /1
How do you know when you are having too many medical appointments? When you catch yourself humming the hold music for one of their phone lines
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
How do you know when you are having too many medical appointments? When you catch yourself humming the hold music for one of their phone lines
NYT, few days ago: inside Ford’s daring plan to take on Chinese EVs
NYT today: Ford running away from EVs, pretending lots of people will want hybrids — can add back electrics “in a few years” if demand picks up
We are so f**cking stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
NYT today: Ford running away from EVs, pretending lots of people will want hybrids — can add back electrics “in a few years” if demand picks up
We are so f**cking stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NYT, few days ago: inside Ford’s daring plan to take on Chinese EVs
NYT today: Ford running away from EVs, pretending lots of people will want hybrids — can add back electrics “in a few years” if demand picks up
We are so f**cking stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
NYT today: Ford running away from EVs, pretending lots of people will want hybrids — can add back electrics “in a few years” if demand picks up
We are so f**cking stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
And here’s her website, if you want to donate to her. FYI she was endorsed by Justice Democrats
www.kirosforco.com
www.kirosforco.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
And here’s her website, if you want to donate to her. FYI she was endorsed by Justice Democrats
www.kirosforco.com
www.kirosforco.com
Damn, we’ve got some great progressive candidates running this year. Here’s the intro ad for Melat Kiros
youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNP...
youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNP...
Melat Kiros for Congress
YouTube video by Melat Kiros for Congress
youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Damn, we’ve got some great progressive candidates running this year. Here’s the intro ad for Melat Kiros
youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNP...
youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNP...
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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if Supreme Court kills birthright citizenship, they will resurrect genocidal case law - and progressives should be sounding the alarm and talking about that right now- or we’ll lose the narrative when the decision drops. /1
nathannewman.substack.com/p/to-kill-bi...
nathannewman.substack.com/p/to-kill-bi...
To Kill Birthright Citizenship, MAGA Court Will Likely Revive Genocidal 19th-Century Precedents
Progressives must force the Court—and its MAGA supporters—to own that history.
nathannewman.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
if Supreme Court kills birthright citizenship, they will resurrect genocidal case law - and progressives should be sounding the alarm and talking about that right now- or we’ll lose the narrative when the decision drops. /1
nathannewman.substack.com/p/to-kill-bi...
nathannewman.substack.com/p/to-kill-bi...
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Yes! An ode to close reading. (via @annehelen.bsky.social)
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Yes! An ode to close reading. (via @annehelen.bsky.social)
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that we are doing something this insane
WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that we are doing something this insane
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Democratic "moderates" are radicals who defend keeping unpopular private insurance companies in our health care system while opposing the popular Medicare-for-All alternative
Even if told Medicare for All means higher taxes, voters overwhelmingly support it.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11...
Even if told Medicare for All means higher taxes, voters overwhelmingly support it.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11...
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Democratic "moderates" are radicals who defend keeping unpopular private insurance companies in our health care system while opposing the popular Medicare-for-All alternative
Even if told Medicare for All means higher taxes, voters overwhelmingly support it.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11...
Even if told Medicare for All means higher taxes, voters overwhelmingly support it.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11...
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🧩Natural language isn’t all you need.
We’re great at evaluating text-based reasoning (MATH, AIME…) but what about long-horizon visual reasoning?
Enter 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗚𝘆𝗺: a minimalistic testbed for evaluating agents on spatial reasoning along a difficulty ladder
We’re great at evaluating text-based reasoning (MATH, AIME…) but what about long-horizon visual reasoning?
Enter 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗚𝘆𝗺: a minimalistic testbed for evaluating agents on spatial reasoning along a difficulty ladder
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🧩Natural language isn’t all you need.
We’re great at evaluating text-based reasoning (MATH, AIME…) but what about long-horizon visual reasoning?
Enter 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗚𝘆𝗺: a minimalistic testbed for evaluating agents on spatial reasoning along a difficulty ladder
We’re great at evaluating text-based reasoning (MATH, AIME…) but what about long-horizon visual reasoning?
Enter 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗚𝘆𝗺: a minimalistic testbed for evaluating agents on spatial reasoning along a difficulty ladder
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Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.
Who ordered the Kittens ‘n Chips?
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Who ordered the Kittens ‘n Chips?
When they write the history of this truly insane period, this anecdote is going to stand out - writing another sequel to a movie franchise because King Trump wants it
@crampell.bsky.social: “After all, let’s say Rush Hour 4 costs a couple hundred million bucks. That’s pocket change compared to a ~$75 billion merger.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-cha...
www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-cha...
Why a Jackie Chan Sequel Says a Whole Lot About Trump’s Economy
Kung-fu corruption.
www.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
When they write the history of this truly insane period, this anecdote is going to stand out - writing another sequel to a movie franchise because King Trump wants it
I’ve been experimenting w tech to automate my work — eg, Whispr Flow, Gemini NotebookLM, Canva
The one tech that’s most revolutionized my life? An electric can opener
(RSI in both hands + super low sodium diet due to heart issues = a lot more cooking)
The one tech that’s most revolutionized my life? An electric can opener
(RSI in both hands + super low sodium diet due to heart issues = a lot more cooking)
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’ve been experimenting w tech to automate my work — eg, Whispr Flow, Gemini NotebookLM, Canva
The one tech that’s most revolutionized my life? An electric can opener
(RSI in both hands + super low sodium diet due to heart issues = a lot more cooking)
The one tech that’s most revolutionized my life? An electric can opener
(RSI in both hands + super low sodium diet due to heart issues = a lot more cooking)